Three original Christmas movies and a holiday cook-off are coming OWN for the Holidays this year at the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network!  For the third consecutive year, the network is celebrating the season of giving with heartwarming holiday movies along with a festive special to fill you with cheer.

Up first? The kick-off of a reality competition cook-off!

Kym Whitley will host “The Big Holiday Food Fight,” a five-episode series that will air Tuesday nights beginning in November, which will serve as a festive lead-in for the three original Christmas movies starring network favorites, Meagan Holder (“Cooking Up Christmas”), Brad James (“For Better or Worse”), Deborah Joy Winans (“Greenleaf”), Kendrick Cross (“Ambitions”), Andra Fuller (“The Haves and the Have Nots”) and Rhyon Nicole Brown (“For Better or Worse”)!

Get the scoop on the programming lineup below – including air-dates!

Ryan Paevey in COYOTE CREEK CHRISTMAS (Photo: Crown Media)

The LollyChristmas.com team recently caught up with actor Ryan Paevey to chat about his all-new Hallmark Channel original holiday movie, Coyote Creek Christmas, which is premiering this weekend as part of the network’s iconic Countdown to Christmas lineup!

Read on to learn more about the movie, what it was like working with Janel Parrish and on-screen son Azriel Dalman, his ultimate holiday destination, and more!

You have a brand new Christmas movie premiering on Hallmark Channel called Coyote Creek Christmas. Can you talk more about the film and your character, Dylan?

Sure! I play Dylan Bailey of the Bailey Brothers Development Firm; a single dad–I’m kind of like the wandering salesman for my family.  It’s me and my kid [played by Dalman] on the road all the time, kind of just doing what the business needs, and my son and I had holiday plans that–I don’t want to say ‘get derailed’, but ‘delayed’, shall we say?  The business catches wind of a new project that they can work on called the Coyote Creek Inn, and so on our little road trip, we make a little detour there to take a look at it as a possible acquisition–kind of a turn and burn thing.  We get there and it’s nice; there’s this pretty girl [played by Parrish], and the family’s lovely, and they’re doing a Christmas thing… and maybe I don’t wanna steamroll the place.  Maybe I want to keep it the same, you know, hang out with the girl–my kid likes her, and that’s always good.