Tim Allen returns in Santa Clauses trailer, his first major acting role for 15 years

Santa Claus is coming to town

The new miniseries, The Santa Clauses, is set to air on Disney Plus this festive season. Yes, that right - the official trailer premiering on the channel’s YouTube on Thursday. Tim Allen has reprised his role as Santa Claus, with the new show being the fourth entry in the Christmas film series, which originally debuted in 1994. The new trailer showed Santa Claus attempting to retire, before a sudden threat to Christmas forced him spring back into action in order to save the holiday season. It's a perfect cheesy plot line, but even better seeing Tim back as Santa. It opened with Simon Choksi, played by Kal Penn, reading 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, to his daughter, as Claus soared through the sky on his sleigh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5ihVmz8is In the trailer Santa then told a satisfied Mrs Claus, played by Elizabeth Mitchell, that he wanted to see “what the rest of the world's like as normal people”, before sporting a new look and shaving off his beard. The Clauses go on to spend a limited amount of time together as a family, with Santa looking forwards to the prospect of spending Christmas with his loved ones. However, the elves at Santa's headquarters realise that his replacement is “destroying Christmas spirit.” After being notified of the drastic situation, Claus says: “I retired too soon, I hired the wrong guy, I've got to go back to the North Pole.” Ohhh, the plot twist. [caption id="attachment_365182" align="alignnone" width="1364"] Allen is reprising his role as Scott Calvin. (Picture: Buena Vista Pictures)[/caption] He said: “It's almost as if time had stood still other than my age. I look younger now in the Santa makeup than I do out of it.”