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We need a little Christmas, and Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown are back to haul out the holly to get us ready for the season with a sequel to last year’s hit movie, Haul Out the Holly, which premiered during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.

In honor of Christmas in July, Hallmark Channel shared a first look clip from Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up that is set to premiere during this year’s festive programming slate. In the clip, we see Emily (Chabert) and Jared (Brown) surrounded by their neighbors, played by Ellen Travolta, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman and Laura Wardle, as they react to a neighbor moving out during their annual Christmas festivities.

L-R: King and Hollingsworth (Photos: Hallmark Media)

Hunter King, who led her first Hallmark Channel Christmas movie with last year’s “A Royal Christmas Corgi,” is returning this season with an all-new film called The Santa Summit!

King is co-starring alongside Benjamin Hollingsworth (“A Godwink Christmas”) in the movie, which tells the story of their characters returning back to their small town and reconnecting with friends to celebrate their town’s annual holiday festivities.

Filming, which took place in Winnipeg, Canada, wrapped back in April. We can look forward to it being part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas event later this year!

Stay Merry,

Wolf and Chabert. (Photo: Steffan Hill for Hallmark Media)

Everybody wants to be closer to Christmas… including former “Party Of Five” co-stars Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf, who are reuniting for an all-new Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas movie!

It has been 23 years since the two played the Salinger siblings, Claudia and Bailey, on the iconic FOX series, so it’s sure to be exciting for fans to see the two back on the screen together and, once again, playing sister and brother! Lacey and Scott will lead the original movie, “A Merry Scottish Christmas” (w/t), written by NBC Correspondent Andrea Canning and author Audrey Schulman.

In the holiday movie, which will premiere later this year, estranged siblings Lindsay (Chabert) and Brad (Wolf) travel to Scotland at Christmas to reunite with their mother Jo (Fiona Bell, “The Nest”), and a big family secret is revealed.

“Scott and I have talked for years about doing another project together. When we first read this story about these siblings at a crossroads, we both knew it was the perfect opportunity,” said Chabert.

“Working with Lacey on ‘Party of Five’ was one of my favorite experiences ever,” said Wolf. “Reuniting after all of these years to tell such a beautiful story together is a dream that I’m so glad is coming true.”  We can’t wait to watch these two ringing in the holiday season together!

This will be Lacey’s thirteenth Christmas movie for the network—her most recent being 2022’s “Haul Out the Holly,” and Scott’s second following “A Christmas Love Story” in 2019.

Keep checking back to LollyChristmas.com for more information, including the air-date and time.

Stay Merry,

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Merry Leon Day — aka Halfmas, because there are only 6 MONTHS UNTIL CHRISTMAS DAY!

Today has been spent listening to cheerful carols, watching Christmas movies on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries for Merry Movie Week and starting our checklist for the upcoming holiday season!

We can’t wait for the most wonderful time to get here, and we’ll #StayMerry as we count down the days. We hope you will too!

Stay Merry,

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Baby, it’s hot outside — but it’s a winter wonderland on Hallmark Channel this summer for the annual Christmas in July programming event, which will have viewers unwrapping two all-new movie premieres this year!

Following the Merry Movie Week marathon on the sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, the Christmas in July celebration will kick off on Hallmark Channel on July 1st and will run throughout the month featuring fan favorite marathon events [see the the schedule here]!

As for the brand new holiday movies coming to the celebration, Katie Cassidy and Stephen Huszar (Undercover Holiday, A Homecoming for the Holidays, Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas, Return to Christmas Creek) will lead A Royal Christmas Crush (premiering July 8) while Heart of the Holidays former co-stars Vanessa Lengies and Corey Sevier will reunite on screen for Take Me Back for Christmas (premiering July 15).

Get more information about the all-new movies below!

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Hallmark is aiming to make your June extra-Jolly this summer by getting you in the holiday spirit with the annual Hallmark Movies & Mysteries: Merry Movie Week, a seasonal celebration with non-stop holiday movie favorites—including Christmas On My Mind, The Santa Stakeout, Five More Minutes, the Time to Come Home series, Five Star Christmas, A Homecoming for the Holidays, We Need a Little Christmas, The Gift of Peace and many more!

Merry Movie Week runs from June 24th through June 30th although the first movie, A Christmas to Remember, will technically air on Friday, June 23rd at 11 p.m. ET/PT.  Viewers will also be able to enjoy mini-merrythons each night starting at 7pm ET/PT.

To add to your daily cheer, you can also participate in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Merry Movie Week Quiz where you match the photo with the correct movie title!

The holiday fun doesn’t stop when the week is over as Hallmark Channel will continue the festive film fun with the Christmas in July event kicking off July 1st and running all month!

L-R: Durance and Elliott (Photos: Hallmark Media)

Erica Durance and Brennan Elliott are making another Christmas movie together!

A superfan of Brennan shared a tweet recently of the two actors on set of an upcoming Christmas movie, and he retweeted it… and we’re so excited!

The working title of the movie is It Happened at Christmas, and is believed to be scheduled for a premiere on either Hallmark Channel or Hallmark Movies & Mysteries later this year during the beloved holiday programming slates. The two previously co-starred in “Open by Christmas” for the Hallmark Channel network back in 2021.

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Spend your summer in the holiday spirit by streaming Christmas movies all season on Hallmark Movies Now!  This summer the subscription streaming service will begin to add some of your favorite festive network films—with the first three titles arriving this month!

Check out which movies you can expect to see below:

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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,

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.