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MERRY HALFMAS!! It’s LEON Day!

Speaking of, it’s #MerryMovieWeek on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and you can find the daily lineup by clicking here!

We hope you’re having a wonderful weekend, and that you’ll join us throughout the rest of the year as we celebrate the upcoming holiday season!

Keep following along with #LollyChristmas on social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest) as well as here at the website all year long for festive fun, including: holiday songs of the day, holiday recipes and craft tips, Christmas movie news, exclusive merriment, and lots more!

Stay merry!

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We are still a few months away from the grand reveal of all the new movies coming to Hallmark this holiday season, but Christmas is coming a little early this year – we’re being gifted three all-new original holiday movies for Hallmark Channel’s Christmas in July celebration!

“My Grown-Up Christmas List” (starring Kayla Wallace and Kevin McGarry), “Campfire Christmas” (starring Tori Anderson, Corbin Bleu and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) and “Christmas in Toyland” (starring Vanessa Lengies and Jesse Hutch) are on the lineup this year, and with them come these super festive keyart posters that we had to share!

Check them out in the slideshow below and stay tuned for more posters later in the year when the lineups of the iconic Countdown to Christmas and Miracles of Christmas events are announced.

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The most highly anticipated part of summer, at least for us, is returning to Hallmark Channel very soon… Christmas in July!

Following a Merry Movie Week on the sister channel Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, the merriment will extend to Hallmark Channel on July 1st — July 31st where viewers can enjoy holiday films from 10 a.m. – Midnight every day. The event kicks off with a 4-day Christmas Fan Favorites Marathon.

This year the network is gearing up to add maximum holiday cheer to your primetime viewing with three all-new original Christmas movies led by some of your favorite network stars, including When Calls the Heart alums Kayla Wallace and Kevin McGarry who will star alongside each other in “My Grown-Up Christmas List”.

Tori Anderson (Return to Christmas Creek, Spotlight on Christmas) and Corbin Bleu (Love, for Real) will lead Hallmark’s very first Christmas in July-themed movie, “Campfire Christmas” while Vanessa Lengies (Heart of the Holidays) and Jesse Hutch (Chateau Christmas, Let It Snow) star in a race-to-save-Christmas story, “Christmas in Toyland”.

Get more information on the upcoming premieres below – as well as the printable primetime movie guide – for the very merry month-long event!

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It’s that time of year again! As we inch closer to the month of July, we are entering the second ‘most wonderful time of the year’ – Christmas in July, and one of the best ways to celebrate every summer is with the annual holiday programming slate from Hallmark!

To kick things off, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will be hosting a MERRY MOVIE WEEK starting Thursday, June 23rd at 6:00pm ET/PT through the morning of Friday, July 1st. Get ready to jingle away the day as you tune into some of your favorite holiday original movies, such as A Glenbrooke Christmas, Two Turtle Doves,  A Homecoming for the Holidays, The Christmas Bow, The Christmas Doctor, Journey Back to Christmas, Christmas in Evergreen, Christmas Tree Lane, and more!

When the programming event ends, you’ll be able to head over to Hallmark Channel to continue the merriment with a month-long merry-thon. So, basically, you’ll be able to get into the festive mood all month long and then some!

Photo: Lifetime via Mario Lopez

Last month it was announced that Jana Kramer and Mario Lopez would be co-starring in an upcoming dance-centric holiday movie for Lifetime‘s It’s A Wonderful Lifetime programming event later this year, and it looks like the two have been hard at work filming in Nashville, Tennessee.

The film is tentatively titled “Mr. Holiday” (Update 07/25/22: The working title is now “Steppin’ into the Holiday”!) as Mario plays the role of Billy Holiday, a former Broadway star, who meets Rae (Kramer), the charismatic owner of a local dance studio. After Billy volunteers to help Rae with a dance recital fundraiser, and the two enjoy working together, romantic sparks fly.

The two actors have been sharing photos from set as well as a ‘first look’ at the movie with official promotional photos, which you can check out below!

