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Given Hallmark's reduced output this holiday season, it's only December 1, but there are just 6 more movies scheduled for 2025…

12/6: SHE’S MAKING A LIST
12/7: SINGLE ON THE 25TH
12/13: A SUITE HOLIDAY ROMANCE
12/14: OY TO THE WORLD!
12/20: A MAKE OR BREAK HOLIDAY
12/21: THE CHRISTMAS BABY
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
sleepykittypaw.bsky.social
Super Channel Heart & Home in Canada has announced ANOTHER SWEET WEDDING as debuting on December 19. Gee, I wonder what that "surprise" Great American Family movie is going to be.

Yet another unsolvable mystery from the folks at GAF.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Hallmark's upcoming original series, TWELVE DATES 'TIL CHRISTMAS, premiering this Friday (12/5), stars Mae Whitman, Jane Seymour & Mary McDonnell—all heavy hitters for Hallmark—and is based on a popular Jenny Bayliss book (THE TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS), but you'd never know either from the key art.
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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As a follow-up to their mini-movies (read: ads) THE NAUGHTY LISTER and SLEIGH MY NAME, Google will have a new December entry THE GIFT EXCHANGE, starring Nikki Garcia, Taylor Kinney and Donna Kelce, dropping later this month.

All three ads are made in style of rom-com movie trailers.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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These "most popular ___ by state" polls, especially when seasonal, always get so much play and I strongly suspect the polls cited are…less rigorously scientific. But, you know, cool graphic I guess.

source: pixlparade.com/what-is-the-...
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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"[They're] at an impasse and [come to] something more truthful, which is actually, they really respect one another." -Felicity Jones on the mother-daughter dynamic in OH. WHAT. FUN.

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‘Oh What Fun’ Stars Unwrap the Mother-Daughter Dynamic at the Heart of Their New Christmas Movie
Jason Schwartzman and Felicity Jones revealed what makes their new Christmas movie stand out.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
sleepykittypaw.bsky.social
My Hallmark top 5 of season so far…
1. MERRY CHRISTMAS, TED COOPER
2. CHRISTMAS ABOVE THE CLOUDS
3. KELLER CHRISTMAS VACATION
4. A GRAND OLE OPRY CHRISTMAS
5. THREE WISEST MEN

But rank A VERY JONAS CHRISTMAS MOVIE, TINSEL TOWN and CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS over all of above

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2025 Holiday Movies & Specials
Rating, and occasionally reviewing, the NEW holiday movies and specials I watch(ed) in 2025—basically all of my TV viewing in November and December—plus ranking them here from best to worst (more at: ...
letterboxd.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A ROYAL MONTANA CHRISTMAS continues to be dead last in TV Insider's Hallmark holiday movie rankings, but there's a new No. 1 following the Thanksgiving week glut.

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Hallmark Holiday 2025 Movies, Ranked From Worst to Best
From time travel in 'A Newport Christmas' to a twist on 'Serendipity' in 'We Met in December' and much more.
www.tvinsider.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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"Chabert promised that her and Walker’s new film, which premieres on Saturday, December 6, will 'leave you feeling uplifted' and 'put a little bit of goodness into the world.'"

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Lacey Chabert Teases 'Different' Hallmark Holiday Film With Andrew Walker
Lacey Chabert says her Hallmark movie 'She's Making a List' with Andrew Walker is 'very different' from 2018's 'My Secret Valentine'
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December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Derek Hough and Gwen Stefani preview tonight's THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY: HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR on ABC.

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Gwen Stefani, Derek Hough and more stars talk Disney magic for holiday special
"I'm gonna sing my heart out!" Nicole Scherzinger, Gwen Stefani and a galaxy of stars are ready to kick off the holiday season with "The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular." The special ai...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Decider asks the question, "Are we 20 years removed from golden age of Christmas movies?"

I think it's arguable, given that LOVE ACTUALLY and ELF came out the same year (2003), but there will always be movies about Christmas, both good and bad.

