(L-R): Paevey and D’Orsay; Walker, Hynes and Campbell (Photos: Hallmark Media; RomaDrama)

To all of our festive friends in Chicago, get your Christmas sweaters ready because RomaDrama Christmas 2022 is coming in December! The convention announced their holiday event for the weekend of December 2-3 where you can mix and mingle (and jingle all the way) with some of your favorite rom-com stars.

As a special holiday gift to all attendees from the Hallmark Channel, there will be viewings of two new Countdown to Christmas movies, “Three Wise Men and a Baby” featuring Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, and Andrew Walker, and “A Fabled Holiday” starring Ryan Paevey and Brooke D’Orsay. There will be post screening Q&As with the casts, a live panel, and lots more!

(L-R, Top-Bottom) Alicia Keys (Alicia Keys Records), Switchfoot (Erik Frost), Backstreet Boys (K-BAHN) and Joss Stone (Nolan Knight)

There are a lot of new Christmas albums out this year, but there are also a lot of isolated songs that get released during the holiday season. We’ve compiled a list, which will continue to grow (so keep checking back!), of some of the latest holiday singles—and some stand-out tracks from recent yuletide albums—that we think you might enjoy! Check out the list below, and give them a listen.

Most of these songs are available on all streaming platforms.

Screengrabs: Hallmark Media

Spend your Thanksgiving with Hallmark Channel this year as Lacey Chabert hosts the annual Merry Thanksgiving Weekend celebration! Starting Thanksgiving night (Thursday, November 24), Lacey will help usher in the premieres of seven holiday movies all weekend long—including her own movie, “Haul Out the Holly”, which will premiere on Saturday night. Watch the promo here!

Hallmark Channel’s Merry Thanksgiving Weekend Lineup:

THURSDAY

My Southern Family Christmas — November 24 at 8p ET/PT
Starring: Jaicy Elliot, Bruce Campbell, Ryan Rottman, Moira Kelly and Brian McNamara

Under the guise of a journalist, Campbell has a chance to get to know her biological father for the first time – without him ever knowing who she really is. As she spends time with him and his family, as well as with the town’s record keeper, she realizes that families are messy, wonderful things. In the end, Campbell must decide if she’s going to keep her identity a secret or reveal the truth to her father – a decision that will change their family Christmas forever.

Photos: CBS; (L-R, Top-Bottom) Estefan, Grammer, Little Big Town, Foster & McPhee

The 24th Annual “A Home for the Holidays at The Grove” seasonal special will return to CBS this December, hosted by Gloria Estefan, and featuring more uplifting stories of adoption from foster care and raising awareness of this important social issue.

The special will be broadcast Friday, December 23rd (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) and will take place at The Grove in Los Angeles, with performances by Estefan, Andy Grammer, Little Big Town and David Foster & Kat McPhee. The award-winning special has shined a light on the thousands of American children in foster care over more than two decades, and has inspired tens of thousands of adoptions.

Photos: Netflix

Netflix is going to have you ‘streaming all the way’ this holiday season! The powerhouse streaming service has announced many of the original films, specials and festive-themed episodes that will be available throughout November and December, which are sure-to-be perfect additions to your jolly days and nights as you wrap gifts or unwind with a steaming mug of hot cocoa after a long day.

Among the yuletide offering this year are original films, “Falling for Christmas” starring Lindsay Lohan and Chord Overstreet; “Christmas With You” starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Aimee Garcia; Justin Hartley will star alongside Barrett Doss in “The Noel Diary” based off the 2017 novel of the same name, and “Christmas Full of Grace” starring Gkay and Sérgio Malheiros.

“The Great British Baking Show: Holidays” will return for its fifth season; the animated special “Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus” will find Boss Baby celebrating his first Christmas, plus a lot more Christmas cheer! Check out all of the holiday fun in the schedule below.

Graphic by LollyChristmas.com

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We hope the start of your holiday season has been merry, and we hope the days will continue to be filled with cheer on this countdown to Christmas!

