A Dog Named Christmas is a 2009 American/Canadian television film that debuted on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on November 29, 2009.

[1] The film was produced by Brent Shields, directed by Peter Werner and written by Jenny Wingfield, who based the script from a novel of the same name by Greg Kincaid.

[1] A tale of a young man with a learning disability, named Todd McCray (Noel Fisher) living with his parents in the rural midwest.

A Dog Named Christmas is the 237th presentation by Hallmark Hall of Fame, the long-running anthology program of American television films.

In the ratings, the movie outperformed NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcast of the NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens, which drew 17.3 million households.