Happy Christmas Movie Weekend, Friends!✨🎄
This is our first BIG weekend with FOUR Christmas movie premieres - one on Great American Family and three on the Hallmark Channel!
With movies starring fan favorites Laura Osnes, Ryan McPartlin, Amanda Schull, Victor Webster, Barbara Niven, Robert Buckley, Lyndsy Fonseca, Pascale Hutton, and Brendan Penny, you'll want to watch or record them all!
See all the details below as we welcome Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Mystery... joining Great American Family and Great American Faith & Living, with Christmas movies airing around the clock, 24/7!!!
Here we go...
Friday, October 16, 2026:
Storyline: Hyper-organized single mom and party planner Lexi (Schull), her free-spirited mother June (Niven) and teen daughter Piper (Verity Marks) are set to spend Christmas at a local ski resort after Lexi is hired to organize their annual holiday party. Upon arrival, she immediately butts heads with Ridge (Webster), the ski instructor and son of the lodge’s owner, Dan (John B. Lowe). Despite not getting along from the get-go, Lexi and Ridge notice a spark between June and Dan and decide to set them up. Lexi and Ridge create a multitude of festive excursions — and excuses – to bring them together but, thanks to creative machinations by June and Dan, these outings keep turning into foursomes. In the days leading up to the Christmas party, Lexi and Ridge’s attempt to pair up their parents brings them closer together, and their merry matchmaking ends in surprising results.
Premieres Friday, October 16, 2026
at 8pm/7c on the Hallmark Channel
Saturday, October 17, 2026:
Storyline: When Ginny fights to save her late mother’s beloved Christmas shop, a determined buyer and the return of her first love force her to choose between holding onto the past and opening her heart to a new future.
Premieres Saturday, October 17, 2026
at 8pm/7c on Great American Family
Saturday, October 17, 2026:
Storyline: When ambitious freelance reporter Avery Clark (Fonseca) returns to Chicago to spend Christmas with her mom (Woods) and new stepdad (Payton), she’s hoping for a little holiday downtime before her next assignment. Instead, she lands a feel-good story profiling Darlene Donnelly (Mason), a beloved Chicago Bears superfan about to celebrate an incredible milestone – attending her 500th game. There’s just one catch: Avery knows next to nothing about football or Chicago. Enter Darlene’s handsome grandson Matt (Buckley), a Chicago firefighter and die-hard Bears fan who, with a little gentle nudging from Darlene, agrees to show Avery what being part of Bears Nation is all about. As Avery follows Darlene’s remarkable story through cherished game-day traditions, festive Chicago adventures and memories of a love story that began at a stadium, she starts to understand that football is about much more than what happens on the field. And as sparks fly between Avery and Matt, this Christmas may just convince a woman who’s always on the move that sometimes the greatest adventure is finding a place, and someone, that feels like home.
Premieres Saturday, October 17, 2026
at 8pm/7c on the Hallmark Channel
Sunday, October 18, 2026:
Storyline: Taylor Lewis (Penny) is a single dad and holiday display expert who relocates to the charming town of Pineway with his two children just weeks before Christmas. Despite the challenges of a new home, new school and a daughter who seems to be outgrowing their cherished holiday traditions he’s determined to make the season magical. As Taylor takes charge of the town’s beloved Christmas Market revival, he finds himself unexpectedly partnered with Sophie Shaw (Hutton), a practical accountant hoping to prove she’s ready for a new leadership role. Together, the unlikely duo brings fresh ideas, festive spirit and plenty of Christmas cheer to the community. But when Taylor’s well-intentioned efforts to help his teenage daughter backfire, he begins to realize that yuletide can’t be forced, it has to be discovered. As Taylor and Sophie grow closer, they learn that embracing change may be the key to creating new traditions and new memories.
Premieres Sunday, October 18, 2026
at 8pm/7c on the Hallmark Channel
Sunday, October 18, 2026:
Christmas Kisses Movie Marathon
Hallmark Media also released this fun news...
"Hallmark Mystery gets in on the holiday romance with a Christmas Kisses Movie Marathon on Sunday, October 18th from 10:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Viewers can cozy up for a day filled with memorable mistletoe moments and swoon-worthy holiday romance with One December Night, The Christmas Contest, Return to Christmas Creek, and A Christmas Together with You."
While this channel won't have new premieres, it will have weekly Merry Marathons highlighting special Christmas classics!
Friday, October 16th - Sunday, October 18th:
Christmas Classics
I hope you all enjoy the new Christmas movie premieres this weekend, plus a sleigh full of wonderful Christmas classics!
Here are just a few (or more!) of the past Christmas favorites you can look forward to Friday through Sunday!
🎄 Great American Family – A Christmas Castle Proposal, Journey to Christmas, Bringing Christmas Home, Catering Christmas, Let It Snow, A Christmas Miracle for Daisy, 'Twas the Text Before Christmas, There's No Place Like Christmas, A Christmas Prayer, Fir Crazy (a NEWLY acquired movie for GAF! 🎉), Timeless Tidings of Joy, and MORE!
