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Mickey Guyton’s song Heaven Down Here is the basis for new Hallmark movie
Country music star Mickey Guyton’s song Heaven Down Here is the basis for the new Hallmark movie of the same name. The film, which will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, stars Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon, and Phylicia Rashad.
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In Heaven Down Here, four people get stranded by a snowstorm at a diner on Christmas Eve. Krystal Joy Brown plays Imani, a widowed mother of two who’s having trouble making ends meet and has reluctantly agreed to work the Christmas Eve shift at the diner. She finds herself clashing with her boss (played by Richard Harmon) who doesn’t exactly embody the Christmas spirit.
Juan Riedinger plays Felix, a pastor trying to secure food for parishioners in need. Tina Lifford plays Clara, a hospice nurse dealing with an obstinate patient (played by Phylicia Rashad) and the departure of her daughter.
Throughout the evening, the four bicker, bond, and unwittingly provide each other with the answer to their respective prayers.
Heaven Down Here
Mickey Guyton released the song Heaven Down Here in 2020. The song is written as a prayer in which the singer asks for strength to deal with challenging times.
Heaven Down Here will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, December 14 at 8/7c.
New Hallmark movie produced by Blake Shelton premieres this week
A new Hallmark movie produced by Blake Shelton will premiere as part of Hallmark Movies and Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas lineup. Time For Her to Come Home for Christmas is the sixth installment in a series produced by the country superstar. Shenae Grimes-Beech and Chris Carmack will star in the movie.
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In Time For Her to Come Home For Christmas, Shenae Grimes-Beech stars as Carly, a woman facing her first Christmas without her mother. She takes a short-term job leading a small-town church choir’s Christmas program. Soon after she arrives, she meets Matthew (Chris Carmack), who has recently returned home after serving in the Army.
According to a synopsis from Hallmark, “As she gets to know Matthew, the choir, and townspeople, she stumbles across clues that suggest she may have been brought here for a life-changing reason. As the mystery unravels one thing is clear: this journey will teach Carly about true love, learning to trust, and that forgiveness is needed to finally heal.”
Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton has produced six movies in the Time to Come Home For Christmas series:
Time For Me to Come Home For Christmas (2018)
Time For You to Come Home For Christmas (2019)
Time For Us to Come Home For Christmas (2020)
Time For Them to Come Home For Christmas (2021)
Time For Him to Come Home For Christmas (2022)
The movies are based on a song he co-wrote with his mother, which was part of his Cheers, It’s Christmas album.
“When I was making my Christmas album, I said, ‘Mom, let’s me and you write a song together, and you can sing it with me on my album,” Shelton said on From Apple Music With Love. “And there’s your Lucille Ball moment. You can finally have your moment to be famous. We had no idea it was going to end up turning into a book deal for my mom. “
Time For Her to Come Home for Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 30 at 8/7c.
Alex Paxton-Beesley rediscovers her passion for art in new Hallmark movie Our Christmas Mural
Alex Paxton-Beesley and Dan Jeannotte will headline the new Hallmark movie Our Christmas Mural. The film, which takes place in New Hampshire, will premiere this weekend as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.
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Alex Paxton-Beesley plays Olivia, a single mom who decides to return home for Christmas after she loses her job at a city art museum. Her mother (played by Kathy Laskey) secretly enters Olivia in a contest to paint a landmark mural. Olivia is thrilled when she discovers she has won but when she faces the task of actually designing the mural, she finds herself at a loss.
She partners with runner-up Will (Jeannotte), a beloved teacher in the community. She finds herself clashing with the headstrong yet handsome Will, but as they get to know one another their connection to the arts creates an unexpected romantic spark.
With a Christmas Eve deadline looming, Olivia and Will must navigate their growing feelings and juggle unexpected curveballs in family and career, all while creating a Christmas masterpiece that will inspire the townspeople for many years to come.
About the cast
Alex Paxton-Beesley has appeared in the TV shows Warehouse 13, Suits, Republic of Doyle, Beauty and the Beast, Wynonna Earp, and Good Witch. She starred in the Hallmark movies Christmas With Holly (2012) and Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder (2019).
Dan Jeannotte
Dan Jeannotte played Brandon Russell on the hit Hallmark series Good Witch. He has also appeared in the TV shows The Bold Type and Reign. He has starred in the movies Paris, Wine & Romance (2019), Christmas in the Highlands (2019), Ghosts of Christmas Past (2021), Home For a Royal Heart (2022), Lease on Love (2022), The Royal Nanny (2022), and Sweeter Than Chocolate (2023).
Our Christmas Mural will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 26 at 8/7c.
Warren Christie leads ensemble cast in new Hallmark movie
Warren Christie and Sara Canning will star in a new Hallmark movie about nine strangers who band together to get home in time for the holidays. Holiday Road, which is inspired by true events, will premiere this weekend as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.
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When bad weather leaves a group of strangers stranded at the airport at the holidays, a tech entrepreneur (Christie), a travel writer (Canning), a devoted mother (Enid-Raye Adams) and her son (Kiefer O’Reilly), a stubborn senior (Trevor Lerner), an enigmatic woman with a hint of mystery (Brittany Willacy), a couple traveling from Hong Kong (Sharon Crandall and Ryan Mah) and a social media influencer (Princess Davis) all agree to rent a shared van to embark on a road trip to Denver.
When their unexpected journey brings them into uncharted territory, they navigate a series of misadventures together and form a deeper bond that just might change the trajectories of each of their lives.
About the cast
Warren Christie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Canada. In 2007, Christie landed a lead role in the series October Road. He went on to appear in the TV shows Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, Arrow, Andromeda, and Castle.
He has starred in the Hallmark movies The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008), If I Only Had Christmas (2020), Crashing Through the Snow (2021), and The More Love Grows (2023).
Sara Canning has appeared in the TV shows Supernatural, Smallville, Republic of Doyle, The Vampire Diaries, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Van Helsing, and Nancy Drew. She has starred in the movies Garage Sale Mysteries (2013), The Christmas Temp (2019), The Christmas Yule Blog (2020), A Christmas Star (2021), Love Amongst the Stars (2022), Christmas at the Golden Dragon (2022), and Coupled Up For Christmas.
Holiday Road will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 24 at 8/7c.
Brendan Penny and Stacey Farber connect in new Hallmark movie
Brendan Penny and Stacey Farber play single parents brought together by their adopted children in the new Hallmark movie A Season for Family. The film will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries as part of its Miracles of Christmas lineup.
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In A Season for Family, Stacey Farber stars as Maddy, a successful manager at a five-star hotel and the single mother of an adopted son named Wesley. When her son tells her his only Christmas wish is to meet his brother, she contacts the adoption agency for help.
The agency contacts Paul (Brendan Penny), a widower who adopted Wesley’s brother, Cody. At first, Paul isn’t interested in letting Cody meet his brother, in large part because he hasn’t told Cody he’s adopted.
Maddy heads home to Park City, Utah, for the holidays, which happens to be where Paul lives. Wesley and Cody meet in ski school. Though they have no idea that they are related, they form an immediate bond.
When they introduce their parents, spark fly. But Paul discovers that Wesley is Cody’s brother and starts to pull away. His best friend (played by Edward Ruttle) helps Paul realize he cannot deny his son the chance to know his brother.
About the cast
Farber has been acting since she was in elementary school. Her breakthrough role came on the Canadian series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She has also appeared in Virgin River, Diggstown, Superman & Lois, and unREAL.
She starred in the 2022 Hallmark movie Butlers in Love. In an interview, Farber said she loves working with Hallmark.
“Nothing bad happens,” she said. “It’s just good viewing. …It’s heartfelt and an escape from everyday stress.”
Brendan Penny
Brendan Penny starred as Kevin O’Brien the Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores. He has also appeared in the TV shows Blade: The Series, Smallville, and The Whistler.
He starred in the Hallmark movies The Gourmet Detective (2015), ’Tis the Season for Love (2015), Autumn in the Vineyard (2016), A Dash of Love (2017), Summer in the Vineyard (2017), Magical Christmas Ornaments (2017), Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe (2018), Valentine in the Vineyard (2019), Easter Under Wraps (2019), The Secret Ingredient (2020), A Little Christmas Charm (2020), Beverly Hills Wedding (2021), Tie For Them to Come Home For Christmas (2021), In Merry Measure (2022), The Wedding Cottage (2023),
A Season for Family will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Wednesday, November 22 at 8/7c.
Luke MacFarlane is a Santa-in-training in new Hallmark movie
Luke Macfarlane plays a first-time Santa who gets mistaken for a burglar in the new Hallmark movie Catch Me If You Claus. The film, which also stars Italia Ricci, will premiere on Thanksgiving Day as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.
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In Catch Me If You Claus, Italia Ricci plays aspiring news anchor Avery. When she finds a strange man in her living room one night, she is convinced she has caught a local burglar who keeps eluding the police.
When the man (played by Luke Macfarlane) tells her he is the son of Santa Claus, she doesn’t believe him. But before she can turn him over to the cops, he convinces her he is the real deal. The two then set their sights on catching the real burglar and along the way, sparks fly.
About the cast
Italia Ricci has appeared in the TV shows Supergirl, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Designated Survivor, and The Good Doctor.
She has also starred in the movies Late Bloomer (2016), Rome in Love (2019), Love in Winterland (2020), and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2021).
Luke MacFarlane
From 2006 to 2011, Luke MacFarlane played Scotty Wandell on the ABC series Brothers & Sisters. He has also appeared on Beauty & the Beast, Iron Road, Supergirl, and Mercy Street.
Macfarlane has starred in the Hallmark movies Christmas Land (2015), The Mistletoe Promise (2016), A Birthday Wish (2017), Karen Kingsbury’s Maggie’s Christmas Miracle (2017), A Shoe Addict’s Christmas (2018), Just Add Romance (2019), Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen (2019), A Valentine’s Match (2020), Chateau Christmas (2020), Taking a Shot at Love (2021), Christmas in My Heart (2021), Moriah’s Lighthouse (2022), and A Magical Christmas Village (2022).
Catch Me If You Claus will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Thursday, November 23 at 8/7c.
Chesapeake Shores star Stephen Huszar headlines new Hallmark movie
Stephen Huszar will star in the new Hallmark movie Navigating Christmas. The film, which also stars Chelsea Hobbs and Everett Andres, will premiere as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.
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In Navigating Christmas, Chelsea Hobbs plays Melanie, a woman facing her first Christmas alone following her divorce.
But when her ex-husband cancels the snowboarding trip he planned for their teenage son, Jason, Melanie scrambles to plan a last-minute trip to cheer him up. The best she can do is a stay in a charming lighthouse on St. Nicholas Island, complete with lore about guiding good ol’ St. Nick himself on Christmas Eve.
The soggy ferry ride to the island gives the trip a rocky start but it gets worse when they arrive at the lighthouse to discover it looks nothing like the photos. When she comes face to face with the lighthouse owner at the local café, she’s dismayed to see that he’s the smug ferry passenger she met on the way over.
It turns out that Peter (played by Stephen Huszar), grew up in the lighthouse. He informs Melanie that her stay is an immersive experience, complete with duties that include decorating it for the holidays so it will be ready for the Christmas festival. Though Peter is not a fan of Christmas, he helps Melanie and teaches her son how to communicate in Morse code using the lighthouse light.
The three grow close over the holidays, and Peter struggles with whether to share a secret about the lighthouse.
About the cast
Chelsea Hobbs has starred in two series for Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. She played Jackie Shawl in the Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries and Jenny Taylor in A Ruby Herring Mystery: Her Last Breath. She has also starred in the Hallmark movies The Holiday Sitter (2022) and Dream Moms (2023).
Stephen Huszar
Stephen Huszar has appeared on the TV shows Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, The Flash, iZombie, and Letterkenny.
He played Jake Killian in the Ruby Herring Mysteries series on Hallmark. In 2021, he joined the cast of the Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores. He has starred in the Hallmark movies Time After Time (2011), Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Bone to Pick (2015), Magical Christmas Ornaments (2017), Return to Christmas Creek (2018), My One & Only (2019), A Homecoming for the Holidays (2019), Time For Us to Come Home for Christmas (2020), Undercover Holiday (2022), and Love in Glacier National (2023).
Navigating Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 17 at 8/7c.
New Hallmark movie based on true story about Canadian teen with autism who breaks a world record
The new Hallmark movie A World Record Christmas is based loosely on the story of Auldin Maxwell, a Canadian teen who has broken several world records for stacking Jenga blocks. The film, which will debut as part of Hallmark Movies and Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas lineup, stars Nikki DeLoach, Lucas Bryant, and Aias Dalman as Auldin. Aias Dalman, known for his work as both an actor and a screenwriter, also has autism.
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In A World Record Christmas, Aias Dalman plays Charlie, a boy determined to set a Guinness World Record by stacking 1,400 Jenga blocks. His mother, Marissa (Nikki DeLoach), and stepfather, Eric (Lucas Bryant), encourage him to reach for his dream and they all celebrate when he gets the good news that he’ll get his chance on Christmas Eve.
As Charlie prepares for his record attempt by practicing his Jenga-stacking skills, he gets the idea to organize a fundraiser that gives the townspeople an opportunity to donate and decorate a Jenga block, with the proceeds going to benefit kids with autism.
True story
A World Record Christmas is based loosely on the story of Auldin Maxwell, a Canadian teenager who has set and then broken several world records for Jenga stacking. He has appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records and has been featured on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
His mother, Kelly Murray, told a Canadian newspaper that she tries to support her son whenever he sets out to break a record.
“If he just all of a sudden says, ‘OK, I’m going to stack’… and it’s usually just a few times a year, I’ll just stop what I’m doing and I’ll stay up with him until late at night,” said Murray. “I’ll just get my camera out and film him just for fun. …This is a skill that he has that he can just do anytime. He doesn’t practice; he just does it. It’s like a gift. He just has this amazing stacking ability.”
About the cast
Nikki DeLoach played Brenda Long on Days of Our Lives from 2007-2009. She also had roles on Walker, Texas Ranger, CSI: NY, Cold Case, NCIS, Mad Men, Criminal Minds, and Grey’s Anatomy. She has starred in the Hallmark movies The Gift of Peace, Taking the Reins, Cranberry Christmas, and Love Takes Flight.
She also plays Goldy Berry in the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries series The Curious Caterer.
Lucas Bryant
Lucas Bryant has appeared in the TV shows Beauty and the Beast, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Private Eyes, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He has starred in the Hallmark movies Tulips in Spring (2016), Summer Love (2016), Time For You to Come Home for Christmas (2019), Country at Heart (2020), and Five More Minutes: Moments Like These (2022).
Aias Dalman
Aias Dalman is a professional actor and screenwriter. At the age of 7, he won Best Film Overall at the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) Young Filmmakers Showcase for The Fortune Teller, as well as Best Narrative at the Calgary International Film Festival for Teen Chick. His most recent work, Tough Guy, was screened at over 40 film festivals internationally.
A World Record Christmas will air on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 16 at 8/7c.
Broadway star headlines new Hallmark movie set in Germany
Ginna Claire Mason, who played Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked, will star in the new Hallmark movie A Heidelberg Holiday. The Hallmark movie, which also stars Frédéric Brossier, was filmed on location in Germany.
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In A Heidelberg Holiday, Ginna Claire Mason stars as Heidi, an artist who makes intricate glass ornaments. When she is chosen to feature her work at the world-famous Christmas Market in Germany, she travels to Heidelberg where she meets Lukas, a local artisan who helps her connect with her heritage.
Ginna Claire Mason
A graduate of Elon University, Ginna Claire Mason starred as Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked. The Nashville native said her love affair with musical theater started when she was a child.
“I saw my first Broadway show in the fourth grade,” she said in an interview with Broadway.com. “I sat in row K at the Imperial Theatre for Les Misérables. I looked at my mom and intermission was like, ‘People do this for a living? This is their occupation? This thing I do for fun after school is is their actual job?’”
A few years later, Mason saw Wicked with the original cast.
“I told my parents at intermission that I wanted to play Glinda someday, and here we are,” she said.
In 2022, Mason starred in the Countdown to Christmas movie A Holiday Spectacular.
Frédéric Brossier
Frédéric Brossier was born in Frankfurt, Germany. From 2012 to 2016 he studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. He has appeared on two TV series in Germany, Mordsschwestern — Verbrechen ist Familiensache and Der Schiffsarzt. A Heidelberg Holiday is his first movie for Hallmark Channel.
A Heidelberg Holiday will premiere on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 12 at 8/7c.
Erica Cerra and Victor Webster solve a Christmas mystery in new Hallmark movie
Erica Cerra and Victor Webster will star in the new Hallmark movie Mystery On Mistletoe Lane. In the film, they discover a Christmas-themed treasure hunt that brings them closer together.
Christmas mystery
In Mystery on Mistletoe Lane, Erica Cerra plays a divorced mother of two who takes a job as the director of the historical society for a small New England town.
She and her children move into a long-abandoned house and soon after they begin to find mysterious clues. They find out that the house used to be known as Mistletoe Mansion and the clues are for a Christmas treasure hunt.
As they work to solve the mystery, they enlist the help of David (played by Victor Webster), the man who used to run the historical society. They try to solve the mystery and return the home to its former glory days.
