The Holiday Season Movies to Enjoy Over the Next Week!

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The Countdown to Christmas is here! With just two weeks left until the big weekend, and the weather outside turning a bit more frightful, there’s no better time to settle into the sofa and sip some hot chocolate, while wearing your favorite fleece pajamas, and tuning into the latest and greatest holiday entertainment on Philo. With programming from Hallmark, Lifetime, AMC, GAC Family, UPtv, OWN and VH1, we are your Home for the Holiday movies.

Don’t forget to save your favorites so you can watch all the great holiday content on Philo, including the following:

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Holiday in Santa Fe

Starring: Mario Lopez, Emeraude Toubia, Aimee Garcia

Lifetime, 8pm ET

The Plot: Mario Lopez stars as Tony, a local holiday shop owner who teams up with a greeting card exec to take his family’s business to the next level. Along the way, these two have a little fun in the sun and the sparks begin to fly!

A Dickens of a Holiday

Starring: Kristoffer Polaha, Brooke D’Orsay

Hallmark Channel, 8pm ET

The Plot: To mark the 100th anniversary of a Victorian festival, Cassie invites movie star and former high school classmate Jake to play Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol.”

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

The Holiday Fix Up

Starring: Jana Kramer, Ryan McPartlin, Maria Menounos

Lifetime, 8pm ET

The Plot: When Sam (Kramer), the designer behind a popular home renovation show, returns to her hometown during the holidays to help renovate the Bell Harbor Inn, she gets paired with Coop (McPartlin) as her lead contractor. The only problem — he’s the guy who broke her heart and she’s the one who got away. Sparks fly as they work closely to get the renovations done in time for the inn’s annual Christmas Eve Harborfest. Will they be able to fix the mistakes of their past to build a future together?

Christmas in the Rockies

Starring: Kimberly Sue Murray, Stephen Huszar

UPtv, 7pm ET

The Plot: After her father is hurt in a timber accident, Katie Jolly must enter a lumberjack competition to save her family’s business. But when the paramedic who saved her dad’s life also joins the contest, a romance sparks just in time for Christmas.

A Royal Queens Christmas

Starring: Megan Park, Julian Morris

Hallmark Channel, 8pm

The Plot: A prince finds his way to Queens during Christmas when a local woman enlists his help with a children’s Christmas show

A Christmas Miracle for Daisy

Starring: Jill Wagner, Nick Bateman

GAC Family, 8pm ET

The Plot: Whitney Alder (Wagner) owns interior design firm Marietta Designs, which she runs with her friend Andi (Tegan Moss) in the small town of Marietta, Mont. Whitney is designing Santa’s float for the annual Marietta Christmas Parade when a potential job opportunity comes her way: the full redesign of a landmark home by Christmas Eve. Despite the challenge, Whitney and Andi sign onto the job — only to discover the home’s new owner is Whitney’s ex-boyfriend, Connor Sheenan (Bateman), who has moved to town from Los Angeles with his bright-eyed young daughter, Daisy (Rubi Tupper). Connor had no intention of becoming a family man, but when his goddaughter is orphaned, he adopts her and commits to becoming a devoted single dad. More than anything, Daisy wishes for a mom to complete her picture-perfect family, and no prospect is as perfect as Whitney. Tall order, but Christmas is a time for miracles.

Hot Mess Holiday

Starring: Surina Jindal, Melanie Chandra, Kal Penn, Tituss Burgess, Chris Parnell

Comedy Central, 7pm ET

The Plot: When an overachieving young finance exec is unceremoniously dumped by her cheating fiancé during the Diwali holidays, her free-spirited bestie is determined to help her get lit. Along with their outrageous crew, they embark on a wild holiday adventure to party across Chicago, but when they come into possession of a multi-million dollar diamond, their messy antics place their entire posse in danger.

A Godwink Christmas: Miracle of Love

Starring: Katherine Barrell, Alberto Frezza

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 10pm ET

The Plot: Now that Joy has completed her education, she’s ready to fulfill her dream of becoming a nurse and follow in her late mother’s footsteps. Back at home before the holiday and with no job on the horizon, Joy’s interest is piqued by a volunteer opportunity out of town. There, she meets Eric, who is also at a crossroads. As they become immersed in the effort to build a new home for a family at Christmas, Joy and Eric both find a new sense of purpose. Through a series of coincidences — or Godwinks — and a medical miracle, they begin to believe in destiny.

Sunday, December 12th, 2021

Blending Christmas

Starring: Haylie Duff, Aaron O’Connell

Lifetime, 8pm ET

The Plot: The Hacienda de la Sierra is Emma’s (Duff) favorite place to spend the holiday season, and her boyfriend Liam (O’Connell) has been secretly planning to propose to her there, surrounded by both their families. Emma is delighted when she arrives to find the whole family bunch there. Of course, no holiday gathering is complete without drama, and soon the families are bickering over every detail! The added stress from trying to blend the two families eventually takes a toll on Emma and Liam, who start questioning their own relationship. Now just days before Christmas, the two families realize that they’re going to have to work together in order to reunite Emma and Liam! Blending Christmas also stars Beth Broderick, Christopher Knight, Greg Evigan, Mike Lookinland, Barry Williams, Susan Olsen, Robbie Rist, Telma Hopkins, and Jennifer Elise Cox.

