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The ION holiday film A Christmas Princess will debut on December 1 at 7 PM.

A struggling chef living in a trendy New York borough, Jessica (Shein Mompremiere) took over a small restaurant where she used to work as a waitress, but it’s growing tough to make ends meet. Prince Jack (Travis Burns), who’s in the city for his family’s annual Christmas charity dinner, finds himself in need of a last-minute chef for the royal event when he meets Jessica. As their relationship evolves and a romance blooms, so do the obstacles. But as the event arrives, she decides to go through with the dinner, and may just get the best Christmas present of all love.

The film also stars Erin Gray of Buck Rogers fame.

Here is a trailer for A Christmas Princess.

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On December 1, the movie Christmas Chalet will debut at 7 PM on UP TV

A recently divorced mother (Erica Durance from Smallville and Saving Hope) books a chalet in a beautiful Christmas village in Vermont to try and rekindle Christmas magic for her teenaged daughter who feels like her family is ruined forever. When they arrive, they find that the house has been double booked and now they must share their family holiday with a grumpy writer (Robin Dunne from Sanctuary) who hates Christmas. Together, they’ll learn that a little Christmas magic heals even the most broken heart.

Here is a trailer for Christmas Chalet.

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On November 30, the Lifetime movie Merry Liddle Christmas will debut at 8 PM.

Inspired by her own recent Christmas catastrophe, Kelly Rowland plays Jacquie, a successful, super-together single tech entrepreneur whose messy family descends on her gleaming new dream home for the holidays. Christmas traditions collide and family drama ensues as she struggles to keep her house together in time for a glossy video shoot of “the perfect Christmas.”

On top of that, the possibility of romance with a new neighbor has Jacquie questioning all her dating rules, so even though this isn’t the Christmas she envisioned, it might just be the most magical one yet.

The cast includes Thomas Cadrot and Debbi Morgan.

Here is a trailer for Merry Liddle Christmas.

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On November 30, the Hallmark Movie & Mysteries movie Sense, Sensibility & Snowmen will debut at 8 PM

The film centers on Christmas enthusiast party planners Ella (Erin Krakow) and her sister, Marianne (Kimberley Sustad), who clash with their client, Edward (Luke MacFarlane), who is a not-so-jolly toy company CEO.

Here is a trailer for Sense, Sensibility & Snowmen:

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On November 30, the Hallmark Channel movie Christmas in Rome will debut at 8 PM.

Lacey Chabert plays an independent-minded American tour guide named Angela, who is fired from her job in Rome just before Christmas. She crosses paths with an American executive named Oliver (Sam Page), who wants to buy a high-end Italian ceramics company.

Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around the Eternal City, as the owner of the ceramics company won’t sell it to him until he learns the heart and soul of Rome.

Here is a trailer for Christmas in Rome.

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On November 29, the holiday movie Baking Christmas will debut on OWN at 9 PM.

When Patty (Aloma Wright from Suits), the founder of the town’s most popular and successful bakery, announces her plan to retire at the end of the year, her children step up to take over the family business. Patty and Phillip’s (Tim Reid from WKRP in Cincinnati) children, Jennifer (Khalilah Joi from Big Little Lies), Angela (Leigh-Ann Rose from Love Thy Neighbor) and Anthony (Arnell Powell from Greenleaf), are qualified – and eager – to run the enterprise, and each has their own ideas for writing the bakery’s next chapter.

There is only one way to ensure the shop ends up in the right hands and that is a Christmas cake bakeoff. The gloves come off and the frosting flies as the siblings vie for control of the bakery in an unforgettable competition to create the best-ever Christmas confection.

The film also stars Yohance Myles (Ambitions).

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The Lifetime holiday movie Staging Christmas will debut on November 29 at 8 PM.

Lori (Soleil Moon Frye from Punky Brewster) stages homes for a living and her busiest season is Christmas! Though she normally only stages homes that are for sale, she’s intrigued when a wealthy widower named Elliot (George Stults from 7th Heaven) asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, Maddie. As Lori starts remaking Elliott’s home, she finds that Maddie isn’t the only one in desperate need of the Christmas spirit.

As Lori spends more and more time with Elliot and Maddie, she starts to feel like part of the family. While she was initially hired to simply stage the perfect Christmas in their house, she ends up creating it for the father and daughter in every way imaginable.

The movie also stars Jaleel White (Family Matters).

Here is a trailer for Staging Christmas:

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On November 29, the Hallmark Channel movie Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy will debut at 8 PM.

As the town searches for a rumored Christmas Time Capsule, a skeptical writer arrives in Evergreen to get the story on the town’s “too-good-to-be-true” Christmas-fever.

The cast includes Maggie Lawson (Psych) and Paul Greene (When Calls the Heart) with Jill Wagner, Ashley Williams, Holly Robinson Peete, Barbara Niven and Rukiya Bernard all reprising their roles.

Here is a trailer for Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy.

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