L-R, Top-to-Bottom: Mason, Klena, Ann-Margret, Radio City Rockettes & Plumb (Photos: Courtesy)

We could not be more excited to share the latest Hallmark Channel holiday movie news with you!

The network has revealed that a Christmas movie featuring the Radio City Rockettes will be premiering later this year, as part of the 2022 Countdown to Chritsmas programming event!  Actors of the stage and screen are set to star “A Holiday Spectacular”, which will be filmed partially on the iconic Radio City Music Hall in New York City, including Ginna Claire Mason (Wicked), Tony Award-nominated Derek Klena (Jagged Little Pill), Academy Award-nominated entertainer Ann-Margret (Carnal Knowledge), and Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch).

The story is set in 1958 when a Philadelphia heiress named Maggie (Mason) puts her high-society wedding plans, to a man she doesn’t love, on hold in order to sneak up to New York City and make her secret dream come true: dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. While her family thinks she’s staying in New York City with an “approved” friend from boarding school, Maggie is living a completely different life than she’s ever known. She falls in love with New York and dancing with the Rockettes. Maggie soon feels caught between two worlds, made even more complicated by her chance encounter with young U.S. Navy photographer John (Klena). Will Maggie find the courage to tell her family what she wants for her future instead of accepting the future that was decided for her?

The Rockettes were choreographed by their director and choreographer, Julie Branam, who works with them for the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, and the dancers will also appear throughout the film in various performance numbers and speaking roles.

L-R: Pulliam, LaBelle, James & Reid (Photos: Courtesy)

We may be heading into March, but Christmas movie magic is in the air thanks to this latest announcement from Lifetime.  The network revealed three upcoming titles that will premiere during the It’s A Wonderful Lifetime holiday programming slate later this year.

Keshia Knight Pulliam will return for her fourth holiday movie alongside real-life husband Brad James in “A New Orleans Noel”, which will co-star Tim Reid and legendary entertainer, Patti LaBelle.  Pulliam will also executive produce alongside Whoopi Goldberg.

Network favorites Jana Kramer and Mario Lopez will star in a currently untitled dance-centric movie with comedian Cheri Oteri and Lopez’s real-life wife, Courtney Lopez. Finally, Brooke Elliott — who previously led the critically acclaimed Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva, returns to star in and executive produce “A Country Christmas Harmony”. The movie also stars Brandon Quinn and Danny Pintauro. Read more about each film below!

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Have yourself a merry ‘Little Christmas’!

It’s the Feast of the Epiphany – aka Three Kings Day – aka Little Christmas!  Today will complete the holiday season in our home, and then we will await its return in the fall — with a little bit of fun in July.  It’s a wonderful thing to honor the spirit of the season all year long, and we hope you can keep the joy of the holidays with you even during your most difficult of times.

Our Lolly Christmas family wishes you a safe, happy and healthy year.

Stay Merry,

Here you will find a comprehensive list of all the holiday movies, specials and episodes that will be airing on US television during the Christmas season (and throughout the year!). Air dates are listed where possible, but if you see TBD (To Be Determined) then keep checking back to see when an air-date and time become available.

Please Note: This list will continue to be updated throughout the season, so please keep checking back!  Some networks (i.e. Hallmark, Lifetime & UPtv) will air their own original Christmas movies 24-hours a day with air-times that can change sporadically so, for those networks, I will include a link to their daily programming schedule to avoid making this post 3 miles long!

FYI: Christmas original movies from streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus are available 365 days a year, so keep in mind the films that premiered last year are *typically* still streaming!

Wishing you a Happy New Year! 🥂🍾🎉

It may still be New Year’s Eve 2021 in our neck of the woods, but we will probably be ready for sleep once it officially hits midnight to soak up a lot of relaxation this weekend, so we wanted to send our new year greetings a bit early. 2021 was been a very difficult year, but we hope you had some beautiful moments throughout it as well. Our wish for everyone in 2022 is to have healthier days, safer days and happier days. We hope you have a wonderful new year and we can’t wait to celebrate our love of the holiday season all the way through.

Stay Merry,