Hallmark’s 2025 ‘Countdown to Christmas’: Each New Upcoming Film and Present

The primary season of Mistletoe Murders was launched on the Hallmark Channel in October, and season 2 arrives just some weeks later, displaying you simply how addictive this thriller sequence is. The present stars Sarah Drew as Emily, the proprietor of a Christmas-themed present store within the small city of Fletcher’s Grove (that is an Easter egg for you Homicide, She Wrote followers). Emily’s a wonderful sleuth, a great factor as there is a disproportionate variety of murders on this city that want fixing. Two new episodes of the present will drop weekly on Nov. 7, 14 and 21. 

Christmas Above the Clouds is a riff on A Christmas Carol and, in case you are somebody who thinks Hallmark films are bland or boring, let’s examine how you are feeling after I inform you that the primary character of this movie is known as Ella Neezer. ELLA NEEZER! Erin Krakow, who additionally stars in When Calls the Coronary heart, performs the Scrooge-inspired character, a workaholic with no actual sense of the Christmas spirit who makes an attempt to skip the vacation by leaving city. Then she boards her flight to Australia and finally ends up being visited by three spirits, in addition to by her ex-boyfriend (Tyler Hynes). 

Jonathan Bennett has grow to be a well-recognized face on Hallmark, and in A Keller Christmas Trip, he stars with Brandon Routh and Eden Sher as siblings who’ve drifted aside however reunite when their dad and mom take them (pressure them?) on a vacation cruise down the Danube. A enjoyable household comedy, the movie premieres on Nov. 9. (The film is definitely a fairly good commercial for river cruises. Ship assist, I am turning into my dad and mom.)

Discovering Mr. Christmas is Hallmark’s first actuality competitors sequence. Hosted by Jonathan Bennett, the present options 10 aspiring actors competing in quite a lot of entertaining challenges “with a Hallmark twist.” The winner can be topped Hallmark’s subsequent main man and take residence the title of “Mr. Christmas.” The present premiered on Oct. 27 and new episodes will air weekly on Mondays by means of Dec. 15 when the winner is revealed. A reunion episode will air on Saturday, Dec. 20. 

Tamera Mowry-Housley hosts Hallmark’s baking competitors Baked With Love: Vacation, the place she and judges Anna Haugh and Vaughn Vreeland got down to decide the perfect residence bakers who compete in a sequence of holiday-themed challenges utilizing their very own household recipes. The present premiered on Oct. 27 and airs weekly on Mondays by means of Dec. 15.

A trio of Hallmark Channel’s standard main males play the titular Three Wisest Males on this upcoming vacation comedy. Three Wisest Males is the third movie in an annual vacation sequence (see additionally: Three Smart Males and a Child and Three Wiser Males and a Boy) in regards to the Brenner brothers. They’re three grown, simply barely-adult males who dwell close to their mother (Margaret Colin) and are navigating life modifications, new relationships, and the truth that their mother is placing their childhood residence up on the market, and that is the final Christmas they’re going to be spending there. 

Tamera Mowry-Housley stars as Lucy, a single mother taking good care of her son Robbie (Elijah-Justus Lewis) in Tidings for the Season, out on Nov. 16. Robbie’s a giant fan of an area newscaster named Adam (B.J. Britt) and is happy when he will get to satisfy his hero and, this simply in, it seems Lucy and Adam would possibly simply be the right co-anchor to at least one one other.

Hallmark and the NFL is an unlikely pairing … or is it? Final yr, the most effective vacation movies on the channel was Vacation Landing: A Chiefs Love Story (it featured cameos from Donna Kelce and a kitten named Catrick Mahomes, what extra do it’s good to know?). This yr, the soccer romance custom continues, and this time we’re headed to Western New York the place two lifelong Buffalo Payments followers discover love … with a bit of assist from the Payments Mafia. Cameos on this movie embrace Coach Sean McDermott and Payments gamers Damar Hamlin, Ray Davis, Dawson Knox and extra. 

A glassblower named Holly James (Laura Vandervoort) secretly shows her work at a vacation truthful underneath a pseudonym and when her work takes off and her identification is revealed, the folks she’s closest to, together with the truthful’s director, Jack (Stephen Huszar), really feel betrayed. Has she … blown her possibilities at love with Jack? Will she be capable of soften his coronary heart by the top? Can she renew his religion in her? My glass terminology is restricted however I am guessing they make it work. The movie premieres on Sunday, Nov. 23. 

For those who’re in search of a comfy solution to cap off your Thanksgiving, the charming romance We Met in December premieres on Thursday, Nov. 27. Within the movie, Autumn Reeser and Niall Matter star as Annie Lane and Dave Weeks, two vacationers who spend a magical, romantic night collectively on an sudden layover. After they finally get on their flights residence, they overlook to trade numbers and so every of them ventures out on a quest to search out the opposite based mostly on the restricted info they’ve. All you needed to do was NameDrop, guys!

