Christmas Hallmark/Cheesy films

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You know what I mean. Woman gets an inn (left in a will/wins/buys). Goes to a quaint town. Meets attractive but annoying man blah blah.
Very cheesy but I like them! Is it too early to start watching them? I want to see them all! Anyone with me?

Just remembered that I watched Holiday/Christmas in the Wild the other night so I's actually three films down already!!!

I was watching one on Sunday that I didn't see the end of properly (but the plot was fairly obvious- woman arrives from NY, saves ancient knitwear business in snowy Vermont,falls for owner etc).

But..the main point is Morgan Fairchild was in it. She is about the same age as my mother, early 70s. Her face was ...masklike, shall we say. It was very distracting.

(I remember Morgan from 'Flamingo Road- I was about 10/11 when it was on ithe early 80s. ).

I am watching 'A Christmas Kiss' I've seen this one several times. Interior/set designer kisses stranger in lift (?) (she's all dressed up in costume at the time)gets obsessed by him- finds out she is working for his horrible snobby girlfriend, but they end up falling for each other. Obviously.

The fireman one is based on a book - I read it a few years ago! It's great - a cheesy read!

Just checked - it's called The Nine Lives of Christmas by Sheila Roberts. Looks like she's written loads of Christmas stories - I bet most of them have been turned into Hallmark movies!

I saw most of these last year on Freeview and am watching the same cheese crap this this year. The Christmdas Kiss o ne has been shown twice ce this year. I think abouvA week apart. Still watched it twice though!

Best viewed with a lovely cuppa tea and a ginger biscuit or 3!!

Watched my first hallmark movie of the year off the back of this thread the other morning at 5am when I couldn't sleep!
Set in Maine, main character had amnesia. Just what the doctor ordered .

They do repeat them a lot - there's one (based around the 12 days of Christmas?) that I have sat and watched 3 times already now.
One thing I find is often whatever is shown on Saturday on Channel 5 will appear several through the week on the other other channels.

Some are are years old- but I've noticed quite a few newer ones made in the last couple of years- the pandemic didn't affect the production of cheesy Christmas films

Ah just remembered a Christmas Melody - Mariah Carey as bitchy pta mom.

Did not know they were on CCH5j was watching on the Chrhstbas channel.

Some are are years old- but I've noticed quite a few newer ones made in the last couple of years- the pandemic didn't affect the production of cheesy Christmas films

I watched a non Christmas hallmark one filmed in 2021. And it wasn't obvious but there was a lot of it filmed outside and people were definitely 2m apart and even more awkward acting than normal

I saw this thread and thought @Raahh will be on here

Having had a quick look through the list, it looks as if they used to make a couple a year-for the past couple of years it has been about 40!!!

You know me well.

diddl maybe they decided that filming 'outdoors' in fake Vermont or wherever was 'safe'. Lots of social distancing in wide open spaces on Christmas tree farms.

There have been a couple of them where you could see must have been filming under 'restrictions' -lots of awkward camera angles, and talking across very big outdoor tables.

I know Melissa Joan Hart does Hallmark films and I was disappointed to see she's had a lot of work done recently. She always looked so relatable before. Disappointing but I suppose that's the Hollywood way.

I like MJH in the Christmas films- there is a really bonkers one where it feels like they couldn't think of a good way to end it- Broadcasting Christmas - because she's a journalist (in competition with Dean Cain)-and they end up doing a story about ...and a really old fruit cake

Mariah Carey is in one (as a competitive PTA type mother) and I always think of MN/Christmas nativity type threads when I watch it.
It's a Lacey Chabert one.

@Raahh it's on soon, I did a search for a Lacey Chabert yesterday on sky and set a bunch of her xMas films to record

ping The Santa song that the girl sings at the end(that I'm assuming Mariah wrote) always gets stuck in my head after I watch it.

I'm starting to feel like we would all be really good on Mastermind with 'Crap Christmas Films' as specialist subjects.

Have read the description, and this looks just my kind of thing - cats, Christmas, cheesiness. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this thread, I live abroad and can't get much English TV apart from some Netflix, as Amazon Prime won't let me access my UK account for many online videos. BUT I can get YouTube and am just about to start watching a New Hallmark Christmas movie for 2022, whose title I don't even know but which looks right up my street!
Does Happy Christmas Dance!

Have to say compared with Christmas in London and Christmas in the Highlands the Lacey one in Ireland was a bit meh.

however tonight a double booking of accommodation is always a winner so Christmas Getaway, which I admit I have seen before, here I come. It’s like a good Wensleydale, largely inoffensive but highly satisfying.

I see Channel 5 also have the Christmas Connection. That’s not on my watch again list. Slightly embarrassed that I have a watch again list in the first place.

I’ve only skim read the thread.

Has anyone mentioned Home by Christmas starring the Terminator actress, Linda Hamilton.

It avoids most of the cliches, has a bit of a feminist theme, and is a really great Christmas movie. I cry my eyes out every time I watch it. Definitely worth going on the watch list.

Worldgonecrazy that sounds interesting. Where would I find it?