Hallmark Christmas Movies Announced: Are You Ready? Plus Theater Actors join MFTV Christmas Magic

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Perhaps you’d like to print out a pdf of the calendar to put on your refrigerator for daily access? Right next to your children’s all-different hybrid learning schedule?

Perhaps you’d like to print out a pdf of the calendar to put on your refrigerator for daily access? Right next to your children’s all-different hybrid learning schedule?

Okay. It’s still September. SEPTEMBER. But I have been seeing social media posts and hearing friends talk about putting up Christmas trees and lights extra early this year. Not like, November 25 early. I’m talking September 25 early! And really, in this very tense, anxiety-filled, unprecedented, relentless season of our lives, who can blame anyone for wanting to elongate a traditional feel-good season?

The Christmas season is cozy, cold but warm; it brings us hot chocolate, eggnog and peppermint, calming lights, early dark evenings, soothing music, colors everywhere amidst a landscape of mainly brown. It is comforting and familiar, and those are two things that we all crave—especially now when both feel a bit out of reach. And so…you know what also brings comfort and familiarity around that time of year, right? Hallmark Made-For-TV (MFTV) Christmas Movies! Keeping pace with the Christmas trees going up in NYC apartments, the tv channel announced their Holiday Season already! You can check out Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas line-up here. And don’t worry, Netflix and Amazon will have their own Cheesy Christmas Movies coming too (“A Royal Toddler Goes to Virtual Preschool” perhaps?), but I have to give props to the originator, Hallmark.

‘Nuff said.

‘Nuff said.

This year, as we pull our blankets up to your necks and settle down to watch those movies, a bit notorious for cheesy scripts and not the most amazing acting in the world (but honestly, some have gotten pretty legit good!), you’ll see some different faces gracing those rokus and laptops: theater actors! Wow!

And if you want to brush up on your own “writing-for-hallmark-rom-com-christmas-movie” skills (Yeah, that’s a thing!), check out my post How to Write a Cheesy Romantic Christmas Movie in 10 Easy Steps (Or, Writing for the Hallmark Channel).

So with all the uncertainties and fears and worries and anger and exhaustion and grief that seem to be a big part of 2020…I think it’s totally fine to enjoy the extra long holiday season this year!