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!

It’s almost time for Christmas, and to celebrate, Lifetime’s Very Merry Christmas programming is set to kick off on November 28th — Thanksgiving weekend — with world premiere holiday movies every Saturday and Sunday for a month! I’m excited, are you excited?

“A Gift Wrapped Christmas”, starring Meredith Hagner, Travis Milne and “7th Heaven” alum Beverly Mitchell, is the first movie slated to premiere on Nov. 28 at 8pm ET.

Some of your other favorite stars will all star in movies premiering on the network, including: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rick Fox, Mayim Bialik (“The Big Bang Theory”), Jen Lilley, Larisa Oleynik, Hilarie Burton (“One Tree Hill”), and Laura Bell Bundy, who will work alongside Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (“Family Ties”) in “Becoming Santa”, airing on Saturday, December 12th.

Check out the full list below, which includes air dates/times and a synopsis of each movie.