A Christmas Star

Starring: Sarah Canning, Daniel Lissing

GAC Family, 8pm ET

The Plot: An astronomer, Madeline Baggett, searches for life beyond Earth, and when she believes she has found it, convinces her boss to allow her to travel to a small hamlet in upstate New York where the scientist hopes to capture a once-in-a-lifetime event. With refractors, telescopes, and a small film crew in tow, Madeline arrives and sets up in Summit Ridge, where she meets widowed national park ranger Ryan Sparks and his young daughter, Celeste. With Ryan’s help, Madeline begins to chart the celestial event which brings the pair closer to finding love under the stars.

Sister Swap: Christmas in the City

Starring: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Ashley Williams, Keith Robinson, Kevin Nealon

Hallmark Channel, 8pm ET

The Plot: Meg Swift comes to Salt Lake City from her hometown in Hazelwood to see her sister Jennifer, who runs a local restaurant in town. When Jennifer and her teenage son Simon return to Hazelwood for a pre-holiday visit with their family, Meg offers to help Jennifer’s staff in prepare for a competition among local restaurants that awards the winner money for the charity of its choice. Still feeling the effects of losing their Uncle Dave, a change of scenery and a project to dive into is just what Meg needed. As effusive Meg works alongside the more reserved Joe, the restaurant’s manager, the two find their differences are what make them a great team. Swapping cities with her sister helps Meg figure out her next chapter and also just might bring her an unexpected romance.

Fixing Up Christmas

Starring: Natalie Dreyfuss, Marshal Williams

UPtv, 7pm ET

The plot: A talented party planner teams up with her executive client to plan the Ultimate Christmas soiree to save his company. Together they come up with creative solutions to make sure the celebration goes off without a hitch and learn a lot about each other along the way.

Monday, December 13th, 2021

Let’s Get Merried

Starring: Mishel Prada, Xosha Roquemore, Tahj Mowry, Nicolette Pearse, Nicole Power, Savannah Basley

VH1, 9pm

The Plot: A bachelorette weekend at a Christmas-themed adventure park gets all kinds of holly jolly when a hard-partying, down-on-her-luck, holiday-hater decides to get married. That day. To a man she has yet to meet. But first… drinks!

Maps and Mistletoe

Starring: Humberly González, Ronnie Rowe

Lifetime, 8pm ET

The Plot: Emilia Martin (González), a cartographer of school maps, has plans for a cozy Christmas at home until her boss has a last-minute project for her, designing a novelty treasure map of the North Pole. Emilia decides to seek out the expertise of North Pole explorer Drew Campbell (Rowe), who reluctantly agrees to help her. As the two work closely, they discover more than either of them ever expected.

Tuesday, December 14th 2021

A Christmas Stray

Starring: Andra Fuller, Rhyon Nicole Brown

OWN, 9pm ET

The Plot: A tightly wound corporate executive finds himself hopelessly stranded in a small mountain town on Christmas Eve, unable to shake the adorable stray dog who ran him off the road, and irresistibly drawn to the free-spirited, local veterinarian who is sorely in need of some Christmas magic herself

Ghosts of Christmas Past

Starring: Annie Clark, Dan Jeannotte

Lifetime, 8pm ET

The Plot: Ellie (Clark), a serial “ghoster” on dating apps, is told by a fortune teller that she must resolve her past and make amends with all of those she ghosted before Christmas, or she is destined to never find true love! Over the course of one week, she takes it upon herself to track down all the men she ghosted before the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve and discovers love in the process.

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021

The Enchanted Christmas Cake

Starring: Erica Durance, Robin Dunne

Lifetime, 8pm ET

The Plot: After recently losing her grandmother, Gwen (Durance) is struggling to run their bakery, regain the Christmas spirit, and figure out her grandmother’s magical recipe for the town’s legendary Enchanted Christmas Cake. So when a high-end chef comes to town to film a Christmas special, Gwen reluctantly agrees to help the producer, Gavin (Dunne), prepare for the shoot to help support the bakery. As sparks fly, will she discover that Gavin is the secret ingredient she was missing all along?

Thursday, December 16th, 2021

Christmas by Chance

Lifetime, 8pm ET

The Plot: Chance Charleswood (Clarke) owns a struggling gift shop called By Chance Gifts. As the Christmas shopping season approaches, Chance is hired by William Richards (Blair), a wealthy and popular entrepreneur, to help him organize the perfect proposal for his girlfriend, Leyla Brooks (Celeste Desjardins). When Chance needs to get closer to Leyla to find out what she likes, they devise a plan to have her attend their Christmas party as an old friend of the family. Chance and William continue to spend more time together with the hopes of devising the perfect proposal, but Leyla does not seem to be ready for marriage and each plan seems to fall apart. As Chance and William get to know each other more they begin to bring out the best in one another and are able to find their true selves along the way.

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