Pictured: Grenier (left) and Doubleday (right). / Credit: Crown Media, FOX

It looks like production is underway for the third installment of Hallmark’s Graceland film series! Last year, Kellie Pickler and Wes Brown starred in “Christmas at Graceland” as exes who reunite during the holiday season at Elvis Presley’s former home, Graceland. The success of the film paved the way for a sequel, “Wedding at Graceland”, which Pickler and Brown returned for; it premiere last month during Hallmark Channel’s June Weddings programming.

While it was previously speculated that the third film would reunite Pickler and Brown once again, it appears that Adrian Grenier (HBO’s “Entourage”) and Kaitlin Doubleday (FOX’s “Empire”) will lead “Christmas at Graceland 2”, which will have an original story and not be a continuance of the previous installments.

Commercial Appeal has announced that filming will begin on July 18 and wrap in August, according to Ryan Westheimer, the film’s co-producer who served in the same role for the previous films.

The plot of this new movie will find Doubleday’s character as a Graceland tour guide who meets Griener’s character, who asks her to nanny his three children. She accepts and stays at his guesthouse and, as you can imagine, the pair develop romantic feelings for one another.

It is Hallmark, after all.

“Christmas at Graceland 2” will premiere on Hallmark Channel during the annual Countdown to Christmas, which is set to kick off the last week of October.

Stay merry!

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We’re getting so close to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ annual Gold Crown Christmas Week event, so they’ve released a poster and trailer for the upcoming holiday movie “Christmas Camp”, which will premiere next month during their holiday programming slate.

In the movie, Lily Anne Harrison stars as an advertising executive who’s not into Christmas, so she attends Christmas Camp to up her holiday mojo to pitch a toy company as a new client. Immersed the holiday, she learns to slow down, appreciate life’s sweetest moments and opens her heart to the possibility of love. Bobby Campo also stars.

The premiere date was previously July 7th, but it appears that Hallmark has changed the air-date to Thursday, July 11th at 9pm/8c. Check out the preview below!

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Thanks to the recently released schedule for Hallmark Channel’s Christmas Keepsake Week, we know that we’ll be getting another “First Look Holiday Preview Special” that will premiere next month and, according to Hallmark’s website, it seems that it will, once again, be hosted by Lacey Chabert!

Chabert will give us a sneak peek at a few of the original movies that are set to premiere later this year during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas holiday events. “Home & Family” pet rescue expert Larissa Wohl is also expected to make a special guest appearance on the show.

Make sure you tune into the “First Look Holiday Preview Special” on Saturday, July 13th at 10pm/9c.

Watch a preview of the special below!

Stay merry!

I recently shared the full schedule for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Gold Crown Christmas Week, and now I have the lineup for Hallmark Channel‘s annual Christmas Keepsake Week. If you’re unfamiliar with these programming slates, each year Hallmark celebrates Christmas in July by airing their beloved holiday movies for a couple of weeks spanning both networks to coincide with their in-store ornament preview.

During this mid-year celebration, Hallmark Channel will also air a “First Look” special to give you a sneak peek of the movies they’ll premiere later in the year during their iconic Countdown to Christmas and Miracles of Christmas programming. This year, not only will we get a special, but Hallmark has plans to premiere TWO new holiday movies!

Christmas Keepsake Week starts on Friday, July 12th and runs through Sunday, July 28th this year — so, it’s more like two weeks and some festive change.

Check out the full line-up below!*
For more information, visit: www.hallmarkchannel.com.

Summer is kicking off, but I’m always in a Christmas state of mind — and, clearly, so is Hallmark!

It’s that time of year again when Hallmark begins to preview their upcoming ornaments in store locations while they celebrate on their television networks with month-long holiday programming for Christmas in July. First up? Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Gold Crown Christmas Week lineup, which actually begins on June 28th and continues into July before it switches over to Hallmark Channel.

What makes this year a little extra-special is that the network will be premiering a new movie, “Christmas Camp”, starring Lily Anne Harrison and Bobby Campo on July 11th at 9/8c!

Synopsis: An advertising exec (Harrison) must bring in a new account — a traditional toy company. To learn more about the holiday and its traditions, she attends a ‘Christmas Camp,’ where she crosses paths with the camp owner’s son (Campo), who teaches her about other stuff, too, like love.

Check out the full line-up below!

(left-right) Chaley Rose, Rome Flynn and Teryl Rothery | Photos: Courtesy

Hallmark has announced yet another upcoming Christmas movie slated for their holiday programming later this year. “Christmas Duet” will star Chaley Rose (“Nashville”), “How to Get Away with Murder” star Rome Flynn, and network fan-favorite Teryl Rothery.

