A Guide to Every Holiday Movie on TV This 2022 Season: Hallmark Channel, Great American Media, Lifetime, UPtv and More

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We need a little Christmas … right this very minute! Luckily, Hallmark Channel, Great American Media, Lifetime and more networks have holiday lovers covered starting as early as October.Hallmark Channel and its sister station, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, will unveil 40 original movies as part of its annual “Countdown to Christmas” and “Miracles of Christmas” programming.

The festive movie schedule begins on Friday, October 21, and lasts through December.“It’s just a fun bit of Christmas magic mixed in with some really relatable ideas and characters that you’ll relate to and identify with right away,” Alison Sweeney exclusively told Us Weekly in October of her new Hallmark movie, A Magical Christmas Village, which premieres on Friday, November 4. “I’m really looking forward to engaging with the fans about it because I had a lot of fun doing it.”Great American Media, for its part, will kick off its second annual Great American Christmas schedule on Saturday, October 22.

The company’s 18 fresh films will air on Great American Family through mid-December.“I play Dylan. I think people are going to love Dylan mostly because he loves Christmas,” Cameron Mathison said in Us’ exclusive behind-the-scenes look of Great American Family’s A Merry Christmas Wish.The former Home and Family cohost teased that fans will enjoy his costar Jill Wagner’s role as Janie in the November 12 movie, “Because you make her so authentic and likable and sweet and sensitive and also at the same time, conflicted.”While Lifetime’s annual “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” lineup doesn’t begin until Saturday, November 5, the network has a whopping 26 movies for viewers to tune in for each week.“So excited to announce @lifetimetv It’s A Wonderful Lifetime