After years of airing the Harry Potter films in weekend-long marathons, Freeform has "lost its rights to air the franchise."
The news comes after HBO announced it would be adding all eight movies to the network with a marathon starting New Years Day 2018. It turns out, NBC Universal has formed a deal with HBO exclusively preventing Freeform from airing the movies in the future.
The Harry Potter movies are NOT INCLUDED in Freeform's 25 Days of Christmas lineup, however there was a marathon of the movies the weekend of Thanksgiving. The change will go into effect at the start of the new year, so hopefully we can get another marathon from them before then!