'Switched at Birth' Christmas Episode Premieres Tonight

The Switched at Birth Christmas episode premieres December 8.

An all-new holiday-themed episode ("Yuletide Fortune Tellers") of Switched at Birth, airs Monday, December 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family.

As the Kennish and Vasquez families prepare to celebrate Christmas in their traditional ways, Bay and Daphne find themselves living each other's lives as if the switch never happened.

With the holidays approaching, Bay bristles at Kathryn's festive holiday spirit, complete with homemade peanut brittle and Christmas karaoke, while Daphne is frustrated with Regina's usual tradition of movies and Chinese food for Christmas. Then, after a joint family dinner including "magical" garlic knots, they wake to discover that the switch never happened. In this alternate life, Bay (Katie Leclerc) is an Olympic hopeful and Daphne (Vanessa Marano) is a successful artist with an upcoming exhibit. Is it the Christmas miracle they’ve always wanted? Could they even get back if they tried?

Vanessa Marano Previews the 'Switched at Birth' Summer Season

Vanessa Marano stars as Bay Kennish in Switched at Birth.
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Vanessa Marano stars as Bay Kennish, the artistic and edgy daughter, on the hit ABC Family serial Switched at Birth. Marano met with a few media outlets on Friday to talk about the show and preview what's coming up. Switched at Birth returns for its summer premiere Monday, June 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Check out what Marano had to say below:

How excited were you when Switched at Birth was renewed for a new season?
Vanessa Marano: You know, it’s so funny; I’ve been doing this for a very long time so I go into everything very cynically; like, “Alright, well, let’s see if we’re coming back.” We never know. But Switched at Birth is the first show I’ve ever been on that’s generated such a positive strong audience response. We’ve got incredible support from our viewers, specifically, the deaf community. There’s an amount of confidence there knowing that we have an audience rooting for us and wanting us to come back, so that was nice. What’s great about the way ABC Family works is that they split up your seasons seasonally, so to speak, so you have your winter season and your summer season. We have a hiatus, a break, for two months knowing that we were coming back airing in the summer, so that’s kind of nice to have a break and then also know that your job is coming back!

'Switched at Birth' Returns January 13 (Spoiler Alert)

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SWITCHED AT BIRTH returns with all new episodes on Monday, January 13th at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family. Guest stars in upcoming episodes include Sandra Bernhard, RJ Mitte, Alec Mapa and Max Adler.

Below are previews for the next four episodes:

[SPOILER ALERT]

January 13, 2014
Senior year means big changes for Bay and Daphne, as the Carlton School for the Deaf receives an influx of hearing students who are not happy to be there. Daphne begins working at a free clinic as part of her probation from the Senator Coto blackmail scandal, and bonds with a pre-med student (guest star RJ Mitte, BREAKING BAD) with a spinal injury. Bay is inspired by her art teacher (guest star Sandra Bernhard, ROSEANNE) and surprised by her jock classmate (guest star Max Adler, GLEE), when she takes an art class at a local college. Toby tries to unite a divided Carlton by coaching girls' field hockey, and Kathryn dips her toes into new territory when she makes friends with a gregarious tap dancer (guest star Alec Mapa, UGLY BETTY).