Stay Merry,

Photos: Alicia Keys Records

Alicia Keys has finally released a Christmas album, and we’re so excited about it! There should be no doubt that the singer and songwriter is a musical prodigy, and her soulful R&B songs have earned her fifteen-time Grammy Awards, but it has been a shock that we have never gotten a Christmas album over her two decade career—well, now we have!

For her first holiday collection, “Santa Baby,“ Keys has recorded reimagined classics like, of course, “Santa Baby,” “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” and the Peanuts favorite “Christmas Time Is Here”—plus a few originals, including “December Back 2 June,” “You Don’t Have To Be Alone,” “Old Memories On Christmas,” and “Not Even The King,” which was originally included on her 2012 album, “Girl On Fire.”

“I picked each song based on my all-time favorites and I wrote the new ones based on real holiday emotions and stories,” said Keys on her Instagram story.

Check out which 11-tracks are included on “Santa Baby”and order your copy today!

Photo: Erik Frost

Switchfoot has released their very first Christmas LP, and they will be hitting the road to celebrate the season with a holiday concert tour.

Jon Foreman, lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning band, was struck with the idea of writing a holiday album after seeking a Christmas album that reflected his own spirit of the season, and how he felt during the time of the year—it’s not always warm and cozy, but sometimes filled with heartache.

“For some of us, Christmas reminds us of loved ones we’ve lost, or complicated relationships with friends or family. For others of us, we question the capitalist materialism that saturates the holidays. For others, it’s a sacred time of giving, celebrating the divine gift of sacrificial love. I wanted a vinyl album that would accompany a Christmas gathering: the fires lit, the cider is warm, the friends and family are over. And the songs accompany the laughter and conversation. And then when everyone’s left, and I’m doing the dishes, I wanted an album with layers of lyrical depth and introspective leverage that would give me something to reflect upon after the party ends,” Foreman shared in an official press release.

(L-R): Elf, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story (Photos: TBS/TNT)

Halloween just ended so, naturally, it’s time to get into the holiday spirit for most television networks—including TBS and TNT, who recently revealed their Winter Break holiday programming lineup—and this includes 24-hour marathons of beloved films, “Elf” starring Will Ferrell and the classic “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” immediately following Thanksgiving.

Although there isn’t too much variety, the schedule is filled with favorites, which is a good thing when you have a busy schedule and don’t want to miss a movie you traditionally watch each year—there’s a lot of opportunity to see them, including the above mentioned films plus “Fred Claus,” “The Polar Express,” “The Holiday,” “Four Christmases,” and more. “A Christmas Story” will once again have its cross-network 24-hour marathon on Christmas Eve as it has for the past few years.

Check out the full lineup below!

Photos: Disney+

‘Tis the season to stream with Disney+ as the streaming service celebrates the holidays with all-new original content that will bring on the cheer for the whole family!  The “Happy Holidays” Collection will be your hub to find holiday-themed episodes of your favorite shows, movies, specials, and even wintry content to take you through the new year.

Tim Allen returns as Santa Claus in the limited original series, “The Santa Clauses”, a capella music group Pentatonix will head their first Disney+ Christmas music special with “Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays,“ Tituss Burgess will host a festive competition about snow sculptures with “Best in Snow,“ Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy” gets its own holiday special, and RUN DMC‘s Rev Run teams up with professional dancers Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Allison Holker, and the Jabbawockeez for “Hip Hop Nutcracker”!

Subscribers can expect new specials coming to the service, such as “Mickey Saves Christmas” and new holiday episodes of “Puppy Dog Pals”, “Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends”, “The Villains of Valley View”, “Raven’s Home”, “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery”, and “Eureka!”.

You’ll find your seasonal favorites like the “Home Alone” collection, “The Santa Clause” trilogy, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,“ the “Frozen” franchise, and more!  There will also be a plethora of non-festive exclusive new content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic to help fill your season with cheer even beyond the holiday scope.

Check out the full collection of what you can enjoy on Disney+ this holiday season below!