The Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas is an annual custom that solely appears to get greater and extra strong with each passing yr. The holiday-themed slate of reveals and flicks usually begins in October — earlier than Halloween is even over, the audacity! — and runs for greater than two months, providing holiday-themed romantic comedies, frosty winter adventures, festive competitors reveals and homicide mysteries. (Murders simply go down simpler once they’re Christmas-themed.) The Countdown to Christmas is already underway, however there are nonetheless dozens of nice reveals and flicks to observe between now and Dec. 25. While the Hallmark Channel comes commonplace with many cable plans, for those who’ve minimize the wire and are searching for a technique to watch Countdown to Christmas, there are many choices. You can discover Hallmark Channel favorites on Philo, Frndly, YouTube TV or Fubo, or get the standalone Hallmark Plus plan that features a huge library of this yr’s releases and older hits. Trying to avoid wasting cash? You can watch all of this yr’s new releases free with a Hallmark Plus BingePass on Hoopla when you have a library card.Here’s a take a look at every little thing nonetheless to return on the 2025 Countdown to Christmas and the perfect methods to observe. Hallmark Media Mistletoe Murders, season 2 (Nov. 7) The first season of Mistletoe Murders was launched on the Hallmark Channel in October, and season 2 arrives just some weeks later, exhibiting you simply how addictive this thriller sequence is. The present stars Sarah Drew as Emily, the proprietor of a Christmas-themed present store within the small city of Fletcher’s Grove (that is an Easter egg for you Murder, She Wrote followers). Emily’s a superb sleuth, an excellent factor as there is a disproportionate variety of murders on this city that want fixing. Two new episodes of the present will drop weekly on Nov. 7, 14 and 21. Hallmark Media Christmas Above the Clouds (Nov. 8) Christmas Above the Clouds is a riff on A Christmas Carol and, in case you are somebody who thinks Hallmark films are bland or boring, let’s examine how you’re feeling after I let you know that the principle character of this movie is known as Ella Neezer. ELLA NEEZER! Erin Krakow, who additionally stars in When Calls the Heart, performs the Scrooge-inspired character, a workaholic with no actual sense of the Christmas spirit who makes an attempt to skip the vacation by leaving city. Then she boards her flight to Australia and finally ends up being visited by three spirits, in addition to by her ex-boyfriend (Tyler Hynes). Hallmark Media A Keller Christmas Vacation (Nov. 9) Jonathan Bennett has turn into a well-recognized face on Hallmark, and in A Keller Christmas Vacation, he stars with Brandon Routh and Eden Sher as siblings who’ve drifted aside however reunite when their mother and father take them (drive them?) on a vacation cruise down the Danube. A enjoyable household comedy, the movie premieres on Nov. 9. (The film is definitely a reasonably good commercial for river cruises. Send assist, I’m turning into my mother and father.) Hallmark Media Finding Mr. Christmas, season 2 (Nov. 10) Finding Mr. Christmas is Hallmark’s first actuality competitors sequence. Hosted by Jonathan Bennett, the present options 10 aspiring actors competing in a wide range of entertaining challenges “with a Hallmark twist.” The winner will probably be topped Hallmark’s subsequent main man and take house the title of “Mr. Christmas.” The present premiered on Oct. 27 and new episodes will air weekly on Mondays via Dec. 15 when the winner is revealed. A reunion episode will air on Saturday, Dec. 20. Hallmark Media Baked With Love: Holiday (Nov. 10) Tamera Mowry-Housley hosts Hallmark’s baking competitors Baked With Love: Holiday, the place she and judges Anna Haugh and Vaughn Vreeland got down to decide the perfect house bakers who compete in a sequence of holiday-themed challenges utilizing their very own household recipes. The present premiered on Oct. 27 and airs weekly on Mondays via Dec. 15. Hallmark Media Three Wisest Men (Nov. 15) A trio of Hallmark Channel’s fashionable main males play the titular Three Wisest Men on this upcoming vacation comedy. Three Wisest Men is the third movie in an annual