L-R: Josh Henderson, Megan Park & Jean Smart. | Photos: NBCUniversal/Crown Media/ABC

The past few weeks have been filled with cast announcements for Hallmark’s upcoming holiday programming, and today is no different.

According to Entertainment Tonight, Josh Henderson, Megan Park, and Jean Smart are the latest names heading to the networks for Christmas this year!

Henderson and Park (“My Christmas Love”) will costar in “Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas” for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. The film is based off of the 2012 Blake Shelton song as well as the book, of the same name, by Shelton’s mother, Dorothy Shackleford.

Hart and Barry Watson in a scene from “A Very Nutty Christmas”. | Photo: Lifetime

To kick off Lifetime’s major holiday programming slated for this year, Melissa Joan Hart will host “It’s A Wonderful Lifetime Preview Special”, which will give viewers a sneak peek at all of the original Christmas movie premieres that are headed to the network starting November 21st.

Hart, who will star in “A Very Nutty Christmas”, isn’t just giving us an inside look at the festive line-up–she’ll be doing it in a clever way that’s a perfect (and classic) nod at the season!

Synopsis: What if Lifetime never made Christmas movies? In this special, hosted by Melissa Joan Hart, we will be taken on a journey that explores how terrible life would be without Lifetime Christmas movies to bring us holiday cheer. Melissa will be visited by the “host” of Lifetime Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and along the way, she will preview the 14 exciting movies that are coming to Lifetime this holiday season. Once this special is over, you won’t be able to imagine a world without the magic of Lifetime Christmas.

“It’s A Wonderful Lifetime Preview Special” airs November 17th at 10pm EST/PST on Lifetime.

Stay merry!

L-R: Barry Watson, Hilarie Burton, Robert Buckley & Toni Braxton. | Photos: Lifetime

Are you ready for another week of holiday surprises? Lifetime just revealed the line-up for their “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday programming, and let’s just say…it ‘sleighs’.

In addition to 14 all-new original premieres, 9 acquired films will be airing throughout the holiday season. Not only will Lifetime have some serious yuletide cheer, but the films also feature many stars that will be bringing you some nostalgic holiday vibes this year–including that major “One Tree Hill” movie reunion I told you about this summer with Hilarie Burton, Danneel Ackles, Robert Buckley, Antwon Tanner and Tyler Hilton, and even more OTH stars in separate films–including Bethany Joy Lenz, Sharon Lawrence, Daphne Zuniga, Stephen Colletti and Shantel VanSanten.

The OTH cast members will also sit down for a festive holiday special with surprise guests!

Stars from “The Cosby Show” (Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam), “Sister, Sister” (Tia Mowry-Hardict, Jackée Harry, Tim Reid) and “A Different World” (Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy) reunite for movies and “7th Heaven” (Barry Watson, Beverley Mitchell), “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” (Melissa Joan Hart, Carolina Rhea) and “Grey’s Anatomy” (Chandra Wilson, Sarah Drew, Loretta Devine) alums will be featured in solo films along the way — along with more big names like Toni Braxton, Tatyana Ali, Cheryl Ladd, June Squibb, Megan Hilty, and John Schneider among others!

When does it start? November 21 with new movies every Friday, Saturday and Sunday!  To help kick off the line-up, Melissa Joan Hart will host the “It’s A Wonderful Lifetime Preview Special” on November 17th.  Get more information the movies below and in the featured slideshow.

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Hey, hey–The Monkees are releasing a Christmas album!

Rolling Stone announced today that the iconic music group is set to make their first holiday album, Christmas Party, and it’s set to release on October 12th.

Christmas Party will include new songs written by Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo (“What Would Santa Do”) and Andy Partridge of XTC (“Unwrap You At Christmas”); Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5 and R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wrote the title track–they also play on a cover of Big Star’s “Jesus Christ”. The album is produced by Fountain of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger.

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As if getting the full line-up of Hallmark’s 2018 Christmas movies yesterday wasn’t exciting enough, we now have 8 35 new movie posters to further add to the festive anticipation!

Check out the slideshow below to see them all, and make sure you check out Hallmark Channel’s Countdown To Christmas and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas premiere schedule by clicking here. Remember: The holiday fun officially kicks off on October 26th!

