“It is the Nice Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” is not going to air on TV this 12 months. This is the best way to watch it free of charge

A Halloween TV custom will not air on community tv: “The Nice Pumpkin Charlie Brown” is simply streaming on Apple TV+ this 12 months. The vacation traditional has aired on TV since 1966, first on CBS, then on ABC.

Apple introduced it had acquired three Charlie Brown vacation specials in 2020. Along with streaming “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and “It is the Nice Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” Apple TV+ additionally mentioned it could air new originals that includes the “Peanuts” characters.

PBS was nonetheless capable of air Charlie Brown specials in 2020 and 2021. In 2020, they ran the Christmas and Thanksgiving reveals. Final 12 months, they aired all three. 

This 12 months, nevertheless, PBS revealed the Halloween particular is transferring to a unique pumpkin patch this 12 months. 

“Regretfully, PBS doesn’t have the rights to distribute the Peanuts specials this 12 months,” PBSKids wrote in a tweet. “We’ll all have to look at for the Nice Pumpkin in a unique pumpkin patch this Halloween.”

Apple is giving nonsubscribers a chance to look at the specials free of charge. Those that do not subscribe to the Apple TV+ streaming service can watch “It is the Nice Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” from Oct. 28 by way of Oct. 31. 

“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” can be accessible free of charge from Nov. 23 by way of Nov. 27, and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” can be accessible free of charge Dec. 22 by way of Dec. 25. 

Subscribers can entry all three specials “now and day by day,” Apple mentioned in its press launch. Apple had an analogous viewing construction for the specials in years previous.