Left: Hilarie Burton, Right: Danneel Ackes, Top-Bottom: Robert Buckley, Antwon Tanner, Tyler Hilton / Photos: Lifetime/IMDb

Christmas is coming early – and right on time – for “One Tree Hill” fans! In addition to former OTH stars Bethany Joy Lenz and Sharon Lawrence starring in a new Lifetime movie together this holiday season, five more members of the OTH alumni are heading to the network to spread some Yuletide cheer!

There had been a little mystery surrounding a project between Hilarie Burton, Danneel Ackles, Robert Buckley and Antwon Tanner, but Entertainment Weekly revealed today that they’re all working on a new movie, “The Christmas Contract”! Musician Tyler Hilton, who appeared in four seasons of the hit CW drama series, will also have a musical appearance in the movie.

You may remember a post from a few weeks ago about former “One Tree Hill” costars Bethany Joy Lenz and Sharon Lawrence starting production on an upcoming movie titled “Poinsettias for Christmas” (formally “Poinsettia”), well, there weren’t many details at the time — but, now that production is wrapping up, there’s a lot more to tell.

The holiday film, which is set to air on the Lifetime network later this year for their “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” lineup, will star Lenz as Ellie Palmer and Lawrence as Katherine Palmer, and will also feature John Schneider (“The Dukes of Hazzard”, “Smallville”), Lauren London (“The Game”), Marcus Rosner (“When Calls the Heart”) and Rhonda Dent (“The Mistletoe Inn”).

Left: Bethany Joy Lenz, Right: Sharon Lawrence / Photos: BJL’s Twitter/CBS

Dedicated Hallmark Channel viewers will be familiar with Bethany Joy Lenz in fan-favorites “The Christmas Secret” and, more recently, “Royal Matchmaker”; you may have also caught her in last year’s Lifetime holiday flick, “Snowed-Inn Christmas”, but to all of those “One Tree Hill” fans out there– you’ll be especially excited to see that she’s teaming up with a former OTH co-star for yet another Christmas movie!

Joy will work with Sharon Lawrence, once again, on the TV movie “Poinsettia”.

The details are very slim right now, but Christie Will Wolf will direct based off of Barbara Kymlicka‘s screenplay, and I’m assuming the movie will either air on one of the Hallmark networks or Lifetime in time for the holidays later this year.

I’m very excited for this one so, as details become available, I will keep you posted!

Stay merry!

There is going to be a lot of holiday programming to choose from this year!

I recently posted about Hallmark increasing their amount of Christmas movie premieres and Freeform expanding on their festive cheer from October through December, and now Lifetime has doubled their amount of their original Yuletide movies for their “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” programming. Last year they introduced the line-up as “It’s a Really, Really Cozy Christmas”, but it seems that they’re returning to a former title familiar to viewers from years past.

Last year we saw six movies and a few mini films, and now we’ll be getting FOURTEEN brand-new originals–including one starring Toni Braxton! I really enjoyed their block of films last year (“Snowed-Inn Christmas”, “My Christmas Prince”, “Wrapped Up in Christmas”, “A Very Merry Toy Store”, “Four Christmases and a Wedding” & “Christmas in Mississippi”), so I’m excited to see what’s in store this time around.

Stay merry!