✨ Great American Faith & Living – Christmas in Midnight Clear, Mrs. Miracle, Call Me Mrs. Miracle, A Christmas for the Ages, Designing Christmas With You, Tails of Christmas, and MORE!
❤️ Hallmark Channel – Christmas Under Wraps, Five Star Christmas, The Christmas Secret, A Very Merry Mix-Up, Miracle in Bethlehem, PA, Following Yonder Star, Christmas Town, the Holiday Touchdown movies, Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas, A Little Christmas Charm, and MORE!
🔔 Hallmark Mystery – Project Christmas Wish, Christmas Bells Are Ringing, A Season for Miracles, Miss Christmas, Romance at Reindeer Lodge, Return to Christmas Creek, and MORE!
Happy Christmas movie watching, everyone! I'm so looking forward to getting out my cozy Santa blanket and enjoying LOTS of Christmas movies this weekend! ❤️🎄
I hope many of you will join in on the fun! And, of course, we LOVE hearing from you! If you watch any of the NEW Christmas premieres, please come back and share your thoughts or a little movie review with us. We'd love to hear what you think!
Now, let the Christmas movie marathon begin! 🎬🎄✨
Have a Blessed, Merry Weekend!
Net🎄
SHINING HIS LIGHT:
Sing to the LORD,
for he has done wonderful things.
Make known his praise around the world.
~Isaiah 12:5
I will be watching Silver Bells at Christmas!
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So excited to see all the new Christmas movies and past favorites this weekend! Thanks for including the classic movies too, Net. I love seeing movies like A Season for Miracles and Miss Christmas on the list!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for sharing that GAF has acquired Fir Crazy! Would love to see a new movie with Sarah Lancaster on Great American Family but this is a good start.
How neat that Pascale gets to do a movie with Alex (Greta). Can’t wait to see this one!
ReplyDeleteOops! I meant to say Gwen up there.
ReplyDeleteSo excited for this weekend! We will be super busy with sports games but I have my DVR set to record 🎄❤️
ReplyDeleteI love Sarah Lancaster so I’ll be catching Fir Crazy as well!
~Paula
Will be watching Silver Bells at Christmas can wait to hear Laura Owen’s sing. Looking forward to watching Fir Crazy this Sunday and next Sunday The Last Vermont Christmas and I am wondering what other older Hallmark movies that GAF got.
ReplyDeleteI’m gonna watch Silver Bells at Christmas on GAFAM for GAC
ReplyDeleteSilver Bells at Christmas is a new favorite! Laura's singing is something special.
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Tis the Season for Setups is family friendly, and that's basically it. -Maria
ReplyDeleteSilver Bells at Christmas is a gorgeous movie! -Maria
ReplyDeleteSeveral of Nicely's new Christmas movies for this year are now on Xumo Play. I'll try to review some of them, no promises though. -Maria
ReplyDeleteA Proper Christmas is family friendly, and very sweet! -Maria
DeleteNicely's A Christmas Ornament to Remember is family friendly and quite cute (streaming on Xumo). -Maria
DeleteSilver Bells at Christmas is really beautiful! Laura Osnes was amazing, along with the rest of the cast! Christie
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This movie was a cute one! First off, all of the Christmas decorations around the cabin and those aerial shots of the ski resort, beautiful! It was nice to see Barbara Niven as I only really see her in the Hannah Swenson movies and I kept thinking “hmmm she’s acting like Delores” 😂 especially when they went to the escape room. I also feel that Victor and Amanda were a good pairing, as well as their parents.
~Paula
Happy Christmas Movie Weekend!
ReplyDeleteI watched The Holiday Touchdown Bears movie online. The movie was really well done, but the product placement was so badly done. The only part that wasn't good was toward the end with Darlene almost not going to the 500th game part. Otherwise, it was a fun movie and great chemistry.
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I loved A Silver Bells Christmas. The music was so wonderful. I really enjoy movies that bring music into it. Great chemistry and loved how it ended. Great chemistry between the semi love triangle.
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‘Tis The Season For Setups was an okay movie. It was family friendly so that’s nice. Most of the movie felt more like an old Hallmark Winter movie rather than a Christmas movie. I’m a huge fan of both Amanda Schull and Victor Webster and I feel like they were pretty good together. This wasn’t my favorite movie but close to the ending there was a very sweet, touching scene between the main character and her mother and I feel like that made up for some of the slower, less Christmas-y parts of the movie!
ReplyDeleteI just watched the Holiday Touchdown Bears movie and it was good. Lyndsy Fonseca makes every movie she is in good though so it’s not a surprise! I am very much NOT a fan of the Chiefs so i didn't watch the movie with them in 2024 and last years Holiday Touchdown movie with the Bills was meh but this years was much better. It was thankfully family friendly!
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