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It’s a *Merry First Day of Fall* because Hallmark has announced their upcoming holiday lineup! 🎄

It may not be time to deck the halls quite yet, but after reading this movie announcement, I’m sure you’ll want to! In honor of the iconic holiday programming event kicking off next month, Hallmark has unveiled the first batch of all-new original Christmas movies set to premiere during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas slate. 

This year the holiday cheer will be overflowing as the network celebrates 12 years of Christmas with 41 original premieres, and for the first time ever, there will be a premiere for the Movies & Mistletoe event on the Hallmark Movies Now streaming service — and it all kicks off Friday, October 22nd!

Get ready to see some of your favorite returning stars, including: Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Paevey, Luke Macfarlane, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Lacey Chabert, Bethany Joy Lenz, Kimberley Sustad, Nikki Deloach, Andrew Walker, Robert Buckley, Trevor Donovan, Jonathan Bennett, Paul Campbell, Danica McKellar, Kristoffer Polaha, Taylor Cole, Janel Parrish and Brennan Elliott — as well as some new faces to the network, including: Jordin Sparks, Ashleigh Murray, Olivia Washington, Catherine Haena Kim, Luke James, Nik Sanchez, Inbar Lavi, Loretta Devine, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Lyndsy Fonseca, Julian Morris, Brittany Ishibashi, Caroline Rhea, Stuart Townsend, and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child!

Photos: Warner Music Nashville

After the very successful, Glow, Brett Eldredge‘s 2016 Christmas album and a 2020 duet with Kelly Clarkson called “Under the Mistletoe”, he is ready to put more holiday spirit into the world with another festive full-length release next month!

The award-winning Country singer will drop Mr. Christmas on Friday, October 22nd, and it will feature several holiday classics we all know and love along with two original songs, including the title track!

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There are officially 100 Days Until Christmas! That sounds like a long time, but believe us when we say it isn’t. The season will fly by, so we urge you to take each moment as it comes. Enjoy all of the cheer the entire holiday season has to offer… no matter how big or little that cheer is. ✨🎄✨

The Christmas movies will begin airing on Hallmark on Friday, October 22nd, and we can’t wait to share more info on all of the new films as they are made official. Let’s hope we learn more later today given the milestone we’ve hit. *fingers crossed*

Another way we’d like to honor the 100 day mark is to celebrate Lolly Christmas herself. If you read the latest post, the namesake of our website, is battling the motor neuron disease ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), and we have created a GoFundMe to raise money for adaptive devices and treatments to help her in this fight. If you’d like to give back in honor of the holiday season — or because you’ve enjoyed the merriment Lolly has spread this past decade, then we ask that you please donate to her cause. If you’re unable to donate, please still share her GoFundMe on social media and with anyone you know; your church bulletin board, your community, etc. Every little bit helps and there’s strength in numbers. Click here to view the fundraiser!

We hope you #StayMerry today and every day that you’re blessed to be given. ✨🎄✨

Lolly’s Song of the Day: TobyMac – “Bring On The Holidays”

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6 MONTHS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

That’s right, we are exactly six months away from Christmas, and it’s so nice to be able to celebrate it in such a big way today with the launch of Hallmark Movies & Mysteries “Christmas in July” programming starting this morning, which will run through July 8th with Hallmark Channel continuing the event on July 9th. I’ll definitely be in my holiday jammies and enjoying some of those festive films today. How do you plan to celebrate? 🎁

Keep following along with #LollyChristmas on social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest) as well as here at the website all year long for festive fun, including: holiday songs of the day, holiday recipes and craft tips, Christmas movie news, exclusive merriment, and lots more!

Stay merry!

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Can you believe it?!
There are only 200 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

I’m so excited to start getting ready for the season with the upcoming celebration of Christmas in July! I always feel like as soon as July is over, we blink and the holidays are here – so with that in mind, I’m going to really try and enjoy the time leading up to the Christmas season. Time moves so fast. I feel like I just took down my decorations and now we’re already inching closer to LEON Day, which is NOEL spelled backwards, and marks June 25th as six months away from Christmas day.

I also can’t wait until Hallmark kicks off their Christmas in July programming later this month!

I hope you have a super festive day and that you #StayMerry!

Lolly’s Song of the Day:  Kylie Minogue – “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday”

Photos: Lindsay Lohan’s Official Instagram / Netflix

Variety exclusively reported today that Lindsay Lohan will make her return to acting this holiday season with a leading role in a yet-to-be-titled Netflix original movie.

In the Christmas-themed rom-com, Lohan will play a “newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress” (according to the logline), who gets amnesia after a skiing accident and “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.” The rest of the cast has not yet been announced.

Netflix has been building on their library of original holiday films over the past few years, including: “Jingle Jangle,” “A Christmas Prince,” “The Christmas Chronicles” and “The Princess Switch” starring another former Disney-darling, Vanessa Hudgens.

I can’t wait to get more information on her movie! Are you excited for her acting comeback?

Stay merry!

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It’s no secret that I look forward to Christmas movies every year; I write about casting news in the spring, celebrate Christmas in July, and start counting down to holiday programming in early fall. Some may say “oh, it’s too soon” but I don’t care. Holiday movies lift my spirits and that of my family, and don’t we all need as much of that as we can get on a normal basis, and even more-so these days?

I say “YES”.

Summer is coming up, and I’m already eager for Hallmark’s annual Christmas in July event where they show original festive films on their Hallmark Channel network dubbed Christmas Keepsake Week, and more on their sister channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries for their Gold Crown Christmas slate. Each year these holiday movie marathons coincide with the preview launch of their new collection of ornaments in Hallmark stores. At one point this only lasted a week on the networks, but the dedication of holiday viewers have increased it to practically a whole month.

Here you will find a comprehensive list of all the holiday movies, specials and episodes that will be airing on US television during the Christmas season (and throughout the year!). Air dates are listed where possible, but if you see TBD (To Be Determined) then keep checking back to see when an air-date and time become available.

Please Note: This list will continue to be updated throughout the season, so please keep checking back!  Some networks (i.e. Hallmark, Lifetime & UPtv) will air their own original Christmas movies 24-hours a day with air-times that can change sporadically so, for those networks, I will include a link to their daily programming schedule to avoid making this post 3 miles long!

FYI: Christmas original movies from streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus are available 365 days a year, so keep in mind the films that premiered last year are *typically* still streaming!

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I’m usually on top of my holiday game every year, but like many of you, this year has been a trying one; it has felt like constant moving, just within my own home, this season. The holiday rush is my favorite kind of busy, but it will be nice to sit back and take a few days to regroup …and we are only a week away from that.  The whole Christmas season brings me joy, but there’s something about that last week before Christmas where the cheer feels like it’s at a Level 25. I can’t explain it, but it’s usually one of my favorite weeks of the year…even though it always seems like I have a million things to do.

I’m going to try and slow down a bit to take everything in… finish up any decor, get some more Festive Fashion posts up, watch some of the Christmas movies I’ve missed and maybe get a jump on my end of the year cleaning so that I don’t take 2020’s mess into 2021… we had enough of that, haven’t we?

Stay merry!

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