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Candace Cameron Bure, once again, filled our evening with holiday spirit as she hosted the 2019 Miracles of Christmas Preview Special on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries!  The network star stood before gorgeous Christmas decor, courtesy of Balsam Hill, and took us on a journey of Christmas magic with sneak peek of several original heart-warming movies that will be premiering this season.

Home & Family’s animal expert Larissa Wohl also stopped by with three pups (named Dasher, Prancer and Vixen!) as she explained Hallmark’s Adopt-a-Pet initiative, Adoption Ever After.

Check out which movies were previewed below!

A BRAMBLE HOUSE CHRISTMAS (left) / CHRISTMAS COOKIE MATCHUP (right) | Photos: Crown Media

It looks like Hallmark is decking the halls even earlier than originally planned!

The official Twitter pages for the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama networks made a surprise announcement yesterday that holiday programming would be kicking off a week early, which means—Christmas movies begin TODAY!

You’ll be able to tune in at 7pm/6c on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries to begin watching the Miracles of Christmas 2019 slate. At 9pm/8c, HM&M will air an encore presentation of the 2017 film, “A Bramble House Christmas” starring Autumn Reeser and David Haydn-Jones.

The first premiere of the season will still be next week with “A Merry Christmas Match” starring Ashley Newbrough and Kyle Dean Massey, which debuts on Friday, October 25th at 9pm/8c.

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We finally got some more information on the upcoming Blake Shelton-produced movie for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries — the sequel to last year’s “Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas”.

Entertainment Tonight revealed that Alison Sweeney (Days of Our Lives, Murder, She Baked, The Chronicle Mysteries) and Lucas Bryant (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) will take on the leading roles in “Time for You to Come Home for Christmas”!

Sweeney will star as recent widow Katherine who, along with her son, Will, returns to her hometown to spend Christmas with family. On the train to Virginia, Katherine meets Jack (Bryant), a veteran on his own holiday journey. Katherine and Jack part ways, only to discover they had the same destination. While volunteering for the local Christmas dance, a fundraiser for military families, the two grow closer. But Katherine struggles to move on from her late husband and Jack is focused on a mysterious mission that brought him to town. As Christmas nears, the two learn of a hidden connection that may be the Christmas miracle they were looking for.

As you can see, the plot is very similar to its predecessor; the 2018 film starred Josh Henderson and Megan Park and was based on Shelton’s 2012 holiday song, “Time for Me to Come Home,” which was turned into a festive novel by Shelton’s mother, Dorothy Shackleford, and published in 2013.

“Time for You to Come Home for Christmas” is slated for a December 6th premiere on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 9pm/8c for its Miracles of Christmas 2019 holiday programming event.

Sweeney has previously starred in the Hallmark holiday movies: “Christmas at Holly Lodge” (2017) and “Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery” (2015), and while this will be Bryant’s first Christmas movie for the network, he has previously starred in “Country at Heart” (2019), “Tulips in Spring” (2016) and “Summer Love” (2016).

Stay merry!

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The Hallmark Movie Checklist app has been updated to include all of the upcoming highly-anticipated festive premieres for Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas 10th Anniversary and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas lineup.

If you haven’t downloaded the app already, I encourage you to do so. Not only is it helpful with keeping track of all 40 movie premieres (trust me, it can get overwhelming!) but, it’s great for all year to keep track of all the seasonal Hallmark premieres — including the Christmas in July programming.

Click here for more info on how you can download from the Apple App Store or Google Play!

Stay merry!

Photos: A CHRISTMAS LOVE STORY (Crown Media) / FOREVER CHRISTMAS (Passionflix)

The W Network issued a press release today to announce that they will be the official holiday destination to find Hallmark Channel‘s Countdown to Christmas lineup in Canada.

The network released the titles included in their programming (running from November 1, 2019 – January 1, 2020), which is a collection of highly-anticipated films set to premiere between both Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in the U.S. this holiday season.