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What made the early Aughts the golden age for Christmas movies ... and why did it end?
Hallmark just doesn’t hit like that Bad Santa/Elf combo.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Trailer and poster for Apple TV's original special, THE FIRST SNOW OF FRAGGLE ROCK

🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/s52sY_avEeo?...
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Pop Heist kicks off their "Heistmas" pop culture advent calendar with their pick for "The Best Christmas Song"

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The Best Holiday Song Is "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is the best Christmas song you can possibly play, but only when Darlene Love is on vocals.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"AN ALPINE HOLIDAY is a delightful destination movie that will fill you with coziness, merriment, and a hunger for croissants. [It] takes viewers on an enchanting and warm-hearted European wintry vacation without needing to splurge on a plane ticket."

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'An Alpine Holiday' on Hallmark Channel, where a grandma's last wish helps estranged sisters reconnect
Say “bonjour” to this cozy and entertaining Christmas movie starring Ashley Williams, Laci J. Mailey, and Julien Samani.
decider.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
sleepykittypaw.bsky.social
New holiday-themed dating show launching today on Crave (Canada), THE ADVENT CALENDAR, with daily episodes through Christmas Eve. Freemantle has acquired the international distribution rights.

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Fremantle Unwraps Festive Dating Format ‘The Advent Calendar’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Fremantle has acquired international distribution and production rights to “The Advent Calendar,” an original festive-themed dating format.
variety.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!
Kid: Santa, what's the story of your reindeer names? Santa: Why I name them after memories, like Prancer frolicking through the snow! Kid: What about Donner? *a dark countenance settles on Santa's face* Santa: the year was 1847, snowfall had trapped us in the Sierra Nevada-
December 24, 2023 at 6:32 PM
sleepykittypaw.bsky.social
Netflix added three new "yule log" videos themed to mega-hits KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, STRANGER THINGS and WEDNESDAY today.

(Netflix calls them "Fireplace," so that's the best search term for these new additions, as well as past themed holiday offerings.)
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Hope you can join me and @connorratliff.bsky.social at 3 pm on Sunday to talk about The Star Wars Holiday Special—and if you come early, at 1, we'll be screening the Holiday Special in full from the Paley Archive. More info: www.paleycenter.org/events/conve...
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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THE MERCHANTS OF JOY (2025)
Streaming Now
Prime Video
#TheMerchantsOfJoy
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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PLAY DIRTY (2025)
Streaming: December 2, 2025
Digital (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.)
#PlayDirty
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December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Hands down the best Letterboxd review for THE SNOW MUST GO ON

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if i had a nickel for every time a man who played jack kelly in disney’s newsies on broadway also played the lead in a hallmark christmas movie i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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An LOL coda to the "which movie did we acquire" saga at Great American Family, where network ID'ed wrong CHRISTMAS PITCH in their own press release.

This was CEO Bill Abbott's take on eventually retitled CHRISTMAS NORTH OF NASHVILLE "an acquired title we are running that may not be our strongest."
sleepykittypaw.bsky.social Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · Oct 9
So, despite Great American Family's *own* press release listing Alexa Maria Huerta & Joseph Morale as stars, and title change to LOVE AT KRINGLE LAKE, name of town in 2021's CHRISTMAS PITCH, this story swears GAF acquired other CHRISTMAS PITCH.

Clown show 🤡

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December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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We're doing an Advent calendar of iconic Christmas movie dresses and we're kicking things off with Donna Reed's dutiful wife frock in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and how it highlighted the film's themes, time and place:
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 1: Donna Reed in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - Tom + Lorenzo
We're highlighting a different classic Christmas movie dress every day until Christmas Eve and we figured we'd kick things off with one of the most iconic
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December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Candace Cameron Bure's most passionate fans have spoken!

Have never seen any movie, even one in very limited release, with ZERO fan reviews on IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes, with grand total of 7 folks rating it on Letterboxd.

In less than 12 hours CHRISTMAS AT THE CATNIP CAFE has roughly 100 ratings.
"Worst kind of old fashioned." "There is so much wrong here." source: https://letterboxd.com/film/another-sweet-christmas/
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The Otley tourism board made a holiday-themed ad, complete with original song, to entice visitors to this quaint Yorkshire village.

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Have a Christmas Made in Otley: 2025 Visit Otley Christmas film
YouTube video by Visit Otley
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December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM