A six-episode holiday Christmas event series, "The Moodys" (formerly known as "A Moody Christmas") is adapted from the Australian series of the same name. "The Moodys" follows a tight-knit, but slightly dysfunctional family of five, all of whom gather in their hometown of Chicago for the "perfect" holiday. From break-ups to arrests to sharing one bathroom, each family member is packing his/her own eccentricities and hiding secrets from the others -- as if the holidays were all about carols and eggnog!

The family includes Sean Sr. (Denis Leary), his wife, Ann (Elizabeth Perkins), and their three grown children – Dan (Francois Arnaud), the youngest of the siblings and the "creative one"; Bridget (Chelsea Frei), the middle sister and the "overachiever"; and Sean Jr. (Jay Baruchel), the oldest sibling and "screw-up," still living at home with his parents.