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It’s that time of the week again when cliffs are hanging in Port Charles, Salem, Genoa City, and LA, and we’re all about to go two days without our favorite soaps. But have no fear, you can still catch some stars from Days of our Lives, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, and more on TV the weekend of November 15-17, 2024.

Where To Watch

Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Mystery and UPtv will be full of Christmasy romcoms featuring beloved soap stars past and present, while you can catch a familiar face from Llanview on Lifetime.

Friday, November 15, 2024

An Unexpected Christmas, starring Bethany Joy Lenz – Hallmark Channel

The next Christmas film follows Bethany Joy Lenz opposite Tyler Hynes, who play exes that must pretend they’re in a relationship in order to save Christmas in this 2021 film.

Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday, starring Jen Lilley...

How do you go about charting your path for an ideal career?

If you ask prolific writer Samantha Herman, also a practicing attorney, she’d probably say to let the waves take you where they will while always keeping sight of your dreams.

We chatted with her in anticipation of her latest, Christmas Island, and discovered her route from a fan of the Hallmark genre to writing some of their best movies proves that keeping your eyes on your target pays off.

Samantha is warm, amusing, and insightful as she describes her winding road to screenwriting success. Her love for her craft is evident with every word she writes and every word she speaks.

A true fan of romantic comedies and Christmas movies in particular, she’s exactly who those of us who share her interests want to represent us on the page.

Samantha has always had a one-track mind...

Christmas in July will return to Hallmark bringing Crashing Through The Snow, starring Amy Acker and Warren Christie, to the lineup.

The annual summer movie celebration will kick off Friday, July 9 and will run until Sunday, July 31. Crashing Through The Snow will make its Hallmark debut Friday, July 10 at 9 p.m. The film centers on Maggie (Acker), who joins her ex-husband Jeff (Kristian Brunn) and his girlfriend Kate (Brooke Nevin) for a Christmas getaway in Aspen, where she meets Kate’s brother, Sam (Warren Christie).

Crashing Through the Snow is from Through the Snow Pictures Inc. Stan Spry, Eric Woods and Ryan M. Murphy are executive producers. Anthony Fankhauser is co-executive producer.

This year’s lineup will also include a 2020 Movie Marathon, Soap Sunday and Countdown to Christmas Greatest Hits, which will feature holiday movies including The Christmas Ring and Crown for Christmas.

See highlights from the Christmas In July lineup below.

Hallmark’s 2020 “Countdown to Christmas” has already begun, with a total of 40 new holiday movies set to air this season across the Hallmark Channel and sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries — some of which started rolling out well before Halloween.

While there are some fan-favorite Hallmark actors and actresses starring in the lineup, like Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Will Kemp, Holly Robinson Peete and Danica McKellar, there are several newcomers leading films, including Aaron Tveit, Krystal Joy Brown, Victoria Clark, Tom McGowan, Alvina August, Janel Parrish, Jeremy Jordan and Marisol Nichols, among many others.

This year’s slate also includes “The Christmas House,” which stars Jonathan Bennett and features a storyline about a gay couple looking to adopt their first child. Hallmark and its competitor Lifetime have been criticized over the years for not including LGBTQ lead characters and related plots in their Christmas movies. Hallmark said it would commit...

The Hallmark Channel is set to host its annual Christmas in July event! The network announced the news in a press release on Thursday, saying, "Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries once again bring the yuletide poolside this July, with the return of the networks' popular summertime Christmas-movie programming events starring fan-favorites Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Holly Robinson Peete, Danica McKellar, Chad Michael Murray, Ryan Paevey and more."

Starting June 29, Hallmark will show three Christmas movies each weeknight. On Fridays, the network will double-feature films from the same franchise, including Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas and Time for You to Come Home for Christmas - which will grace the small screen on July 3 - as well as Christmas in Angels Falls and Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday - which will broadcast on July 10. There will also be a special Fourth of July tribute to veterans with military-themed holiday movies,...

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix reveals a first look at Season 2 of “The Umbrella Academy,” and Showtime will host a virtual concert on June 21 benefitting the Equal Justice Initiative.

Casting

Nickelodeon has signed an overall deal with 13-year-old social media influencer and hip-hop artist Alaya “That Girl Lay Lay” High. Nickelodeon and High will work together to develop programming across multiple platforms, create music initiatives and build a consumer products business spanning across fashion, accessories and publishing. High has been rapping, singing, writing and producing since the age of five and has already impressed the likes of Nick Cannon and Le’Veon Bell. She became the youngest female rapper to sign a recording contract with Fresh Rebel Muzik/Empire at age 11 and released her debut album “Tha Cheat Code” in September 2018.

Dates

Amazon Prime Video announced that Jim Gaffigan‘s newest stand-up comedy special, “Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist,...

Exclusive: New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, has signed a second writing and producing deal with Brad Krevoy’s Motion Picture Company of America for two Hallmark Channel Christmas movies to air in 2020.

Christmas in Angel Falls 3, with Rachel Boston and Paul Greene reprising their roles, will continue the story of an angel who falls in love with a mortal and gives up her wings. Christmas at Mansfield Park is the third of de la Cruz’s Jane Austen-themed Christmas movies.

De la Cruz and Mpca previously worked on four Christmas movies for the Hallmark Channel including Christmas in Angel Falls, Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday, Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe (based on de la Cruz’s novel published by St. Martin’s Press) and Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen.

Mpca has also optioned and is developing de...

Jen Lilley is a prolific actress who not only starred on Days of Our Lives for six years but has earned a large number of fans with her work in TV movies.

With many Hallmark movies on her resume, she's one of the most adored women currently bringing their romantic comedies and dramas to life.

We had a chance to catch up with Jen in support of tonight's Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday and learned that she takes none of her success for granted.

Like all of the others associated with the Hallmark family of networks we've had the pleasure of chatting with, Jen has nothing but warm sentiments about them to share.

'It's such a life accomplishment for me. Honestly, my family completely has been watching Hallmark movies ever since I was little. And so it's really exciting to be part of the network. But also, I mean everyone...

If you were a fan of last year's Live In Front of a Studio Audience with All in the Family and The Jeffersons, then you're going to enjoy this week.

Good Trouble and A Very Brady Renovation have Christmas specials, and there are special showings of Wizard of Oz and FX's A Christmas Carol.

Find out what else lies ahead with our full rundown of TV's best bets!

Sunday, December 15

7/8c The Sound of Music (ABC)

This is a yearly tradition in my home! Julie Andrews sings her way through Austria with seven adorable children. Filmed on location, this iconic classic from 1965 will bring a smile to your face and have you singing long after it’s over.

8/7c Rediscovering Christmas (Lifetime)

When Mia (Jessica Lowndes), a talented Boston department store window designer, travels to her family’s Connecticut town to help her sister design the decor for its...

Because I most often watch Carlo Marks as he portrays David Peck on Chesapeake shores, his image evokes beautiful landscapes and lapping water.

So, it shouldn't have been surprising that when we had an opportunity to chat on the phone about his upcoming Christmas move, Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday, that he was doing it at his cabin on the shore.

Sometimes, life and entertainment collide.

Carlo is starring as Ryan, a former friend and rival of Hannah (Jen Lilley), who returns to his hometown after the death of his parents. Reconnecting with Hannah comes with a lot of pain for Hannah who hasn't been able to forget that her dream job went to Ryan while she's still working for her parents at their publishing house.

Both Ryan and Hannah get prodded to make room for the other in their life by a new angel by the name of Anthony...