About the cast
Erica Cerra starred in the hit SyFy series Eureka as Jo Lupo from 2006 to 2012. She has also appeared on Supernatural, Power Rangers, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Lucifer, and iZombie.
Victor Webster
Victor Webster starred as Nicholas Alamain on the NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives. He has also appeared on the TV shows Baywatch, Reba, Criminal Minds, Bones, Drop Dead Diva, Chesapeake Shores, and Workin’ Moms.
He has starred in the Hallmark movies Magic Stocking (2015), Summer Villa (2016), Love Blossoms (2017), Home For Christmas Day (2017), A Harvest Wedding (2017), Homegrown Christmas (2018), Matchmaker Mysteries: A Killer Engagement (2019), Hearts of Winter (2020), Five Star Christmas (2020), Matchmaker Mysteries: A Fatal Romance (2020), Matchmaker Mysteries: The Art of the Kill (2021), The Wedding Veil Legacy (2022), A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (2022), and The Wedding Veil Journey (2023).
Mystery on Mistletoe Lane will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 9 at 8/7c.
Virgin River star Benjamin Hollingsworth headlines new Hallmark Christmas movie
Virgin River star Benjamin Hollingsworth plays the object of Hunter King’s affection in the new Hallmark Christmas movie The Santa Summit.
“See if a chase around town in a Santa suit leads to happily ever after in Sunday’s all-new ‘The Santa Summit,’” reads a post promoting the movie on Hallmark Channel’s Facebook page.
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In The Santa Summit, Hunter King plays Jordin, whose best friend Stella (played by Stephanie Sy), convinces her to come to the Santa Summit, an event where everyone goes from holiday party to holiday party dressed in Santa suits. Stella knows her crush will be there and she wants to tell him how she feels.
At their first stop, Jordin meets Liam (Benjamin Hollingsworth) a fellow Santa-suited reveler, but they quickly get separated by a Santa stampede before they can exchange names or numbers. Feeling a special connection and determined to find each other, Jordin and Liam continue their mutual search all night.
Benjamin Hollingsworth
Benjamin Hollingsworth stars as Dan Brady on the hit Netflix series Virgin River. He has also appeared on the TV shows Code Black, Backstrom, Suits, CSI: Miami, Joe Pickett, and Nancy Drew. Hollingsworth has starred in the Hallmark movies Signed, Sealed, Delivered (2013), Lucky in Love (2014), A Wish Come True (2015), Love Under the Olive Tree (2020), A Splash of Love (2022), and Romance in Style (2022).
Hunter King
Hunter King played Summer Newman on the soap opera The Young and The Restless. She has also starred in the Hallmark movies Hidden Gems (2022), A Royal Corgi Christmas (2022), Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths (2022), and The Professional Bridesmaid (2023).
In an interview with TV Cheddar, King said working for Hallmark was a dream come true.
“Hallmark movies have always been like an escape to me,” she told TV Cheddar. “You can always count on them to make you smile and leave you feeling better than before you turned it on. I thought it would be cool to be able to make people feel the same way that I felt as when I watched them. To be a part of the Hallmark family really does feel like a dream. Your job is to make people laugh, smile, and feel good. What’s not to love about that?”
The Santa Summit will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 5 at 8/7c.
21 new Hallmark movies coming to TV in November
21 new Hallmark movies will premiere throughout the month of November. The films will air during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas lineups.
Tyler Hynes, Cindy Busby, Corey Sevier, Kat Barrell, Nikki DeLoach, Lucas Bryant, Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown are among the stars who will make appearances in the new movies.
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My Christmas Guide
After losing his eyesight, a college professor (Ben Mehl) adopts a seeing-eye dog from a guide dog trainer (Amber Marshall). As they all begin to spend time together, his confidence returns and his heart begins to open.
My Christmas Guide will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 2 at 8/7c.
Flipping for Christmas
It’s almost Christmas when busy realtor Abigail (Ashley Newbrough) agrees to help her sister with the “simple flip” of a recently inherited home. Unfortunately, co-beneficiary Bo (Marcus Rosner) has other plans in mind.
Flipping for Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 3 at 8/7c.
Never Been Chris’d
Home for the holidays, BFFs Naomi (Janel Parrish) and Liz (Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes) reconnect with high school crush Chris Silver (Tyler Hynes). A complex love triangle forms, forcing them to take stock of their lives and find the value of friendship.
Never Been Chris’d will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 4 at 8/7c.
The Santa Summit
It’s time for the annual Santa Summit, in which revelers put on Santa suits and hop around designated locations in town to eat, drink, and be merry.
Ava (Hunter King) and Liam (Benjamin Hollingsworth) have an unexpected encounter and then spend the rest of the night trying to reconnect.
The Santa Summit will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 5 at 8/7c.
Mystery on Mistletoe Lane
Heidi Wicks (Erica Cerra) and her kids discover a Christmas mystery in their historic home. Local handyman and historian David (Victor Webster) helps along the way, finding his own surprising connection.
Mystery on Mistletoe Lane will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 9 at 8/7c.
Everything Christmas
Lori Jo (Cindy Busby) takes a road trip to Yuletide Springs with her roommate Tori (Kat Barrell), where Christmas is celebrated year-round.
Along the way, the friends meet Carl (Corey Sevier) and Jason (Matt Wells), and the foursome make stops during their journey to enjoy more small-town Christmas attractions. But when a series of events puts a damper on their plans, a little Christmas magic may put this trip back on the right path.
Everything Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 10 at 8/7c.
Christmas Island
When a snowstorm diverts pilot Kate’s (Rachel Skarsten) first private flight en route to Switzerland, she must team up with an air traffic controller (Andrew Walker) to secure her dream job as a private pilot.
Christmas Island will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 11 at 8/7c.
A Heidelberg Holiday
Heidi Heidelberg (Ginna Claire Mason) receives the dream opportunity to sell her beautiful, handmade glass ornaments at the prestigious Heidelberg Christmas Market in Germany. While there, she meets Lukas (Frédéric Brossier), a local artisan who helps her reconnect with her lost heritage.
A Heidelberg Holiday will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 12 at 8/7c.
A World Record Christmas
Charlie (Aias Dalman) is an autistic boy determined to set a Guinness World Record by stacking 1,400 Jenga blocks. His mother, (played by Nikki DeLoach) and stepfather Eric (Lucas Bryant) encourage him to reach for his dream and they all celebrate when he gets the good news that he’ll get his chance on Christmas Eve.
They organize a fundraiser giving the townspeople an opportunity to donate and decorate a Jenga block, with the proceeds going to benefit kids with autism. Charlie’s journey to setting the Jenga world record gives them all the chance to learn more not just about themselves, but about what family really means.
A World Record Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 16 at 8/7c.
Navigating Christmas
Recently divorced Melanie (Chelsea Hobbs) and her son Jason visit a remote island for Christmas, only to find themselves running a real working lighthouse where she connects with the curt but cute owner (played by Stephen Huszar).
Navigating Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 17 at 8/7c.
Holiday Hotline
After leaving London, Abby (Emily Tennant) connects with an anonymous caller while working at a cooking hotline. The caller is a single dad (Niall Matter) who Abby unknowingly has become smitten with in real life.
Holiday Hotline will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 19 at 8/7c.
A Season for Family
Stacey Farber plays a woman whose adopted son Wesley (Benjamin Jacobson) has just one Christmas wish: to meet his brother (played by Azriel Dalman), who was adopted into a different family.
Cody’s father (played by Brendan Penny) is a widower who is not ready to have this conversation with his son, so he turns down a meeting. However, circumstances bring the two brothers unknowingly together and they become fast friends.
A Season for Family will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Wednesday, November 22 at 8/7c.
Catch Me If You Claus
Italia Ricci stars as an aspiring news anchor who’s finally getting her big break on her station’s Christmas morning newscast. But that’s put in jeopardy when she captures an intruder in her home wearing a red suit claiming to be Chris (Luke Macfarlane), Santa’s son.
Catch Me If You Claus will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Thursday, November 23 at 6/5c.
Letters to Santa
When young siblings receive a magic pen from Santa that appears to grant wishes, they ask for their separated parents (played by Katie Leclerc and Rafael de la Fuente) to reunite.
Letters to Santa will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 24 at 6/5c.
Holiday Road
A group of strangers stranded at the airport rent a van to get home in time for Christmas. They navigate a series of misadventures together and form a deeper bond that just might change the trajectories of each of their lives.
The movie, based on true events, stars Sara Canning, Warren Christie, Enid-Raye Adams, Kiefer O’Reilly, Trevor Lerner, Sharon Crandall, Ryan Mah, and Princess Davis.
Holiday Road will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 24 at 8/7c.
Christmas in Notting Hill
Soccer star Graham Savoy (played by William Moseley), has always been too busy for love. But when he comes home to Notting Hill for Christmas, he changes his mind after meeting Georgia (Sarah Ramos), a visiting American who has no idea who he is.
Christmas in Notting Hill will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 25 at 6/5c.
Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up
As the holidays approach, Emily (Lacey Chabert) and Jared (Wes Brown) are looking forward to celebrating the holidays together again, this time as a couple.
Emily, now embracing Evergreen Lane’s uniquely festive spirit, is ready to work with the local HOA to make sure everything is perfect. But everything is put in jeopardy when a local house is put on the market.
Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 25 at 8/7c.
Our Christmas Mural
Alex Paxton-Beesley stars as Olivia, a single mom who returns home for Christmas. Her mom secretly enters her into a mural contest. She wins and partners with a local teacher (played by Dan Jeannotte) to create a Christmas masterpiece.
Our Christmas Mural will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 26 at 6/5c.
A Biltmore Christmas
Lucy Hardgrove (Bethany Joy Lenz) is a screenwriter who lands the job of a lifetime when she’s hired to pen the script for a remake of a classic Christmas movie filmed in 1947 at the historic Biltmore House in North Carolina.
While visiting the estate, she travels back through time and finds herself on the set of the original movie. She spends time with one of the film’s stars, played by Kristoffer Polaha, and sparks fly.
A Biltmore Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 26 at 8/7c.
Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas
Facing her first Christmas without her mother and looking to avoid loneliness, Carly (Shenae Grimes-Beech) heads to a quaint town to lead the church choir at Christmas.
Once there, Carly meets Matthew (Chris Carmack), a man back in town after serving in the army. As she gets to know Matthew, the choir, and the townspeople, she stumbles across clues that suggest she may have been brought here for a life-changing reason.
As the mystery unravels one thing is clear, this journey will teach Carly about true love, learning to trust, and that forgiveness is needed to heal.
Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 30 at 8/7c.
Marcus Rosner and Ashley Newbrough are ‘Flipping for Christmas’ in new Hallmark movie
Marcus Rosner and Ashley Newbrough will headline the new Hallmark Christmas movie Flipping For Christmas. The romantic comedy will premiere this weekend as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.
Hallmark Christmas movie
In Flipping For Christmas, Ashley Newbrough stars as Abigail, a hardworking real estate designer with no time for holiday spirit.
She has just landed a career-changing opportunity to represent DevelaCorp, the largest property development company in the city when her sister calls asking for help with the “simple flip” of a home in her neighborhood. Though she doesn’t have the time, Abigail agrees because she knows her sister could really use the money for her growing family.
Abigail is thrown a curveball when she learns that the home has a co-beneficiary, Bo (Rosner), the town’s altruistic contractor. Instead of flipping the property for the money, Bo wants to use the house as a bed and breakfast.
As Abigail and Bo collaborate, Abigail finds her Christmas spirit restored. But when DevlaCorp finds out about the neighborhood she is working in, they purchase vacant land in order to build expensive new homes that the locals won’t be able to afford.
Abigail must decide whether to help DevlaCorp or the community she has grown to love. In the process, she finds out what’s truly important in life: the love of family and friends at the holidays.
About the cast
Ashley Newbrough began her acting career at the age of 10. She landed her first starring role on the ABC Family series The Zack Files in 2000 and went on to appear in the shows Privileged, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and The Best Years.
She has starred in the movies Love Under the Stars (2015), Snowmance (2017), Small Town Christmas (2018), A Merry Christmas Match (2019), Christmas Love Letter (2019), The Valentine Competition (2021), Flowers and Honey (2021), Blue Moon Ball (2021), Christmas For Keeps (2021), Saving Christmas Spirit (2022), and Love in Glacier National Park (2023).
Marcus Rosner
Marcus Rosner is a Hallmark veteran. He appeared in Season 2 of the hit series When Calls the Heart and played Austin McMurray in Season 1 of the Hallmark series Ride.
He has appeared in the Hallmark movies Garage Sale Mysteries: All That Glitters (2014), A Christmas Detour (2015), Appetite For Love (2016), Summer Dreams (2016), Autumn in the Vineyard (2016), A Firehouse Christmas (2016), Fixer Upper Mysteries (2017), The Birthday Wish (2017), Summer in the Vineyard (2017), A Harvest Wedding (2017), Christmas in Evergreen (2017), Yes, I Do (2018), Valentine in the Vineyard (2019), Love on Harbor Island (2020), Christmas With a Crown (2020), Romance to the Rescue (2022), and Notes of Autumn (2023).
Rosner has also starred in the TV shows Arrow, Supernatural, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, and unREAL. When he is not acting he runs the production company Northern Gateway Films.
Flipping For Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, November 3 at 8/7c.
Heartland star Amber Marshall stars in new Hallmark Christmas movie
Amber Marshall will star in the new Hallmark Christmas movie My Christmas Guide. The film, which will premiere as part of Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Miracles of Christmas lineup, also stars Ben Mehl and Ava Weiss.
New Hallmark Christmas movie
In the movie, Ben Mehl plays Trevor, a college professor and single dad who has suddenly lost his vision. When a major construction project begins on the campus where he works, his boss wants him to take some off so he won’t get hurt.
Trevor’s daughter, Amy (Ava Weiss), convinces him to visit Best Friend Dog Guides, a facility that trains seeing-eye dogs for the vision impaired. There they meet Peyton (Amber Marshall) who introduces them to the perfect guide dog, Max. As Peyton and Trevor work together with Max, the two bond as Peyton helps Trevor regain his old self-confidence.
But when Trevor is finally forced to take leave from his job due to the hazardous construction conditions, his faith and trust in Max is tested. Trevor will have to step out of his comfort zone, let go of everything he’s familiar with, and turn to those around him — including Peyton — to restore his faith and confidence in his abilities.
Amber Marshall
For 17 years, Amber Marshall has played Amy Fleming on the hit CBC series Heartland.
She began acting as a child, appearing in productions with the Original Kids Theatre Company in London, Ontario. She made her professional debut on the mini-series Me and My Shadows: The Life of Judy Garland. At 14, she was cast as Elizabeth Smart in The Elizabeth Smart Story. She went on to appear in Resident Evil, Doc, Power Strikers, and Dark Oracle before being cast in Heartland.
She is a dedicated animal rights advocate and works with the Canadian Animal Assistance Team.
Ben Mehl
Ben Mehl is a Canadian actor best known for his role as the librarian Dante in the Netflix series You. Though not fully blind, he has Stargardt’s disease and is considered legally blind.
Ava Weiss
Ava Weiss played Mary Louise on the Hallmark series When Hope Calls, a spinoff of When Calls the Heart. She has also appeared in the movies Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday (2019), A Christmas Letter (2021), Lemonade Stand Romance (2022), The Most Colorful Time of the Year (2022), and Twas the Night Before Christmas (2022).
My Christmas Guide will premiere on Hallmark Moves and Mysteries on Thursday, November 2 at 9/8c.
Good Witch star Rebecca Dalton headlines new Hallmark Christmas movie
Good Witch star Rebecca Dalton will headline the new Hallmark Christmas movie Christmas By Design. In the movie, she plays a designer who gets the career opportunity of a lifetime and ends up falling in love.
“Charlotte (Rebecca Dalton) heads back to her hometown and finds her work, and her heart, inspired by Spencer’s (Jonathan Keltz) love of the holidays in the all-new ‘Christmas by Design,’” reads a promotional post on Hallmark Channel’s Facebook page.
New Hallmark Christmas movie
In Christmas By Design, Dalton stars as Charlotte, a luxury fashion designer who works tirelessly to make a name for herself and her New York City boutique, Alastair. She is thrilled when she finds out she is a finalist in a competition to create a Christmas-themed collection for the home and family brand of the prestigious Warwick department store.
The only problem is, Charlotte is just not that into Christmas. She can barely remember the last time she put aside her work long enough to visit with her family. When a pipe bursts in her apartment, she takes it as a sign that she should go home and experience a family Christmas that to inspire her next design.
When she arrives in her hometown, she gets dragged into the town’s annual 12-days-of-Elfcapades event. She meets a handsome mechanic (played by Jonathan Keltz), who helps run the festivities.
Despite a rocky start, the two form a deep connection. Charlotte gets the creative spark she so desperately needs to inspire a new Christmas design, one that is completely different from anything she’s done before.
About the cast
Rebecca Dalton made her professional debut on the Canadian series Unnatural History. She went on to appear in the TV shows The L.A. Complex, Degrassi: Minis, Saving Hope, Suits, and Nurses.
