'That Christmas' Gets Ed Sheeran Song & Release Date

If it's September, then that can only mean one thing: Christmas is coming. You know it's true, Spooky Season People. Despite your love of Halloween and all things that go bump in the night, retailers are already one foot out the door on pumpkins and well into the red and green in most major stores. Television (especially TV movies) is arguably worse, with the production of Christmas films being a year-round event. Though that was once relegated to Lifetime and Hallmark in the years of cable dominance, the streaming revolution broke the genre wide open. Now, every high-profile streamer has weeks and weeks of debuts dedicated to the Christian holiday people forget everyone doesn't celebrate.

We here at Telly Visions do our best to keep Christmas contained, but since the list of December-focused films announced over the last three months is starting to get a little unwieldy, we, too, have to start talking about them the moment sweater weather threatens to make an appearance. The biggest Holiday film heading to streaming services from the U.K. for 2024 is That Christmas, which will debut on Netflix here in the U.S. Written by Richard Curtis, whose last foray into Christmas films is the cult classic Love Actually, not only is it packed to the gills with British talent, but it's even getting its own Ed Sheeran song.

Sheeran wrote and recorded "Under the Tree," an original song he created after being given a rough version of That Christmas by Curtis. The song is a family affair, according to Sheeran, who said in the press release, "I got to work with my older brother [Matthew Sheeran, an award-winning music producer in his own right] on this, which is such a rarity and a gift to work so closely with my only sibling. It felt so good to create something my children would watch with their uncle based in the country they live in. This will become a holiday staple, at least in our household."