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: Antwon Tanner, Danneel Ackles, Hilarie Burton & Robert Buckley. | Photo: Lifetime

The Lifetime network is going to be a very special place for fans of the hit television series “One Tree Hill” this holiday season! The long-running series had its finale in 2012, but clearly it’s the show that keeps giving even long after its ended and, this year, its former stars are spreading some yuletide cheer! Not only will five cast members reunite for “The Christmas Contract” airing on Thanksgiving, but their former co-star Bethany Joy Lenz will premiere her movie “Poinsettias for Christmas” the following night along with another OTH-er, Sharon Lawrence!

More ‘OTH family’ members, as fans of the show refer to them, Stephen Colletti (“Hometown Christmas”), Daphne Zuniga (“A Christmas Arrangement”), and Shantel VanSanten (“Love for Christmas”) will also have movies part of the “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday programming.

[ Get the Scoop on Lifetime’s Holiday 2018 Movie Premiere Line-Up! ]

But, wait, there’s more!

Hilarie Burton, Tyler Hilton, Danneel Ackles, Antwon Tanner (“The Christmas Contract”) and Stephen Colletti are all set to host “‘Tis the Season: A One Tree Hill Cast Reunion”, a one-hour special following the premiere of “The Christmas Contract” on November 22nd at 10pm EST/PST.

The special also promises a few surprise special guests! I can’t wait to find out who they are!

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.

L-R: Beverley Mitchell & Stephen Colletti | Photo: Stephen Colleti’s Official Instagram

I was scrolling through my Instagram timeline today when I saw a photo of former “7th Heaven” star Beverley Mitchell and former “Laguna Beach”/”One Tree Hill” actor Stephen Colletti chillin’ among Christmas decor. When I read the caption and saw other recent photos, I gathered that they had just concluded production on a new Christmas movie!

I wasn’t able to gather much else about the movie other than the fact that it must take place in Louisiana, where they were filming and that it’s for the Lifetime network.

There has been a lot of recent news surrounding all of the holiday movies coming out this Christmas, naturally. I mean, we’re halfway through the year, the Upfronts have recently ended and this is the time when a lot of the movies are being filmed and/or cast, so it’s not surprising that the entertainment news would be heavily holiday-centered despite the impending summer.

What do we know so far? There will be new Hallmark movies from Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Danica McKeller and Kellie Martin coming that are currently TBD while Danielle Panabaker stars in “Christmas Joy”, Kellie Pickler heads to “Christmas at Graceland”, Erin Krakow and Niall Matter return for “Marrying Father Christmas” and LeAnn Rimes leads “It’s Christmas, Eve”.  A third installment from Richard Paul Evans‘ holiday anthology series titled “The Mistletoe Secret” will also premiere.

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”).

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!