L-R: Chad Michael Murray, Jessica Lowndes, Michael Rady & LeAnn Rimes. | Photos: Crown Media

There is nothing like celebrating the middle of the week with a huge dose of Christmas spirit — thanks to the exclusive Entertainment Weekly dropped this morning unveiling information on ALL 36 37 holiday movies that will premiere on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries this year!

There will be many of your festive favorites returning, including: Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Daniel Lissing, Lori Loughlin, Jessica Lowndes, Alicia Witt and Brennan Elliott, but there will also be Hallmark Christmas newbies that ‘yule’ love like Chad Michael Murray, Corey Sevier, Emily Osment, Ryan Paevey and Scottie Thompson.

Eloise Mumford and Sean Faris will also be starring in a movie together, so if you loved seeing them work together in 2012’s Christmas with Holly, this is sure to be a treat!

One of my favorite things about this reveal is that we see that Hallmark is taking a huge step in the right direction by having racial diversity in the leading roles. Over the years, viewers have requested this–last year Alexa and Carlos PenaVega lead one out of 33 premieres, but I’m thrilled to say Jerrika Hinton, Christian Vincent, Tatyana Ali, Dondre T. Whitfield, Christina Milian, Mark Taylor, Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Duane Henry will star in 4 of the films, and the PenaVegas will each return in solo films. I hope this will inspire even more next year!

Read the line-up below, and don’t miss the kick off of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas & HMM’s Miracles of Christmas on October 26th–with the first premiere airing the next day!

L-R: Emilia Clarke & Henry Golding | Photos: NBC, IMDb

There has been a lot of chatter about upcoming holiday TV movies, but now we have something joyous to catch in theaters…but, we’re going to have to wait until Christmas 2019.

Emilia Clarke, who gained fame from the hit HBO series “Games of Thrones”, and “Crazy Rich Asians” breakout star Henry Golding are joining forces for Universal Pictures “Last Christmas”, directed by Paul Feig (“A Simple Favor”).

While the plot is currently under wraps, THR notes that it will be a holiday romance set in London, and that the screenplay is penned by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings.

This cast and team are just as exciting as the movie itself!

Is it too early to buy my movie ticket?

Stay merry!

L-R: Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Jackée Harry & Tim Reid | Photo: Jackee Harry’s Official Instagram

Like the cast of “One Tree Hill”, the cast of the “Sister, Sister” is joining in on the reunion fun for a Christmas television movie this year!

Jackée Harry, who starred on the comedy sitcom that ran from 1994-1999, posted an Instagram photo of her and former costars Tia Mowry-Hadrict and Tim Reid on the set of their new holiday film. “Sister, Sister” told the story of twins separated at birth as they finally meet and move in together with each of their single adoptive parents (Harry, Reid).

I watched the show when it originally aired, so I’m pretty excited to see these stars back together for such a festive occasion. The only one missing is Tia’s real-life twin Tamera Mowry-Housley, who starred on the series alongside her.

I’ll be sure to post an update when I have a little more information on the movie.

Stay merry!

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Calling all Diana Ross fans! According to this Facebook post, ‘The Boss’ Ms. Ross is planning to spread some holiday cheer this year buy releasing a special musical package that combines 20 tracks from her two 1994 Christmas albums: “A Very Special Season” and her Hallmark edition, “Making Spirits Bright”. The holiday album, “Wonderful Christmas Time” will also include new liner notes and cover art specially commissioned by her.

You can pre-order “Wonderful Christmas Time” on Amazon and expect a release on October 26th!

Stay merry!

L-R: Jerrika Hinton & Christina Milian | Photos: Crown Media, IMDb

Can you handle more Hallmark Christmas movie news?! I hope so, because we’re really getting spoiled lately with all the casting and film announcements.

According to a new report from Entertainment Tonight, we will be getting movies from Christina Milian, Ryan Paevey, and former “Grey’s Anatomy” star, Jerrika Hinton. Sean Faris and Eloise Mumford, who starred together in Hallmark’s 2012 film “Christmas with Holly”, are reuniting in a new movie as well. I’ve included a breakdown of what we now know about each film below!