Photo Credit: Bettina Strauss/Crown Media United States LLC
Hallmark Channel (HC) and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (HMM) continue their annual tradition of kicking off Christmas movie season on Halloween. Along with a trove of original new films during November and December, they’re also unlocking the vault on some of our holiday favorites. Here’s a look at the lineup of the new original movies premiering in November. Check back after Thanksgiving for a preview of December’s titles.
Photo Credit: Bettina Strauss/Crown Media United States, LLC
Sunday, November 1st, 8/7c — ‘Tis the Season for Love (HC)
Sarah Lancaster and Motive‘s Brendan Penny star in a romance about a struggling New York actress who goes home to the small town she left behind and finds herself opening up to a very special old acquaintance.
Photo Credit: Marcel Williams/Crown Media United States, LLC
Saturday, November 7, 8/7c — Ice Sculpture Christmas (HC)
WoEE‘s Rachel Boston, David Alpay (The Originals), and Brenda Strong (The 100) star in a love story set during a country club restaurant’s ice sculpting competition.
Photo Credit: Brooke Palmer/Crown Media United States, LLC
Sunday, November 8, 8/7c — Charming Christmas (HC)
Julie Benz returns to Hallmark after a little bit of a hiatus and stars with Proof‘s David Sutcliffe in a tale about a new employee who helps the staff of a busy department store rediscover their holiday spirit.
Photo Credit: Fred Hayes/Crown Media United States, LLC
Saturday, November 14, 8/7c — I’m Not Ready for Christmas (HC)
Alicia Witt, back in her third holiday film for Hallmark in three years, headlines opposite George Stults and Army Wives‘ Brigid Brannagh as a fast-climbing business woman with a tendency to be dishonest who’s suddenly compelled to tell the truth.
Photo Credit: Ben Mark Holzberg/Crown Media United States, LLC
Sunday, November 15, 8/7c — Christmas Incorporated (HC)
90210’s Shenae Grimes-Beech and Bitten’s Steve Lund star in a case of mistaken identity that yields happy holiday outcomes for a small town.
Photo Credit: Philippe Bosse/Crown Media United States, LLC
Saturday, November 21, 8/7c — Northpole: Open for Christmas (HC)
Bailee Madison returns for a sequel to last year’s holiday hit and this year she’s joined by Lori Loughlin and Dermot Mulroney in another tale about restoring the holiday spirit.
Photo Credit: Ben Mark Holzberg/Crown Media United States, LLC
Sunday, November 22, 8/7c — Merry Matrimony (HC)
90210‘s Jessica Lowndes and Christopher Russell star in a holiday romance about reconnecting with the one that got away.
Photo Credit: Bettina Strauss/Crown Media United States LLC
Sunday, November 22, 9/8c — Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery (HMM)
Alison Sweeney is back as Hannah, whose holiday season takes a surprising turn when she finds a body at a local Christmas tree lot and winds up involved in a dangerous murder investigation. Cameron Mathison and Barbara Niven also return.
Photo Credit: Marcel Williams/Crown Media United States, LLC
Wednesday, November 25, 8/7c — Once Upon a Holiday (HC)
Briana Evigan and her dad, Greg Evigan, star with Paul Campbell in a twist on The Prince and Me and The Royal We, about a princess who goes common for a few days and falls for a good Samaritan who is unaware of her real identity.
Thursday, November 26, 8/7c — The 12 Gifts of Christmas (HC)
Arrow‘s Katrina Law, Aaron O’Connell (The Haves and the Have Nots), and Donna Mills star in story about a struggling painter who makes an unexpected connection with the corporate exec who hires her as his personal Christmas shopper.
Photo Credit: Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer:
Friday, November 27, 8/7c — Crown for Christmas (HC)
Danica McKellar stars as Allie Foster, a struggling New York artist summoned to a faraway castle to act as a governess to a rebellious young princess only to bond with the young girl’s father, the king.
Photo Credit: Marcel Williams/Crown Media United States LLC
Saturday, November 28, 8/7c — A Christmas Detour (HC)
Hallmark staple Candace Cameron Bure, Paul Greene (Bitten), Sarah Strange (Garage Sale Mystery) and David Lewis (Love on the Air) star in a story of missed connections as a bubbly bride-to-be’s Christmas plans take an unexpected turn when her holiday flight is detoured and she encounters a cynical bar manager who has lost his faith in love.
Photo Credit: Marcel Williams/Crown Media United States, LLC
Sunday, November 29, 8/7c — Angel of Christmas (HC)
Tyrant‘s Jennifer Finnigan, Ties That Bind‘s Jonathan Scarfe, and Holly Robinson Peete star in an adaptation of Jane Maas’s Christmas Angel, which follows Susan Nicholas, a newspaper writer who has three weeks to write a holiday story about her great grandfather and the angel he carved as a young man, while she’s being courted by two very different men.
Photo Credit: Bettina Strauss/Crown Media United States, LLC
Sunday, November 29, 9/8c — The Christmas Note (HMM)
Jamie-Lynn Sigler plays a military mom on her own with her son for the holidays who returns to her hometown and falls into a mystery with her neighbor, who’s looking for her long-lost sibling. Leah Gibson (The Returned) and Greg Vaughan co-star.
Holiday programming kicks off tonight on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 9/8c with last year’s The Christmas Secret. Hallmark Channel starts its lineup tonight at midnight/11 c with The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.