DON YOUR BEST UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER, HEAT UP THE COCOA,
CURL UP ON THE COUCH AND SETTLE IN FOR THE BIGGEST
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS EVER
HALLMARK CHANNEL
CELEBRATES 16 SWEET YEARS OF SPREADING JOY
AS THE UNDISPUTED #1 DESTINATION FOR HOLIDAY VIEWING
WHEN COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS KICKS OFF ON OCTOBER 17
Santa is Set to Deliver Nearly 80 Hours of All-New Programming Across 10 Weeks Including Original Movie Premieres Every Saturday and Sunday Night for the Most Joyful Holiday Yet
Ho-Ho-Holiday Series on Friday and Monday Night
Bring Viewers More Reasons to Feel Merry
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“Counting Down the Days,”
His Original Song Written Specially for the 16th Annual Countdown to Christmas,
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All Original Movie Premieres and Series Available to Stream Next Day on Hallmark+
Every year, fans of heartwarming, festive holiday fare have their remotes at the ready as they eagerly await the merriest time on TV – Hallmark Channel’s beloved Countdown to Christmas programming event, celebrating its Sweet 16 this year. Starting Friday, October 17, viewers can satisfy their craving for 24/7 holly-jolly programming. The network’s elves have wrapped up a joyful season of movies starring fan-favorite actors in yuletide tales of romance, uplifting stories of families and communities coming together as well as feel-good, aspirational series to keep the Christmas party going all holiday long.
“It’s an honor that millions of viewers welcome Hallmark into their homes each year and make us part of their annual holiday traditions,” began Darren Abbott, Chief Brand Officer, Hallmark. “Audiences turn to Hallmark Channel and Hallmark+ for programming that they can watch with their families that they know will fill them with hope and joy. This year promises an unforgettable slate of movies and series featuring fan-favorite actors that will deliver everything fans love about Christmas on Hallmark Channel.”
Viewers’ insatiable appetite for holiday movies once again propelled Hallmark Channel to be the #1 entertainment cable channel among W18+ in Q4, marking 11 consecutive years the network has earned those rankings.**
GROUND-BREAKING BRAND PARTNERSHIPS
Hallmark is teaming up with other iconic, legacy brands that align with the company’s mission and values. The NFL and Grand Ole Opry boast like-minded fanbases with community and family at their core. This holiday season, Hallmark will immerse their fans like never before with unique viewing experiences, exclusive product lines and special activations.
As the Buffalo Bills are playing their farewell NFL season at iconic Highmark Stadium, Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story helps to celebrate this occasion. Set against the backdrop of the unique, tight-knit community of fans known as Bills Mafia, viewers will be treated to a heartwarming story highlighting the importance of family and, of course, featuring two touching love stories that span generations. Appearing in the movie are Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott, Running Back Ray Davis, Safety Damar Hamlin, Offensive Tackle Dion Dawkins, Tight End Dawson Knox, Long Snapper Reid Ferguson, Defensive Tackle DeWayne Carter and Wide Receiver Joshua Palmer. Buffalo Bills legend Jim Kelly, former teammates Steve Tasker, Thurman Thomas, Scott Norwood and Andre Reed, along with Bills play-by-play announcer Chris Brown also appear. And paying homage to the late, great broadcast journalist and die-hard Bills fan Tim Russert, his son Luke Russert rounds out the team.
This year marks the centennial of the Grand Ole Opry, the show that made country music famous. Hallmark is thrilled to be part of this milestone with A Grand Ole Opry Christmas, a magical trip across time filled with music, hope and healing. GRAMMY® Award winner and Opry Member Brad Paisley wrote and performs original music in the movie. He’s joined by other Opry members and country music artists Bill Anderson, Dailey & Vincent, Drew Baldridge, Jamey Johnson, Maggie Baugh, Megan Moroney, Mickey Guyton, Pam Tillis, Rhett Akins, Riders in the Sky, Suzy Bogguss, Tigirlily Gold and T Graham Brown.
ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT FOR YULE
In Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!, Robert Buckleystars as a happy-go-lucky, small-market weatherman who has a history of suffering a myriad of mishaps every holiday season, much to the amusement of his co-workers. Always upbeat, when he goes home for the holidays and reconnects with his high school crush (Kimberley Sustad) this could be the Christmas that ends his unlucky streak. B.J. Britt is a serious-minded local news anchor in Tidings for the Season, but when he crosses paths with Robbie Sullivan (Elijah-Justus Lewis), a 10-year-old aspiring newscaster, and his mother Lucy (Tamera Mowry-Housley), his outlook on the news that’s important to report – and what’s important in life – begins to change.
