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Lacey Chabert brought the spirit of Christmas into the summer season by celebrating Christmas in July and hosting Hallmark Channel’s “Christmas: A First Look” Preview Special. The annual sneak peek show gave us a look at some of the original movies coming to the network during the 10th Anniversary of Countdown to Christmas, which officially kicks off on Friday, October 25th!

During the special, Chabert was joined by network pet ambassador, Happy the Dog, and “Home & Family” pet rescue expert Larissa Wohl — who brought along some kittens and puppies as she explained Hallmark Channel’s pet rescue initiative, “Adoption Ever After”. Learn more here!

Read on to check out the movies that were spotlighted during the special!

L-R: Matthew Davis, Jill Wagner, Donna Mills | Photos: The CW/Crown Media

According to ET Online, Hallmark Channel fan-favorite Jill Wagner will return for an all-new movie that’s set to premiere during the 10th anniversary of the network’s beloved holiday programming, Countdown to Christmas.

Wagner will lead “Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses” alongside Matthew Davis, best known for his roles on The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries” and its spin-off “Legacies”, as well as television icon Donna Mills (“Knots Landing”, “General Hospital”).

The movie focuses on Wagner’s character, a single mom named Abbey who takes a leap of faith to pursue her passion for interior design. After landing a possible career-advancing job decorating the estate of a local businessman Nick Sinclair (played by Davis), Abbey learns that she must complete the job by Christmas Eve. How will she balance the fast approaching holiday and deadline while managing to break down the wall between her and Nick?

We’ll have to tune-in this holiday season to find out!

Mills, who previously starred in “12 Gifts of Christmas” (2015), will play the role of Nick’s mother.

While it will be a Hallmark debut for Davis, this film marks Wagner’s fourth Christmas movie for the network; she previously starred in “Christmas Cookies” (2016), “Maggie’s Christmas Miracle” (2017) and “Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa” (2018).

Stay merry!

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This holiday season, Jill Wagner stars in “Christmas to Evergreen: Letters to Santa” — the highly anticipated sequel to last year’s hit Hallmark Channel movie. Wagner plays the role of Lisa, whose trip home to the town of Evergreen for Christmas finds her teaming up with fellow residents to save the town’s beloved general store.

Christmas wishes and romance make for quite the magical movie, but the festive fashion was quite the treat to the eye as well! When I first saw the poster for the movie, my eyes were immediately drawn to Wagner’s green coat — which she wears in the movie. I love the lush olive shade and classic silhouette; as it appears cozy, practical …and very chic.

She’s wearing the ZARA Masculine Double-Breasted Coat, from the Fall/Winter 2018 collection. Thankfully the coat is still available for $150 at Zara.com — it also comes in cream!

Catch “Christmas to Evergreen: Letters to Santa” airing all season on Hallmark Channel!

Stay merry!

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This Thursday marks 12 days until Christmas Day — wow, the month flies by so fast!

It wouldn’t truly be the Countdown to Christmas on the Hallmark Channel if they didn’t celebrate it, now would it? Of course not, and that’s why this Thursday, December 13th the network will begin airing “12 Days ‘Til Christmas”, which will included special segments that air periodically between the airings of all the scheduled holiday programming.

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Countdown to Christmas viewers who fell in love with the movie, “Christmas in Evergreen” when it premiered last year on the Hallmark Channel will be happy to know that a sequel is in the works—and it’s premiering this year!

“Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa” is set to debut during the networks holiday programming this holiday season, and several of the stars of the first film will be back–including: Ashley Williams, Holly Robinson Peete, and Barbara Niven as well as new faces Jill Wagner and Mark Deklin.

Country Living reports that the sequel will take us back to the fictional small town of Evergreen as we follow Lisa (Jill Wagner), who is busy repairing the community’s abandoned General Store ahead of the holidays. With a little help from the rest of the townspeople, she’ll deliver a special, lost letter to the North Pole while trying to restore the Christmas spirit in her Vermont village. The inspiration of Evergreen, Vermont is based on Hallmark artist Geoff Greenleaf‘s Christmas illustrations.

Stay merry!