The IT'S A WONDERFUL MOVIE WINNER for FAVORITE TV MOVIE is...

This is the *Seventh Year* for the annual "It's a Wonderful Movie" - Family TV Movie Awards! Thank you to everyone... who participated by Voting in this First Poll for your Favorite TV Movie!

All Nominees and Winners (listed below!) are from Movies that aired or premiered on TV only in 2016. The WINNERS (there was a tie for first place!) are highlighted in yellow below!

POLL #1:

Favorite "Family TV Movie" for 2016:
(Nominees are in alphabetical order)

1. Anything for Love
2. L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
3. Love Finds You in Valentine
4. Love on the Sidelines
5. Pumpkin Pie Wars
6. Stop the Wedding
7. Summer Villa
8. Tulips in Spring
9. Unleashing Mr. Darcy
10. Valentine Ever After
11. Wedding Bells
12. The Wedding March

And the WINNERS
for "Favorite TV Movie" from 2016, are...

(in alphabetical order)

"Love on the Sidelines"

Hallmark Channel

and...

"Valentine Ever After"

Hallmark Channel

Congratulations to the Creators and Cast of Love on the Sidelines and Valentine Ever After,

and the Hallmark Channel for bringing these movies to all of our homes!

 

The Hallmark Channel Movies "Tulips in Spring" and

"Summer Villa" came in 2nd and 3rd!

Top Three Results...

#1: (Tie) Love on the Sidelines and Valentine Ever After
#2: Tulips in Spring
#3: Summer Villa

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Available on DVD:

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Two movies that seem distinctly different on the outside won your hearts over to win Favorite Movie for 2016! While Love on the Sidelines appears to be a movie just about the game of football, it's not. There is so much more to it! It's the discovery of finding oneself and your purpose. It's finding love when you least expect it. And, it's about family, heritage, marriage, and how our job defines us, our how we decide to define ourselves!

*Starring in Love on the Sidelines are John Reardon, Emily Kinney, and Joe Theismann. See my page on Love on the Sidelines for more movie details!


Valentine Ever After, in the same way, is more than a simple Hallmark "Countdown to Valentine's Day" romance movie. There's comedy when two women find themselves stranded in the country, which is truly peaceful, beautiful countryside. There's drama when one of the women is missing and the Cowboy she is finding herself attracted to comes to her rescue... so Yes!, there is also a sweet romance, but only after deep soul searching!

*Starring in Valentine Ever After are Autumn Reeser, Eric Johnson, Vanessa Matsui, Jefferson Brown, and Damon Runyan. See my page on Valentine Ever After for more movie details!


Thank you, again, to Everyone who participated by voting in this First Poll for your Favorite TV Movie!

If you haven't seen both of these movies, or if you are interested, they are both available on DVD at Amazon: Love on the Sidelines and Valentine Ever After.

Be sure to come back to "It's a Wonderful Movie" tomorrow (March 22) for the list of Mystery Movie Nominees!

New Valentine's Day Movie Premieres on Hallmark, ION, and UP + A Charlie Brown Valentine, Frozen, & Anne Shirley returns in Canada!!!

Friday February 12, 2016 ~

Grab your family or "Sweet Baboo" and watch a full hour of Charlie Brown with...

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

and

A Charlie Brown Valentine

 

 

The Animated Cartoons:
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Valentine

 will air Friday, February 12, 2016 at 8pm (est) for 1 hour on ABC.

Check your local ABC affiliate for air times.

 

 

On Friday night, ION will premiere their newest Valentine movie...

 

Heart Felt

 

 

via ION: “Heart Felt” tells the story of real estate rising star Molly, who breaks up with Jackson, a smitten but seeming underachiever, on Valentine’s Day because he may... Click Here to Read More...

 

Please Note: Heart Felt is rated TV-PG +DL, contains Adult Dialogue and Language.

Heart Felt

premieres on ION

Friday February 12, 2016 at 7pm/6c.

 

 

 

Saturday February 13, 2016 ~

Find love in the country in...

Valentine Ever After

 

via Hallmark: Big city girls Julia and Sydney take a trip to a dude ranch in Wyoming for a fun weekend getaway. But when a brawl ensues in the local bar one night, the girls are sentenced to... Click Here to Read More...

Valentine Ever After

Premieres on the Hallmark Channel

Saturday February 13, 2016 at 9pm/8c.

Sunday February 14, 2016 ~

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

"Let it Go"... and watch the Disney Channel Premiere of the animated movie you and your family have fallen in love with...

FROZEN

via DVD: Fearless optimist Anna sets off on an epic journey - teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven - to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of... Click Here to Read More...

FROZEN 

Premieres on the Disney Channel

Sunday February 14, 2016 at 7pm/6c.

 

 (Click Here for details on the Frozen Holiday Special)

 

 

Let "Love find You" on UP Sunday night with 2 airings of...

 

Love Finds You in Valentine

 

 

In "Love Finds You In Valentine", after her parents die, law student Kennedy Blaine inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine, Nebraska. She travels to Valentine with the intent of selling the ranch, but is drawn to... Click Here to Read More...

 

Love Finds You in Valentine

Premieres on UP

Sunday February 14, 2016 at 7pm/6c.

Repeats at 9pm/8c.

 

 

 

The Hallmark Channel will end the Countdown to Valentine's Day with...

 

Anything for Love

 

 

via Hallmark: Katherine, a high-powered executive who believes men are intimidated by her career, is persuaded by her friend to create an internet dating profile claiming she is an executive assistant. Meanwhile, Jack (Greene), a male nurse, creates his own internet dating profile without realizing his best friend has secretly changed... Click Here to Read More...

 

Anything for Love

Premieres on the Hallmark Channel

Sunday February 14, 2016 at 9pm/8c.