FESTIVE FAMILY TIME
Inspired by Star and Executive Producer Jonathan Bennett’s own family excursions, A Keller Christmas Vacation sends three siblings (Bennett, Brandon Routh, Eden Sher) on a Christmas market cruise down the Danube with their parents for a trip they’ll never forget. In An Alpine Holiday, two sisters (Ashley Williams, Laci J Mailey) embark on a journey mapped out by their late grandmother where they reconnect, learn about themselves, discover surprising family history…and possibly find romance. Meanwhile, the Brenner boys (Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker) are back for one final holiday with their mother (Margaret Colin) in their childhood home in Three Wisest Men,as the siblings all face exciting life changes and try to navigate adulting at a level they have yet to reach.
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
Hallmark grants viewers’ wishes with the highly anticipated reunions of two fan-favorite Hallmark pairings in all-new, original movies. Seven years after My Secret Valentine, the only time they’ve shared the screen, Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker reunite in She’s Making a List. When a Naughty or Nice inspector (Chabert) investigating a case unexpectedly falls for the child’s father (Walker), things get complicated. Erin Krakow and Tyler Hynes team up once again for Christmas Above the Clouds, a comedic, modern retelling of A Christmas Carol set on a long-haul holiday flight. The movie marks Krakow and Hynes’ first movie together since 2021’s It Was Always You and their first Christmas movie together.
CHRISTMASES PAST AND PRESENT
A trio of holiday movies prove that there’s no time like Christmas past…and the present! In A Newport Christmas, a wish upon a comet whisks away a Gilded Age socialite (Ginna Claire Mason) to the modern day for a date with destiny (Wes Brown). A Suite Holiday Romance finds a struggling writer (Jessy Schram) ghostwriting the memoir of a famous art dealer and, as he tells his love story through flashbacks to 1969, her own romance blooms in the present day with a charming Brit she believes is a wealthy Lord. And a visit to the famed Grand Ole Opry in A Grand Ole Opry Christmas sends an aspiring songwriter (Nikki DeLoach) and her lifelong friend (Kristoffer Polaha) to 1995, where she gets precious time with her late father, is inspired to finish writing the song she had long abandoned and finds romance.
OH, BABY!
In The More the Merrier,two doctors in a rural hospital (Rachel Boston, Brendan Penny) working the Christmas Eve overnight shift get snowed and find themselves in the middle of a bona fide baby boom when three women – including the only OBGYN for miles around – go into labor on the rarest birthday of the year. When a couple (Ali Liebert, Katherine Barrell) is left to care for an infant boy by an unknown mother in The Christmas Baby, his sudden arrival makes an impact on their lives they never could have imagined and he just might be the Christmas miracle they didn’t know they needed.
HALLMARK CHANNEL’S MERRY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
Viewers will have much to be thankful for when Hallmark Channel once again serves up extra helpings of holiday fare during its annual Merry Thanksgiving Weekend. After a long day of gridiron action and gobbling food, viewers can unwind with an all-new original movie premiere on Thanksgiving night at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Starting Friday, November 28 and continuing through Sunday, November 30, fans can stash their holiday shopping bags and put up their feet as they settle in to enjoy a double feature with new movies premiering at 6 p.m. ET/PT and 8 p.m. ET/PT each night. To access full schedule, please click HERE
A REASON TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT MONDAYS ALL SEASON LONG
Mondays will be twice as merry this holiday with season two of the hit series Finding Mr. Christmas, hosted by co-creator/executive producer Jonathan Bennett, followed by the all-new competition series, Baked with Love: Holiday, hosted by Tamera Mowry-Housley. Featuring judge Melissa Peterman, with help from fan-favorite guest judges, Finding Mr. Christmas takes 10, new acting hopefuls through a series of fun and festive challenges to show who has the talent – and the heart – to be Hallmark’s next leading man. Then the competition heats up, literally, with Baked with Love: Holiday, boasting a judging panel featuring renowned Irish chef and restauranteur, Anna Haugh(MasterChef: The Professionals) and New York Times cooking expert, Vaughn Vreeland (NYT Cooking), and 10 pairs of family bakers competing for a chance to win $50,000 and to have one of their bakes featured in an upcoming Hallmark movie.
