Matthew Morrison and Emma Bunton with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. (Photo: Matt Stroshane/Disneyland Resort)

The Christmas season is a time for holiday magic, and no one does that quite like Disney!

If celebrating the joy of the season with the ‘happiest place on Earth’ is a festive tradition in your home, then you’re going to want to check out the lineup for all THREE of the Disney Parks Christmas specials that are coming to ABC and Disney Channel!

The celebration specials will transport the magic of Disney Parks and Disney Cruise Line to viewers with merry performances and lots more! You will also get an exclusive look at upcoming Disney Parks attractions — including Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, opening soon at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at both Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California.

Check out the lineup and schedule for all three specials below!

Photos: Barbara Hinske/Crown Media

The Christmas Club, starring Cameron Mathison and Elizabeth Mitchell, is one of the 40 original holiday movies premiering during Hallmark’s iconic Christmas programming event during ‘the most wonderful time of the year’ and it’s based off of a novella by author Barbara Hinske.

This touching story tells the tale of two strangers who show a random act of kindness to a woman who loses her Christmas savings, and as fate would have it, find the love they were both missing.

Earlier this week, I featured a Q&A I conducted with Hinske to celebrate The Christmas Club [read it here!], which premieres on November 27th on the Hallmark Channel, and Hinske has also stepped in to share a couple of guest blogs that I will feature now and next week.  Check out the first post below!

FAMILY MATTERS | Photo: Warner Bros.

Is there such thing as watching too many Christmas movies during the holiday season? I don’t think so, which is why I’m thrilled to announce the next network getting into the festive spirit with a block of holiday programming full of cheer.  TV One is gearing up for the holiday season with a programming slate filled with original movies, specials and marathons of your favorite shows, including “Family Matters”, which kicks it all off with a special Thanksgiving marathon.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the beloved sitcom, the cast of “Family Matters” will reunite for vignettes throughout the Family Matters ‘Turkel’ Marathon that kicks off on November 28th, Thanksgiving Day, from 6am ET through Saturday, November 30th at 6am ET*.

For the December slate, TV One will premiere the original film “Dear Santa, I Need A Date” starring Ray J, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Reginae Carter along with holiday movie favorites and the original special, African Pride Gospel Superfest Holiday.

Check out the full lineup below!

(L-R) Jill Wagner, Rukiya Bernard, Chad Michael Murray | Photos: Crown Media

As you know, this is a year-round Christmas site and while I love watching all of the festive movies that premiere on Hallmark throughout the year, my focus are the Christmas season films. That being said, after January 6th’s ‘Little Christmas’ celebration, my holiday mood does not diminish and, for me, there’s no better way to beat the post-holiday blues than to watch some wintry love stories during Hallmark Channel’s Winterfest programming event!

For some reason, despite the lack of holiday focus, these movies still keep me so festive — the power of a winter wonderland — and that’s why I want to share the lineup US Weekly debuted today to showcase all of the wintry bliss coming to the network in January 2020.

A lot of your network favorites will be returning, including: Jill Wagner, Rukiya Bernard, Tyler Hynes, Chad Michael Murray and Victor Webster. Holiday For Heroes star Patti Murin will also join her real-life husband Colin Donnell in Love on Iceland!

Additionally, I saw on their website that Hallmark Channel will air a Winterfest Preview Special just before the year is out, which is set to be posted by Lacey Chabert and Ryan Paevey!

Check out the list of movies you’ll be snuggling up to watch with a cozy blanket and a cup of cocoa!

Photos: Anne Marie Fox/Courtesy of Amazon Studios

Kacey Musgraves is giving you ‘a very Kacey Christmas’ this year!

The award-winning Country singer will host her first holiday special, The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show, for Amazon Prime Video. The festive event will play out like the beloved Christmas variety specials you’ve grown up with — bringing you a little bit of nostalgia and a whole lot of cheer!

Photo: Viacom/Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon is getting into the holiday spirit by announcing a brand new original festive reality competition that will have you cozying up in front of the television with your little ones this season!