vacation sequence (see additionally: Three Wise Men and a Baby and Three Wiser Men and a Boy) concerning the Brenner brothers. They’re three grown, simply barely-adult males who stay close to their mother (Margaret Colin) and are navigating life modifications, new relationships, and the truth that their mother is placing their childhood house up on the market, and that is the final Christmas they’re going to be spending there. Hallmark Media Tidings for the Season (Nov. 16) Tamera Mowry-Housley stars as Lucy, a single mother caring for her son Robbie (Elijah-Justus Lewis) in Tidings for the Season, out on Nov. 16. Robbie’s an enormous fan of an area newscaster named Adam (B.J. Britt) and is happy when he will get to satisfy his hero and, this simply in, it seems Lucy and Adam may simply be the right co-anchor to 1 one other. Hallmark Media Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story (Nov. 22) Hallmark and the NFL is an unlikely pairing … or is it? Last yr, top-of-the-line vacation movies on the channel was Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story (it featured cameos from Donna Kelce and a kitten named Catrick Mahomes, what extra do it is advisable to know?). This yr, the soccer romance custom continues, and this time we’re headed to Western New York the place two lifelong Buffalo Bills followers discover love … with a bit of assist from the Bills Mafia. Cameos on this movie embody Coach Sean McDermott and Bills gamers Damar Hamlin, Ray Davis, Dawson Knox and extra. Hallmark Media Melt My Heart This Christmas (Nov. 23) A glassblower named Holly James (Laura Vandervoort) secretly shows her work at a vacation honest below a pseudonym and when her work takes off and her id is revealed, the individuals she’s closest to, together with the honest’s director, Jack (Stephen Huszar), really feel betrayed. Has she … blown her probabilities at love with Jack? Will she have the ability to soften his coronary heart by the top? Can she renew his religion in her? My glass terminology is proscribed however I’m guessing they make it work. The movie premieres on Sunday, Nov. 23. Hallmark Media We Met in December (Nov. 27) If you are searching for a comfortable technique to cap off your Thanksgiving, the charming romance We Met in December premieres on Thursday, Nov. 27. In the movie, Autumn Reeser and Niall Matter star as Annie Lane and Dave Weeks, two vacationers who spend a magical, romantic night collectively on an surprising layover. When they ultimately get on their flights house, they neglect to alternate numbers and so every of them ventures out on a quest to seek out the opposite based mostly on the restricted data they’ve. All you needed to do was NameDrop, guys! Hallmark Media The Snow Must Go On (Nov. 28) In The Snow Must Go On, a former Broadway star agrees to direct his niece’s highschool Christmas musical within the hopes of impressing an influential Broadway producer. The movie, which stars Heather Hemmens and Corey Cott, premieres as a part of a Black Friday double function on the Hallmark Channel, together with The More the Merrier. If you are into musical theater backdrops, try final yr’s A Carol for Two, one other Broadway-themed vacation romance. Hallmark Media The More the Merrier (Nov. 28) Three ladies go into labor — on Christmas Eve, throughout a blizzard! — and one among them is the one OB/GYN for miles round. That leaves the one two docs on name on the hospital (Rachel Boston and Brendan Penny) to deliver these infants into the world whereas they’re snowed in. The More the Merrier will get delivered on Nov. 28. Hallmark Media An Alpine Holiday (Nov. 29) Sisters Faith and Kelly resolve to honor their grandmother’s dying want by touring to the French Alps for Christmas to re-create her first journey there with their grandfather. While the 2 ladies rekindle their sisterly bond, Kelly and their French mountaineer information, Frederic, additionally spark a romance. Ashley Williams and Laci J. Mailey co-star. Hallmark Media A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (Nov. 29) A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (out Nov. 29) is the right film for a rustic music fan. The film is about on the famed Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and options cameos from a great deal of nation stars