Additionally, W Network will have an exclusive world broadcast premiere of “Forever Christmas” starring Chelsea Hobbs (Make It or Break It) and Christopher Russell (UnREAL).

“We are proud to be the home of Hallmark Channel in Canada and the go-to destination for premium holiday content, year after year,” said Daniel Eves, Senior Vice President, Specialty Networks, Corus Entertainment. “We look forward to bolstering this momentum with Hallmark Channel’s signature story-telling that continues to captivate and engage viewers across the country.”

CHRISTMAS EVERLASTING (left), CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY MANOR (right) | Photos: Crown Media

Hallmark is the gift that keeps giving every holiday season, and now you can literally give the gift of Hallmark this year — or treat yourself — with the arrival of several new DVDs of beloved Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries original movies.

There are several 2018 movies set to be released, including: “Christmas at Pemberley Manor”, “A Godwink Christmas”, “A Gingerbread Romance”, and “Christmas Everlasting” — as well as other favorites from years past, including: “Miss Christmas” and “Rocky Mountain Christmas”.

Check out the list below with release dates and links to pre-order.

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This week Candace Cameron Bure filmed upcoming holiday specials for Hallmark to celebrate their Christmas programming, which kicks off on October 25th, and shared some behind-the-scenes footage from set. While it may be hard to drag your eyes away from the gorgeous Christmas display behind her, you can’t help but notice how chic the actress looked.

Thanks to Candace and her stylist Erin Noël, I was able to track down everything she wore!

Photo: Candace Cameron Bure’s Instagram

The holidays are getting closer and closer! Yesterday, Candace Cameron Bure posted behind the scenes footage of her filming the 2019 Miracles of Christmas Preview Special for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries; she looked super festive and fabulous against an elegant Christmas display (Psst: Get the scoop on her outfits here!) that was the perfect setting for getting into the seasonal spirit.

As it turns out, Bure is hosting not one, but two specials for one super festive weekend in October to help kick off Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ block of holiday programming!

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With the announcement of Hallmark’s 2019 original Christmas movie lineup today, it’s only fitting that some of the movie posters have started emerging online. The first four include Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas films: Write Before Christmas starring Torrey DeVitto and Chad Michael Murray and A Christmas Duet starring Chaley Rose and Rome Flynn as well as Two Turtle Doves starring Nikki Deloach and Michael Rady and Holiday For Heroes starring Melissa Claire Egan and Marc Blucas for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas event.

(L-R) Ryan Paevey, Holly Robinson Peete & Ashley Greene. | Photos: Crown Media/Shutterstock

Grab a hot cup of cocoa, sit back and get cozy because… IT’S HERE!!

I’ve been waiting for this announcement for weeks, and it has finally arrived — the full movie lineup coming to Hallmark this holiday season — and it’s even bigger and more festive than ever before! This year, Hallmark Channel will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Countdown to Christmas with 24 original movies — including two with Hanukkah themes; Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will air 16 for Miracles of Christmas and Hallmark Drama will premiere two festive reality shows.

Many of your favorite stars are returning like Jill Wagner, Andrew Walker, Lacey Chabert, Candace Cameron Bure, Paul Greene, Kristoffer Polaha, Wes Brown, Kellie Pickler, Chad Michael Murray, Danica McKellar, Ryan Paevey, Nikki Deloach, Niall Matter, Holly Robinson Peete, Eric Mabius, Jesse Metcalfe and Alicia Witt — just to name a few.

There are also lots of amazing new faces: Dolly Parton, Kristin Chenoweth, Carly Pope, Matt Cohen, Scott Wolf, Elizabeth Mitchell, Chaley Rose, Rome Flynn and Twilight’s Ashley Greene!

The continuous Countdown to Christmas and Miracles of Christmas all-day-and-night holiday programming officially begins October 25th and will run until January 2020. (Update: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama began their programming early on October 18.)

Okay, enough of my festive babbling — check out the lineup below!