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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 6h

HAPPIEST SEASON is on Hulu, and it's definitely also one of my favorites.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 7h

Even more details on Hallmark's Nashville kick off events tomorrow and Thursday, including the "Opry: Hallmark Takeover" concert tomorrow night, and a Hallmark-Opry holiday merch collab that debuts tomorrow both on hallmark.com and Shop.Opry.com.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 8h

In 2024, Diane Keaton released her first-ever single, an original holiday song "First Christmas," about celebrating the season after a loved one's loss, which has now moved into iTunes Top 10, following Keaton's passing.

2024 Article: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Diane Keaton | First Christmas (Music Video)

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 14h

Trailer and poster for Netflix's first of four new holiday rom-coms, A MERRY LITTLE EX-MAS, starring Alicia Silverstone, Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jami and Melissa Joan Hart. Streaming November 12.

🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/zLuOjCbDuwY?...

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 12h

UPtv founder and CEO Charles “Charley” Humbard will retire at the end of the year. Current CFO/Head of Streaming Philip Manwaring will assume the CEO role, and General Counsel Reta Peery will become COO, splitting Humbard's current responsibilities.

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Charles “Charley” Humbard To Step Away From UP Entertainment

UP Entertainment announced today that Founder and CEO Charles “Charley” Humbard will be stepping away from the company he founded 21 years ago.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 13h

There's also an wide-ranging People magazine feature on Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas, likely to be released Thursday or Friday.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · Aug 20

Hallmark Channel PR shared bunch of behind-the-scenes clips from upcoming People magazine-Hallmark Christmas exclusive, with set visits to TONIGHT'S TOP STORY, with B.J. Britt, and threequel THREE WISEST MEN (both working titles), as well as WHEN CALLS THE HEART

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 13h

Hallmark Channel's full court Christmas press kicks off tomorrow, with events in Nashville, including a "Hallmark Holiday Takeover" of the Grand Ole Opry Plaza and a special Hallmark concert Wednesday night, and continues with downtown Nashville red carpet event on Thursday

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 13h

HOLIDAY BAKESHOP is a Flavour Network original, but the cast of eight bakers contain four Americans, and wonder if we'll see this pop up on a U.S. streaming service this holiday or next, after its Canadian run.

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‘TIS THE SEASON TO BAKE! HOLIDAY BAKESHOP PREMIERES SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 ON FLAVOUR NETWORK - Corus Entertainment

‘TIS THE SEASON TO BAKE! HOLIDAY BAKESHOP PREMIERES SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 ON FLAVOUR NETWORK Eight Skilled Bakers Clash in a Festive Showdown for the Title of Holiday Bakeshop Champion Host Lauren Ash Re...

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 14h

Reality competition series HOLIDAY BAKESHOP, hosted by Lauren Ash with judges Jordan Andino and Kareem “Mr. Bake” Queeman, will debut on Canada's Flavour Network, November 2 and stream next day on STACKTV.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 14h

CHRISTMAS IN THE NORTH POLE: MOOD - RELAX, MEDITATE, ESCAPE, a soothing, slow-TV scene with a holiday theme is available now to stream on library-card service Hoopla.

🎥 Trailer: imdb-video.media-imdb.com/vi1511770393...

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 14h

Joel Paul Reisig's CHRISTMAS AT THE ROANOKE RANCH, also known as CHRISTMAS ROMANCE AT THE ROANOKE RANCH, is now streaming for free (with ads) on Plex, and will likely come to other FAST streamers soon.

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · Jul 22

Joel Paul Reisig's CHRISTMAS AT THE ROANOKE RANCH, starring Kristen Ryda and James Dickey, will be released on DVD and digital, September 2, 2025, and is available now for pre-order.

ROANOKE also likely to be available on FAST streamers before the end of the year.

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · Jun 5

Joel Paul Reisig, a Michigan native who shots most of his movies in his home state, also has two more holiday titles coming in 2025, CHRISTMAS AT THE ROANOKE RANCH and EVENING ROMANCE IN CHRISTMAS TOWN.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 14h

Trailer and poster for Netflix's first of four new holiday rom-coms, A MERRY LITTLE EX-MAS, starring Alicia Silverstone, Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jami and Melissa Joan Hart. Streaming November 12.

🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/zLuOjCbDuwY?...

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 14h

Apple has released the trailer and first look pics for holiday-set sequel THE FAMILY PLAN 2 coming to Apple TV on November 21.

🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/dqolYtJGuf4?...

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 14h

While executive produced by Tyler Perry, DeVon Franklin is the on-the-ground producer of both TIS SO SWEET and the already-shot RELATIONSHIP GOALS, another upcoming Amazon (non-holiday) rom-com starring Kelly Rowland and Method Man, rumored to release in February.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 15h

Not confident it's Christmas, but once THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTMAS wraps in Atlanta, there's another Tyler Perry-produced romcom set to go into production in November, TIS SO SWEET, about middle-aged woman sick of being passed over for promotion, who quits her job to open bakery

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 26d

Tyler Perry has new holiday movie in the works. THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTMAS, set around the Black church choir world. It's set to film in and around Atlanta, starting late next month.

Not sure if this a streaming or theatrical release, but like all of Perry's projects, his own studio is producing.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 15h

Day after Hallmark Channel marathoned entire run, FINDING MR. CHRISTMAS S1 available for purchase on major platforms.

Apple seems to include winner's movie, HAPPY HOWLIDAYS, as "episode 9," while Amazon doesn't.

This is first of Hallmark's reality shows they've made available for digital purchase.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 15h

A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS, starring Ashley Newbrough and Chad Rock, is available now for digital purchase on all major platforms.

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ashley Newbrough and Chad Rock's A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS, a rom-com with a ghost twist, is set for digital release on October 14, and available for pre-order now.

Given how early this one is coming out, guessing we'll see it streaming before Christmas.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 15h

2024 Finnish holiday short XMAS TREE (KUUSI) will compete at the Naples International Film Festival in Florida. Writer-director Herman Karlsson's story of a man who steals a Christmas tree from his neighbor's land during a blizzard, after his own tree is swiped.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

First look at Minka Kelly and Tom Wozniczka in the French-set CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS, dropping on Netflix November 19.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, no clue why HAPPY FEET 2 is in there, other than snow=Christmas.

A SUDDEN CASE OF CHRISTMAS was new last year and is remake of Italian movie, IMPROVVISAMENTE NATALE. The sequel IMPROVVISAMENTE A NATALE MI SPOSO is actually Christmas set, but neither available in US.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · Oct 18

Italian sequel IMPROVVISAMENTE A NATALE MI SPOSO drops November 16th on Amazon Prime Video Italy.

Not available in all territories, an English-language remake of SUDDENLY IT'S CHRISTMAS in the works. Supposed to shoot in Italy this past June with director Peter Chelsom, suspect it's strike delayed.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

Totally possible, but they haven't really been pushing the Christmas element, even though even the director called it a Christmas movie.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

Apple has a large selection of Christmas movies for sale at either $4.99 or $7.99.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

Poster for CHOCOLATE FOR CHRISTMAS, starring Angela Cole and Joel Berg. A non-holiday sequel, MARRY ME IN GREECE, currently in pre-production.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

Sharice Henry-Lamb wrote and will direct EVERGREEN EVER AFTER, starring Drew Sidora and Robert Ri’chard, set to film in early December in Commerce, Texas, Henry-Lamb's hometown.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

"It’s a Christmas movie. And to me, Christmas movies are all about nostalgia." -Director Derek Cianfrance on ROOFMAN'

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