From 2015 to 2019 she played Tara Russell on the Hallmark series Good Witch. She has also starred in the movies A Perfect Christmas (2016), Christmas Wedding Planner (2017), Christmas in Paris (2019), The Santa Squad (2020), A Honeymoon to Remember (2021), Lemonade Stand Romance (2022), From Italy With Amore (2022), A Tiny Home Christmas (2022), and Dream Wedding (2023).
Jonathan Letz got his start on the TV series Radio Free Roscoe. He has appeared in Degrassi: The Next Generation, CIS: Miami, Entourage, Murdoch Mysteries, Republic of Doyle, and Reign.
He starred in the romantic comedies Once Upon a Prince (2018), Love at Look Lodge (2020), and Fit For a Prince (2021).
Christmas By Design will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, October 27 at 8/7c.
Twelve new Christmas movies coming to TV in ‘It’s a Wonderful Lifetime’ lineup
Lifetime will premiere twelve new Christmas movies during its annual ‘It’s a Wonderful Lifetime’ lineup. Jana Kramer, Tatyana Ali, Teri Hatcher, Tia Mowry, Corey Sevier, Jake Epstein, Luke Humphrey, Morgan Fairchild, Nicolette Sheridan, and Sarah Drew will all be making appearances in the movies, which will air every weekend between November 18 and Christmas.
New Christmas movies
First up is Christmas Plus One. Emily Alatalo plays Cara and Vanessa Smythe plays Amy, sisters who make a pact to find their soul mates by Christmas.
A year later, Amy is getting married while Cara still hasn’t found “the one.” Just before the wedding, Cara meets the perfect guy (played by Andrew Bushell) and invites him to be her “plus one” at the wedding. But when she loses his number, she must figure out how to track him down. Things become even more complicated when a handsome magazine writer (played by Corey Sevier) agrees to help her.
Christmas Plus One will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, November 18 at 8/7c.
Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees
During a business trip to Indiana, event planner Kayley (Kathryn Davis) and sports agent Brett (Olivier Renaud) find themselves unable to fly home for Christmas due to a terrible snowstorm. Determined to get back to New York by Christmas Eve, the two team up and try to make their own way home.
But when the storm hits, they’re forced to seek refuge in the sleepy town of Redwood, Ohio, a place that ignites some much-needed Christmas magic in their hearts.
Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees will premiere on Lifetime on Sunday, November 19 at 8/7c.
Christmas at the Chalet
In Christmas at the Chalet, Teri Hatcher stars as Lex, a former TV host and socialite who is asked to spend Christmas with her son, ex-husband, and his new girlfriend.
She decides to make it a working holiday, documenting the experience for her social media followers.
Christmas at the Chalet will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, November 25 at 8/7c.
Laughing All the Way
When ghostwriter and aspiring comedian Aubri (Paniz Zade) is put in charge of a Christmas variety show, she worries she might not have what it takes to pull off this make-or-break moment in her career.
With Christmas just weeks away, Aubri is in pursuit of the perfect headliner for the event. But when famous Hollywood comedian Mike Baxter (Jake Epstein) returns to the comedy club that launched his career, she gets him to star in the show. As they prepare, sparks begin to fly.
Laughing All the Way will premiere on Lifetime on Sunday, November 26 at 8/7c.
Ladies of the ‘80s: A Divas Christmas
In Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas, five glamorous ‘80s soap opera stars — played by Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, and Nicollette Sheridan — reunite to share the spotlight to shoot the final Christmas episode of their show.
Producer Alex (Travis Burns) and director Nell (Taylor Ann Thompson), old college friends and exes, do their best to keep things on the rails but as the ladies come together, old rivalries resurface and threaten to tear the production apart.
Alex and Nell decide to pretend they are in love with each other. The ladies become eager to play cupid and conspire to bring the couple together. Along the way, the divas also discover that the love between them all is still very strong too.
The movie’s theme song Ladies of the ’80s was written by Song Writer Hall of Fame’s Steve Dorff and Michael Jay, produced by Steve Dorff, and performed by ’80s pop sensation Tiffany (I Think We’re Alone Now).
Ladies of the ‘80s: A Divas Christmas will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, December 2 at 8/7c.
Mistletoe Match
With the holiday season in full swing, Olivia Hayes (Elena Juatco) goes undercover to provide her readers with an in-depth and cynical look at the hugely successful annual Secret Santa for Singles event.
She meets a handsome single dad (played by Ryan Bruce) who is just as skeptical about the program as she is. Sparks soon fly, but with a once-in-a-lifetime promotion on the line, will she risk losing it all for the romance she never saw coming?
Mistletoe Match will premiere on Lifetime on Sunday, December 3 at 8/7c.
A Cowboy Christmas Romance
Country singer Jana Kramer will star in this movie, which was written by Grey’s Anatomy actress Sarah Drew. Kramer plays real estate “closer” Lexie Crenshaw, who is sent to her hometown of Tubac, Arizona, right before Christmas to settle a business deal.
Back on the range, Lexie must convince Coby Mason (Adam Senn), a horse-whispering rancher, to part ways with his family’s land. She also has to navigate her relationship with her father (Bruce Thomas) and the brothers she left behind.
A Cowboy Christmas Romance also stars Max Ehrich, Curt Mega, Lisa Lee, Mary-Margaret Humes, and Cassie Randolph.
A Cowboy Christmas Romance will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, December 9 at 8/7c.
Yes, Chef! Christmas
The Cake Boss himself, Buddy Valastro, will make an appearance in this movie, which also stars Tia Mowry and Luke Humphrey.
Mowry plays Alicia, a culinary school instructor who has put both her true career aspirations and personal life on the back burner for her career.
But this holiday season, fate is on her side. She is invited to compete in the city’s annual Kringle Cook-Off and learns a family secret that could change everything and be the big break she needs to become a respected chef like her former boss Bobby (Buddy Valastro).
There to mentor her through the competition is the fiery chef and Kringle protégé Logan (Luke Humphrey), with whom Alicia builds a real connection. But can Alicia win the cook-off and prove to herself that she is the capable head chef that Logan believes her to be? And will she be accepted by the Kringles if she shares the truth with them? She will have to put it all on the line to find out.
Yes, Chef! Christmas will premiere on Lifetime on Sunday, December 10 at 8/7c.
The Holiday Proposal Plan
Travel columnist Sonny Kravitz (Tatyana Ali) and her ex-boyfriend Kip (Jesse Kove) are forced to team up to help their best friends Bree (Whitney Able) and Jarod (Geovanni Gopradi) get engaged. To set the backdrop, the four return to Sonny’s parents’ snowy chalet and set up twelve holiday traditions that are celebrated around the world to nudge Jarod to ask Bree to be his wife.
But it seems that the proposal plan doesn’t just reignite the love between the engaged couple. Will Sonny and Kip rekindle what they once had?
The Holiday Proposal Plan will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, December 16 at 8/7c
A Christmas Intern
With the Holidays approaching, Cecilia (Jackée Harry) discovers that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, so she decides to make a surprise visit to her daughter Alexis (Ciarra Carter) who runs “Cyber Santa,” an online gift giving business. Seizing an opportunity to spend Christmas with her daughter and get back into the game, Cecilia becomes an intern at the start-up company and the two learn the importance of family during the most wonderful time of year.
A Christmas Intern also stars Doug Rogers, Jasmine Avialotis, and Michael Paré. The movie features an original song by Jackée Harry.
A Christmas Intern will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, December 16 at 10/9c.
Merry Magic Christmas
As Christmas nears, financial advisor Beth (Patricia Isaac) finds fortune all around her. She starts seeing a recurring number: 624, an angel number that will help make her heart’s secret wish come true.
Taking on a pro-bono financial case for the local children’s theater, Beth meets Nate (Andrew Dunbar), whose financial inexperience may cause the theater to shut down. The two must work together to raise money for the theater and possibly find love along the way.
Merry Magic Christmas will premiere on Lifetime on Sunday, December 17 at 8/7c.
Mom’s Christmas Boyfriend
Precocious 10-year-old Lily Morgan (Ai Barrett) enters a writing contest about her Christmas wish. She wishes that her single mother, Emma (Jeananne Goossen), finds love. After winning the contest, will Lily’s wish come true?
Mom’s Christmas Boyfriend will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, December 23 at 8/7c.
Great American Family releases schedule for Christmas lineup
Christmas starts this weekend on Great American Family. The network has released its schedule for Great American Christmas 2023 and the first of the new movies will air this weekend.
Great American Christmas
Great American Family, which was founded by former Hallmark CEO Bill Abbott in 2021, announced earlier this year that 20 new holiday movies would premiere on the network.
“The 2023 edition of Great American Christmas features 20 high-quality original holiday movies and around-the-clock, 24/7 holiday films from the network’s library on Great American Family,” read a statement from the network.
Jill Wagner, Danica McKellar, Paul Greene, Trevor Donovan, Candace Cameron Bure, Natasha Bure, Chad Michael Murray, and Jen Lilley are among the stars who will headline films for Great American Family.
The schedule:
October
Destined 2: Christmas Once More, will premiere on Great American Family on Saturday, October 14 at 8/7c.
In this sequel, Theo (Casey Elliott) continues to miss connecting with his girlfriend, Kim (Shae Robbins) as he attempts to propose at Christmas.
‘Twas the Text Before Christmas, starring Merritt Patterson and Trevor Donovan, will premiere Great American Family on Saturday, October 21 at 8/7c.
An unexpected text message sent to the wrong number (Patterson) sets into motion a Christmas tradition with a new family (Donovan) over three separate years.
Bringing Christmas Home, starring Jill Wagner and Paul Greene, will premiere Great American Family on Saturday, October 28 at 8/7c.
A professor of military history (Wagner) teams with an antique store owner (Greene) to track down the original owner of a historic WWII uniform and the love letters left in its pockets.
Journey to Christmas, starring Ash Tsai and Joey Heyworth, will premiere Great American Family on Sunday, October 29 at 8/7c.
While on a charity press tour, a model (Tsai) ends up stranded by the weather at the family home of the driver (Heyworth) she hired to assist her for the week.
November
A Dash of Christmas, starring Laura Osnes and Christopher Russell, will premiere Great American Family on Saturday, November 4 at 8/7c.
A marketing exec (Osnes) must learn a recipe to get her dream job and ends up in a holiday bake-off with a dream baker (Russell).
Our Christmas Wedding, starring Holly Deveaux and Drew Seeley, will premiere on Sunday, November 5 at 8/7c.
In this sequel, roles reverse as Nicole’s boss plans a wedding for Nicole (Deveaux) and Michael (Seeley) in two weeks at Christmas.
Christmas Keepsake, starring Jillian Murray and Daniel Lissing, will premiere Great American Family on Saturday, November 11 at 8/7c.
A father (Lissing) bonds with his daughter and stumbles upon an unexpected romance (Murray) while tracking down the original owner of a Christmas time capsule.
A Christmas Blessing, starring Lori Loughlin, James Tupper, and Jesse Hutch, will premiere on Great American Family Sunday, November 12 at 8/7c.
A TV chef (Loughlin) is divinely inspired to take over her late aunt’s charity with help from a new friend (Hutch) and handsome business associate next door (Tupper).
Santa, Maybe, starring Aubrey Reynolds and Samuel Whitten, will premiere Great American Family on Saturday, November 18 at 8/7c.
Can theater director Lila (Reynolds) rise to the challenge of putting on the perfect Christmas ballet, while also discovering her office Secret Santa in the process?
A Paris Christmas Waltz, starring Jen Lilley and Matthew Morrison, will premiere on Great American Family Sunday, November 19 at 8/7c.
A novice dancer (Lilley) pairs with a professional (Morrison) to enter a renowned dance competition…in Paris! The next story in The Christmas Waltz universe, the highest-rated Christmas rom-com of 2020, from Michael Damian and Janeen Damian.
My Christmas Hero, starring Candace Cameron Bure and Gabriel Hogan, will premiere Great American Family on Friday, November 24 at 8/7c.
An army reserve doctor (Bure) tracks down her family’s military history with the help of a new romance (Hogan).
A Royal Date for Christmas, starring Danica McKellar and Damon Runyan, will premiere on Great American Family Saturday, November 25 at 8/7c.
When a European Duke (Runyon) arrives in the US, he realizes that his bags have been lost in transit. He has no choice but to be styled, and ultimately inspired, by Bella (McKellar) the owner of a local boutique.
A Christmas For the Ages, starring Natasha Bure, Anna Ferguson, Kate Craven, and Cheryl Ladd, will premiere on Great American Family on Sunday, November 26 at 8/7c.
Prompted by their youngest granddaughter (Bure), four generations celebrate family and what Christmas was like in the 40s, 60s, 90s, and present day.
December
December
Christmas on Windmill Way, starring Christa Taylor Brown and Chad Michael Murray, will premiere on Great American Family on Saturday, December 2 at 8/7c.
To save her family’s legacy windmill, a woman (Taylor Brown) must remind her ex-boyfriend (Michael Murray) of the best of their hometown.
The Jingle Bell Jubilee, starring Erin Agostino and Marshall Williams, will premiere on Great American Family on Sunday, December 3 at 8/7c.
A city manager (Williams) recruits the help of a childhood friend (Agostino) in setting right his town’s Christmas Charity event, while she sets to work setting him up with her close friend.
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, starring Sarah Fisher and Simon Arblaster, will premiere on Great American Family on Saturday, December 9 at 8/7c.
Two rival realtors (Fisher and Arblaster) are forced to work together to sell one special house before Christmas.
Peppermints and Postcards, starring Laura Osnes and Christopher Russell, will premiere on Great American Family on Sunday, December 10 at 8/7c.
A marketing exec (Osnes) must learn a recipe to get her dream job and ends up in a holiday bake-off with a dream baker (Russell).
Designing Christmas With You, starring Susie Abromeit and Liam McIntyre, will premiere on Great American Family on Saturday, December 16 at 8/7c.
With her career on the line, a decorator (Abromeit) must work with an unexpected partner (McIntyre) to showcase a house for an upcoming Christmas gala.
12 Games of Christmas, starring Johnny Ramey and Felisha Cooper, will premiere on Great American Family on Sunday, December 17 at 8/7c.
A group of old friends and neighbors get transported into a Christmas-themed board game during a Christmas party.
A Royal Christmas Holiday, starring Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard, will premiere on Great American Family on Saturday, December 23 at 8/7c.
In search of her big break, a reporter (Underwood) arranges a Christmas interview with a European Prince (Stoddard) visiting the United States. Will the reporter’s big story become her love story?
New Christmas movies
12 Games of Christmas, starring Johnny Ramey and Felisha Cooper.
In 12 Games of Christmas, a group of old friends and neighbors are transported into a Christmas-themed board game during a Christmas party.
A Christmas Blessing, starring Lori Loughlin, James Tupper, and Jesse Hutch.
A TV chef (Loughlin) is divinely inspired to take over her late aunt’s charity with help from a new friend (Hutch) and handsome business associate next door (Tupper).
A Christmas Commission (this is a working title and could change), starring Sarah Fisher and Simon Arblaster.
Two rival realtors (Fisher and Arblaster) are forced to work together to sell one special house before Christmas.
A Christmas for the Ages, starring Natasha Bure, Anna Ferguson, Kate Craven, and Cheryl Ladd.
Prompted by their youngest granddaughter (Bure), four generations celebrate family and what Christmas was like in the 40s, 60s, 90s, and present day.
A Dash of Christmas, starring Laura Osnes and Christopher Russell.
A marketing exec (Osnes) must learn a recipe to get her dream job and ends up in a holiday bake-off with a dream baker (Russell).
A Model Christmas (working title), starring Ash Tsai and Joey Heyworth.
While on a charity press tour, a model (Tsai) ends up stranded by the weather at the family home of the driver (Heyworth) she hired to assist her for the week.
A Paris Christmas Waltz, starring Jen Lilley and Matthew Morrison.
A novice dancer (Lilley) pairs with a professional (Morrison) to enter a renowned dance competition…in Paris! The next story in The Christmas Waltz universe, the highest-rated Christmas rom-com of 2020, from Michael Damian and Janeen Damian.
A Royal Christmas Holiday, starring Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard.
In search of her big break, a reporter (Underwood) arranges a Christmas interview with a European Prince (Stoddard) visiting the United States. Will the reporter’s big story become her love story?
A Time Capsule Christmas (working title), starring Jillian Murray and Daniel Lissing.
A father (Lissing) bonds with his daughter and stumbles upon an unexpected romance (Murray) while tracking down the original owner of a Christmas time capsule.
Bringing Christmas Home (working title), starring Jill Wagner and Paul Greene.
A professor of military history (Wagner) teams with an antique store owner (Greene) to track down the original owner of a historic WWII uniform and the love letters left in its pockets.
Christmas on Windmill Way, starring Christa Taylor Brown and Chad Michael Murray.
To save her family’s legacy windmill, a woman (Taylor Brown) must remind her ex-boyfriend (Michael Murray) of the best of their hometown.
Destined 2: Christmas Once More, starring Shae Robbins and Casey Elliott.
In this sequel, Theo (Elliott) continues to miss connecting with his girlfriend, Kim (Robbins) as he attempts to propose at Christmas.
Mistletoe Moments, starring Susie Abromeit and Liam McIntyre.