In ‘Duet’, well-loved music duo Averie (Rose) and Jesse (Flynn), famous for their duet “Wouldn’t be Christmas,” haven’t played together since they went their separate ways years ago. Averie gave up music and opened a beautiful lodge in a snowy Vermont town – while Jesse still tours, struggling to find the same kind of success they had as a duo.

When fate brings them together over the holidays at Averie’s lodge just in time for the annual Yuletide Festival, can the magic of Christmas help reunite them once again?

Rothery will play a travel magazine writer who visits the lodge to consider it for “Top Winter Lodge,” and earn Averie a much-needed cash prize.  Rothery was previously seen in the Hallmark holiday films “Road to Christmas” (2018), “A Bramble House Christmas” (2017), and “The Wishing Tree” (2012).

Look out for “Christmas Duet” to premiere during the 10th anniversary of Countdown to Christmas!

Stay merry!

(left) Nikki DeLoach, (right) Michael Rady | Photos: Crown Media

In the need of something to keep those Monday Blues away?

ET reports Nikki DeLoach and Michael Rady are both starring in their fourth Hallmark holiday movie this Christmas! The two will co-lead Hallmark Channel‘s “Two Turtle Doves”, but this isn’t the first time they’ve worked together; they recently starred in the network’s “Love to the Rescue”.

In this new holiday feature, DeLoach will play Dr. Sharon Hayes as she searches for a beloved family heirloom in a small Christmas town. When she unexpectedly discovers an adorable little girl and her disheartened father (Rady), she realizes that Christmas miracles really do happen.

(left) Brooke D’Orsay, (right) Trevor Donovan | Photos: Crown Media

According to an exclusive report from IBTimes.com, Brooke D’Orsay and Trevor Donovan are returning to Hallmark this Christmas with a new movie, “The House of Wooden Santas” (w/t) — based off of the 1997 novel by Kevin Major, set to premiere during the Countdown to Christmas lineup.

— Updated 07/26/2019: This movie has officially been named “Nostalgic Christmas”! —

Synopsis: “This Christmas, the miracles of the season take the form of sentimental, handcrafted wooden Santas in a small town toy store in North Bay, Maine. Anne Garrison (D’Orsay) seemed to have it all as a driven toy buyer in New York City, but her father’s retirement signaling the closing of the town’s beloved toy store brings the city girl back to her small town roots and perhaps her lost Christmas spirit in the process. While back in town she meets handsome widower, doting father and local mill manager, Keith McClain (Donovan).

Through an unexpected turn of events Anne and Keith find themselves planning the town’s annual Christmas festivities together. How did that even happen? The way it happened doesn’t really make a difference when sparks begin to fly between them. And as Anne’s heart begins to open to Keith and the small town sentimentality that she left behind, Anne has some tough decisions to make.  Once the holidays are over, will she head back to her life in New York, or will she stay in North Bay and take a chance on a new life with a new love?”

(Left) Lee Norris, Tyler Hilton, Hilarie Burton, Megan Park & Colin Fickes. (Right) Barbara Alyn Woods & Antwon Tanner on set.
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Last month I told you about Hilarie Burton reuniting, once again, with her former “One Tree Hill” costar Tyler Hilton and his real life wife Megan Park for another Lifetime Christmas movie called “A Christmas Wish”, and now I’m happy to now report that, just like last year, several former OTH cast members have jumped aboard the project, which creates another exciting mini reunion project.

Antwon Tanner, who played Antwon ‘Skills’ Taylor on the long-running drama, and co-starred in last year’s “The Christmas Contract”, has joined the film as well as Lee Norris, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Colin Fickes who starred as Marvin ‘Mouth’ McFadden, Deb Scott and Jimmy Edwards on ‘Tree Hill’, respectively.  I sure hope this is becoming a holiday tradition for this tight-knit crew!

Graham and Ludwig on set of OPERATION CHRISTMAS DROP. | Photo: Kat Graham’s Official Instagram

Today, Netflix’s official See What’s Next Twitter account announced that Kat Graham and Alexander Ludwig have teamed up for a brand new movie that’s coming to the streaming service in 2020.

Graham and Ludwig will co-lead “Operation Christmas Drop”, named after the Christmastime airlift partly conducted from Andersen Air Force Base, as as a congressional aide and a U.S. Air Force captain who clash when she’s asked to shut down the tropical U.S. Air Force base he calls home.

For a little bit of background on what Operation Christmas Drop means; it’s a tradition that serves as a training mission for the U.S. Air Force which started in 1952. It has since become the longest running U.S. Department of Defense mission in full operation, and the longest running humanitarian airlift in the world. Supported by the local communities of Guam, it is primarily conducted from Andersen Air Force Base and Yokota Air Base, and targets Micronesia. (Source: Wikipedia)

I’ll keep you posted on more information as we get closer to the release.

Stay merry!