The network announced the series premiere of “TOP ELF”, an original competition series that includes five one-hour episodes of seven kid ‘Elf-testants’ with extraordinary building and design skills that will compete in holiday challenges with the goal of becoming Santa’s ‘Top Elf’. The winner will have their wish lists granted, but not for themselves — for good causes in their hometowns.

Tommy Snider and Samantha Turrett will star as Santa and Ms. Jingles, respectively, as celebrity guests help out the judging process each week–including: Frankie Grande, Amirah Kassem, Peyton List, Alex Wassabi and Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy.

 Photos via BarbaraHinske.com

There are 40 original movies slated for Hallmark’s iconic Christmas programming event this year, and one in particular is sure to warm your heart this holiday season! The Christmas Club, starring Camerson Mathison and Elizabeth Mitchell, tells the inspiring story of random acts of kindness, friendship and love — and it’s set to premiere during the 10th Anniversary of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup. Lolly Christmas chatted with Barbara Hinske, the author of the novella on which the film is based, about the writing process and being on the festive set as her imagination came to life — read what she had to say below!

Can you tell me more about The Christmas Club?
An elderly woman slips on the ice and her hard-earned Christmas Club money is lost to the wind. Two strangers come to her aid and a series of pay-it-forward, random acts of kindness is set in motion.

What inspired the story?
A sermon I heard many years ago contained the story of a stranger helping someone recover money that had blown out of their hands and centered on the theme of doing kind things for people in nice ways. Anonymous kindness is sometimes the nicest approach and that idea stuck with me because I — like many of us — love to be acknowledged for doing something generous. I expanded and fictionalized this story but kept the main theme intact.

Photos and screengrabs: Crown Media

As one of the Hallmark original new Christmas movies I was most looking forward to, “Write Before Christmas” starring Torrey DeVitto and Chad Michael Murray, did not disappoint! In the film, Jessica (DeVitto) sends Christmas cards to five people who have greatly impacted her life–one of which, gets received by the son (Murray) of her former teacher.

The story was great, the chemistry was bliss and the clothes were fabulous!

Valerie Halverson, the Costume Designer for the film, dressed Torrey in this Banana Republic ‘Melton’ Car Coat. Not only does she wear it for the official key art, her character also wears this look in the film with a plaid scarf.

Photos: Crown Media

Kellie Pickler returned to the Hallmark Channel this holiday season with Tyler Hynes in “The Mistletoe Secret”, a sweet festive story set in a small town and wrapped in a little mystery. In the movie, Kellie plays Aria Eubank whose hometown is selected for feature story by travel writer, Sterling Masters (Christopher Russell), but little does she know that the voice behind her favorite adventurer is not quite who she thinks.

Aria sticks to cute and cozy winter wear in this film, but that didn’t stop her from having quite the show-stopping moment for a holiday party or two! Check out some of the fashion highlights below.

Photo: HGTV (Top – Bottom: Olsen, Lookinland, Plumb, Knight, McCormick, Williams, Drummond & Roth)

Calling all fans of “The Brady Bunch”! Are you ready for some retro Christmas nostalgia?

The six original Brady kids: Barry Williams (Greg), Maureen McCormick (Marcia), Christopher Knight (Peter), Eve Plumb (Jan), Mike Lookinland (Bobby) and Susan Olsen (Cindy) will join Food Network’s “Pioneer Woman”, Ree Drummond and Jasmine Roth, star of HGTV’s “Hidden Potential” for a special network crossover event: “A Very Brady Renovation: Holiday Edition”.

The special, which will premieres on Monday, December 16, at 10 p.m./9c on HGTV, will focus on the crew decorating the newly-renovated Brady house for Christmas, as well as cooking up some holiday meals that are a throwback to the traditions of the 1970s.

Drummond will take on the meal prep while Roth takes charge of the decor, including many festive DIY projects. The special will also air on the Food Network on Sunday, December 22, at 1 p.m./12c.

Stay merry!