It feels like just yesterday I was taking down my Christmas tree and now here we are in June and I’m already posting about Christmas movie schedules, and you know why–right? Because, Christmas in July is coming back to Hallmark!

Before “Christmas Keepsake Week” takes over Hallmark Channel the festive programming will first begin on the sister network, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries with the annual “Gold Crown Christmas Week”. Get ready for a 17-day block of holiday movies that will definitely put you in the fa-la-la-la-la spirit this summer! The schedule is already out, so you can see what movies to expect to see–or which ones to plan your day around if you have a busy summer to-do list.

Check out the full schedule below!

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For all of you that fell in love with 2016’s “Finding Father Christmas” and its sequel “Engaging Father Christmas” the following year, you’ll be happy to know that Erin Krakow and Niall Matter have officially wrapped filming of the conclusion, “Marrying Father Christmas” which is set to air this holiday season on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries network.

Synopsis: In the latest installment to the Father Christmas trilogy, Miranda and Ian finally look to tie the knot, but more complications are always on the horizon, putting their happily ever after in jeopardy.

Check out some production stills from the movie below, and look out for more information on the movie as we get closer to the premiere date during the “Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas” holiday programming later this year.

Stay merry!

Left-Right: Melissa Joan Hart, Barry Waton, Marissa Jaret Winkour / Photos: Crown Media/UPtv/IMDb

One of the Christmas movies I’m most looking forward to this year is “A Very Nutty Christmas”, starring Melissa Joan Hart (“Melissa & Joey”), Barry Watson (“7th Heaven”) and Broadway alum Marissa Jaret Winokur (“Hairspray”).

Synopsis: Kate (Hart), a workaholic baker, has given up on Christmas, especially this year, when her boyfriend dumps her and she’s got to fill an order of 12,000 cookies before Christmas. However, the gift of a magic nutcracker (Watson) who turns into a real man makes the once cynical Kate understand the magic and beauty of Christmas–and of love.

Photos: Official Twitters of Lowe and Davis

According to Deadline, it appears that Netflix has given the green light to the new adventure-romance holiday film, “Christmas in the Wild” co-starring Kristin Davis (“Deck the Halls”), Rob Lowe (“The Christmas Shoes”) and Lowe’s son, John Owen Lowe.

Via Deadline, the film is said ‘to be in the vein of Eat Pray Love, Christmas in the Wild is set against the backdrop of the elephant poaching and conservation battles in the African wilderness. It centers on a woman (Davis) who, after her longtime husband walks out on her just before a family safari, goes anyway. Arriving in Africa she meets a bush pilot and elephant conservationist (Lowe). John Owen Lowe plays Davis’ son.’

“Christmas in the Wild” will film in Africa with a pending premiere for the 2019 holiday season. The film is written by Neal Dobrofsky and Tippi Dobrofsky and directed by Ernie Barbarash.

Stay merry!

Left: Bethany Joy Lenz, Right: Sharon Lawrence / Photos: BJL’s Twitter/CBS

Dedicated Hallmark Channel viewers will be familiar with Bethany Joy Lenz in fan-favorites “The Christmas Secret” and, more recently, “Royal Matchmaker”; you may have also caught her in last year’s Lifetime holiday flick, “Snowed-Inn Christmas”, but to all of those “One Tree Hill” fans out there– you’ll be especially excited to see that she’s teaming up with a former OTH co-star for yet another Christmas movie!

Joy will work with Sharon Lawrence, once again, on the TV movie “Poinsettia”.

The details are very slim right now, but Christie Will Wolf will direct based off of Barbara Kymlicka‘s screenplay, and I’m assuming the movie will either air on one of the Hallmark networks or Lifetime in time for the holidays later this year.

I’m very excited for this one so, as details become available, I will keep you posted!

Stay merry!

There is going to be a lot of holiday programming to choose from this year!

I recently posted about Hallmark increasing their amount of Christmas movie premieres and Freeform expanding on their festive cheer from October through December, and now Lifetime has doubled their amount of their original Yuletide movies for their “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” programming. Last year they introduced the line-up as “It’s a Really, Really Cozy Christmas”, but it seems that they’re returning to a former title familiar to viewers from years past.

Last year we saw six movies and a few mini films, and now we’ll be getting FOURTEEN brand-new originals–including one starring Toni Braxton! I really enjoyed their block of films last year (“Snowed-Inn Christmas”, “My Christmas Prince”, “Wrapped Up in Christmas”, “A Very Merry Toy Store”, “Four Christmases and a Wedding” & “Christmas in Mississippi”), so I’m excited to see what’s in store this time around.

Stay merry!

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98 Degrees is coming to a city near you to celebrate Christmas! Nick Lachey, his brother Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons and Justin Jeffre promoted their reunion album “Let it Snow” after its release during the 2017 holiday season and clearly had so much fun that they’re ready to hit the road again.

The At Christmas Tour 2018 kicks off on November 1st and runs through December 21st, and Nick Lachey spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about their eagerness to spread some cheer with songs of the season. “The songs just put you in a great spirit and I think the audience feels the same way,” he said. “It’s why we love to do stuff like this around the holidays. It just puts us in a great spirit and gets you ready for a very special time of year.”

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Freeform is upping their holiday game this year! The network, formerly known as ABC Family, announced at their Upfront 2018 Presentation in NYC this morning that it has expanded their ‘holiday dominance with over 1000 hours of themed programming’.

In addition to increasing their annual “13 Nights of Halloween” to a full-month of spooky favorites with “31 Nights of Halloween”, they have also changed the “Countdown To The ’25 Days Of Christmas'” block of movies to November’s “Kick Off to Christmas.“

All of this leads to the iconic “25 Days of Christmas”, which returns to the entire Disney|ABC Television on December 1st, making it the only major media network to offer a unified holiday programming initiative. Two Freeform original holiday films, “Life Size 2” and “Sleeping Together,” will also be part of the holiday lineup. Check out the synopsis’s below!

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LeAnn Rimes is making her “Countdown to Christmas” debut this holiday season on the Hallmark Channel! The Grammy-winning Country singer is bringing both her acting and musical talents to the small screen in “It’s Christmas, Eve”.

The movie follows Eve Morgan (Rimes), an interim school superintendent, who is assigned to shut down a school’s failing music program and must come to terms with her own musical past.

The movie, which is set to premiere sometime in December, also stars Tyler Hynes, Gwynyth Walsh and Giles Panton.  Check out an exclusive sneak peek at www.countryliving.com!

Stay merry!

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Danielle Panabaker is returning to the Hallmark Channel for a new holiday movie! You may have caught her in 2014’s “Recipe for Love”, and now she’s set to star in “Christmas Joy”, based off the novel by Nancy Naigle, alongside Matt Long — and Hallmark has already released a detailed synopsis:

In “Christmas Joy,” Joy Holbrook (Panabaker) is a keenly intelligent market researcher with an eye on her company’s top account and garnering a sweet promotion just in time for the holidays. Just as Joy is capturing the attention of the account’s CEO, she receives a call from her Aunt Ruby’s best friend back home in Crystal Falls, NC. Ruby has broken her ankle and needs surgery. Though the timing couldn’t be worse, Joy immediately comes to her Aunt’s bedside only to be reunited with former crush, now hospital administrator, Ben Andrews (Long), son of Ruby’s best friend Shirley. Joy also must navigate Ruby’s stubborn determination to be in control of everything, including the town’s legendary annual Cookie Crawl, a walking home tour where owners display holiday decorations and treat each other to Christmas cookies all while vying to win the prized Golden Wreath Award.