Get excited for 2025’s “Countdown to Christmas” movies and shows

Season 1 of Mistletoe Murders was released on the Hallmark Channel in October, and Season 2 arrives just a few weeks later, showing you just how addictive this mystery series is. The series stars Sarah Drew as Emily, the owner of a Christmas-themed gift shop in the small town of Fletcher Grove (here’s an Easter egg for you Murder, She Wrote fans). Emily is an excellent detective, which is a good thing since there are a disproportionate number of murders in this city that need solving. Two new episodes of the show will be released weekly on November 14 and 21.

Christmas in the Clouds is a riff on A Christmas Carol, and in case you’re someone who thinks Hallmark movies are bland or boring, let’s see how you feel when I tell you that the main character in this movie is named Ella Neezer. Ella Nezer! Erin Krakow, who also stars in When Calls the Heart, plays the Scrooge-inspired character, a workaholic with no real sense of the Christmas spirit who tries to skip the holiday by leaving town. She then boarded her flight to Australia and ended up visiting three spirits as well as her ex-boyfriend (Tyler Haynes).

Jonathan Bennett has become a familiar face on Hallmark and in A Keller Christmas Vacation, starring with Brandon Routh and Eden Sher as brothers who drift apart but reunite when their parents take (force?) them on a holiday cruise on the Danube River. The fun family comedy premiered on November 9. (The movie is actually a good ad for river cruises. Send help, I’m turning into my father.)

Finding Mr. Christmas is Hallmark’s first reality competition series. Hosted by Jonathan Bennett, the show features 10 aspiring actors competing in a variety of entertaining challenges “with a twist”. The winner will be crowned Hallmark’s next leading man and receive the title of “Mr. Christmas.” The show premiered on October 27, and new episodes will air weekly from Monday through December 15 when the winner will be revealed. The reunion episode will air on Saturday, December 20.

Tamera Mowry-Housley hosts the baking competition Hallmark Baked With Love: Holiday, where she and judges Anna Haugh and Vaughn Vreeland set out to identify the best home bakers who compete in a series of holiday-themed challenges using their own family recipes. The show premiered on October 27 and airs weekly from Mondays through December 15.

Three of Hallmark Channel’s famous leading men play the “Three Wise Men” in this upcoming holiday comedy special. Three Wise Men is the third film in the annual holiday series (see also: Three Wise Men and a Child and Three Wise Men and a Boy) about the Brynner brothers. They are three grown men, barely adults who live close to their mother (Margaret Cullen) and navigate life changes, new relationships and the fact that their mother is putting their childhood home up for sale, and this is the last Christmas they will spend there.

Tamera Mowry-Housley stars as Lucy, a single mother caring for her son Robbie (Elijah Justus Lewis) in Tidings for the Season, released November 16. Robbie is a huge fan of a local newscaster named Adam (P.J. Britt) and is excited when he meets his hero, This is just init turns out that Lucy and Adam might be the perfect anchor for each other.

Hallmark and the NFL are an unlikely pairing… or is it? Last year, one of the channel’s top holiday movies was Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story (it featured cameos by Donna Kelsey and a kitten named Catrick Mahomes, what more do you need to know?). This year, the football romance tradition continues, and this time we head to Western New York where two Buffalo Bills fans find love… with a little help from the Bills mafia. Stars in this film include coach Sean McDermott and Bills players Damar Hamlin, Ray Davis, Dawson Knox and more.

A glassblower named Holly James (Laura Vandervoort) secretly displays her work at a holiday fair under an assumed name, and when her work begins and her identity is revealed, the people closest to her, including the fair’s director, Jack (Steven Huszar), feel betrayed. Is she… Blown away Her chances of falling in love with Jack? Will you be able to do that? Melt His heart in the end? Can she renew his faith in her? My glass terminology is limited but I think it works. The film premieres on Sunday, November 23.

If you’re looking for a cozy way to end Thanksgiving, the charming romance We Met in December premieres Thursday, November 27. In the film, Autumn Reaser and Niall Matter play Annie Lane and Dave Wicks, two travelers who spend a magical, romantic evening together on an unexpected stop. When they finally board their flights home, they forget to exchange numbers and so each ventures out on a mission to find the other based on the limited information they have. All you had to do was NameDropyouths!

