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We always look forward to seeing the beautiful key art posters that get created for the Hallmark holiday slate each year. Gone are the days of a traditional wintry Christmas background with our stars clad in red and green.  While those were pretty and festive, this new direction allows each movie to stand out while retaining the magic of the season—as much it can in a poster!

There are several posters created for the 2023 lineup of all-new movies coming to Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas lineups (which just got announced this week!), as well as the Hallmark Movies Now’s Movies & Mistletoe exclusive premieres. Among the first batch of released key art:

(Movies L-R top to bottom: Heaven Down Here, Christmas Under the Sky, A Biltmore Christmas, A Merry Scottish Christmas and Joyeux Noel)
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We can barely contain our excitement because the most festive Christmas movie announcement of the year is finally here! ✨🎄✨

Hallmark has unveiled this year’s holiday lineup, which kicks off on Friday, October 20th, and it’s packed with 40 all-new, original premieres spreading cheer across Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas events as well as Movies & Mistletoe exclusives on the subscription streaming service, Hallmark Movies Now!

The network’s reigning ‘Christmas Queen,’ Lacey Chabert will reunite with former “Party of Five” costars Scott Wolf and Jennifer Aspen in two separate movies—with Wolf in “A Merry Scottish Christmas” and with Aspen in “Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up,” the follow-up to last year’s hit!  Bethany Joy Lenz will join Kristoffer Polaha in “A Biltmore Christmas,” Janel Parrish and Tyler Hynes will co-star in “Never Been Chris’d,” and “Good Witch” co-stars Catherine Bell and James Denton will have their own on-screen reunion in “Christmas on Cherry Lane.”

More fan-favorite stars will return to sleigh as they lead new movies, including: Benjamin Ayres, Jonathan Bennett, Krystal Joy Brown, Warren Christie, Cindy Busby, Erin Cahill, Paul Campbell, Nikki DeLoach, Brooke D’Orsay, Jaicy Elliot, Brennan Elliott, Luke Macfarlane, Niall Matter, Barbara Niven, Ryan Paevey, Brendan Penny, Kristoffer Polaha, Michael Rady, Ronnie Rowe Jr., Kimberley Sustad, Andrew Walker, Victor Webster, and many others!

There will also be plenty of new faces in all-new movies, such as Chris Carmack, Erica Cerra, Mark Ghanimé, Humberly Gonzalez, Grace Leer, Mishael Morgan, William Moseley, Jim O’Heir, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Phylicia Rashad, Vincent Rodriguez III, and Emily Tennant among others.  Former “One Tree Hill” star Bryan Greenberg will join the network alongside Vic Michaelis and Rick Hoffman in this year’s Hanukkah film, “Round and Round.”

Merry Thanksgiving Weekend, will return on Thanksgiving night, November 23rd with the premiere of “Catch Me if You Claus” starring Italia Ricci and Macfarlane, and continues all weekend with double feature premieres at 6 p.m. ET/PT and 8 p.m. ET/PT each night.

Word on the merry street is there will be some Easter Eggs in this year’s features, including surprise appearances from familiar faces, nods to Hallmark past movies and iconic roles!

Check out the full holiday lineup below — including movie details and air-dates!

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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,

Graphic made by LollyChristmas.com, Images via Hallmark Media

Hallmark wants you to set sail with Christmas next year by launching a first-of-its-kind opportunity for some of the most devoted fans of the network who want to spend the holiday season …at sea!

Dubbed a “floating winter wonderland,” guests can indulge in a 4-day vacation on the Hallmark Channel Christmas Cruise! The partnership between the network and Sixthman, the leader in fully immersive festivals at sea for more than two decades, will bring viewers closer to the spirit of the season as they enjoy holiday festivities on the shop, see top network stars and surround themselves with yuletide cheer.

The Hallmark Channel Christmas Cruise is expected to set sail on November 5th-9th, 2024 from Miami, FL to Nassau, Bahamas on the beautiful Norwegian Gem.

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,

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.

L-R: Cahill and Harding (Photos: Hallmark Media)

It seems that the Hallmark Christmas event will only get bigger this year as the network tries something new with a holiday series! That’s right, Erin Cahill (“A Timeless Christmas”) and Ian Harding (“Ghosts of Christmas Always”) are reportedly starring in the upcoming show, Holidazed.

The series will follow five families living on the same Oak Bay, Oregon cul-de-sac as they celebrate the holiday season. “Holidazed,” which was filmed in British Colombia will also star Lillian Lim (“A Big Fat Family Christmas”), Barry Levy (“Christmas at Dollywood”), Tim Perez and Jacob Insley.

Stay tuned for the official air-date!

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.

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You can finally find more Hallmark Christmas movies on DVD!  Nearly all of your favorites from last year’s Hallmark Channel: Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries: Miracles of Christmas lineups are now available to own as well as some others from recent years, and we’ve compiled a list of them to make it easier to find if your sought after title is among them.

There are many single movie DVDs, but there are a few double-feature and triple-feature collections—the more the merrier, we say!

Sure, a lot of these movies are now airing in rotation given the fact that we’re in the midst of the holiday season, but it’s always nice to be able to pop on your favorite festive tale whenever the spirit of the season grabs you! Which movies are you most excited about?!