In The Snow Should Go On, a former Broadway star agrees to direct his niece’s highschool Christmas musical within the hopes of impressing an influential Broadway producer. The movie, which stars Heather Hemmens and Corey Cott, premieres as a part of a Black Friday double function on the Hallmark Channel, together with The Extra the Merrier. For those who’re into musical theater backdrops, take a look at final yr’s A Carol for Two, one other Broadway-themed vacation romance.

Three ladies go into labor — on Christmas Eve, throughout a blizzard! — and one in all them is the one OB/GYN for miles round. That leaves the one two medical doctors on name on the hospital (Rachel Boston and Brendan Penny) to convey these infants into the world whereas they’re snowed in. The Extra the Merrier will get delivered on Nov. 28.

Sisters Religion and Kelly resolve to honor their grandmother’s dying want by touring to the French Alps for Christmas to re-create her first journey there with their grandfather. Whereas the 2 ladies rekindle their sisterly bond, Kelly and their French mountaineer information, Frederic, additionally spark a romance. Ashley Williams and Laci J. Mailey co-star. 

A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (out Nov. 29) is the right film for a rustic music fan. The film is ready on the famed Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and options cameos from a great deal of nation stars together with Invoice Anderson, Brad Paisley, Dailey & Vincent, Drew Baldridge, Jamey Johnson, Maggie Baugh, Mickey Guyton, Pam Tillis, Rhett Akins, Riders within the Sky, Suzy Bogguss and Tigirlily Gold. Actors Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha star on this, twangy, time-hopping romance. 

Romance blooms between a marine (Rhiannon Fish) and an area hearth chief (Ben Rosenbaum) after they be a part of forces to guide the annual Christmas Cup competitors between their city and the rival city close by. The movie arrives on Hallmark on Nov. 29.

A Hallmark film set in a cat café? Is somebody studying my imaginative and prescient board?? On this new festive feline-focused movie, Erin Cahill stars as Olivia, a lady who has partially inherited a cat café. Downside is, she does not actually need a cat café. As Olivia spends her holidays there attempting to persuade the veterinarian, Ben (Paul Campbell), to promote it, she finally ends up falling for him. 

Mae Whitman stars as Kate, a textile designer in England whose finest pals signal her up for a holiday-themed courting service with out her understanding. She reluctantly joins, however has no concept simply how a lot her life is about to alter consequently. This six-episode sequence premieres on Dec. 5 and airs two episodes weekly, with new episodes dropping on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19. Jane Seymour, Mary McDonnell and Nathaniel Parker co-star. 

A Suite Vacation Romance includes a case of mistaken identification — or no less than, a case of not being fairly sincere about one’s identification — as two strangers (Jessy Schram and Dominic Sherwood) meet at a New York resort at Christmastime and fall for one another underneath false pretenses. Can their love be actual if it was initially based mostly on lies? 

Within the pantheon of splendidly foolish, punny titles of Hallmark films, Oy to the World! may be my second favourite of all time. (First place at all times and endlessly can be Roux The Day: A Connoisseur Detective Thriller.) Oy to the World! is, because the title subtly implies, an interfaith romance between an Episcopal choir director and a Jewish choir director, who additionally occur to be longtime rivals, compelled to work collectively for a fundraiser to assist with building of the native temple. They join by means of the ability of music and … I feel I may need simply described the right film. 

Hunter King and Evan Roderick star in A Make or Break Vacation as a pair internet hosting their first massive household Christmas. It proves to be extra hectic and overwhelming than they realized and it pushes them to the brink. Simply as they’re on the verge of a breakup, their households arrive to have a good time, forcing them to faux their means by means of a jolly vacation. 

The Christmas Child is the second movie on the Hallmark vacation calendar that riffs on Three Males and a Child. That Eighties film, a few child dropped on the doorstep of three unsuspecting bachelors, loosely impressed the Hallmark movie Three Smart Males and a Child (which developed into the 2025 sequel Three Wisest Males), and now it additionally appears to have impressed The Christmas Child. The movie stars Ali Liebert and Katherine Barrell as two ladies who unexpectedly have a child dropped at their door and have to determine take care of him whereas juggling their already difficult lives. 

Hallmark main man Wes Brown hosts this vacation lights showcase spectacular that takes viewers to a number of the most spectacular, festive shows round. Wes will introduce the particular folks behind them and share their heartfelt — and infrequently emotional tales — behind their shows and the way they contribute to the neighborhood. All episodes of the present have beforehand premiered on Hallmark Plus, and it makes its sequence debut on the Hallmark Channel Dec. 22.