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A Princess for Christmas

 The Hallmark Channel movie A Princess for Christmas will debut at 8 PM on December 3.

Jules Daly (Katie McGrath) is a frenetic twenty-something who becomes guardian to her young niece Maddie (Leilah De Meza) and nephew Milo (Travis Turner) when her sister and brother-in-law are tragically killed in an accident. While balancing the daily hysteria of becoming an overnight parent, Jules was recently laid off at work, her car is on the fritz, and the kids’ shenanigans have caused a dozen nannies to flee like vampires before garlic. When an ominous knock on the door comes late one evening, Jules wonders, what now? At the door is Paisley Winterbottom (Miles Richardson), a proper English butler, with a most curious invitation: a Christmas holiday with grandfather, Edward (Roger Moore), the Duke of Castlebury Hall, who was absent from the kids’ lives, but wants to reconnect out of love for his late son. Jules initially wants to decline the trip, though she and the kids eventually travel to Castlebury to meet the Duke. On more than one occasion, Jules feels woefully common trying to blend in with her late brother-in-law’s ostentatious family. Eventually, however, even with missteps and mistakes, a mystical influence begins to fall over the family, like the comfort of a dusting of snow over the quiet countryside.

Here is a trailer for A Princess for Christmas.

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Have a Little Faith

On November 27 the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Mitch Albom’s Have a Little Faith will air on ABC at 9 PM.

Based on Mitch Albom’s best-selling book Laurence Fishburne stars as Rev. Henry Covington, a Detroit preacher who overcame – along with his wife Annette (Anika Noni Rose) – a life mired in drugs and crime. Bradley Whitford portrays Mitch Ablom who met the reverend-in-recovery when writing a newspaper column about homeless people and homeless shelters. The film also stars Martin Landau.

Here is a long trailer for Mitch Albom’s Have A Little Faith.

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Holiday Engagement

The Hallmark Channel movie Holiday Engagement will debut on November 27 at 8 PM.

Jilted by her high-powered fiancé just before Thanksgiving, and terrified of disappointing her demanding mother (Shelley Long), Hillary Burns (Bonnie Somerville) hires David (Jordan Bridges), an unemployed artist to pretend to be her fiancé over the holiday weekend. She soon discovers however, that the hired replacement may not be a replacement after all – but the real thing.

The cast includes Haylie Duff and Sam MacMurray.

Here is a trailer for Holiday Engagement.

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Desperately Seeking Santa

On November 27 the ABC Family Channel movie Desperately Seeking Santa will debut at 8 PM.

Laura Vandervoort (Smallville and V) stars as an ambitious young marketing executive who dreams up the ticket to Christmas sales: a sexy Santa contest. Teenage girls and their moms flock to her mall when the gorgeous winner of the contest becomes a local hero, sending sales through the roof. She counted on this new Santa to win her a promotion – not win her heart, complicate her life and question everything she ever wanted.

The cast includes Nick Zano (What I Like About You) and Paula Brancati (Being Erica).

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Dear Santa

The Lifetime movie Dear Santa will debut at 8 PM on November 26.

Lonely and drifting through life, twenty-four-year-old Crystal discovers a letter from a little girl asking Santa to send her daddy a new wife for Christmas. Crystal decides to seek them out in the hopes of making herself their gift from Santa. The film stars Amy Acker, David Haydn-Jones, Gina Holden and Emma Duke and was directed by Jason Priestley.

Here is a trailer for Dear Santa.

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Trading Christmas

On November 26 the Hallmark Channel movie Debbie Macomber’s Trading Christmas will premiere at 8 PM.

Emily (Faith Ford) misses her daughter Heather (Emma Lahana) who is attending college in Boston. Since her father died, Heather is sensitive to her mom’s dependence on long-standing holiday traditions. This Christmas, Heather has planned a trip to Phoenix with her boyfriend, but tells her mother she is staying on campus to study. After arranging a house-swap with Charles (Tom Cavanagh), an English professor from Boston who wants Washington State’s solitude in order to finish his novel, Emily hops on a flight to Boston to surprise Heather for Christmas. Unaware of the house swap, Emily’s best friend, Faith (Gabrielle Miller) walks in on Charles at Emily’s house and in Boston, Ray, Charles’ brother (Gil Bellows) responds to a 911 call only to find Emily at Charles’ condo. Will Christmas travel calamities lead to cross-country romances? Or have there been one too many surprises already?

Here is a trailer of Debbie Macomber’s Trading Christmas.

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