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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE

Is last minute shopping or gift-wrapping on your *To Do* list? Are you hosting a holiday party, binge-watching Christmas movies, or baking cookies? How do you celebrate your Christmas Eve?

However you’re spending your day before the big day, we hope you’re getting what you need to get done and that you #StayMerry for every moment. We have a Santa Claus-level list of Christmas movies to watch tonight! The marathon begins now…

Tomorrow morning you can watch the “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade” on the ABC network! Don’t forget to leave out milk and cookies tonight for Santa Claus 🎅🏼🥛🍪— and carrots for the reindeer 🥕🦌!

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Christmas is extra merry for members of the BTS ARMY fandom this year!  Kim Taehyung, also known as V, a member of the massively successful South Korean music group, BTS, has released a special holiday gift—a cover of the classic Perry Como song, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,“ which is also famously sung by Bing Crosby.

V’s rendition is available for free on Soundcloud, and you can also watch an accompanying YouTube video of him performing it in-studio (see video below).

This is not the first time the soulful singer has released music just in time for the holidays. Last year, V released “Christmas Tree” as an OST for the Korean drama Our Beloved Summer, and the year prior he dropped the track “Snow Flower” featuring Peakboy.

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Sarah Shahi, best known for her work in the CBS series Person of Interest and DC’s recent hit Black Adam, will be leading an upcoming Christmas movie, which she will also executive produce.

Deadline reports that the actress will soon begin production on the holiday film, The Hollys with Burr Steers (17 Again) set to direct.

Shahi will star as Emma Holly, a workaholic single mom whose life starts to unravel when she loses her job in the city as a successful food editor right before the holidays. Along with her young daughter, Emma is forced to move back into her childhood home in Connecticut with her old-fashioned housewife mom, whose husband just left her on Thanksgiving. In this multigenerational love letter to moms, the three Holly women will have to get through Christmas under one roof, learn to reconcile their differences and mend their fractured relationship in order to cook up a new future for themselves.

This sounds like an interesting and heartwarming Christmas movie that will resonate with many families around the world. Floriana Lima, Yolanda Pecoraro, and Ilaria Urbinati co-wrote the story, while Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac of Di Novi Pictures will produce.

We will update you when a release date is set and an official trailer is available!

Stay Merry,

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We love festive fashion, so it was a pleasure for the LollyChristmas.com team to chat with costume designer, Keith Nielsen, who was behind some of the most beautiful holiday ensembles featured in Christmas movies this year across three different networks!

Read what Keith had to say about working on these movies in our exclusive interview below!

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HELLO WINTER! Our family always prefers the autumn season, so we’re sad to see it go, but these super low temps definitely make us feel like we’re walking in a winter wonderland—and that is so fitting this close to Christmas. There’s even a chance we’ll have a white Christmas this year!

We’ll be drinking a lot of peppermint hot cocoa this week as we welcome the season and the holiday ahead. We hope you stay merry *and* cozy this winter! ❄️☃️☕️

Stay Merry,

L-R: Bethany Joy Lenz, Kristoffer Polaha (Photos: Hallmark Media)

Hallmark Channel has officially ‘unwrapped’ their first Christmas movie of 2023, and it stars network favorites Bethany Joy Lenz (An Unexpected Christmas) and Kristoffer Polaha (We Wish You a Married Christmas)!

Production will begin next month for A Biltmore Christmas, which will be part of Hallmark Channel’s iconic Countdown to Christmas lineup next holiday season. The movie will be filmed in Asheville, North Carolina at the historic Biltmore Estate, renowned for its classic holiday traditions since 1895. Although this National Historic Landmark has been home to many productions over the years, this movie marks the first time Biltmore Estate itself serves as the setting.

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1 WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

Time is just flying by faster than Santa Claus’ sleigh on Christmas Eve!

We hope these 7 days provide you with time to finish up shopping, and to watch all of the Christmas movies you can.  Speaking of which, we have a lot of movies from different streaming services to get caught up on—including a few Lifetime and Hallmark movies, and watching some of our favorite classics, of course.  We’re going to use this next week to do that, bake holiday treats, pick up stocking stuffers, and just enjoy time together as a family as we celebrate the reason for the season.

#StayMerry because Christmas Day is almost here! 🎅🏼🎄🎁❄️

Stay Merry,

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Tonight marks the first night of Hanukkah, and we hope all of you who are celebrating enjoy this season together.  We hope your holiday is filled with precious love and light, and that your year ahead brings health, prosperity and happiness.

Stay Merry,

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2 WEEKS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

Sometimes we just want to freeze time for a little bit and enjoy, and we really feel that when we see that there are only 2 weeks until Christmas. This is why it frustrates us when anyone says “it’s not even Thanksgiving, wait until after to decorate.” It took us over 2 weeks just to decorate, add in shopping, daily life (i.e. work, school, etc) and finding the time to *enjoy* time with family…watching movies, baking cookies, etc.

You don’t want to rush that time with people you love because time is so precious. Christmas time isn’t a time you can shove into a 4 week span… Christmas time is whatever time you can find to celebrate the reason for the season—and time with those you love.

If you want to start celebrating in July—that’s up to you. Please remember that these next two weeks and the year that follows. The spirit of the season can happen at any time, and you don’t need to try and “fit it in” between any calendar day. Try to find the time in these next two weeks to really enjoy the season, and if you missed getting the time to bake cookies or watch your favorite movie, don’t let December 26th tell you that you can’t. It’s Christmas until January 6th, and you can keep the spirit all the days of the year. We hope you have the merriest Christmas and that you #StayMerry! ❄️

Stay Merry,

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For the milestone 100th year, America’s National Christmas tree will light up for the holiday season on the Ellipse in the President’s Park in Washington, D.C. — and you can watch it happening with a CBS one-hour special airing this Sunday!

LL Cool J will host the 100th year of the tradition, presented by National Park Service (NPS) and National Park Foundation (NPF), which will feature performances from Gloria Estefan, Andy Grammer, Joss Stone, Shania Twain, Ariana DeBose, Yolanda Adams, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, and more singing holiday classics.