In The Snow Must Go On, a former Broadway star agrees to direct his high school niece’s Christmas musical in hopes of impressing an influential Broadway producer. The film, which stars Heather Hemmens and Corey Cott, premieres as part of the Hallmark Channel’s Black Friday double feature, alongside The More the Merrier. If you’re a fan of musical theater backgrounds, check out last year’s Carol for twoanother Broadway-themed romantic getaway.

Three women go into labor on Christmas Eve, During a snow storm! -And one of them is the only obstetrician/obstetrician miles away. That leaves the only two doctors on call at the hospital (Rachel Boston and Brendan Penny) to bring these babies into the world while they’re snowed in. The More the Merrier is delivered on November 28.

Sisters Faith and Kelly decide to honor their grandmother’s dying wish by traveling to the French Alps at Christmas to recreate her first trip there with their grandfather. As the two women rekindle their sisterly bond, Kelly and French mountaineer guide Frederic also spark a romance. Co-starring Ashley Williams and Lacy J. Miley.

A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (out November 29) is the perfect movie for country music fans. Set at Nashville’s famous Grand Ole Opry, the film features appearances from a slew of country stars including Bill Anderson, Brad Paisley, Daily & Vincent, Drew Baldridge, Jamey Johnson, Maggie Bow, Mickey Guyton, Pam Tillis, Rhett Akins, Riders in the Sky, Susie Boggess, and Tigerlily Gold. Actors Nikki DeLoach and Christopher Polaha star in this volatile, time-traveling romance.

Romance blossoms between a Marine (Rhiannon Fish) and the local fire chief (Ben Rosenbaum) when they team up to lead the annual Christmas Cup competition between their town and a nearby rival town. The film hits Hallmark on November 29.

Hallmark movie set in a cat cafe? Is anyone reading my vision board?? In this new festive cat-focused film, Erin Cahill plays Olivia, a woman who partly inherits a cat café. The problem is that it doesn’t really do that He wants Cat cafe. While Olivia spends her vacation there trying to convince vet Ben (Paul Campbell) to sell him, she ends up falling in love with him.

Mae Whitman plays Kate, a textile designer in England whose best friend has signed her up for a holiday-themed dating service without her knowledge. She reluctantly joins, but has no idea how much her life will change as a result. This six-episode series premieres December 5 and airs two episodes weekly, with new episodes debuting December 12 and 19. Co-starring Jane Seymour, Mary McDonnell and Nathaniel Parker.

A Suite Holiday Romance involves a case of mistaken identity – or at least, a case of not being completely honest about one’s identity – in which two strangers (Jesse Schramm and Dominic Sherwood) meet in a New York hotel at Christmas and fall in love with each other under false pretenses. Can their love be real if it was initially built on lies?

In the collection of silly and wonderful Hallmark movie titles, Oy to the World! It may be my second favorite of all time. (First place always and forever will be Rue Today: A Gourmet Detective Mystery.) Oh, to the world! As the name subtly suggests, an interfaith love story between an Episcopal choir director and a Jewish choir director, Who happen to be long-time rivalsthey are forced to work together to collect donations to help build the local temple. They communicate through the power of song and… I think I may have just described the perfect movie.

Hunter King and Evan Roderick star in A Make or Break Holiday as a couple hosting their extended family’s first Christmas. It proves to be more stressful and exhausting than they realized and pushes them over the edge. When they are about to break up, their families arrive to celebrate, forcing them to have a fun vacation.

The Christmas Baby is the second film in the Hallmark holiday calendar based on Three Men and a Baby. This ’80s film, about a baby who lands on the doorstep of three unsuspecting bachelors, was the inspiration for the Hallmark movie Three Wise Men and a Baby (which evolved into the 2025 sequel Three Wise Men), and now appears to have inspired The Christmas Baby. The film stars Ali Liebert and Kathryn Burrell as two women who unexpectedly give birth to a baby at their doorstep, and must figure out how to care for him while juggling their already complicated lives.

Hallmark leading man Wes Brown hosts this amazing holiday lights show that takes viewers to some of the most impressive festive displays. Wes will introduce the remarkable people behind them and share their honest – and often emotional – stories behind their shows and how they contribute to society. All episodes of the series previously premiered on Hallmark Plus, and the series will premiere on Hallmark Channel on December 22.