With her career on the line, a decorator (Abromeit) must work with an unexpected partner (McIntyre) to showcase a house for an upcoming Christmas gala.
My Christmas Hero, starring Candace Cameron Bure and Gabriel Hogan.
An army reserve doctor (Bure) tracks down her family’s military history with the help of a new romance (Hogan).
Our Christmas Wedding, starring Holly Deveaux and Drew Seeley.
In the sequel, roles reverse as Nicole’s boss plans newly engaged Nicole (Deveaux) and Michael’s (Seeley) wedding in two weeks at Christmas.
Peppermint & Postcards, starring Ella Cannon and Christopher Russell.
When a Christmas letter concerning her love life goes viral, one mom discovers that romance might be right at her door.
Santa, Maybe (working title), starring Aubrey Reynolds.
Can theater director Lila (Reynolds) rise to the challenge of putting on the perfect Christmas ballet, while also discovering her office Secret Santa in the process?
The Christmas Regift (working title), starring Erin Agostino and Marshall Williams.
A city manager (Williams) recruits the help of a childhood friend (Agostino) in setting right his town’s Christmas Charity event, while she sets to work setting him up with her close friend.
‘Twas the Text Before Christmas, starring Merritt Patterson and Trevor Donovan.
An unexpected text message sent to the wrong number (Patterson) sets into motion a Christmas tradition with a new family (Donovan) over three separate years.
Great American Christmas begins October 20 on Great American Family. The exact air dates and times for each movie are not available yet. We will be updating this story with more information so keep checking back.
Candace Cameron Bure, Trevor Donovan, and Merritt Patterson to lead the Christmas movie lineup at Great American Family
Candace Cameron Bure, Trevor Donovan, and Merritt Patterson are among the stars who will headline new movies for Great American Family this Christmas. The network, which was started by former Hallmark CEO Bill Abbott, is producing 21 original movies for the 2023 holiday season.
Bure announced the news about her latest project with the network in a post on Instagram.
“Very excited to present another Great American Christmas film this year with @candyrock.entertainment,” she wrote in the caption. “…So proud of this movie and all it represents!”
Candace Cameron Bure
Bure will star in the movie My Christmas Hero, playing a U.S. Army reservist and orthopedic physician. Her character, Dr. Nicole Ramsey, provides care for military service members and their families at the Joint Military Base in Lacey, Washington, home of I Corps and the 62nd Airlift Wing.
In the movie, Dr. Ramsey goes on a mission to “honor a special fallen soldier and bring much-needed healing to her own family,” according to a synopsis from Great American Family.
The movie is being produced by Bure’s company Candy Rock Entertainment. In a statement to Deadline, Bure said, “We are proud to tell a story that honors our U.S. veterans this Christmas season. From World War II to present-day veterans, we shine the spotlight on their heroic work as well as aftercare needs. We have a talented cast and crew and are thrilled to bring it to our Great American Family audience.”
Trevor Donovan and Merritt Patterson
Network favorites Trevor Donovan and Merritt Patterson will also star in a Christmas movie for Great American Family.
In Christmas By Chance, Patterson plays Addie, a New York City chiropractor who receives an accidental text from a woman who identifies herself as “Nana.” The two strike up a friendship via text message and Nana invites Addie to come and spend the holidays in Vermont.
Everything is going well until Nana’s son, played by Trevor Donovan, returns home unexpectedly for Christmas.
Christmas By Chance is the second holiday film Donovan and Patterson have starred in together for Great American Family. In 2021, the two headlined Jingle Bell Princess.
Great American Christmas
Former Crown Media CEO Bill Abbott made headlines in June 2021 when he announced he had partnered with Dallas-based Hicks Equity Partners to purchase two television networks in a deal Bloomberg estimated at $90 million.
He launched his channels, Great American Family and Great American Living, in September 2021. During the first Christmas season, the network Great American Family aired 12 original movies. In 2022, the network released 18 new movies for Christmas.
Great American Christmas 2023 will begin in October.
Kat Barrell just finished directing a Christmas movie starring her Good Witch castmates
In a recent appearance on Instagram, Good Witch star Kat Barrell said she just finished directing a Christmas movie starring some of her castmates from Good Witch.
“It was amazing,” Barrell said. “It was all-consuming between the directing and the trying to be present with my family. It was a mad dash for the past two months but we did it.”
Barrell did not share the title or a premiere date. She said she will begin sharing details about the movie and snippets in the coming months.
Kat Barrell
A graduate of the George Brown Classical Theatre School in Canada, Kat Barrell had roles on Saving Hope, Reign, and Star Trek: Discovery before landing the role of Officer Nicole Haught on the SyFy series Wynonna Earp. She won People’s Choice Awards in 2018 and 2020 for her work on the series and also received a Canadian Screen Award in 2020.
Barrell appeared in the Hallmark movie A Nutcracker Christmas (2016) before being cast on Hallmark’s hit series Good Witch in 2020. She joined the cast in Season 6 as Joy Harper, whose mother was a cousin of Cassie Nightingale (played by Catherine Bell). She continued to play Joy until Hallmark abruptly canceled the show during Season 7.
In 2022, she made two Christmas movies for Hallmark: A Godwink Christmas: Miracle of Love and A Tale of Two Christmases.
Directing
Barrell has a production company called Blue Eyed Bandit and has directed and produced several short films, including Dissecting Gwen and Cannonball.
Her Christmas movie was made with Vortex Media, a company she has worked with before.
“I knew about 80 percent of the crew,” she said, adding it made for a wonderful experience.
Vortex makes movies for Hallmark Media, Lifetime, and Heart & Home Super Channel (among others). However, Barrell didn’t say which network would feature the film.
Balancing work and family
Barrell took fan questions during the brief appearance and even spoke in French with the help of her husband, actor Ray Galletti, who was off camera. She also talked about her 17-month-old son, Ronin.
“He is amazing,” she said. “He’s chatting up a storm.”
We will continue to update this story as more details become available.
Christmas on Hallmark
Christmas on Hallmark will be a ‘round-the-clock holiday movie fest. Hallmark Channel will air many of the new movies it premiered during Countdown to Christmas 2022, including Three Wise Men and a Baby, A Fabled Holiday, A Magical Christmas Village, Noel Next Door, and Christmas Class Reunion.
On Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, all of the new Miracles of Christmas movies for 2022 will air.
The full schedule is as follows:
Friday, December 23:
HALLMARK CHANNEL
12 (a.m.) Christmas at Castle Hart
2/1c Christmas Getaway
4/3c Double Holiday
6/5c Next Stop, Christmas
8/7c Christmas Under Wraps
10/9c You, Me & the Christmas Trees
12/11c A Christmas Detour
2/1c An Unexpected Christmas
4/3c The Sweetest Christmas
6/5c #XMAS
8/7c Crown For Christmas
10/9c Holiday Heritage
HALLMARK MOVIES AND MYSTERIES
12 (a.m.) Our Italian Christmas Memories
2/1c A Christmas For the Books
4/3c A Christmas Love Story
6/5c Christmas Homecoming
8/7c A Homecoming For the Holidays
10/9c Every Time a Bell Rings
12/11c Christmas in Montana
2/1c A Gift to Remember
4/3c Cherished Memories: A Gift to Remember 2
6/5c Small Town Christmas
8/7c Long Lost Christmas
10/9c Family For Christmas
Saturday, December 24:
HALLMARK CHANNEL
12 (a.m.) We Wish You a Married Christmas
2/1c When I Think of Christmas
4/3c A Royal Corgi Christmas
6/5c In Merry Measure
8/7c A Kismet Christmas
10/9c Undercover Holiday
12/11c Hanukkah on Rye
2/1c ’Twas the Night Before Christmas
4/3c A Cozy Christmas Inn
6/5c Jolly Good Christmas
8/7c A Holiday Spectacular
10/9c Haul Out the Holly
HALLMARK MOVIES AND MYSTERIES
12 (a.m.) One December Night
2/1c Christmas Incorporated
4/3c Christmas at Cartwright’s
6/5c One Christmas Eve
8/7c The Holiday Stocking
10/9c We Need a Little Christmas
12/11c Five More Minutes: Moments Like These
2/1c Time For Me to Come Home For Christmas
4/3c Time For You to Come Home For Christmas
6/5c Time For Us to Come Home For Christmas
8/7c Time For Them to Come Home For Christmas
10/9c Time For Him to Come Home For Christmas
Sunday, December 25:
HALLMARK CHANNEL
12 (a.m.) A Big Fat Family Christmas
2/1c Lights, Camera, Christmas!
4/3c Ghosts of Christmas Always
6/5c Christmas at the Golden Dragon
8/7c Noel Next Door
10/9c A Magical Christmas Village
12/11c Christmas Class Reunion
2/1c A Fabled Holiday
4/3c A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe
6/5c Three Wise Men and a Baby
8/7c A Maple Valley Christmas
10/9c My Southern Family Christmas
HALLMARK MOVIES AND MYSTERIES
12 (a.m.) A Christmas Melody
2/1c Cranberry Christmas
4/3c Journey Back to Christmas
6/5c Christmas Bedtime Stories
8/7c Our Italian Christmas Memories
10/9c Christmas at the Palace
12/11c The Christmas Secret
2/1c A Godwink Christmas
4/3c A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love
6/5c A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love
8/7c A Godwink Christmas: Miracle of Love
10/9c The Gift of Peace
Hallmark fans keep giving Wes Brown the same hilarious gift
Hallmark star Wes Brown recently attended Christmas Con in New Jersey, where he kept getting the same hilarious gift from fans: nutcrackers.
In an Instagram post, the actor said many fans brought him nutcrackers as a reference to his Christmas-loving, detail-oriented character Jared Farnsworth, in the Countdown to Christmas movie Haul Out the Holly.
“…I never expected to receive gifts,” Brown wrote. “The amount of you who brought me nutcrackers (Haul Out The Holly nod) amongst others, please know I took all of them home and my collection begins, so THANK YOU.”
Hallmark star Wes Brown
Brown was one of many Hallmark stars who turned out for Christmas Con 2022, which was held at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison. During the three-day event he met fans, signed autographs, and posed for photos. He also received nutcrackers of all shapes and sizes.
“Guess I’m the nutcracker guy and I’m here for it!” Brown wrote on Instagram.
Haul Out the Holly
Haul Out the Holly premiered as part of the 2022 Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup. In the movie, Brown played Jared, president of the homeowner’s association in a neighborhood obsessed with Christmas. He takes his job seriously, calling meetings to discuss cookie baking, tree-lighting ceremonies, and snowmen tableaus, while also walking the street, citation pad in hand, ready to cite anyone for not having the proper decorations up.
Though he gets cooperation from most of the people in the neighborhood, he butts head with Lacey Chabert’s character, Emily, who is staying at her parents’ home while they spend the holidays in Florida. Emily, who has just broken up with her boyfriend, wants nothing to do with the neighborhood Christmas celebrations. But Jared keeps issuing citations, so she reluctantly gets involved.
The nutcracker connection
In one hilarious scene, Jared slaps a citation on Emily’s door because she hasn’t put out a nutcracker on the front porch, an HOA requirement during the holidays.
Emily picks up a small nutcracker and places it on the porch. Jared insists that it doesn’t fulfill the requirement as the nutcracker needs to be “36 inches from shoe to chapeau.”
European artisans first began carving ornamental nutcrackers during the 15th century. As the years passed, the designs became more elaborate. Nutcrackers came to be associated with Christmas when E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” was adapted into a ballet in 1892.
Many of Brown’s fans said they were inspired by his character to start their own collection.
“I bought my first Nutcracker ever after watching this fantastic movie!” wrote a fan on Brown’s Instagram page.
“I just had to buy nutcracker ornaments for the tree this year as a nod to Haul Out The Holly,” wrote another.
Exes reunite in new Christmas movie on Great American Family
Great American Family will premiere the new Christmas movie Aisle Be Home For Christmas this weekend. The romantic comedy, which stars Jennifer Freeman, Garrett Watson, Jessica Ruth Bell, and Erica Duke, tells the story of two exes who get trapped by winter storms and must spend Christmas together in a big box retail store.
“This weekend grab a cup of hot chocolate and get cozy on your couch and check out my new Christmas movie,” wrote Jen Freeman on her Instagram page, @msjenfreeman.
New Christmas movie
In Aisle Be Home For Christmas, Freeman plays a woman who gets stranded with a group of people in a big box store when a winter storm hits. The strangers try to make the best of a bad situation, cooking up some food and setting a table for the holiday meal. But the situation is a little awkward as two members of the group — Michelle (played by Freeman) and Drew (played by Garrett Watson) — used to be a couple.
In a preview of the movie, Drew tells Michelle, “Something is giving us a second chance.”
Great American Family movies
Aisle Be Home For Christmas is one of 18 new Christmas movies to premiere on Great American Family this year. The network, which was founded in June 2021 by former Hallmark CEO Bill Abbott, also debuted Christmas at the Drive-In, starring Danica McKellar and Neal Bledsoe; I’m Glad It’s Christmas, starring Paul Greene, Jessica Lowndes, and Gladys Knight; A Christmas…Present, starring Candace Cameron Bure and Marc Blucas; and Catering Christmas, starring Merritt Patterson and Daniel Lissing.
About the cast
Aisle Be Home For Christmas is the second Christmas movie Jennifer Freeman has starred in this year. Her other movie, My Christmas Fiance, debuted on Hulu in November.
Freeman had parts on the TV shows 7th Heaven and Lizzie McGuire before taking over the role of Claire Kyle on the hit series My Wife and Kids. She has also starred in the movies Throwback Holiday, The Business of Christmas, The Business of Christmas 2, and Beaus of Holly.
Garrett Watson starred in the TV show Step Up: High Water and the movie The Boyfriend Trap. Aisle Be Home For Christmas is his first production with Great American Family.
Aisle Be Home For Christmas will premiere on Great American Family on Saturday, December 17 at 8/7c.
A Heartland Christmas movie? The show’s producer drops an exciting hint
A producer of the hit series Heartland said she would love to do another Heartland Christmas movie.
“…We did the Christmas movie after Season 3,” said Heather Conkie, the show’s frontrunner and one of its executive producers in an interview on Keep Heartland Strong. “I would love to do another Christmas movie. You know there’s Lyndy now seeing Christmas through a child’s eyes.”
Conkie made the comment during an interview with Nita Abbott, who runs @KeepHeartlandStrong on YouTube and the Keep Heartland Strong page on Facebook. In the course of the interview, Conkie talked about the show’s continued success after 16 seasons on the air.
“It’s a kinder gentler place,” Conkie said. “I mean, everyone in this day and age is dying for a kinder gentler year to exist in, a place that you can look at and love and appreciate nature. …It’s like therapy.
Hit TV show Heartland
The hit TV show Heartland is Canada’s longest-running one-hour drama. The series premiered on television in October 2007. Set in rural Alberta, the show told the story of a teenage girl who was living on her grandfather’s horse ranch following a tragic car accident that took her mother’s life.
Over the course of 16 seasons, the show has been nominated for more than 80 awards and has won the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Family Television Series five times.
A Heartland Christmas movie
CBC released a holiday special in 2010. In A Heartland Christmas, ranch owner Jack Bartlett (Shaun Johnston) receives an anonymous call about a group of starving horses who have been stranded by an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains. He sends Amy (Amber Marshall) and Ty (Graham Wardle) to rescue them.
In her interview with Nita Abbott (which can be watched here), Conkie also talked about the unique experience she has had working on Heartland.
“I got chills,” Conkie said watching the show’s footage during the editing process. “And I just thought I don’t get chills that often on a show that I’m involved with.”
Conkie has written and produced a number of shows for television, including Dark Oracle, Port Hope, and Road to Avonlea.
Her latest project is a new series for Hallmark Channel called The Way Home. The multi-generational drama will premiere on January 15.
The new Hallmark movie The Gift of Peace explores grief at the holidays
Though Hallmark is known for its Christmas romantic comedies, a new Hallmark movie explores grief at the holidays. The Gift of Peace stars Nikki DeLoach as Traci, a grieving widow who joins an emotional support group right before Christmas. Brennan Elliott plays the group director, who convinces Traci to stay with the program even though she is reluctant to get involved.
“I think one of the beautiful messages in this movie and what I’ve learned in my own grief is that we are kind of taught in this society that we should be strong enough…to just deal with it and fight through it and everybody grieves you know so we do it alone, in isolation,” DeLoach told TV Insider. “When the truth is the power of being with other people and its capacity to heal you by sharing your story and allowing other people to help carry your grief with you I think is one of the greatest takeaways from this movie.”
Grief at the holidays
A recent survey of 2,000 people showed that 36 percent of the respondents did not want to celebrate the holidays due to feelings of grief or loss.
“The holiday season can be especially challenging if you’re dealing with the death of someone close to you,” wrote Lisa DeSieno, a bereavement services director with the Mayo Clinic. “Whether it was a recent loss or one that occurred some time ago, feelings of grief can be heightened and may seem overwhelming during the holiday season.”
Healing each other
In The Gift of Peace, actor Brennan Elliott plays the leader of the bereavement support group DeLoach’s charter joins. In an interview with TV Insider, Elliott said that, despite being in charge of the group, his character is the most in need of help.
