Netflix has set the two NFL games it will be livestreaming on Christmas Day 2025: The Dallas Cowboys vs. the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions vs. the Minnesota Vikings.
The Cowboys/Commanders game will air 1 p.m. ET on Christmas Day, while the Lions/Vikings will face off at 4:30 p.m. ET. CBS Sports will produce the game coverage with NFL Media producing pregame, postgame and studio halftime programming.
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Further expanding the streamer’s sports slate, Netflix has greenlit “Prime Time,” a docuseries about Deion Sanders, the famed NFL coach and former pro football and baseball player. Set to premiere in 2026, “Prime Time” will discuss Sanders’ 1997 suicide attempt and his relationship with his biological father while exploring his “evolution from a two-sport phenom to a culture-defining coach and media personality,” according to its official synopsis.
“Prime Time” is produced by SMAC Entertainment, Skydance Sports and NFL Films. Bennett Viseltear serves as showrunnner while Courtland Bragg and Terrell Riley direct. Executive producers include SMAC’s Constance Schwartz-Morini and FredAnthony Smith; Skydance’s Jesse Sisgold, Jason T. Reed and Jon Weinbach; and NFL Films’ Jessica Boddy, Keith Cossrow, Ross Ketover and Ken Rodgers.
Additionally, Netflix has set an August 2025 release for “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys,” a docuseries about Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones.
The announcements were made during Netflix’s upfront presentation in New York on Thursday.
“Our audiences expect us to have the best of everything,” Netflix’s chief content officer Bela Bajaria said in a statement about the Christmas games. “We’re always looking for ways to surprise and delight our members, so when we have the opportunity to take big, bold swings and get the NFL on Christmas Day, a surprise boxing match, or the WWE every week, we are going to move quickly and make it happen.”
About his docuseries, Sanders said, “It means so much to finally be able to tell my unfiltered story, my TRUTH. I was PRIME TIME, then I dropped the TIME and went by PRIME, and now I’m in the third quarter of my life and they call me COACH PRIME. Y’all knew a part of me each step of the way, but you never knew DEION… and I’m excited to share that with you all – the highs and lows, the truths and tragedies, and everything in between. They can’t stop or contain what God has purposed.”
“You think you know Prime Time…but do you really? Only Netflix will have the real real of Deion Luwynn Sanders – the man, the myth, the legend,” added SMAC co-founder and CEO Schwartz-Morini.
Last year’s NFL Christmas Gameday reached 65 million U.S. viewers on Netflix, according to Nielsen ratings. As Variety reported, the broadcast drew in more than 200 countries to watch the Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans. Viewership peaked at 27 million viewers when musical icon Beyoncé performed songs from her country album “Cowboy Carter” for the first time.
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