Andrew Walker in MERRY & BRIGHT (Photo: Crown Media)

One—or many—could say that Andrew Walker is the ‘Prince of Hallmark,’ and that might be why he has not one, but two new Christmas movies spanning both of Hallmark’s top networks this holiday season!  I chatted with Andrew about Merry & Bright, in which he co-stars with Jodie Sweetin and Sharon Lawrence, as well as his surprising second festive film alongside Ashley Greene; his outlook on acting, holiday traditions, and lots more!

Your new movie, “Merry and Bright”, premieres this weekend on Hallmark for the 10^th Anniversary of Countdown to Christmas. Can you tell me a bit about that?

Sure! It’s about a girl (Jodie Sweetin) who inherits a candy cane company from her grandfather, and the business has not been doing too well; she’s been struggling to keep it afloat and to grow it.  I represent an investment group that comes in to turn the business around.  I’ve been assigned by the investors to go in to, basically, just dismantle things and help her grow the business, and obviously she’s a very proud woman and she’s a very proud business owner, and she doesn’t feel like she needs my help so, she’s kind of giving me some pushback on that. Ultimately, we end up finding a common ground and, along the way, we end up falling for each other.

Photos and screengrabs: Crown Media

We are still a couple of weeks away from the Hallmark Channel premiere of “Merry & Bright” starring Jodie Sweetin and Andrew Walker, which is set to be one of the first new original movies to kick off the 10th Anniversary of Countdown to Christmas programming event!

Hallmark released a slew of sneak peek photos at the movie, so I wanted to get a jump start on the fashion moments. Check them out below!

Photo/Screencaps: Crown Media

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!

Photo: Crown Media

Today’s movie news is sure to be major for all my fellow Andrew Walker & Jodie Sweetin fans!

We didn’t get a new *Hallmark* Christmas movie from Walker last year but — not only did he return this spring for “Bottled with Love”, he’ll also appear alongside Sweetin (“Finding Santa”, “Entertaining Christmas”) for the ‘most wonderful time of the year’!

Walker and Sweetin will lead “Merry and Bright”, the story of Cate (Sweetin), CEO of the Merry & Bright Candy Cane Company, who meets Gabe (Walker) during the busy Christmas season. She assumes Gabe is the suitor her well-meaning mother is trying to set her up with when in reality, he works for Empire Corporate Recovery, which has been hired to take a closer look at Merry & Bright’s operation and find ways to make the company more profitable. As Cate and Gabe begin to work together, they find ways to elevate the business and find that they have more in common than savvy business sense.

Although the network will air a new movie during it’s Christmas in July programming, I think it’s likely that we’ll see “Merry and Bright” premiere during the Countdown to Christmas lineup later this year.

This marks the ninth new Christmas movie announcement from Crown Media this year — following “The Christmas Song“, “Holiday for Heroes,” “The Christmas Company,” “Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses,” “Five Cards for Christmas,” “A Family Under The Christmas Tree,” a third installment to the ‘Graceland’ series and an untitled Blake Shelton-produced project.

Stay merry!

Images: Crown Media

Jodie Sweetin returned to the Hallmark Channel this holiday season for “Entertaining Christmas” where she stars as Candace Livingstone, the child of an iconic cookbook author, crafting expert and television personality extraordinaire, who is contemplating retirement and has Candace in mind to take over her brand. The downside? Candace can’t do the things her mother is famous for. The movie is funny, cute, and there’s definitely budding romance… it is Hallmark, after all.

In the movie we see Candace wearing a plethora of pretty holiday looks, including a few dresses and one stellar coat that I’ve included below.

LeAnn Rimes | Photos: Crown Media

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.

Photo: Netflix

A few months ago I posted about the upcoming Christmas episode from of “Fuller House” but, at the time, a premiere date for the upcoming season had yet to be released — well, now we have one!

Netflix announced that season four of “Fuller House” will begin streaming this December 14th and, to make things even sweeter, they released the trailer. Check it out below!

I can’t wait to Fa-La-La-La-La with the Fullers, Tanners and the rest of their squad.