COZY CHRISTMAS TOWNS OFFER MYSTERY AND ROMANCE
Thrilling and cozy Chris-mysteries await viewers every Friday night starting October 17, when the first season of Mistletoe Murders kicks off Countdown to Christmas. Starring Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney, Sleuthers will be able to catch up – or rewatch – the episodes and see how Emily Lane’s (Drew) story began. The suspense continues when season two premieres with all-new episodes on November 7, featuring more small-town intrigue and a glimpse into Emily’s life before coming to Fletcher’s Grove. The limited series Twelve Dates ’Til Christmas, based on the popular book The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenni Bayliss, premieres on December 5. Mae Whitman stars as Kate, a Saville Row textile pattern designer, living in the quaint village of Blexford, England. When her best friend Laura (Lucy Eaton) signs her up for The 12 Dates of Christmas – a festively themed matchmaking program in the days leading up to the holiday featuring carefully curated, yuletide dating experiences, Kate is forced to get out of her rut. As she wends her way through the 12 dates, she takes a circuitous route to romance while also making some important discoveries about herself.
HALLMARK MYSTERY’S MERRY-THONS
Every Sunday beginning October 19, Hallmark Mystery offers movie merry-thons presented in festive, themed collections including A Cozy Country Christmas, Thank You for Your Service, The Magic of Christmas and A Little Christmas Faith. Every Tuesday night starting October 21, viewers wanting to binge holiday movies led by their favorite stars will have their Christmas wish granted with back-to-back films featuring Paul Campbell, Jessy Schram, Victor Webster and more.
JOY TO YOUR WORLD
Once again this year, the holiday magic makes the leap from screen to real life with unique opportunities enabling fans to experience the joy of Hallmark in person, get the chance to connect with their favorite stars and engage in festive activities that are sure to create memories to last a lifetime.
HALLMARK JINGLE STOP
Hallmark is hitching up its holiday wagon and heading to Music City, Nashville, for this year’s Jingle Stop!
Kicking off on Wednesday, October 15, fans can join in on the fun at the Hallmark Holiday Takeover on Opry Plaza from 2:00 – 7:00 p.m. All are invited to celebrate the magic of the season, experience festive photo opportunities and see their favorite Hallmark talent in person, including Jonathan Bennett, Lacey Chabert, Nikki DeLoach and more!
On Thursday, October 16, Hallmark will host its Countdown to Christmas launch event at Category 10 in Downtown Nashville, from 7:30 – 10:00 pm. Fans can attend the special evening featuring an unprecedented sneak peek of this year’s holiday programming, Country Christmas line dancing and special musical guests on the eve of our 16th Annual Countdown to Christmas programming event.
HALLMARK CHRISTMAS CRUISE AND HALLMARK CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE
Due to popular demand, fans will once again have the opportunity to enjoy everything they love about Hallmark in real life, on land as well as on sea.
The SOLD-OUT 2025 Hallmark Christmas Cruise sails November 6-10, 2025, from Miami, FL to Cozumel, Mexico aboard the mesmerizing Norwegian Joy. To follow along this year’s journey, fans can follow Hallmark Channel on social media or visit hallmarkchristmascruise.com.
Meanwhile, the ultimate destination for holiday celebration on land returns this season to the home of Hallmark’s headquarters in Kansas City, MO, delivering even more joy, wonder, and cherished memories every weekend from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Hallmark superfans can get a sneak peek behind the curtain and catch their beloved Hallmark stars and artists in action while they deck the halls with spirited games and competitions, heartfelt and humorous panel discussions, renowned creative workshops, anticipated holiday movie screenings, photos opps, and much more. Guests can visit the event website to choose their own adventure and purchase tickets now: experiencehallmarkchristmas.com.
LINKS FOR DETAILS ON ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY 2025
HallmarkChannel.com
HallmarkPlus.com
Hallmark Movie Checklist App
*Source: Nielsen Big Data+Panel, L+SD. 1/1/24-12/29/24. M-Su & Sa-Su 6a-6a & 8p-11p. All ranks exclude news and sports networks and programming.
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