“He feels that in helping others, I don’t have to really deal with my own [grief] and her character…helps guide him,” he said. “So it’s like, even though I’m in a position of trying to support them or give them that support from the leader of the group, they’re actually helping me as well.”
The Gift of Peace will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Saturday, December 10 at 10/9c. The movie will be rebroadcast at different times through the Miracles of Christmas lineup.
Ten Hallmark Christmas movies based on books
Countdown to Christmas is on, which means Hallmark Christmas movies are playing around the clock. Though many of the stories in these films are original, some are adapted from bestsellers by authors such as Debbie Macomber, Nancy Thayer, David Baldacci, and Nancy Naigle.
Since we love reading almost as much as we love watching cheesy TV, here is a list of movies based on books and links to where you can find them.
1.Let it Snow (Nantucket Noel)
Sarah Power and Trevor Donovan starred in the film adaption of this charming book, which Hallmark titled Nantucket Noel.
Power plays Christina, a third-generation resident of Nantucket who runs a toy store on one of the town’s wharves. Struggling with the recent death of her mother, Christina finds out that a developer is planning on tearing down her wharf and she begins a campaign to save it from demolition.
Right before Christmas, a handsome businessman named Andy (played by Donovan) visits the island with his daughter. He and Christina connect but she becomes upset when she finds out Andy’s father is the developer trying to destroy the wharf.
Author Nancy Thayer said she believed Hallmark chose her book to adapt into a Christmas movie because it has a message of hope.
“This is a deeply positive book,” she said in an interview with the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror. “My concept of the world is yin/yang. It is half good and half bad, and I think we all have to do what we can to make it 48 percent bad and 52 percent good.”
Nancy has written more than 30 novels and has a great website, which can be found here.
2. The Nine Lives of Christmas
Based on a novel by the same name, The Nine Lives of Christmas tells the story of a stray cat who wanders into a fire station and ends up bringing together a handsome firefighter and a veterinary student.
Sheila Roberts published the book in 2014 and Hallmark adapted it into a movie later that year.
The film version of The Nine Lives of Christmas was so successful, Hallmark released a sequel, The Nine Kittens of Christmas, in 2021.
3. A Mrs. Miracle Christmas
Every single title in Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle series has been turned into a movie by Hallmark. Earlier this year, “Debbie Macomber’s A Mrs. Miracle Christmas” debuted on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, with Caroline Rhea starring as the magical woman who swoops in and helps people restore their faith and Christmas Spirit.
4. Dashing Through the Snow
Also by Debbie Macomber, this story follows two strangers who agree to share a rental car when their flight home for Christmas is canceled. The movie version stars Meghan Ory and Andrew Walker.
The book gets high marks on Amazon and Goodreads from people who claim they usually don’t read romance novels.
5. Christmas Joy: A Novel
Christmas Joy is by bestselling author Nancy Naigle, who has had several of her titles adapted into Hallmark movies. Christmas Joy tells the story of a career-focused woman who takes a leave of absence to run her family’s farm at Christmas time. The movie version stars Danielle Panabaker and Matt Long.
Naigle is a prolific writer (check out her website here). Her novels Sand Dollar Cove, Hope at Christmas, and The Secret Ingredient have also been adapted into Hallmark movies. She also wrote the book versions of the Christmas in Evergreen Hallmark movie series.
6. The Christmas Train
The Christmas Train was written by David Baldacci, another Hallmark favorite. The book chronicles the journey of a disillusioned journalist who is forced to travel from Washington to Los Angeles by train in time for Christmas.
The film version starred Dermot Mulroney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Danny Glover. One of his other novels, One Summer, was adapted for the screen by Hallmark Movies and Mysteries in 2021.
7. Silver Bells
Bestselling author Luanne Rice published Silver Bells in 2004 and Hallmark adapted it into a movie starring Anne Heche and Tate Donovan a year later. The story follows widower Christy Byrne, who travels from Novia Scotia to New York City every year to sell his homegrown Christmas trees. He makes a special connection with a woman who hasn’t celebrated Christmas since the year her husband died.
8. A December Bride
A novella in the Year of Weddings series by Denise Hunter, A December Bride follows Layla, who was jilted by her fiancé for her cousin. When she finds out her ex and her cousin are planning their own wedding, she enlists the help of a friend to pose as her new boyfriend. But things become complicated when the pair develop feelings for each other.
Jessica Lowndes and Daniel Lissing starred in the 2016 film version of the book.
9. The Christmas Cottage
Based on the novel by Samantha Chase, the Christmas Cottage follows Lacey Quinn, who must decorate her best friend’s family’s cottage for her upcoming wedding. She doesn’t believe the legend that any couple who spends the night in the cottage together will end up together forever. Still, she does get a little nervous when the bride’s brother arrives and they become snowed in.
Merritt Patterson and Steve Lund starred in the 2017 film.
10. Finding Father Christmas
The first in a series of three novellas by Robin Jones Gunn featuring the character Miranda Carson, Finding Father Christmas chronicles Carson’s search for her father, which takes her all the way to London.
Erin Krakow played Carson in all three of the Hallmark movies in the series, Finding Father Christmas, Engaging Father Christmas, and Marrying Father Christmas.
John Travolta congratulates his sister on her Hallmark Christmas movie debut. ‘She always wanted to be in a Hallmark Christmas movie!’
John Travolta gave a shout-out to his sister, Ellen, on Instagram, congratulating her for her Hallmark Christmas movie debut.
“My sister Ellen always wanted to be in a Hallmark Christmas movie and had so much fun making it!” he wrote on his Instagram. “Watch Haul Out the Holly!”
Ellen Travolta co-starred with Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown in the Hallmark Christmas movie Haul Out the Holly, which premiered as part of Countdown to Christmas 2022.
Hallmark Christmas movie
In Haul Out the Holly, Lacey Chabert stars as Emily, a woman who returns home during the holidays after a bad breakup with plans to just relax. But when she arrives, she finds out her parents (played by Carrie Morgan and Peter Jacobson) have plans to go out of town. Just when Emily resigns herself to binge-watching Christmas movies on her own for the week, she finds out she is expected to take her parents’ place in the neighborhood’s holiday festivities.
Wes Brown co-stars as her old friend who is now running the HOA in charge of the Christmas events. When she doesn’t share his enthusiasm for the holidays, he issues her parents an HOA citation.
To work off the penalty, Emily gets involved and finds herself competing with the neighbors, played by Ellen Travolta, Melissa Peterman, and Stephen Tobolowsky.
Dream come true
John Travolta was quick to promote his sister’s work, sharing a photo of the movie. In his Instagram feed, he shared a photo of himself with Ellen and their sister Ann taken in 1976.
“Thanks for always being by my side!” he wrote.
Ellen Travolta was born in New Jersey in 1939. She had roles in the television shows Medical Center, All In the Family, Happy Days, Visions, One Day at a Time, The Love Boat, Welcome Back, Kotter, Joanie Loves Chachi, and Quincy M.E. From 1987 to 1990 she co-starred with Scott Baio in the series Charles in Charge. She has also appeared in the movies Grease (1978), The Basket (1999), Lonely Hearts (2006), Falling Up (2009), Mistrust (2018), and The Untold Story (2019).
Haul Out the Holly is her first movie for Hallmark Channel. (We hope it’s not her last. She was fantastic!)
Hallmark’s Three Wise Men and a Baby is the most-watched cable movie of the year
The Hallmark Christmas comedy Three Wise Men and a Baby is the most-watched cable movie of the year, according to Nielsen ratings.
The movie, which starred Andrew Walker, Tyler Hynes, and Paul Campbell, premiered on November 19 during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.
According to the ratings, it was ad-supported cable’s most-watched movie of the year to date among homes, viewers, women 18+, persons 18+, women 25-54, and women 18-34. It averaged 2.9 million homes, 411,000 women 25-54, and 3.6 million total viewers, according to Nielsen.
Three Wise Men and a Baby
In the movie, a self-absorbed firefighter Luke (Walker) discovers a baby left in his station with a note asking him to look after the child. He brings the baby home to his mother (played by Margaret Colin) who agrees to look after him. But when she gets called out of town unexpectedly, Luke must look after the infant with help from his brothers, played by Hynes and Campbell.
The premise was a departure from the typical single-woman-finds-love-at-the-holidays formula Hallmark Media has become so famous for. But it worked, according to fans.
“This is the BEST!” wrote one fan on Facebook. “Team those three up, again!”
“Hallmark, you got a winner with this movie!! If you haven’t seen it, watch it!! wrote another.
The trio movie
Hallmark found similar success when it paired up three of its other big names, Alison Sweeney, Lacey Chabert, and Autumn Reeser, in The Wedding Veil trilogy. In those romantic comedies, three best friends experienced the mystery of a lace veil rumored to bring true love to its owner.
The movie was inspired in part by fans. Chabert said that fans often asked her if they would see some sort of cross-over movie, with more than one Hallmark leading lady.
Those films did so well that Hallmark tried its hand with three leading men. The gamble paid off.
“Belly laughs,” wrote one fan. “Absolutely adorable movie!”
Walker, Hynes, and Campbell managed to raise a lot of hype for the movie from their on-set antics. In a TikTok video that went viral, the three stars emerged from their trailers wearing elf costumes. Assuming macho poses, they then strutted off together as the George Baker Selection’s hit “Little Green Bag” played in the background.
Three Wise Men and a Baby will air throughout the Christmas season. The next showtime is Saturday, November 26 at 4/3c.
Bill Abbott: Great American Media will be the leader in family entertainment
The CEO of Great American Media believes his network will de-throne Hallmark and become the front-runner in family-friendly television programming.
“We believe we’ll be the leader in quality family entertainment in this space,” Abbott said in a recent interview with USA Today. “…That’s a lofty and challenging objective. But we think we have the team in place to do it and the experience to do it.”
Great American Media
Abbott made headlines in June 2021 when he announced he had partnered with Dallas-based Hicks Equity Partners to purchase two networks in a deal Bloomberg estimated at $90 million. Programming on the two channels began in September 2021. One network, which has been renamed Great American Family, ran romantic comedies and TV series including I Dream of Jeannie, Full House, Fuller House, Who’s the Boss, and Bewitched. The other, Great American Living, airs lifestyle programs including First Time Flippers, Aloha Builds, Growing Up Gator, and Kimberly’s Southern Kitchen.
In an interview shortly after the new networks were launched, Abbott said there was a lot of room in the market for family-friendly programming.
“There’s so much need for family content in the market and in this space,” he said. “You know, it’s pretty scary, quite frankly, the amount of content that’s out there…the vast majority of content that’s salacious and just is not appropriate for any member of the family.”
Hallmark History
Abbott spent about 20 years with Hallmark Media — called Crown Media Family Networks at the time — where he oversaw production of TV programs such as Good Witch, Cedar Cove, When Calls the Heart, and Chesapeake Shores. He also was instrumental in launching Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas.
The Long Island native left the network in early 2020 and was replaced later that year by current CEO Wonya Lucas.
Great American Media has produced more than 40 original movies, including 18 new Christmas films for the 2022 season. The company has also signed deals with Hallmark stars such as Danica McKellar, Trevor Donovan, and Jen Lilley to produce and star in content.
In April, Great American Media made headlines when it signed Candace Cameron Bure to a deal.
“I’m very excited to develop heartwarming family and faith-filled programming and make the kind of stories my family and I love to watch,” Bure said in a statement through the network.
In an interview with USA Today, Bure Bure said the network will “lean into the faith element.”
For a complete list of all the new Christmas movies premiering in 2022 on Great American Family, click here.
New Christmas movie Reindeer Games Homecoming features Grey’s Anatomy co-stars Sarah Drew and Justin Bruening
A new Christmas movie featuring Grey’s Anatomy co-stars Sarah Drew and Justin Bruening will premiere on Lifetime. The actors — who play a once-married, now-divorced couple on the hit ABC series — will star in Reindeer Games Homecoming, a rom-com Drew wrote.
Though Drew didn’t write the script with Bruening in mind, she realized he was the perfect pick during the casting process.
“I was writing it with some other people in mind after having just worked with a group of people that I wanted to work with again,” Drew said in an interview with People. “And then all kinds of things wound up happening over the three years between when that all happened. And then when Justin’s name was brought up in our leadership meetings, I was like, ‘Yeah.’ I’m so glad he ended up doing it.”
New Christmas movie
Reindeer Games Homecoming is one of 26 new Christmas movies that will premiere on Lifetime this holiday season.
In the movie, Drew plays MacKenzie Graves, who left her career as a doctor in a Boston hospital to move back to her small Vermont hometown just before her father died. She ended up staying and is teaching science at the local high school when she decides to take over her father’s tradition of hosting The Reindeer Games, the town’s Christmas carnival.
According to a synopsis from Lifetime, “…Her world is rocked when fading Hollywood star, and Mac’s high school crush, Chase Weston (played by Bruening), comes home for Christmas to visit his pregnant sister and nephew and is begrudgingly roped into participating in the Games. When the opportunity to compete against her former crush arises, Mac is determined to show him up and win the Kris Kringle Cup at all costs. As the competition heats up, so does the spark between Mac and Chase, and Chase soon finds himself eager to not only win the games but also to win her heart as well.”
Reindeer Games Homecoming
Playing a couple came naturally to Drew and Bruening. The actors play April Kepner and Matthew Taylor on Grey’s Anatomy.
“We’ve been working together for 10 years,” Drew said. “It’s so easy to just leap back into that mode with him and we have this second-hand. There’s no kind of trying to figure out the chemistry. It’s just there.”
Bruening said he loved the script but was surprised at how much kissing was in the story.
“…I was like, ‘I kissed her halfway through. That’s not normal,’ he said. “There’s a lot of kissing in this movie! It’s only supposed to be one.”
Drew said she got the inspiration for her script from her husband, academic Peter Lanfer, who attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and took part in the school’s Winter Carnival.
“They do the polar bear plunge, except in at Dartmouth they cut a hole in the frozen-over pond and leap into the hole,” she said. “They have a human dog sled derby, but it’s on snow and it’s people dressed as clowns pulling someone in a sled. I just thought it’s such a fun, community bonding sort of experience, and I was like, man, this would be a perfect setting for a holiday movie if it’s a small town who always really gets into it.”
Reindeer Games Homecoming will premiere on Saturday, November 12 on Lifetime at 8/7c.
Great American Family breaks records with its Christmas movie lineup
Great American Family, the new network started by former Hallmark CEO Bill Abbott, broke records during the first weekend of its Christmas programming.
“Not all Christmas movies are created equal,” wrote Abbott in a post on Twitter. “We understand better than anybody how to produce quality Christmas movies and that, great content wins. Viewers have found that in our #GreatAmericanChristmas programming event on #GreatAmericanFamily!#DestinedAtChristmas.”
Great American Family
The new network, which was launched in September 2021, started its Great American Christmas lineup with the original movie Destined at Christmas. The movie had .54M total viewers in its premiere and just shy of 1 million total viewers over the weekend, according to Nielsen ratings. It was the highest-rated premiere for the network. The movie also beat out Hallmark Movies and Mysteries programming on Saturday among women ages 25 to 54.
“Great movie,” wrote a fan on Great American Family’s Facebook page, “not the same story line as most Hallmark movies.”
“This was an amazing and romantic movie!!!” another wrote. “Thank you!!”
Destined at Christmas
The first new movie to premiere in the Great American Christmas lineup starred Shae Robbins and Casey Elliott as two strangers who meet during a power outage while doing their Black Friday shopping. They can’t stop thinking about each other. With the help of a little Christmas magic, they are reunited.
Destined at Christmas is one of 18 new Christmas movies to air on Great American Family. Others include A Merry Christmas Wish, starring Jill Wagner and Cameron Mathison; Christmas at the Drive-In, starring Danica McKellar and Neal Bledsoe; and I’m Glad It’s Christmas, Jessica Lowndes, Paul Greene, and Gladys Knight.
Candace Cameron Bure made headlines when she announced she had partnered with the network to produce and star in content. Her Christmas movie, Candace Cameron Bure Presents: A Christmas…Present, will premiere in November.
During a March 2022 interview, Abbott talked about his two new networks, Great American Family and Great American Living, and his attempt to expand the realm of family-friendly programming on television.
“Not all rom-coms are created equal,” Abbott said. “Just because someone makes a rom-com doesn’t mean that it has a lot of heart and emotion.”
For a full schedule of the new movies premiering during Great American Christmas, click here.
All the new Christmas movies premiering this year (and we do mean ALL)
We made a list of all the new Christmas movies premiering this year. It includes the movies on Hallmark, Great American Family, and Lifetime to Netflix, BET+, and Discovery+. We will update it as more information becomes available.
Enjoy!
