Bold & Beautiful Won’t Air on December 25 — Here’s Why

Heads up if you flip on CBS Christmas Day hoping for fresh Forrester drama: you will not get a new The Bold and the Beautiful. Here is what is going on, why it is happening, and when things get back to normal.

The quick version

• No new Bold & Beautiful on Wednesday, December 25.
• Instead, CBS is rerunning last year’s Christmas Eve episode.
• This is a one-day holiday pause; new episodes return in the regular slot on December 26.
• December 24 is new and fully Christmas-coded: Ridge surprises Brooke, Daphne and Carter get cozy, and the Forresters put differences aside for a family tradition.

What CBS is doing on December 25

CBS is benching new daytime episodes on Christmas and plugging the Bold slot with a repeat — specifically, last year’s Christmas Eve hour. That is standard holiday-season strategy: networks do not love premiering new episodes when a big chunk of the audience is off celebrating, traveling, or ignoring their TV. Lower live viewership makes advertisers frown, so you usually get a rerun, a holiday special, or a sports block instead of a premiere.

So when does B&B pick back up?

Right away. This is not a hiatus, just a single-day break. The Bold and the Beautiful is back to its usual time on December 26.

What to expect on the Christmas Eve episode

December 24 is the festive one: Ridge shows up with a special gift for Brooke, love is in the air as Daphne and Carter spend some real time together and share a kiss, and the Forresters do the once-a-year thing where they shelve the grudges and lean into family tradition. If the Daphne-and-Carter pairing makes you do a double-take, you are not alone — but yes, that is what the holiday hour is serving.

Bottom line: The long-running Bell family soap about the Forresters and their fashion empire stays on its regular schedule this week except for Christmas Day. Enjoy the cozy rerun on the 25th, the new Christmas episode on the 24th, and fresh drama again on the 26th.