Photos: Lindsay Lohan’s Official Instagram / Netflix

Variety exclusively reported today that Lindsay Lohan will make her return to acting this holiday season with a leading role in a yet-to-be-titled Netflix original movie.

In the Christmas-themed rom-com, Lohan will play a “newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress” (according to the logline), who gets amnesia after a skiing accident and “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.” The rest of the cast has not yet been announced.

Netflix has been building on their library of original holiday films over the past few years, including: “Jingle Jangle,” “A Christmas Prince,” “The Christmas Chronicles” and “The Princess Switch” starring another former Disney-darling, Vanessa Hudgens.

I can’t wait to get more information on her movie! Are you excited for her acting comeback?

Stay merry!

Photos Courtesy of Lifetime

You all know how much I love Christmas movie news, and today was quite the day for announcements! In addition to CBS’ news of original films, Lifetime gave us another sneak peek of what you can expect during their annual It’s A Wonderful Lifetime programming slate, which kicks off this fall.

Lifetime Television has been a fan-favorite for cast reunions over the past few years; we’ve seen some iconic cast mates reunited in heartwarming holiday tales, including stars from The Facts of Life, Sister, Sister and One Tree Hill — and this Christmas, we will get even more.

High School Musical alums Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman will team up once again for A Christmas Dance Reunion. The movie is directed by Brian Herzlinger, who also serves as a writer alongside wife Megan Henry Herzlinger.

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A CHRISTMAS DANCE REUNION
Successful attorney Lucy Mortimer (Coleman), along with her mother Virginia (Kim Roberts) return to the Winterleigh Resort to help celebrate the hotel’s final Christmas season before the resort closes its doors permanently. Once there, Lucy is reunited with the owner’s nephew and her childhood Christmas Dance partner, Barrett Brewster (Bleu). Though the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most holiday events, Lucy leads the charge in recreating the beloved Christmas traditions, including the popular Christmas Dance, to bring together new families and new hope to the resort. Now, Lucy must decide if she’s willing to take a risk on love and partner up once more with Barrett for what could be the last Christmas Dance.

Camacho (left) Rodriguez (right) – Photos via Courtesy/CBS/Paramount Plus

CBS is ready to expand on their holiday lineup this year by adding more original content, including two movies starring network stars. In the announcement of the 2021-2022 primetime programming lineup today, the network included information on both of the CBS Original Movies: A Christmas Proposal, starring Jessica Camacho (“All Rise”) and Adam Rodriguez (“CSI: Miami”, “Criminal Minds”), and Christmas Takes Flight — cast currently unknown.

(Update: 7/8/21) – CBS announced today the production has begun for Christmas Takes Flight in British Columbia, Canada, and the film will star Katie Lowes (“Scandal”, “Smallwood”) and Evan Williams (“Versailles”, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”).

Photos: NBC/Feiwel & Friends

NBC made an announcement today regarding their fall lineup, including news on upcoming debut shows, special events and, yes, their highly-anticipated holiday programming slate.

The network will continue their musical tradition with the seven-time Tony Award winner “Annie Live!”. The 95th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will air November 25th, Thanksgiving Day, and the beloved “Christmas at Rockefeller Center” special will also return with the lighting of this year’s Christmas tree.

Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Fallon is set produce the animated special “Five More Sleeps ‘Til Christmas,“ based on his best-selling children’s book. Additionally a new animated special, “Trolls: Holiday in Harmony,“ arrives from DreamWorks Animation.

Buy Jimmy Fallon’s “Five More Sleeps ‘Til Christmas” at Amazon!

The network will air special holiday episodes of the hit comedies “Kenan,” “Mr. Mayor,“ and “Young Rock”, a sitcom based upon the life of professional wrestler and actor Dwayne Johnson.

Keep checking back to LollyChristmas.com for when the full holiday lineup rolls out this fall!

Stay merry!

