2021 Hallmark Movie Information / Reviews / Suggestions

I LOVE Hallmark Christmas movie season!!🎄❄️Such a cozy time of year🥰👏🏻

I've got the countdown app, and my goal is to watch them all. I've seen Danica's new one and Luke McFarlane's movie. I like Danica's movie, but it what world is Benjamin Ayres 27?!?

I'll watch the Santa Stakeout today.

I need to create cards to review them all in my DD.

I've also got GAC Family and UP TV movies set to record when they kick off, and I'll probably watch some Lifetime ones too.

SO EXCITE. SO VERY EXCITE.

It's not that difficult for me to get through them time-wise until we get to Thanksgiving where there's one every night and I get a bit behind. Buuuuuuuut I've done it the past few years so I'll do it again lol

I have to sail the seas 🏴‍☠️ for Lifetime movies so I usually choose ones I like based on the summaries or people in them. On top of them doing one every day from start to finish.. nobody's got time for that. I won't watch GAC movies but I'll probably get through a couple on Netflix. That damn princess switch has me locked in for 2 years already I'm going down with the ship now.

I'm going to accept the challenge to watch all 41, even though I'll probably be lucky to get to 10 in reality. It's still fun to play along and track the ones watched!

When the app first came out my entire bookclub tried to track and keep up and we'd text each other reminders. It was loads of fun!

So far, I am 2/3 on the new Hallmark movies. Just finished the Boyfriends of Christmas Past (not my favorite, but tolerable).

Edit: I missed the movie 'You, me and the trees' and can't find a replay of it. Did anyone see it?

Watched Christmas in my Heart this morning and thankfully Luke Macfarlane is in another movie later on in the season because this wasn't his best 🙊 The little girl was the scene stealer in everything and I loved the talks between her and her grandma -- especially the hair talk!! (which.. would've never happened in older HM movies). While watching I kept getting commercials for next weeks movie which looks like a snoozefest. If their 'sneak peek' scene is that boring I can't wait to see how the rest of the movie will be 🙄



mom it'll be on tonight at 7 est!

I LOVE Hallmark Christmas movies!! I don't think I'll be watching them all though. Every year a friend and I get together and spend a day watching several of them. We wear comfy lounge clothes, have pillows and blankets, cocoa/tea, and junk food. One of the traditions I look forward to every year!

Oh pug, I just realised I signed myself up for a CCB movie with this Hallmark challenge. Save me.

A little different but for those who enjoy the artistic reality drama that is Netflix's Blown Away, they're having a redemption season with past contestants that is Christmas-themed this year! 

We watched the boyfriend movie tonight because my bf wanted to watch the one with Sav from Degrassi.. and I have COMMENTS. Spoiler for obvious reasons -





Things to watch out for - the grumpy af carriage driver and the derpy looking stuffed reindeer towards the end.. you'll know when you see it lol

All in all it was the worst of the first weekend to me. It was fine because I had someone to yell at the TV about how dumb it was 😆 but if I was watching alone it would've been awful.

I have to sign up for Frndly tv. Can't wait.

This article about GAC is interesting. Does anyone have further insight into this story? It appears to me that Bill Abbott, former CEO of Hallmark, made the move to GAC because he did not support the move to diversify the network's programs. Am I misreading this?

I don't have any further knowledge but imo it's 10000% why he left. After the wedding commercials and the network no longer being "family friendly" as they like to say  . It's no coincidence the moment Abbott didn't have his hands in the Hallmark pie things started shifting... the bar is under ground and they're moving at a snails pace, but it's moving.



His quote from that article is like, chef's kiss bad.



You don't *just* have white leads.. you actively search out white leads for those roles and don't write/have stories written with people of color in mind.



Which brings me back to that Luke Macfarlane movie being so important this year! Spoiler because I'm talking about more than what I did in the other thread -

I'm not sure about the actors signing multi-movie deals, but a large number of them have always gone where it felt best that year.. Hallmark, Lifetime, even UpTV and Ion Television. So that doesn't seem strange to me. And this isn't a comment directed towards you Margie!  More on the article and a bunch of others I've seen about how "so and so is leaving Hallmark!" or they're being stolen away or something lol. 

That's exactly what happened. Hallmark/Crown Media have had several issues coming from up top, AKA Abbott, over the recent years and the lesbian kiss leading to the zola.com ad being pulled from the channel was the drop of water that broke the camel's back. This wasn't the only issue and Hilarie Burton went very public with her reason for walking out on a Hallmark movie (and subsequently the entire Hallmark-verse) due to refusal from execs to honour her diversity representation requests. None of the openly liberal Hallmark stars have left for GAC and I doubt any of them will.

Abbott has done a lot for the Hallmark Channel, however. His talent is undeniable. Without him, it's unlikely it would have grown into the beast it is today. He's behind Movies & Mysteries, the inclusion of seasonal movies all through the year (Fall Harvest, Spring Fever, Summer Nights, etc.). He also headed ad sales and managed to grow the ad sales revenue by twenty times. There's a reason Hallmark held on to him for as long as they could. But at some point, the image of the brand they'd so carefully built really started to suffer too much.