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.

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Meghan Trainor had one of the most exciting Christmas albums last year with her first holiday full-length release, A Very Trainor Christmas, which makes it all the more exciting that she’s rereleasing it as a deluxe version this season!

The singer is adding even more jingle jams to the track list, including her renditions of Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” and Darlene Love‘s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, and the original festive bop “Christmas Coupon”.

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We had a weekend of birthday celebrations and watching Christmas movies in our house, so it *almost* slipped our minds that today marked 2 MONTHS UNTIL CHRISTMAS! As far as we are concerned, the holiday season is here! When do you start decorating for Christmas? ✨🎄✨

Stay Merry,

L-R, Top-Bottom: Osnes, Selig, Lopez and Monahan. Photos: Crown Media

Hallmark Channel has announced that one of the films on their upcoming Countdown to Christmas roster this year was inspired by the Grammy-winning band, Train, and will feature lead singer Pat Monahan alongside Laura Osnes (“Raise a Glass to Love,” “One Royal Holiday”), Kyle Selig (“Madam Secretary”), and George Lopez (“George Lopez”)!

Inspired by Train’s album, and sharing its title, “Christmas in Tahoe” will also feature songs by the band performed by Monahan, including “Shake Up Christmas” with Selig, and the new song, “Mittens”.

In “Christmas in Tahoe”, Claire (Osnes) is an aspiring talent booker, who is about to be offered a prestigious job with a big Vegas venue when the Christmas Eve show that she put together at her family’s hotel and casino in Lake Tahoe suddenly loses their big act! Her best friend and concierge Jackson (Monahan) reminds her that she knows someone famous. Claire’s ex-boyfriend Ryan (Selig), the lead guitarist of the hugely popular band Wild Lynx, offers to help her find replacement acts. He’s on break from his tour and spending the holidays back in Tahoe with his family. Though Claire helped the band break out initially, she and Ryan haven’t spoken since they cut her loose in favor of a bigger management company. While trying to prove she has put the past behind her, feelings come back to the surface and they both realize they may need each other more than they remembered.

“Ever since having made our Christmas album, Christmas in Tahoe, it’s been a dream of mine to bring it to life on the screen,” says Monahan in a Crown Media statement. “Hallmark has now made that dream a reality. I loved being able to not only act but also perform “Shake Up Christmas” and our new original song, “Mittens” in the movie. I know that everyone is going to feel the love and warmth of the holiday season when they see this heartfelt film.”

Robert Lieberman directed from a story by Nina Weinman.

“Christmas in Tahoe” will premiere on Sunday, November 28 at 6pm/5c on Hallmark Channel.

Stay Merry,

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Can you believe we hit 10 WEEKS UNTIL CHRISTMAS today?!

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Kelly Clarkson delivered us a brand new holiday song called “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You)” last month, which sparked interest that the Grammy winner could have another Christmas album on the way.  As it turns out, that was a correct assumption, and guess what?  It’s out now!

When Christmas Comes Around… the second holiday album, following 2013’s Wrapped in Red, dropped at midnight and features a stellar collection of holiday classics mixed in with some modern favorites and a couple of originals — sprinkled with a few special guests!

Kelly’s powerful vocals play up tunes like “Merry Christmas Baby”, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”, “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” and “Jingle Bell Rock,” and she’s joined by Ariana Grande on “Santa, Can’t You Hear Me”, Chris Stapleton for the duet “Glow”, and Brett Eldredge for “Under The Mistletoe”.

Check out the full tracklist below and listen to the album wherever you stream music (including Apple Music and Spotify), and buy the album at Amazon or KellyClarksonMerch.com.

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The “Home Alone” reboot trailer is here.

Two years ago we reported on Disney rebooting the “Home Alone” franchise after acquiring 20th Century Fox, and now the trailer for the reimagined version is finally here.

In this all-new adventure comedy titled “Home Sweet Home Alone”, Archie Yates (Jojo Rabbit) stars as Max Mercer, a 10-year-old who is left to his own devices when he’s accidentally left at home for the holidays as his family goes on a trip to Tokyo, Japan.

While his mother (Aisling Bea) works to make her way home to Max by Christmas, a married couple (Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney) tries to steal back a valuable heirloom from his family home.  In the trailer we’ll see a lot of nods, quotes and Easter eggs from the beloved holiday film franchise.

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It’s about to get seriously festive over at Netflix as the streaming service plans for their biggest holiday offering yet, which includes several Christmas movies!

Netflix’s “Here for the Holidays” event kicks off on November 1st, and in the first week alone you’ll be able to enjoy the premieres of “The Claus Family” and the Christmas catfishing movie, “Love Hard,” starring Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang and James Saito.  In the highly-anticipated “The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star”, Vanessa Hudgens returns to reprise triple roles!  Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes will ring in the season together in “A Castle for Christmas,” and Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers and Luke Macfarlane find themselves in a holiday love triangle for “Single All the Way”!

Additionally, the lineup includes six series that sleigh: “Christmas Flow”, “Blown Away: Christmas”, “School of Chocolate”, “Elves”, the fourth season of “The Great British Baking Show: Holidays”, and the second season of “How to Ruin Christmas”.

Netflix will also stream the beloved 2017 animated feature, “Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You” featuring an amazing voice cast, including: Mariah Carey, Henry Winkler and Lacey Chabert.

Check out the full lineup below and get ready to spend Christmas with Netflix!

Tamera Mowry-Housley (left) and Danica McKellar (right) | Photos: Crown Media

To celebrate the kick-off of Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel will be giving us sneak peeks at the first two movies that will be premiering next weekend on the network — hosted by the stars!

Tamera Mowry-Housley, star of “The Santa Stakeout” (premieres Sun, Oct. 24th at 8pm/7c), and Danica McKellar, star of “You, Me & the Christmas Trees” (premieres Fri, Oct. 22nd at 8pm/7c), will give us sneak peeks of both movies during the premiere of “Advice to Love By” on Saturday, October 16th at 9pm/8c.