MUMBAI: This yuletide season, US broadcaster NBC will air The Year Without a Santa Claus.

The film which is currently in production is about Santa Claus and a young boy who help each other believe in Christmas again.The film stars John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Ethan Suplee, Eddie Griffin and Carol Kane

The film is based on the 1974 Rankin-Bass holiday film favourite that featured stop-motion animation. Mrs. Claus is greatly dismayed when Santa (Goodman) convinced that people have forgotten the real meaning of Christmas decides to take a year off and not deliver any gifts.

She enlists the help of his two closest elves, Jingle (Suplee) and Jangle (Griffin), to help prove there are children who still care about the true spirit of the holiday. But their efforts are complicated by Heatmiser (Elliott) and Snowmiser (McKean), whose help Jingle and Jangle will need to save Christmas before Santa's devious head elf (Kattan) takes over his job.