Starting Wednesday, Five New Hallmark Holiday Movies Over Five Consecutive Nights!

©2015 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Marcel Williams
©2015 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Marcel Williams
©2015 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Marcel Williams

This holiday week, Hallmark Channel offers up a healthy serving of original holiday films. The network will premiere five festive flicks over five consecutive nights in what will hopefully become a Thanksgiving TV tradition. Each of the holiday-themed romantic comedies begins at 8pm ET/PT and is part of the network’s Countdown to Christmas Thanksgiving Week.

Actress Candace Cameron Bure not only stars in Saturday’s A Christmas Detour, but she also serves as the five-night event’s emcee. “I kind of pop in, in between the breaks, to check in on the viewers, and I’m setting up each movie,” she says. “I’m hoping that I’m hosting them through their evening, in the comfort of their own home, and making them feel welcome.

“Christmas is one of my favorite times of the whole year, because it represents the things that are the most important to me,” Bure continues. “It’s all about my faith; it’s all about my family. The holidays bring people together, they bring strangers together, and it’s about giving gifts that aren’t just material, but gifts of love and compassion. And when we watch movies like this, it makes us feel good and makes us want to do good things.”

Bure isn’t shy about sharing her joy over Hallmark’s holiday offerings. “They’re warm, they’re heartfelt, they’re romantic, and they just get you in the spirit. I think Hallmark really finds every little facet of what the holidays mean to people and they capture the magic of the spirit like no one else.” Let’s give thanks and take a look at Hallmark’s five gobbling-good films premiering this week.

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Wednesday — Once Upon a Holiday
Starring: Briana Evigan, Paul Campbell, Greg Evigan
Briana Evigan appears alongside her father, starring as a princess who runs away from her royal duties to see how the other half lives. When she falls for a good Samaritan, played by actor Bruce Campbell’s son Paul, she keeps her regal identity a secret.

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Thursday — 12 Gifts of Christmas
Starring: Katrina Law, Aaron O’Connell, Donna Mills
Anna, an unemployed fine arts painter, is hired to become a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an uptight corporate exec. As they work together, Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with the importance of the gift, and Anna discovers an unexpected way to find success as an artist.

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Friday — Crown for Christmas
Starring: Danica McKellar, Rupert Penry-Jones
Danica McKellar (The Wonder Years) stars as Allie, a woman who reluctantly agrees to act as a temporary governess to a young girl. She learns that her charge is a princess who, in the wake of her mother’s death, terrorizes authority figures. As Allie bonds with the child, she also feels a spark ignite with the handsome king.

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Saturday — A Christmas Detour
Starring: Candace Cameron Bure, Paul Greene, Sarah Strange, David Lewis
Magazine relationship-advice columnist Paige’s travel plans hit a snag when a snowstorm forces her New York City-bound flight to reroute to Buffalo. In a rush to reach her final destination, she, her handsome but annoying seatmate, and a couple dealing with marital issues share a car for the drive into the city. Hilarity ensues a la Planes, Trains and Automobiles, says Bure, and she reveals that the foursome “discover a lot about themselves and each other.” Bure shares a secret: “My daughter sings the theme song that runs throughout the movie,” says the proud mom of three children — including the film’s 17-year-old songbird, Natasha.

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Sunday — Angel of Christmas
Starring: Jennifer Finnigan, Jonathan Scarfe, Holly Robinson Peete
Based on Jane Maas’ popular novel “The Christmas Angel,” this film follows Susan Nicholas, a newspaper writer whose boss has given her three weeks to write a holiday story about her great-grandfather and the angel he carved as a young man. As her Christmas Eve deadline ticks closer, Susan unravels the details of a long-ago love triangle and finds herself courted by two very different men.

3 Comments

  1. Why are you not showing The Christmas Card on Hallmark Channel. Also there are several others that were better than some of the ones you have on there this Christmas. Christmas in My Home Town is one of the better ones also but haven’t seen it in awhile.

    Please respond.

    • I can’t believe with all the world is dealing with, you people in Hollywood, can’t find something endearing to make Holiday Movies
      from. So what if it’s been said before???? there good family shows,
      and us older people like them far over The Kar——-!!! Talk to Betty White. She’ll help you.

  2. when will A Christmas Detour be on again in my area livermore, ca, hallmark channel, 66, 792 or 793? i cant find it. thanks

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