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According to DEADLINE, Idris Elba (Luther, The Suicide Squad) is set to star in his very first holiday action movie titled Stay Frosty from Warner Bros.! The English actor will play the lead role in the film, which will be directed by Sam Hargrave (Extraction) from a script penned by Tyler Marceca.

The movie is said to be nod to ’80s high-action Christmas movies like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon with a John Wick-style. The synopsis is: After miraculously surviving a bullet to the head, a man (Elba) has to figure out who wants him dead and why. He needs to stop the assassin while still making it back home in time to spend Christmas with his son.

No word on whether this will be only in theaters or available to see at home as well.

Stay merry!

Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Chloe x Halle, Dan + Shay, Leon Bridges

Christmas music is one of my absolute favorite things about the holiday season! You’ll definitely find me listening to my holiday playlist at any given time of the year, but it goes into overdrive once September 1st hits. Full disclosure: I have over 1,000 Christmas songs to play… there’s no way I can only listen to them in November and December.  In fact, I even have a “Christmas in July” playlist filled with tropical sounding festive favorites.

Ever year I love adding to both my digital and physical music collection with new albums, and I’ve noticed that there are several artists I love who don’t have a record that spreads Christmas cheer; some of them have released singles but never a full-length feature, and I’d really like for them to.

For fun, I decided to create a list of 25 top names in music who I think should release a holiday album.

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It’s no secret that I look forward to Christmas movies every year; I write about casting news in the spring, celebrate Christmas in July, and start counting down to holiday programming in early fall. Some may say “oh, it’s too soon” but I don’t care. Holiday movies lift my spirits and that of my family, and don’t we all need as much of that as we can get on a normal basis, and even more-so these days?

I say “YES”.

Summer is coming up, and I’m already eager for Hallmark’s annual Christmas in July event where they show original festive films on their Hallmark Channel network dubbed Christmas Keepsake Week, and more on their sister channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries for their Gold Crown Christmas slate. Each year these holiday movie marathons coincide with the preview launch of their new collection of ornaments in Hallmark stores. At one point this only lasted a week on the networks, but the dedication of holiday viewers have increased it to practically a whole month.

Toubia and Lopez wrapping production. (Photo via @emeraude on IG)

Mario Lopez has been spending the past few weeks in Santa Fe, New Mexico as he films his brand new Lifetime Christmas movie with co-star Emeraude Toubia. The two will star in “Holiday in Santa Fe,“ which is set to premiere during the annual It’s A Wonderful Lifetime event later this year.

In the movie, sparks fly when a greeting card executive arrives in Santa Fe to acquire a tight-knit family company that creates ornaments inspired by Mexican Christmas traditions. Mario stars as Tony Ortega and Emeraude plays Belinda Sawyer.

Photo: Hallmark

It’s finally here! Hallmark revealed the annual Dream Book this week filled with our first look at the upcoming Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments for the holiday season. Not only can you pick up a copy at your local Hallmark Gold Crown store, but you can also view the digital Dream Book online at Hallmark.com where you can create, download and print your wish list. You can even win a chance to receive your entire wish list as a giveaway – deadline to submit is May 15th.

Additionally, you can purchase the 2021 Keepsake Ornament Club Membership (limit one membership per order) and receive the Keepsake Dream Box (a $75 value) with two full size club-exclusive Keepsake Ornaments, exclusive gifts from the Keepsake Studio, and a copy of the Dream Book. Check that out here!

Stay merry!

Hudon and Lund in a scene from BABY, IT’S COLD INSIDE. Photo: Crown Media

A wintry movie premiere in the middle of spring? Sounds good to me!

Hallmark Channel is bouncing from spring to summer by making a return to winter next month with the premiere of “Baby, It’s Cold Inside”. The film, which stars Jocelyn Hudon (From Friend to Fiancé, When Hope Calls) and Steve Lund (The Christmas Cottage, Christmas Inc, Best Christmas Party Ever, The Art of Us, Unlocking Christmas), is set to air on Saturday, May 8th at 9pm/8c.