The Christmas Secret is the new holiday movie to debut on December 7 at 9 PM on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill) and John Reardon (Continuum and When Calls the Heart) star in the film based on the best-selling novel by Donna VanLierre that follows a struggling single mom’s search for a lost family heirloom that she hopes will help her find love and good fortune in time for Christmas.
The cast includes Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica) and b (Bitten).
The Lifetime original movie Wally Lamb’s Wishin’ and Hopin’ will debut on December 6 at 8 PM.
Based on the New York Times best-selling Christmas novel by Wally Lamb is this new movie set in the 1960s, focusing on 10-year-old Felix Funicello, who is doing his best to navigate fifth grade at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School. His father (Danny Nucci from The Fosters) runs the local diner, and their family’s claim to fame is their cousin, Annette Funicello (Krysta Rodriguez from Smash), the famous teen star and Mouseketeer. With the dreaded Christmas pageant on the horizon, the holiday season gets even more exciting with the sudden arrivals of a substitute teacher (Molly Ringwald) and a feisty Russian student. It promises to be one Christmas Felix will never forget.
The film also star Meat Loaf (Fight Club), Annabella Sciorra (CSI), Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live), Conchata Ferrell (Two and a Half Men) and Chevy Chase as the narrator.
The Hallmark Channel original holiday movie Mr. Miracle will debut on December 6 at 8 PM.
Based on the Debbie Macomber best-selling novel franchise, this back-door pilot will star Rob Morrow (Northern Exposure and Numb3rs) as angel-in-training Harry Mills, (aka Mr. Miracle), who is sent down to a community college during Christmas for his first assignment: to help an insecure student realize her true purpose in life. Harry, living as a literature teacher, is also schooled in lessons of life and love as he realizes that dealing with humans is not as easy as it looks like from the clouds.
The cast includes Michelle Harrison (The Flash and Continuum) and Britt Irvin (Supernatural and Smallville).
The two-night, four-hour event series One Child will air on Sundance TV on December 5 and December 6 at 9 PM (both nights).
The film follows the journey of a Chinese-born young woman adopted by British parents as she struggles in the face of crisis to determine her family loyalties, true identity and the meaning of family.
The cast includes Katie Leung (the Harry Potter franchise), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds) and Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones).
The new Bravo drama series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce will debut on December 2 at 10 PM.
Lisa Edelstein (House) stars as Abby, a self-help author who publicly separates from her “perfect” husband (Paul Adelstein from Private Practice) and begins navigating life as a single woman.
The cast also includes Beau Garrett (Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior) and Necar Zadegan (Emily Owens M.D.).
The next Hallmark Hall of Fame movie One Christmas Eve will air on the Hallmark Channel on November 30 at 8 PM.
Anne Heche stars as a recently divorced mom who wants her two kids’ first Christmas “without dad” to be perfect. An entertaining but unfortunate series of Christmas Eve mishaps ensures that won’t happen – unless perfect means the family has its most memorable and heartwarming Christmas ever.
The ION holiday movie A Christmas Mystery will air on November 30 at 9 PM.
While searching through her late mother’s attic, Rebecca uncovers sealed cards from a mysterious suitor that had been addressed to her widowed Mom over the past 12 Christmases. As she begins to wonder the identity of man, Rebecca hires a handsome, yet mysterious detective Andrew to help solve the mystery behind the letters. While working to unravel the family mystery, Rebecca and Andrew begin to fall for one another, but soon learn there’s more to the case than either expected.
The cast includes Esmé Bianco (Game of Thrones), Ryan Bittle (All My Children) and veteran actor John Ratzenberger (Cheers).
Click “Watch Preview” for A Christmas Mystery here.
The original UP Channel movie The Tree That Saved Christmas will debut on November 30 at 7 PM.
Imaginative, hard-working Molly Logan (Lacey Chabert from Party of Five) grew up on her family’s generations-old Christmas tree farm in rural Vermont and would often write stories about individual trees as they shipped out, her favorite being a “Charlie Brown” tree struggling to grow. One day, after hearing the roar of buzz saws used to clear the woods of sickly saplings, nine-year-old Molly ran to save her favorite – even after her father Gordon and his crew had made a gash in its trunk. She knew that someday this little tree would have a tale to tell.
Now 29, Molly is pursuing her writing career in Manhattan. Unfortunately as Pendant Publishing CEO Walter Dunlap’s assistant, Molly has no life and little chance to write. She’s devastated to learn from her architect brother Ryan that the bank is foreclosing on her parents’ heritage tree farm. This will be her family’s last Christmas there. However, a frustrated Molly can’t make it home thanks to obligations to her boss and his young daughters.
Much to her shock, Molly discovers that the Christmas tree she ordered for the Dunlap home is that same one she saved years ago. Certain that it is the same tree from her youth – and a sign – Molly drags the pine back to her Vermont home and embarks upon a plan to save the family farm – with some surprising, inventive help from her brother and former boyfriend/banker Lucas (Corey Sevier from Cedar Cove).
On November 29, Christmas Under Wraps is the new Hallmark Channel movie that will debut at 8 PM
Dr. Lauren Brunell (Candice Cameron-Bure from Full House) has her whole life planned out. As a third year surgery resident, she is counting on being accepted into a prestigious hospital fellowship to follow in the footsteps of her supportive father, Henry (veteran actor Robert Pine from CHiPs).
But when those plans quickly fall apart, and Lauren is put on the wait list, she must take the only other opening available: a head doctor position in the small, remote town of Garland, Alaska. Convincing herself it is only temporary, Lauren moves to Garland where she is immediately charmed by Andy (David O’Donnell from the holiday movie A Christmas Proposal), a handsome local who soon starts to show her the importance of living in the moment and enjoying her unexpected adventure. As Lauren excels as Garland’s trusted doctor, she warms up to the friendly town.
But Andy’s father, Frank (veteran actor Brian Doyle-Murray from The Middle), is hiding something from her in his top-secret shipping warehouse. Just as Lauren decides to get to the bottom of her suspicions, she receives news that will force her to make a life-changing decision, while knowing for certain that the Christmas season will never be the same.
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