Click Here to See My Review of Anything for Love!

Monday, February 15, 2016 ~

One more movie for my Canadian followers...

An all new Anne of Green Gables movie

will be airing on the YTV network in Canada on Monday, February 15, 2016 starring the young actress Ella Ballentine as the precocious red haired orphan, Anne Shirley.

Ella Ballentine in new "Anne of Green Gables" movie

Many Hallmark Channel movie fans will remember young Ella Ballentine from the Hallmark Christmas movie "Baby's First Christmas". I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Ella back in 2012, when "Baby's First Christmas" premiered. You can see my interview with Ella, here!

This new Anne of Green Gables movie will air on TV - Monday, February 15, 2016 at 6 p.m. ET in a two-hour world premiere event on YTV, in Canada.

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!

 

I hope You All have a Lovely Weekend!

 

New on DVD: "Love Finds You in Charm"

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, it's the perfect time to settle in with a good movie, a sweet love story...

"Love Finds You in Charm"

 

...Starring Danielle Chuchran (Christmas for a Dollar), Trevor Donovan (Strawberry Summer), and Drew Fuller (Perfect on Paper).

Love Finds You in Charm on DVD 

Based on the book Love Finds You in Charm, Ohio by Annalisa Daughety, this is a beautiful coming-of-age story set in Amish country.

"Love Finds You in Charm" storyline: "Beautiful Emma Miller (Danielle Chuchran) would appear to be the luckiest girl in Indiana. She teaches school, has a loving family, loves Jane Austen novels, and the town’s most eligible young man wants to marry her. But this Amish young woman has more on her mind than buggies and bonnets – she longs for adventure and wants to see the world. When given the opportunity to spend the summer with relatives in scenic Charm, OH, Emma jumps at the chance. There she meets an Englischer who has come to town to escape her chaotic life, and despite their differences, the two become fast friends. After meeting a fascinating young man in Charm, Emma finds herself pulled between two worlds. Now, she must follow her heart and decide whether to stay amongst the Amish – or leave behind everyone and everything she’s ever known."

"Love Finds You in Charm" first premiered on the UP Network in June, of 2015. It is the second film in the series. Proceeding it, was "Love Finds You in Sugarcreek" starring Sarah Lancaster and Tom Everett Scott. This movie is also available on DVD!

This Valentine's Day a third film in the series will premiere on UP, titled: "Love Finds You in Valentine". Click here for more details!

 

So, be sure to check out the DVDs for
"Love Finds You in Sugarcreek"

and "Love Finds You in Charm"
before the next movie in the series premieres!

Or, you can take a look at 
Annalisa Daughety's
Love Finds You book series at Amazon!

"Love Finds You" - Movies Continue on UP...

On June 1, 2014, the Original Movie "Love Finds You in Sugarcreek" set in Amish Country, premiered on UP-TV, starring Rachel Lancaster and Tom Everett Scott.

In "Love Finds You in Sugarcreek", Rachel Troyer (Sarah Lancaster) is a smart, focused, single policewoman in the quaint town of Sugarcreek, nicknamed “The Little Switzerland of Ohio” and located about an hour south of Akron, in the heart of Amish country. She frequently looks in on her three kindly Amish aunts Bertha (Kelly McGillis), Anna (Marianna Alacchi) and Lydia (Annie Kitral), who raised Rachel from girlhood after she was orphaned and are the proprietors of a picturesque, although faded, farmhouse inn.

When a mysterious stranger, Joe (Tom Everett Scott), shows up on the inn’s doorstep with his five-year-old son, Bobby (Thomas Kapanowski), the aunts insist on taking the pair in as a matter of faith and good will. Rachel’s police instincts immediately tell her that this seemingly broke outsider is much too refined to be the drifter he presents himself to be.


The Second film...

This year, on June 7, 2015, the Original Movie "Love Finds You in Charm", also set in Amish Country, starring Trevor Donovan and Danielle Chuchran, premiered on UP-TV.

In "Love Finds You in Charm", the second film in UP’s “Love Finds You” original movie series, beautiful Emma Miller would appear to be the luckiest girl in Indiana. She teaches school, has a loving family, and the town’s most eligible young man wants to marry her. But this Amish young woman has more on her mind than buggies and bonnets – she longs for adventure and wants to see the world.



The next movie.... the Third film in UP’s ‘Love Finds You’ franchise - "Love Finds You in Valentine", will be coming in 2016.

I'm just guessing from the title that it might premiere around Valentine's Day, however that hasn't been officially confirmed.
Click here for more movie details!

It will be nice to see this series continue on UP...

UP Movie: "Love Finds You in Valentine"

MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: Love Finds You in Valentine

Network: UP

Original Air Date: February 14, 2016

image via: ohio.com

 

CAST:

Michaela Mcmanus ... Kennedy Blaine
Diogo Morgado ... Derek Sterling
Ed Asner ... Gabriel Morgan
Lindsay Wagner ... June


PLOT:

In Love Finds You In Valentine, after her parents die, law student Kennedy Blaine (Michaela Mcmanus) inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine, Nebraska. She travels to Valentine with the intent of selling the ranch, but is drawn to the area’s beauty – and to ranch foreman, Derek Sterling (Diogo Morgado). Putting her life in L.A. on hold, she decides to spend some time at her ancestral home and, despite a long-standing feud, to reconnect with family members, including a grandfather, Gabriel Morgan (Ed Asner), who she has never met. But soon Kennedy is subjected to harassment by someone who clearly wants her to leave Valentine. Depending on Derek and his mother June’s (Lindsay Wagner) assistance, she sets out to discover who is behind the offenses. But when her search reveals painful details about her family and raises questions about Derek’s own past, will Kennedy still want to know the truth?


Movie Review:
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