All the new Christmas movies:
Saturday, Oct. 22
“Destined at Christmas”
Stars: Shae Robins and Casey Elliott
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“We Wish You a Married Christmas”
Stars: Marisol Nichols, Kristoffer Polaha
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“We Need a Little Christmas”
Stars: Erica Durance, Patrick Sabongui, Lynn Whitfield
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Oct. 23
“A Kismet Christmas”
Stars: Sarah Ramos, Carlo Marks, Marilu Henner
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
Friday, Oct. 28
“A Cozy Christmas Inn”
Stars: Jodie Sweetin, David O’Donnell
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
Saturday, Oct. 29
“Catering Christmas”
Stars: Merritt Patterson and Daniel Lissing
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Jolly Good Christmas”
Stars: Reshma Shetty, Will Kemp
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Christmas Bedtime Stories”
Stars: Erin Cahill, Steve Lund, Charlie Weber
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Oct. 30
“Ghosts of Christmas Always”
Stars: Kim Matula, Ian Harding, Beth Leavel, Lori Tan Chinn, Reginald VelJohnson
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
Tuesday, Nov. 1
“Another Christmas”
Stars: Sheena Faust, Ryan Toby, Malik Brazil
Premieres: The Roku Channel (streaming platform)
Thursday, Nov. 3
“A Wesley Christmas”
Stars: Dorien Wilson, Jasmine Guy, Terrence Carson, Loren Lott, Terayle Hill, Mike Merrill
Premieres on: BET+ (streaming platform)
Friday, Nov. 4
“Unperfect Christmas Wish”
Stars: Alys Crocker, David Pinard
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“A Magical Christmas Village”
Stars: Alison Sweeney, Luke Macfarlane, Marlo Thomas
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
Saturday, Nov. 5
“Christmas in the Pines”
Stars: Jillian Murray, Dean Geyer
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“A Royal Christmas on Ice”
Stars: Anna Marie Dobbins and Jonathan Stoddard
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Lights, Camera, Christmas!”
Stars: Kimberley Sustad, John Brotherton
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Merry Swissmas”
Stars: Jodie Sweetin, Tim Rozon, Mikaela Lily Davies, David Pinard, Jane Wheeler
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“A Maple Valley Christmas”
Stars: Peyton List, Andrew Walker
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Nov. 6
“Christmas Masquerade”
Stars: Erin Agostino, David Lafontaine
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“Love At the Christmas Contest” (working title)
Stars: Samantha Cope and Ross Jirgl
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“All Saints Christmas”
Stars: Ledisi, Roger Cross
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Well Suited for Christmas”
Stars: Mercedes de la Zerda, Franco Lo Presti
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Thursday, Nov. 10
“The First Noelle”
Stars: Novi Brown, LaLa Milan, Todd Anthony
Premieres on: BET+
“Falling for Christmas”
Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Chord Overstreet, George Young, Jack Wagner
Premieres on: Netflix
“Christmas on Mistletoe Lake”
Stars: Genelle Williams, Corey Sevier
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Friday, Nov. 11
“A Christmas Open House”
Stars: Katie Stevens, Victor Rasuk, Ben and Erin Napier
Premieres on: Discovery+
“Designing Christmas”
Stars: Marco Grazzini, Jessica Szohr, Mykee Selkin, Hilary Farr
Premieres on: Discovery+
“A Gingerbread Christmas”
Stars: Tiya Sircar, Sugith Varughese, Ktana Teresa, Duff Goldman, Marc Bendavid
Premieres on: Discovery+
“One Delicious Christmas”
Stars: Vanessa Marano, Kathy Maloney, Bobby Flay, Alex Mallari, Jr.
Premieres on: Discovery+
“The Christmas Retreat”
Stars: Rhiannon Fish, Clayton James
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“In Merry Measure”
Stars: Patti Murin, Brendan Penny, Jennifer Robertson
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“The Dog Days of Christmas”
Stars: Georgia Flood, Ezekiel Simat
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Saturday, Nov. 12
“A Tiny Home Christmas”
Stars: Rebecca Dalton, Christopher Seivright
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“A Merry Christmas Wish”
Cast: Jill Wagner and Cameron Mathison
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“The Royal Nanny”
Stars: Rachel Skarsten, Dan Jeannotte, Greta Scacchi
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Reindeer Games Homecoming”
Stars: Sarah Drew, Justin Bruening
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“Our Italian Christmas Memories”
Stars: Sarah Power, Beau Bridges
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Nov. 13
“The Picture of Christmas”
Stars: Chelsea Hobbs, Giles Panton
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“My Best Friend’s Christmas”
Stars: Breanne Hill and Colton Little
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Christmas at the Golden Dragon”
Stars: Kara Wang, Osric Chau, Sara Canning, Antonio Cupo, Barbara Niven
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Six Degrees of Santa”
Stars: Kathryn Davis, Steve Lund
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Thursday, Nov. 17
“Christmas Party Crashers”
Stars: Skye Townsend, Jaime Callica, Cocoa Brown
Premieres on: BET+
“Christmas With You”
Stars: Aimee Garcia and Freddie Prinze Jr.
Premieres on: Netflix
“A Christmas Story Christmas”
Stars: Peter Billingsley, Erinn Hayes, Julianna Layne, River Drosche
Premieres on: HBO Max
“Sweet Navidad”
Stars: Camila Banus, Mark Hapka
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Friday, Nov. 18
“Spirited”
Stars: Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page
Premieres on: Apple TV+
“Inventing the Christmas Prince”
Stars: Tamera Mowry-Housley, Ronnie Rowe Jr.
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“A Country Christmas Harmony”
Stars: Brooke Elliott, Brandon Quinn
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Saturday, Nov. 19
“The Holiday Switch” (working title)
Stars: Alex Paxton-Beesley, Morgan David Jones
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“Christmas At Pine Valley”
Stars: Kristina Cole and Andrew Biernat
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Three Wise Men and a Baby”
Stars: Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker, Margaret Colin
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Santa Bootcamp”
Stars: Emily Kinney, Patrick Cassidy Rita Moreno
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“Long Lost Christmas”
Stars: Taylor Cole, Benjamin Ayres
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Nov. 20
“Christmas Lucky Charm”
Stars: Sugenja Sri, Adrian Spencer
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“My Favorite Christmas Tree”
Stars: Emma Johnson and Giles Panton
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“When I Think of Christmas”
Stars: Shenae Grimes-Beech, Niall Matter, Beth Broderick
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“A Show-Stopping Christmas”
Stars: Jamie Perez, Thomas McDonnell
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“The Case of the Christmas Diamond”
Stars: Kelly Daly, Billy Baldwin
Premieres on: ION, 8/7c
Thursday, Nov. 24
“The Christmas Clapback”
Stars: Nadine Ellis, Porscha Coleman, Candace Maxwell, Kara Royster, Eltony Williams, Brandon Sutton, Lisa Arrindell
Premieres on: BET+
“Holiday Hideaway”
Stars: Camille Winbush, Vivica A Fox, Leonard Earl Howze, Rodney Van Johnson
Premieres on: BET+
“The Sound of Christmas”
Stars: Ne-Yo, Serayah, Draya Michele, Michael Bless, Alijah Kai
Premieres on: BET+
“Christmas at The Greenbrier”
Stars: Alicia Leigh Willis and Josh Murray
Premieres on: Fox Nation
“A Christmas Mystery”
Stars: Violet McGraw, Eddie Cibrian, Christoph Sanders, Drew Powell
Premieres on: HBO Max
“Holiday Harmony”
Stars: Annelise Cepero, Jeremy Sumpter, Carla Jimenez, Sisanie
Premieres on: HBO Max
“The Noel Diary”
Stars: Justin Hartley, Barrett Doss, Essence Atkins, Bonnie Bedelia, James Remar
Premieres on: Netflix
“My Southern Family Christmas”
Stars: Jaicy Elliot, Bruce Campbell, Ryan Rottman, Moira Kelly, Brian McNamara
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Baking All the Way”
Stars: Cory Lee, Yannick Bisson
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Friday, Nov. 25
“The Hip Hop Nutcracker”
Stars: Allison Holker Boss, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Rev Run, Caché Melvin
Premieres on: Disney+
“#Xmas”
Stars: Clare Bowen, Brant Daugherty
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 6/5c
“Christmas at the Drive-In”
Stars: Danica McKellar and Neal Bledsoe
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8 /7c
“A Royal Corgi Christmas”
Stars: Hunter King, Jordan Renzo
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Steppin’ Into the Holiday”
Stars: Mario Lopez, Jana Kramer, Courtney Lopez
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Saturday, Nov. 26
“A Tale of Two Christmases”
Stars: Kat Barrell, Chandler Massey, Evan Roderick
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 6/5c
“I’m Glad It’s Christmas”
Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Paul Greene and Gladys Knight
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Haul Out the Holly”
Stars: Lacey Chabert, Wes Brown, Ellen Travolta, Peter Jacobson, Melissa Peterman
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“The 12 Days of Christmas Eve”
Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Spencer Grammer
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“Faith Heist: A Christmas Caper”
Stars: Jonathan Langdon
Premieres on: Bounce, 8/7c
“Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas”
Stars: Holland Roden, Tyler Hynes, Tenille Townes (Executive Producer: Blake Shelton)
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Nov. 27
“A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe”
Stars: Rachel Boston, Victor Webster
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 6/5c
“Candace Cameron Bure Presents: A Christmas…Present”
Stars: Candace Cameron Bure and Marc Blucas
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“A Holiday Spectacular”
Stars: Ginna Claire Mason, Derek Klena, Eve Plumb, Ann-Margret; featuring the Radio City Rockettes
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“A Christmas Spark”
Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando (Executive producer Toni Braxton)
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays”
Stars: Sara Ball, Noah Fearnley, Vivica A. Fox
Premieres on: ION, 8/7c
Thursday, Dec. 1
“Rolling Into Christmas”
Stars: Rhyon Nicole Brown, Donny Carrington, Brandee Evans, Gary Dourdan
Premieres on: BET+
“A Hollywood Christmas”
Stars: Jessika Van, Anissa Borrego, Josh Swickard, Riley Dandy
Premieres on: HBO Max
“Serving Up the Holidays”
Stars: Britt Irvin, Zach Roerig
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Friday, Dec. 2
“Scrooge: A Christmas Carol”
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Johnny Flynn
Premieres on: Netflix
“Christmas in the Wilds”
Stars: Kaitlyn Leeb, Victor Zinck Jr.
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“A Big Fat Family Christmas”
Stars: Shannon Chan-Kent, Shannon Kook, Tia Carrere, Jack Wagner
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Cloudy with a Chance of Christmas”
Stars: Valery Ortiz, Brandon Quinn, Nicole Bilderback
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Saturday, Dec. 3
“Christmas on the Slopes”
Stars: Olivier Renaud, Soma Chhaya
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“Christmas on Candy Cane Lane”
Stars: Andrea Barber and Dan Payne
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“A Fabled Holiday”
Stars: Brooke D’Orsay, Ryan Paevey
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“A New Orleans Noel”
Stars: Keshia Knight Pullman, Brad James, Patti LaBelle
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“The Holiday Stocking”
Stars: Nadine Ellis, B.J. Britt, Karon Riley, Tamala Jones, Mykelti Williamson
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
“The Great Holiday Bake War”
Stars: LeToya Luckett, Finesse Mitchell
Premieres on: OWN, 9/8c
Sunday, Dec. 4
“Christmas on the Rocks”
Stars: Lyla Porter-Follows, Jon McLaren
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“B&B Merry”
Stars: Jen Lilley and Jesse Hutch
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Undercover Holiday”
Stars: Noemi Gonzalez, Stephen Huszar
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Merry Textmas”
Stars: Ariana Ron Pedrique, Rodrigo Massa
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“The Search for Secret Santa”
Stars: Skye Coyne, Alex Trumble
Premieres on: ION, 8/7c
“Fit for Christmas”
Stars: Amanda Kloots, Paul Greene
Premieres on: CBS, 8:30 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT
Thursday, Dec. 8
“A Miracle Before Christmas”
Stars: LeToya Luckett, Romeo Miller, Keith David, Demetrius Shipp Jr, Paula Jai Parker and Porscha Coleman
Premieres on: BET+
“Scentsational Christmas”
Stars: Nanzeen Contractor, Mykee Selkin
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Friday, Dec. 9
“Something From Tiffany’s”
Stars: Zoey Deutch, Kendrick Smith Sampson, Ray Nicholson, Shay Mitchell
Premieres on: Amazon Prime Video
“It’s a Wonderful Binge”
Stars: Eduardo Franco, Dexter Darden, Zainne Saleh, Marta Piekarz, Kaitlin Olson, Danny Trejo
Premieres on: Hulu
“Big Box Christmas” (working title)
Stars: Jennifer Freeman and Garrett Watson
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“The Most Colorful Time of the Year”
Stars: Katrina Bowden, Christopher Russell
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“A Recipe for Joy”
Stars: Erin Agostino, Dillon Casey
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Saturday, Dec. 10
“A Royal Christmas Match”
Stars: Jordana Largy, Matthew MacCaull
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“A Prince for the Holidays” (wt)
Stars: Cindy Busby and Jilon VanOver
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Christmas Class Reunion”
Stars: Aimee Teegarden, Tanner Novlan
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Kirk Franklin’s The Night Before Christmas”
Stars: Naturi Naughton, Lorea Turner, Luke James, Kirk Franklin
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“A Christmas Fumble”
Stars: Eva Marcille, Devale Ellis
Premieres on: OWN, 9/8c
“The Gift of Peace”
Stars: Nikki Deloach, Brennan Elliott
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Dec. 11
“Santa’s Got Style”
Stars: Franco Lo Presti, Kathryn Davis
Premieres on: Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“A Belgian Chocolate Christmas”
Stars: Jaclyn Hales and Zane Stephens
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“The Holiday Sitter”
Stars: Jonathan Bennett, George Krissa, Chelsea Hobbs
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Single and Ready to Jingle”
Stars: Natasha Wilson
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“A Prince and Pauper Christmas”
Stars: Brittany Underwood
Premieres on: ION, 8/7c
“Must Love Christmas”
Stars: Liza Lapira, Neal Bledsoe
Premieres on: CBS, 9/8c
Thursday, Dec. 15
“A Blackjack Christmas”
Stars: Dawnn Lewis, Charmin Lee, Adam Lazarre-White
Premieres on: BET+
“Record Breaking Christmas”
Stars: Michelle Argyis, Andrew Bushell
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Friday, Dec. 16
“Holiday Heritage”
Stars: Lyndie Greenwood, Brooks Darnell, Holly Robinson Peete
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“A Christmas to Treasure”
Stars: Taylor Frey, Kyle Dean Massey
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
Saturday, Dec. 17
“Sappy Holiday”
Stars: Vanessa Sears, Jon McLaren
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“A Brush with Christmas Romance” (wt)
Stars: Jillian Murray and Joseph Cannata
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“’Twas the Night Before Christmas”
Stars: Torrey DeVitto, Zane Holtz
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“The Holiday Dating Guide”
Stars: Maria Menounos, Brent Bailey
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“Five More Minutes: Moments Like These”
Stars: Ashley Williams, Lucas Bryant
Premieres on: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 10/9c
Sunday, Dec. 18
“A Vintage Christmas”
Stars: Hannah Gallway, Jeremy Walmsley
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
“The Art of Christmas”
Stars: Brigitte Kingsley and Joe Towne
Premieres on: Great American Family, 8/7c
“Hanukkah on Rye”
Stars: Jeremy Jordan, Yael Grobglas, Lisa Loeb
Premieres on: Hallmark Channel, 8/7c
“Wrapped Up in Love”
Stars: Brittany Bristow, Olivier Renaud
Premieres on: Lifetime, 8/7c
“When Christmas Was Young”
Stars: Karen David, Tyler Hilton
Premieres on: CBS, 8:30 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT
Thursday, Dec. 22
“A Christmas Gift”
Stars: Blue Kimble, Noree Victoria, Javon Johnson, Victoria Rowell, Aaron D. Spears, Nadia Simms, Tiffany Snow, Marc Jones, Cayen Martin
Premieres on: BET+
Saturday, Dec. 24
“The Snowball Effect”
Stars: Anjali Khurana, Landon Moss
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
Sunday, Dec. 25
“Christmas in Wolf Creek”
Stars: Nola Martin, Tim Rozon
Premieres on: UPtv, 7/6c
December, date TBD
“Dolly Parton’s Magic Mountain Christmas”
Stars: Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus
Premieres on: NBC
“Hotel for the Holidays”
Stars: Madelaine Petsch, Mena Massoud
Premieres on: Amazon Freevee
It’s a Wonderful Lifetime will feature 26 new Christmas movies
Lifetime has released a list of 26 new Christmas movies that will premiere during the upcoming holiday season. The films will feature Rita Moreno, Patti LaBelle, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Seymour, Mario Lopez, Melissa Joan Hart, Jana Kramer, Jodie Sweetin, Kirk Franklin, Sarah Drew, Justin Bruening, Naturi Naughton, Luke James, Brooke Elliott, Brandon Quinn, Mario Cantone, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tim Reid, Brad James, Georgia Flood, Spencer Grammer, Ariana Ron Pedrique, and Rodrigo Massa.
Programming will begin on Saturday, November 5 with new movies airing every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Actress Sarah Drew will host a special preview program on Thursday, October 27, which will show clips and behind-the-scenes moments from the new films.
