Oct. 11, 2025

This Year's Hallmark Christmas Movies

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A preview of Hallmark Channel's Christmas programming starting October 17th. Highlights include new movies and TV shows like 'A Royal Montana Christmas,' 'Holiday Touchdown: A Bill's Love Story,' and 'Baked With Love Holiday.' Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton contribute special Christmas music and products. Adas, a philanthropist, recreates a shoebox gifting initiative from his childhood for children in poverty. Camden Town, Missouri, introduces a 'Reverse Christmas Parade' on December 5th, with stationary floats and drive-thru format.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news Christmas Stories. Yes, I know it's October. You

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can never start too early. Hallmark Channels Countdown to Christmas

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kicks off Friday, October seventeenth with twenty four to seven programming.

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Is my wife listening? Get out of pen. You're gonna

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want to write this down. She loves this stuff. This

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year's movies include the continuation of Hallmark's partnership with the NFL.

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That's Right, It's Holiday Touchdown, A Bill's Love Story. They

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also have a new partnership with the Grand Ole Opry

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for a Grand ol Opry Christmas. Overall, Hallmark will deliver

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eighty new hours of programming across ten weeks. New movies

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premiere every Saturday night and every Sunday night. Oh there's

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new TV shows as well on October twenty seventh, as

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season two of Finding Mister Christmas and the debut of

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Baked with Love. Holiday In November, you'll get season two

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of The Mistletoe Murders in December, twelve dates till Christmas.

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Some of the movies include A Royal Montana Christmas. That's Right,

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A Princess Looking to decompress before the holidays, heads to

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a Montana ranch and meets a charming guide Merry Christmas,

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Ted Cooper, a Christmas loving weather man has had a

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tough year, etc. Etc. You know how these go? Christmas

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above the clouds. A workaholic CEO tries to skip Christmas,

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but is haunted by her past, present and future and

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forced to confront the choices and her ex There's a

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Keller Christmas Vacation. Now, for a minute, I thought Hallmark

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lost their mind and this was a killer at Christmas Vacation. No, no, no,

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this is the Kellers. Totally different. You see, the Kellers,

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including the parents and their three adult children, decide to

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take a European river cruise touring the Christmas markets over

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the holidays. And each sibling is going through their own

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life challenges. But our favorite ask to be Holiday touchdown.

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A Bill's love story. Now you have to wait till

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November twenty second. Then you're gonna find out how. Pediatric

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doctor Morgan Quinn and the Bill's VP be of stadium Development,

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Gabe de Luca, have been lifelong friends. He's always wanted

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it to be more. This holiday and football season, the

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pair worked together to find out the mystery person who

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helped her family get by after her uncle was drafted

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decades before. Thank you Hallmark Channel, appreciate it. These are

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always fun. There's a bunch more. Maybe I'll do that

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in another episode. Brad Paisley has released Counting Down the Days.

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It's an original song and it is the official anthem

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of the Hallmark Channel's sixteenth annual Countdown to Christmas. Paisley

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has also co written two additional songs that will be

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part of Hallmark's A Grand Ole Opry Christmas. Meanwhile, Dolly

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Parton in the news. There was little health scare during

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the week. I hope everything's okay with Dolly. She's launching

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Holly Dolly Christmas. The Holly Dolly Christmas will be at

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Dollar General. It's brimming with Christmas cheer. They're over forty pieces.

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Most items priced under ten dollars, nothing over sixteen. Items

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include the wood clamp jar, which you can store cocoa,

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candy canes or gingerbread spice, some spice jars, some cookie cutters,

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some salt and pepper shakers, the Twelve Days of Candles,

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an advent calendar, some mailbox, de core A quilted plays

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mat with patch, a snap on towel, which we're told

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is practical yet pretty, keeping your kitchen festive and functional,

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a potholder, a peppermint pillow, No, don't eat it. It's

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a round candy cane pillow that looks good enough to eat,

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but don't eat it. And a bow pillow, a big,

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bright red pillow shaped like a gift bow for the

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perfect finishing touch. Nice job by Atus. He's now thirty

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seven and he never forgot the present he received when

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he was eight years old and his family was struggling

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financially and getting food to the table. He received the

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gift of a Christmas shoebox as a child. He's recreating

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the gesture for other children affected by poverty. It's Team

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Hope's annual Christmas Shoebox appeal. The charity celebrates its fifteenth year,

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hoping to deliver its three millionth shoebox this Christmas. Eight

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as explains, we didn't have much food, good food. Medically,

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we're all malnurnursed. As children growing up in Lithuania, I

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remember sitting at the table as a child for a

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meal and there was just some bread and carrots and

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What struck me most is that someone had put this together.

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At times we relied on our neighbors to drop something in,

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so we were struggling and was tough on my parents

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from a financial perspective. I remember all of us gathered

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in the village and there was a play and at

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the end shoe boxes were given to the children. We

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were very excited. I think there were at pens and

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pencils and some stationary in the box. What struck me

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most so that someone had put it together. Since twenty ten,

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Team Hope has delivered over two point eight million shoebox gifts.

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Deborah Lowry is the chief executive of Team Hope and

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says that kindness traveling across oceans reminds a child that

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they're not forgotten, that someone somewhere cares. And in Camden

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toown Missouri, they're working on a reverse Christmas parade. Now

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you're like, what's reverse about the Christmas parade? So rather

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than a typical parade, you know, we might be standing

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on the curb and some floats go by. No, no, no,

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the floats are going to be on the curbs and

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you're going to drive through. I think this is just

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clever packaging for one of those Christmas lan things that

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we all do. But we're sold spectators can stay cozy

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and out of the never predictable December weather, and they

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do admit it has a Christmas lights drive through fuel hmm. Well,

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the Reverse Christmas Parade is Friday, December fifth at six

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point thirty if you want to get it on your calendar.

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The parade is right after the Christmas tree lighting on

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the Square on North bus route number five. Food trucks

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will be participating as well, so maybe grab some food

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and drive through the Reverse Christmas Parade. And those are

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your five good News Christmas stories. You have an awesome day.