together with Bill Anderson, Brad Paisley, Dailey & Vincent, Drew Baldridge, Jamey Johnson, Maggie Baugh, Mickey Guyton, Pam Tillis, Rhett Akins, Riders within the Sky, Suzy Bogguss and Tigirlily Gold. Actors Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha star on this, twangy, time-hopping romance. Hallmark Media The Christmas Cup (Nov. 30) Romance blooms between a marine (Rhiannon Fish) and an area fireplace chief (Ben Rosenbaum) once they be a part of forces to steer the annual Christmas Cup competitors between their city and the rival city close by. The movie arrives on Hallmark on Nov. 29. Hallmark Media Christmas on the Catnip Cafe (Nov. 29) A Hallmark film set in a cat café? Is somebody studying my imaginative and prescient board?? In this new festive feline-focused movie, Erin Cahill stars as Olivia, a girl who has partially inherited a cat café. Problem is, she would not actually desire a cat café. As Olivia spends her holidays there making an attempt to persuade the veterinarian, Ben (Paul Campbell), to promote it, she finally ends up falling for him. Hallmark Media Twelve Dates Till Christmas (Dec. 5) Mae Whitman stars as Kate, a textile designer in England whose finest associates signal her up for a holiday-themed relationship service with out her understanding. She reluctantly joins, however has no concept simply how a lot her life is about to alter because of this. This six-episode sequence premieres on Dec. 5 and airs two episodes weekly, with new episodes dropping on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19. Jane Seymour, Mary McDonnell and Nathaniel Parker co-star. Hallmark Media A Suite Holiday Romance (Dec. 13) A Suite Holiday Romance includes a case of mistaken id — or a minimum of, a case of not being fairly sincere about one’s id — as two strangers (Jessy Schram and Dominic Sherwood) meet at a New York resort at Christmastime and fall for one another below false pretenses. Can their love be actual if it was initially based mostly on lies? Hallmark Media Oy to the World! (Dec. 14) In the pantheon of splendidly foolish, punny titles of Hallmark films, Oy to the World! could be my second favourite of all time. (First place at all times and ceaselessly will probably be Roux The Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery.) Oy to the World! is, because the title subtly implies, an interfaith romance between an Episcopal choir director and a Jewish choir director, who additionally occur to be longtime rivals, pressured to work collectively for a fundraiser to assist with development of the native temple. They join via the ability of tune and … I feel I may need simply described the right film. Hallmark Media A Make or Break Christmas (Dec. 20) Hunter King and Evan Roderick star in A Make or Break Holiday as a pair internet hosting their first massive household Christmas. It proves to be extra demanding and overwhelming than they realized and it pushes them to the brink. Just as they’re on the verge of a breakup, their households arrive to have fun, forcing them to faux their manner via a jolly vacation. Hallmark Media The Christmas Baby (Dec. 21) The Christmas Baby is the second movie on the Hallmark vacation calendar that riffs on Three Men and a Baby. That 1980s film, a couple of child dropped on the doorstep of three unsuspecting bachelors, loosely impressed the Hallmark movie Three Wise Men and a Baby (which advanced into the 2025 sequel Three Wisest Men), and now it additionally appears to have impressed The Christmas Baby. The movie stars Ali Liebert and Katherine Barrell as two ladies who unexpectedly have a child dropped at their door and have to determine the best way to take care of him whereas juggling their already sophisticated lives. Hallmark Media Ready, Set Glow! (Dec. 22) Hallmark main man Wes Brown hosts this vacation lights showcase spectacular that takes viewers to among the most spectacular, festive shows round. Wes will introduce the particular individuals behind them and share their heartfelt — and infrequently emotional tales — behind their shows and the way they contribute to the neighborhood. All episodes of the present have beforehand premiered on Hallmark Plus, and it makes its sequence debut on the Hallmark Channel Dec. 22.
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