26 new Christmas movies
“Merry Swissmas”
Premieres: Saturday, November 5 at 8/7c
Alex (Jodie Sweetin) has wonderful memories of Christmas with her best friend Beth (Mikaela Lily Davies) until Beth starts dating Alex’s ex, Jesse (David Pinard). Because she has missed the last few Christmases with family due to her demanding job as an architect, Alex is excited to spend the holidays with her mother, Caroline (Jane Wheeler), who is opening an inn in Switzerland. Much to her dismay, she learns that Jesse and Beth are also visiting for the inn’s opening. When Alex meets Liam (Tim Rozon), a single father and the manager of her mother’s inn, Liam attempts to show her all the Christmas traditions and culture of Switzerland and helps Alex open herself up to love and forgiveness this holiday season.
“Well Suited for Christmas”
Premieres: Sunday, November 6 at 8/7c
Fashion designer Rachel Rocca (Mercedes de la Zerda) lands a spot in a design competition to create a tuxedo for one of the city’s most eligible bachelors, Brett Stone (Franco Lo Presti), for a Christmas charity gala. As Rachel begins to unthread his well-spun public image, she discovers the true reason behind his Christmas charity, and the two find themselves falling in love.
“Christmas on Mistletoe Lake”
Premieres: Thursday, November 10 at 8/7c
Every Christmas, Reilly Shore (Genelle Williams) picks a random spot on the map to take an adventurous trip. This year, that destination is the quaint hamlet of Mistletoe Lake. As she arrives, Reilly discovers that the town’s lone bed & breakfast is full due to the town’s annual Christmas Harbor Festival. When twelve-year-old Emma (Hattie Kragten) invites Reilly to stay on her dad’s boat, she learns that Emma’s dad Raymond Mitchell (Corey Sevier) is selling his boat and can’t participate in the festival. Saddened, Emma enlists Reilly’s help to convince Raymond to enter the festival so they can have one last perfect Christmas on Mistletoe Lake.
“The Dog Days of Christmas”
Premieres: Thursday, November 11 at 8/7c
While visiting her family during Christmastime, Annie Blake (Georgia Flood) decides to help three stray dogs get adopted before heading back into her career working for a global non-profit. But when she runs into veterinarian Dylan Hawkes (Ezekiel Simat), her old high school debate partner, they team up to save an animal rescue. Ultimately, Annie discovers that finding love, and making a difference in the world, can happen right at home.
“Reindeer Games Homecoming”
Premieres: Saturday, November 12 at 8/7c
MacKenzie Graves (Sarah Drew, Grey’s Anatomy, Amber Brown) is a brilliant, competitive, crossword-puzzle-loving biology teacher in Vermont who recently lost her father, beloved fire chief and the heart of the town’s holiday fundraising tradition “The Reindeer Games.” Every year since his death, she competes with her dad’s former team, a group of colorful retired firefighters, to win the Games and keep his tradition alive. This holiday, however, her world is rocked when fading Hollywood star, and Mac’s high school crush, Chase Weston (Justin Bruening, Grey’s Anatomy, Sweet Magnolias), comes home for Christmas to visit his pregnant sister and nephew and is begrudgingly roped into participating in the Games. When the opportunity to compete against her former crush arises, Mac is determined to show him up and win the Kris Kringle Cup at all costs. As the competition heats up, so does the spark between Mac and Chase, and Chase soon finds himself eager to not only win the games but also to win her heart as well. Brian Sills also stars.
“Six Degrees of Santa”
Premieres: Sunday, November 13 at 8/7c
Christmas enthusiast and single mom Harper (Kathryn Davis) has created a program, Six Degrees of Santa, in which anonymous “Santas” give a gift and set of instructions to be passed along, temporarily enjoyed, and re-gifted, indefinitely. Her goal is to create a Christmas experience that’s real-life, magical, and unexpected. When Harper’s own gift lands in the hands of a leading internet entrepreneur, Jason (Steve Lund), he’s convinced that the original Santa might be his soulmate. He seeks out Harper to help him track down this mystery woman.
“Sweet Navidad”
Premieres: Thursday, November 17 at 8/7c
Lovable pastry chef Carmen (Camila Banus) dreams of opening her own Puerto Rican-influenced bakery—like the one her family owned on the island. In the meantime, she showcases her treats at a local coffee shop. When hotel owner Victor Flores (David Fumero) discovers Carmen’s talents, he invites her to apply for a position as the pastry chef for his hotel’s holiday gala. Knowing other applicants will have culinary-school backgrounds, as opposed to her homegrown skills, Carmen reluctantly applies. When she is accepted, she’s paired with chef Jax (Mark Hapka) to curate the perfect holiday menu. But the two do not mix well. Carmen is messy and cooks from the heart; Jax is a perfectionist fixated on technique. As they race against the clock to assemble their intricate holiday menu, sparks fly, and they realize they might have more to learn from one another than they initially thought.
“Santa Bootcamp”
Premieres: Saturday, November 19 at 8/7c
When event planner Emily Strauss (Emily Kinney, The Walking Dead) is hired by mall magnate Ed Mancini (Patrick Cassidy, Castle) to stage the ultimate Christmas Gala for his most important investors, Emily finds herself being sent to boot camp – Santa Bootcamp – to find the perfect Santa and the inspiration she will need to make the evening a success. While there, Emily meets Belle (Rita Moreno, West Side Story), the boot camp’s drill sergeant with a heart of gold, who helps Emily rediscover the magic of Christmas and find romance along the way. Additional stars include Tony® award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, Justin Gaston, John Schuck, and deaf actors Deanne Bray and Zyra Singleton.
“A Show-Stopping Christmas”
Premieres: Sunday, November 20 at 8/7c
Riley Burdett (Jamie Perez) is the artistic director of the Onota Theatre in Western Massachusetts. When Regina, the Scrooge-like owner of the theater, breaks the news that she’s preparing to sell the property before the holiday performance, Riley must call upon the ghosts of Regina’s past, present, and future to change her mind. Meanwhile, a big TV star, Sam Palmer (Thomas McDonnell), has moved to the area to escape the craziness of Hollywood. Riley casts him as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and his star power, his cleverness, and his budding love for Riley help her save the theater.
“Baking All the Way”
Premieres: Thursday, November 24 at 8/7c
Julia Wilson (Cory Lee), an accomplished pastry chef from Chicago, heads to a small-town bakery famous for its gingerbread to complete her Christmas cookbook. There she finds herself at odds with Kris Thompson (Yannick Bisson), the bakery’s charming but private owner, who is ambivalent about sharing his secret recipe.
“Steppin’ Into the Holiday”
Premieres: Friday, November 25 at 8/7c
Former Broadway star Billy Holiday (Mario Lopez) returns to his hometown for Christmas after being abruptly fired as the host-producer-judge of the hit TV series “Celebrity Dance Off.” While there, he encounters Rae (Jana Kramer), the charismatic owner of the local dance studio, where Billy’s 12-year-old nephew is her standout student. Rae is planning a dance recital to raise money so she can take her students to see a Broadway show in New York City. Billy volunteers to help Rae with the recital by reviving the town’s traditional Christmas Eve show, which was once a showcase for local talent. With Billy’s knack for producing and Rae’s knowledge of all things local, their collaboration clicks, and romantic sparks start flying.
“The 12 Days of Christmas Eve”
Premieres: Saturday, November 26 at 8/7c
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve is the story of Brian Conway (Kelsey Grammer), a successful businessman whose relationships with those around him have really suffered. While this Christmas season has been the most successful for his business, he’s divorced, his relationship with his daughter Michelle (Spencer Grammer) is strained and he doesn’t have a meaningful connection with his only granddaughter. After Brian gets into a car accident on Christmas Eve, Santa gives him twelve chances to re-do the day and repair the relationships in his life to find the true meaning of Christmas. For Brian, these twelve days are a journey of self-realization about life, love, and happiness as he attempts to right the wrongs of his life in pursuit of the Christmas spirit.
“A Christmas Spark”
Premieres: Sunday, November 27 at 8/7c
Recently widowed Molly (Jane Seymour) has lost her zest for life and has given up on ever finding love again. But when she decides to visit her daughter for Christmas, she has no idea what holiday magic is in store for her. A former drama teacher, Molly reluctantly takes on the job of directing the town’s Christmas pageant and soon finds herself falling for her leading man, Hank (Joe Lando), the town’s most eligible bachelor. As Molly and the irrepressible Hank fall in love, she rediscovers her inner free spirit and finds a new lease on life. And when the star of the pageant loses her voice moments before the show, it will be up to Molly to step into the spotlight and shine brightly for the first time in her life.
“Serving Up the Holidays”
Premieres: Thursday, December 1 at 8/7c
Scarlett (Britt Irvin) is an incredible chef and co-owner of an upscale restaurant. But every year, her too-sophisticated and unique holiday dishes never sell because they are not considered festive enough. To shake things up this year, her best friend and co-owner buys her a ticket to a holiday cooking getaway in a beautiful villa where Scarlett will re-learn festive cooking from the bottom up, maybe find love with a handsome rival chef from her past (Zach Roerig), and regain the Christmas spirit her food—and her life—truly needs.
“Cloudy with a Chance of Christmas”
Premieres: Friday, December 2 at 8/7c
Bridget Torres (Valery Ortiz) is a prominent national news weather forecaster who comes to the magical, wintry town of Leavenworth, Washington, where Christmas traditions prevail each holiday season. This year, Bridget has been asked by her network to announce a special “snow-cast” at the annual Christmas Eve festival and has brought her boss Lisa (Nicole Bilderback) along with her. Bridget’s plans to shine are foiled when a talk show host from her network arrives to join her for the broadcast. Drake Kincaid (Brandon Quinn), as it turns out, refused to hire Bridget as his co-host for their morning show a year earlier, making tensions high. The unlikely duo fall for each other, but when Bridget finally discovers why Drake didn’t hire her, their romance is put to the test.
“A New Orleans Noel”
Premieres: Saturday, December 3 at 8/7c
Grace Hill (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and Anthony Brown (Brad James) could not be more different. Despite having gone to college to study architecture together, their lives took them on completely separate paths. But when they’re both hired to work together on the home of Loretta Brown (Patti LaBelle)—a New Orleans praline icon—the two find themselves stuck working together at Christmas…and butting heads over more than just architecture. When Anthony and his family discover that Grace will be celebrating Christmas alone, they invite her to take part in their traditions and their celebrations. Soon, fiercely independent Grace begins to learn the importance of family and community, while modern Anthony learns to embrace tradition and the magic of Christmas. And when Grace is offered a new job far away from New Orleans, she’ll have to decide if she’ll leave or follow her heart.
“Merry Textmas”
Premieres: Sunday, December 4 at 8/7c
Gaby Diaz (Ariana Ron Pedrique) is an app developer from Austin, Texas, and the last unmarried sibling in her very close and very traditional family. Every year, the Diaz family gathers at Abuela’s house in Oaxaca, Mexico, a town renowned for its “12 Challenges of Christmas,” which playfully ignites the entire town’s Christmas spirit. When Gaby accidentally adds Alex Alvarado (Rodrigo Massa), a handsome graphic designer who’s lost touch with his own Mexican roots, to the family group chat, her well-meaning family decides to secretly invite him to join them in Oaxaca for Christmas. As they begin to play matchmaker for Gaby and Alex, can the Diaz family help Gaby and Alex recognize that each of them is actually the other’s perfect Christmas present?
“Scentsational Christmas”
Premieres: Thursday, December 8 at 8/7c
Bright-eyed beauty and perfumer Ellie Reddy (Nanzeen Contractor) is tasked by her boss to create a holiday scent that will impress, so she decides to return to her quaint and festive family home for Christmas to find inspiration. There she meets handsome yet bookish writer, Logan Osborne (Mykee Selkin), who is staying with her father at the family’s historic property, which includes her mother’s former candle-making cottage. After finding her father struggling to keep her late mother’s candle business afloat, Ellie and Logan decide to complete the orders and inadvertently bring Christmas cheer back to the town, all while falling in love.
“A Recipe for Joy”
Premieres: Friday, December 9 at 8/7c
When ambitious food correspondent, Carly Hayes (Erin Agostino), gets a shot at her own TV show, nothing goes as planned. She’s sent to Angel Heights to help Grant Quinn (Dillon Casey), a perfectionist, attention-shy chef, reopen his family’s beloved diner and film it as a holiday special pilot for her television show. Thanks to Carly, Grant will not only re-open his restaurant but most probably his heart too.
“Kirk Franklin’s The Night Before Christmas”
Premieres: Saturday, December 10 at 8/7c
Caught in a blizzard on Christmas Eve, estranged mother and daughter Journee (Naturi Naughton) and Nia (Lorea Turner) are forced to take refuge inside a church where a handful of also-trapped parishioners are reeling from the cancellation of their annual holiday concert. The spirit of the season takes hold as Journee and Nia weather the wintry storm together with the other churchgoers, including handsome youth pastor Adam (Luke James) and a heavenly music teacher (Kirk Franklin), who motivate the mother and daughter to reconcile their differences through music, faith, and love. With help from this spirited group of strangers, Journee and Nia band together to help the church salvage not only their holiday traditions but also their show-stopping Christmas day performance, despite the raging storm outside.
“Single and Ready to Jingle”
Premieres: Sunday, December 11 at 8/7c
Emma Warner (Natasha Wilson) feels like she lives Christmas year-round. As the SVP of a successful toy company in Chicago, she spends 12 months a year focusing on Christmas, leaving no time for dating…or much of anything else. By the time the actual holiday rolls around, she has had enough. She asks her assistant and friend Lucy to find a tropical singles resort – somewhere she can find a guy and not think of Christmas. But due to a booking mix-up, Emma ends up in her worst nightmare – a town devoted to everything Christmas. Will Emma be able to find her joy?
“Record Breaking Christmas”
Premieres: Thursday, December 15 at 8/7c
Leah Hoffman (Michelle Argyis), an adjudicator for The World Record Bureau, draws the short straw and is forced to travel to a small town just before Christmas to investigate its plans to break multiple holiday world records. As she falls for the town’s doctor, Devan Bancroft (Andrew Bushell), she discovers that the whole town is in cahoots, and she just may be the person who can help them reach their true Christmas goal.
“A Christmas to Treasure”
Premieres: Friday, December 16 at 8/7c
The passing of beloved Ms. Marley reunites six estranged friends for one final hometown holiday treasure hunt. As the search unfolds and fond childhood memories are relived, sparks fly between Austin Craig (Taylor Frey) and his former best friend Everett Matthews (Kyle Dean Massey). They find the hidden treasure before the city has the chance to turn the Marley house into a holiday resort but the blossoming holiday romance between Austin and Everett may turn out to be the greatest Christmastime treasure of all.
“The Holiday Dating Guide”
Premieres: Saturday, December 17 at 8/7c
Dating coach and aspiring book author Abigale Slater (Maria Menounos), is close to making her lifelong dream come true. She has completed her first book—a how-to guide for dating in today’s modern world—and is now more than ready to become a published author. However, after reading the book, her publisher Jack won’t proceed with the deal without knowing that her dating advice actually works. Before he has a chance to say no, Abigale proposes that she prove the rules work by using them herself and making a man fall for her by Christmas Eve in 12 days. Although Abigale’s never seen love as a priority for herself, she sets out to find someone who will fall quickly enough to get this book in print. Things change when Abigale meets Michael Ryan (Brent Bailey), and her single-minded mission takes an unexpected turn. While following her own advice, and learning to expect the unexpected in the process, Abigale discovers the romance of her dreams.
“Wrapped Up in Love”
Premieres: Sunday, December 18 at 8/7c
Ashley Mackenzie (Brittany Bristow) has always been the preeminent “Christmas Queen” in town. From making hand-crafted decorations for the office to hosting the town’s annual Christmas sweater competition, she loves everything about the holiday…that is, until she meets her match in Ben Williams (Olivier Renaud). Ben is the devilishly handsome new guy in town who loves Christmas just as much as she does—and unwittingly begins to steal her thunder. But as Ashley begins to feel like Ben is taking Christmas away from her, she is reminded of the true spirit of the holiday, and she joins forces with him to make this Christmas even more meaningful.
Paul Greene, Jessica Lowndes, and Gladys Knight to headline new Christmas movie for Great American Family
A new Christmas movie is in the works at Great American Family. The network, which was started by former Hallmark CEO Bill Abbott, announced that production has begun Someday at Christmas, which is set to premiere in November.
“Christmas just got even better!!!” Jessica Lowndes wrote in an Instagram post promoting the movie. “To say I’m excited to act and sing with the legendary @msgladysknight is a MAJOR understatement!!! This project is an absolute dream come true. Can’t wait for everybody to see this one!!!”
New Christmas movie for Great American Family
Lowndes stars in the movie as Holly, a sales clerk with dreams of appearing on Broadway. When she meets musician and single father Jason (played by Greene), sparks fly. Her landlady Cora (played by Knight) brings the two together for a Christmas concert and they fall in love.
“As anticipation builds for year two of Great American Christmas, we are delighted to be working with the incomparable Gladys Knight who has inspired generations of fans by pushing musical boundaries with her numerous hit songs,” president and CEO of Great American Media Bill Abbott said in a statement to Variety. “With high caliber performances from Knight and the talented Jessica Lowndes and Paul Greene, ‘Someday at Christmas’ is a truly magical Christmas movie steeped in original music that audiences will want to see again and again.”
Someday at Christmas is one of many new movies being produced for the upcoming holiday by Great American Family. Shooting has already wrapped on another film, Catering Christmas, which will star Merritt Patterson and Daniel Lissing.
The network released 12 Christmas movies last year and a special episode of When Hope Calls with appearances by Lissing and Lori Loughlin. Other films starred Hallmark favorites such as Cameron Mathison, Jen Lilley, Chad Michael Murray, and Trevor Donovan.
Paul Greene Christmas movies
Greene, who played Dr. Carson Shepherd on Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart, just finished shooting a Christmas movie for CBS. In Fit For Christmas, he plays a businessman who plans to buy a recreation center in Mistletoe, Mont., and turn it into a resort. He ends up falling for a Christmas-obsessed fitness instructor (played by Amanda Kloots of The Talk), who is desperately trying to keep the center from closing.
Netflix Christmas movies starring Lindsay Lohan and Freddie Prinze Jr. will be released in November
Two Netflix Christmas movies — one starring Lindsay Lohan, another starring Freddie Prinze Jr. — are scheduled for release in November. The streaming platform has been releasing Christmas rom-coms (similar to the ones on Hallmark) for several years now.
Netflix Christmas movies
Netflix announced it was working on a Christmas film with Lohan over the summer. In a tweet released by the streaming platform, it revealed that Lohan will star in Falling For Christmas, playing a spoiled hotel heiress who has an accident while skiing and develops amnesia. She ends up in the care of a handsome ski lodge owner (played by Chord Overstreet) and his precocious daughter.
The movie will be directed by Janeen Damian, who directed the Hallmark Channel film The Christmas Waltz.
Falling For Christmas is one of two romantic comedies Lohan will make with Netflix. The other, Irish Wish, will be released in 2023.
“We’re so happy with our collaboration with Lindsay to date, and we’re thrilled to continue our partnership with her. We look forward to bringing more of her films to our members around the world,” said Christina Rogers, Netflix’s director of Independent Film.
Christmas With You
Another movie coming to Netflix in November is Christmas With You, starring Aimee Garcia and Freddie Prinze Jr. Garcia plays a burned-out pop star who goes to a small town to grant a young fan’s wish. She finds the inspiration she needs to revitalize her career and also gets a shot at true love.
Netflix has been making Christmas movies for several years now. In 2020, the company made headlines when it released Dolly Parton’s Christmas On the Square and Holidate, starring Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey, and Kristin Chenoweth
Other Netflix holiday titles include Operation Christmas Drop (2020), starring Kat Graham, Alexander Ludwig, and Virginia Madsen; California Christmas (2020); Castle for Christmas (2021); Love Hard (2021); and The Princess Switch (2018).
The company is one of many getting into the Christmas movie game. In December 2021, CBS released the original movies “Christmas Takes Flight” and “A Christmas Proposal.” This year, the network is making three holiday movies: Must Love Christmas, Fit For Christmas, and When Christmas Was Young.
Earlier this year, Discovery+ announced it would release four holiday movies for streaming in November. The films will feature HGTV stars Ben and Erin Napier and Hilary Farr, as well as Food Network stars Bobby Flay and Duff Goldman.
HGTV and the Food Network are getting into the Christmas movie game
Both HGTV and the Food Network are getting into the Christmas movie game. The cable channels announced they have produced four original scripted specials with Christmas themes for the upcoming holiday season. They join CBS, Lifetime, and the streaming platform Netflix, which have all started creating Christmas movies similar to those that air on Hallmark each year.
The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned networks have made four movies: One Delicious Christmas, A Gingerbread Christmas, A Christmas Open House, and Designing Christmas. The films will be available to stream on Discovery+ starting November 11, according to Variety.
HGTV and the Food Network
Though the network didn’t release many details about the movies, a spokesperson did say that stars Ben and Erin Napier (of HGTV’s Hometown) and Hilary Farr (of Love It or List It and Tough Love With Hilary Farr) will make cameos in the HGTV films. Celebrity chefs Bobby Flay and Duff Goldman will appear in the movies airing on the Food Network.
Networks have been trying to recreate the success Hallmark enjoys each year with its Countdown to Christmas and Miracles of Christmas programming lineups. According to Nielsen ratings, more than 2 million viewers tuned in to watch the new holiday movies premiering every weekend from late October to late December on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. During the opening weekend of Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark beat out all four major networks for the 8-10 p.m. Saturday time slot among women ages 18-54.
In 2021, CBS aired two original holiday movies. Netflix created 12, including A Castle for Christmas, starring Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes. Both companies are producing more films this year.
Candy Coated Christmas
The Food Network tested the waters last year with the movie Candy Coated Christmas, which featured a cameo by celebrity chef Ree Drummond. In the film, Molly McCook played a Beverly Hills career woman who returns to her hometown of Peppermint Hollow to sell her mother’s childhood home.
In addition to appearing in the movie, Drummond shared Christmas-themed recipes for goodies such as mint brownie bites, gingerbread hot chocolate, and maple oat nut scones.
Discovery+ will begin streaming original Christmas movies on November 11.
There’s a Christmas movie marathon on GAC Family this weekend
Catch a Christmas movie marathon on GAC Family this weekend. The network, which is being renamed Great American Family, will air films around the clock starting Saturday morning.
Christmas movie marathon
Saturday, July 23:
6/5c Christmas Time is Here
A small-town realtor is trying to help a client find a spot for his new resort. But the only place he likes is her childhood home and it’s not for sale. Stars Dewshane Williams and Rykiya Bernard.
8/7c The Christmas Swap
Two brothers magically switch bodies right before Christmas. Stars Christian Keyes and Dondre Whitfield.
10/9c Angel Falls Christmas
A hardworking doctor with little time for Christmas meets a handsome stranger who restores her holiday spirit. Stars Jessica Lowndes and Chad Michael Murray.
12/11c A Christmas Star
An astronomer predicts that a new meteor shower will appear over a tiny town.
Can she convince the locals to help with her discovery at the expense of a Christmas tradition? Stars Sara Canning and Daniel Lissing.
2/1c A Kindhearted Christmas
Jennie Garth and Cameron Mathison star in this movie about a small-town woman trying to navigate the holidays following the death of her husband. When she gives a large donation to a local non-profit, she sets off a chain reaction of kindness and giving. The story attracts the attention of a national newscaster (played by Mathison), who comes to town to figure out the identity of the secret Santa.
4/3c Joy For Christmas
A publicist introduces a famous athlete to the joys of Christmas with the hope that he will help her family’s charity. Stars Cindy Busby and Sam Page.
6/5c A Christmas Miracle for Daisy
An interior designer is excited to begin a new project in her adopted hometown.
Her enthusiasm is tested as she discovers that her clients are an ex-boyfriend and his daughter. Stars Jill Wagner and Nick Bateman.
8/7c Royally Wrapped For Christmas
Jen Lilley plays the head of a charity that aims to give every child in the world a gift on Christmas. When she travels to the country of Veronia, she meets and falls for a handsome prince (played by Brendan Fehr).
10/9c Mrs. Miracle
A widowed father is struggling to raise his 6-year-old twins when a magical woman comes into his life and fixes everything. Stars James Van Der Beek and Doris Roberts.
12/11c Call Me Mrs. Miracle
A family-owned department store is struggling to sell toys during the holidays when a mysterious employee shows up and begins to work miracles.
Sunday, July 24:
2/1c (in the a.m.) Christmas Crush
When holiday fanatic Addie (Cindy Sampson) makes a Christmas wish for her next door neighbor Sam (Robin Dunne) to fall in love with her, she’s not expecting anything to happen. She definitely isn’t expecting the wish to go awry and cause her other neighbor, Pete (Chris Violette) to fall in love instead.
4/3c Christmas is You
Emma must convince her first love Tyler, now a famous pop star, to sign with her record company, while also trying to save the town’s Christmas Caroling Celebration. Stars Becca Tobin and Matthew MacCaull.
6/5c A Christmas Miracle for Daisy
An interior designer is excited to begin a new project in her adopted hometown.
Her enthusiasm is tested as she discovers that her clients are an ex-boyfriend and his daughter. Stars Jill Wagner and Nick Bateman.
8/7c Snowmance
Each year Sarah builds her “Snow Beau” snowman with her best friend, Nick. After another breakup, she begins to wonder if she’ll ever find true love of her own. A little Christmas magic brings her Snow Beau to life.
10/9c The Great Christmas Switch
Twin sisters Sophia, a single woman who lives in the city, and Kaelynn, a single mom who lives in a small town, swap lives for Christmas. Stars Sarah Lind and Dillon Casey.
12/11c A Match Made at Christmas
Holly, a hopeless romantic, is matched with Chris, a career-focused man, by her great-aunt at Christmas. Stars Micah Lynn Hanson, Tim Llewellyn, and Aubrey Shimek Davis.
2/1c Christmas Crush
When holiday fanatic Addie (Cindy Sampson) makes a Christmas wish for her next door neighbor Sam (Robin Dunne) to fall in love with her, she’s not expecting anything to happen. She definitely isn’t expecting the wish to go awry and cause her other neighbor, Pete (Chris Violette) to fall in love instead.
4/3c Jingle Bell Princess
Merritt Patterson plays Princess Amelia, who is accidentally stranded in Maine at Christmastime. She meets a handsome widower and sparks fly.
6/5c The Christmas Calendar
When a small-town baker receives a Christmas calendar from a secret admirer, her customers band together to find out who sent it.
8/7c Merry Kissmas
A woman engaged to marry a self-centered film and stage director falls for a caterer she meets by chance.
10/9c A Lot Like Christmas
Jessica’s small Christmas tree farm is forced to compete for business like never before when a big corporation, and its handsome head of marketing, move into her town. Stars Maggie Lawson and Christopher Russell.
Hallmark Channel Christmas movie set in London finishes production
A Hallmark Channel Christmas movie set in London has finished production. Jolly Good Christmas, which stars Reshma Shetty and Will Kemp, will premiere during Hallmark Channel’s 2022 Countdown to Christmas lineup.
“Officially joining @hallmarkchannel Countdown to Christmas,” Kemp wrote in a post on Instagram.
“So the script is so cute, and it was honestly such silly fun to shoot,” Shetty wrote. “And come on, it’s premiering during Hallmark’s Christmas movie countdown. And we are both cute.”
Hallmark Channel Christmas movie in London
According to a synopsis from the network, Kemp plays David, an American working for a prestigious architectural firm in London. Three days before Christmas, he is buying a gift card for his girlfriend when he meets Anji (played by Shetty). A professional shopper, Anji is unimpressed with David’s choice of a gift card. When they run into each other again, she agrees to help him find the perfect gift for his girlfriend.
A spokeswoman for Hallmark said the film will give viewers a chance to experience London at Christmastime.
“We can’t wait to transport our viewers ‘across the pond’ for this special, holiday adventure,” said Samantha DiPippo, senior vice president of development and programming for Crown Media Family Networks. “We’re thrilled to have been able to feature famous sites and set our story against the unique backdrop of London at Christmastime.”
Hallmark has set several Christmas movies in Europe, including Crown For Christmas, Christmas at the Palace, and A Royal Christmas. However, these films were all made primarily in Bucharest, Romania. Christmas in Rome, starring Lacey Chabert, was shot on location in Italy and Romania, as was Wedding Veil Unveiled, a rom-com that premiered last year.
About the stars
A native of Manchester, England, Reshma Shetty has appeared on the TV shows 30 Rock, Happyish, and CSI: Miami. From 2009 to 2016 she played Dr. Divya Katdare on Royal Pains. Christmas in London is her first Hallmark movie.
Will Kemp starred as Henry Stuart in the TV series Reign. He has appeared in a number of Hallmark productions, including Royal Matchmaker (2018), Love, Romance & Chocolate (2019), and The Christmas Waltz (2020).
No release date has yet been oven for Jolly Good Christmas.
GAC Family begins production on first movie for 2022 Christmas season
Production starts next week on the GAC Family 2022 Christmas movie Catering Christmas. It is the first of several movies that that will be produced by the network, which will started by former Crown Media CEO Bill Abbott.
Catering Christmas stars Merritt Patterson and Daniel Lissing. According to a synopsis from the GAC Family, Merritt plays Molly Frost, who is struggling to make a go of her new catering business when she unexpectedly lands New Hampshire’s biggest event of the year, the Harrison Foundation Christmas Fundraiser.
Though she is more than ready to take on the challenge, she runs into problems when it comes time to meet with the man who has been appointed to run the event. Carson Jacob Harrison (Lissing) is the reluctant heir to the Harrison Foundation. However, he has no interest in the foundation. Instead, he spends his time traveling the world taking photographs.
His aunt puts him in charge of the Christmas fundraiser, hoping he will start taking his duties as heir more seriously.
At first, Molly struggles to get Harrison interested in the event. But when she shows him all the good the foundation has done for the town — and for her, personally — he changes his mind, and the two begin working on a history of the foundation.
Merritt Patterson
A native of Whistler, Vancouver, Patterson landed her first TV role on the series Kyle XY at the age of 15. She went on to have parts in Supernatural, Ravenswood, and The Royals.
Patterson starred in several movies for Hallmark, including A Royal Winter, The Christmas Cottage, and Picture a Perfect Christmas.
In 2021, she starred in Jingle Bell Princess, one of 12 original movies produced for GAC Family.
Daniel Lissing
Daniel Lissing began his career in his native Australia on the TV series Pizza. He went on to have roles in Home and Away, Out of the Blue, and Packed to the Rafters.
His breakout role in the States was on Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart, on which he played Mountie Jack Thornton for five seasons. He has also had roles on Girlfirends Guide to Divorce, S.W.A.T., and The Rookie. He has starred in the Hallmark movies The December Bride and Christmas in Love.
In 2021, he starred the original movie The Christmas Star for GAC Family.
GAC Family 2022 Christmas movie
The executive producers of the movie include Brad Krevoy and Amanda Philips, who both worked on the Hallmark series When Calls the Heart. Other executive producers include Eric Jarboe, Amy Krell, Vince Balzano, Jimmy Townsend, Suzie Belzberg Krevoy, and TW Peacocke, all of whom have worked on series for Crown Media. Peacocke will direct from an original screenplay by Cara J. Russell.
No release date has been given yet for Catering Christmas.
Brooke D’Orsay and Kristoffer Polaha serve up life laughs and life lessons in Hallmark Channel’s A Dickens of a Holiday
Brooke D’Orsay and Kristoffer Polaha serve up life laughs and life lessons in Hallmark Channel’s A Dickens of a Holiday
Brooke D’Orsay and Kristoffer Polaha serve up life laughs and life lessons in Hallmark Channel’s A Dickens of a Holiday
The stars of Hallmark’s latest Countdown to Christmas movie, A Dickens of a Holiday, know that technically, the film counts as a romantic comedy. It has all the necessary classic elements, including mistaken identity, unmet expectations, and the reunion of two single people who have had feelings for each other in the past.
But both Brooke D’Orsay and Kristoffer Polaha said the movie — which will premiere Friday, December 10 on Hallmark Channel at 8/7c — also reminded them of some important life lessons.
“Sometimes you only need one person to believe in you more than you believe in yourself,” D’Orsay said during a Facebook Live event to promote the movie.
“It’s a beautiful reminder…that when you put your attention on another person, you tend to grow yourself,” Polaha said
About the movie
In A Dickens of a Holiday, D’Orsay plays Cassie, a former high-school theater star who chased her dreams all the way to Broadway, only to return to her hometown following a divorce.
Filled with regret at having poured all of her time and energy into her husband’s career, Cassie accepts the first theater job she can find: directing a local production of A Christmas Carol. But this isn’t just any staging of the holiday classic. Cassie’s hometown is Dickens, Ohio, the site of an annual weeklong Dickens Days festival, which always ends with a performance of the Christmas play.
Determined to put on a good show, Cassie tracks down a high-school classmate, Jake (played by Polaha), who has made a successful career as an action movie star.
But while she is intimidated by his success, he still has something to prove.
“He is not considered a great actor,” Polaha said. “People don’t think he can do much more than jump off a car.”
Hoping to land more serious roles, Jake takes the job. As per the romcom formula, they butt heads at first, but they soon learn from each other.
Learning from Scrooge
Both D’Orsay and Polaha are Hallmark veterans. D’Orsay has starred in the Countdown to Christmas movies Miss Christmas (2017), Christmas in Love (2018), and Nostalgic Christmas (2019). Polaha starred in the 2016 Hallmark movie Dater’s Handbook, opposite Meghan Markle, as well as Rocky Mountain Christmas (2017) and Pearl in Paradise (2018.) He also plays detective Travis Burke in the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries series Mystery 101.
The actors said the most significant lesson they took away from A Dickens of a Holiday is the importance of looking outward and paying attention to what other people are going through. Like Scrooge, both characters in A Dickens of a Holiday have lived in their own little worlds for far too long, Polaha said. But like Scrooge, Cassie and Jake grasp they have a chance to learn from their past mistakes.
“They’re making each grow,” Polaha said. “It’s a mutually beneficial relationship.”
A Dickens of a Holiday will air Friday, December 10 on Hallmark Channel at 8/7c.
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