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Can you believe that it is almost December? There are even more holiday-themed movies coming up throughout the month along with a bunch of fall finales, special Christmas episodes of some cable dramas, several mini-series, the debut of a couple of cable series and more. First, let’s take a quick look at all of the holiday films that will air …

One of the 12 new holiday movies on the Hallmark Channel was last night’s A Cookie Cutter Christmas, starring Erin Krakow (When Calls the Heart) and Miranda Frigon (Primeval: New World) as former childhood best friends who are now second grade school teachers and archrivals. The women – Christy Reynolds (Krakow) and Penny Miller (Frigon) – have been competing against …

Synopsis Fireman Zachary Stone (Brandon Routh) is a confirmed bachelor who doesn’t believe in love or commitment. When a stray, tabby cat named Ambrose shows up at his door, Zachary takes him in and slowly starts to see that a little companionship might not be so bad after all. Zachary’s commitment to solitude is further challenged when he meets Marilee …

A note to writers: if you make your heroine an astronomer, you’ve already won me over. The Hallmark Channel begins their Countdown to Christmas with One Starry Christmas, a charming romance anchored by Sarah Carter and Damon Runyan who are terrific together. Carter plays Holly, a PhD candidate/aspiring astronomy professor who lives in Chicago. A few days before Christmas, Holly’s …

The following list provides the dates of the returning cable and major network dramas as well as new cable and major network dramas, made-for-TV movies and mini-series that will air during November: November 1 – The original Hallmark Channel movie One Starry Christmas will debut at 8 PM MOVIE SYNOPSIS: An aspiring astronomy professor finds unexpected Christmas romance when she …

Here are the casting couch features for this past week: Actress Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full Of Grace and Red Band Society) will have a heavily recurring role on the fifth and final season of Falling Skies, playing Isabella, a leftist-leaning academic prior to the invasion, but now on the run and seeking sanctuary. She is a realist and canny …

Updated 10.28.14: Several people commented and emailed asking for information about the songs used at the end of the movie. Thanks to the good folks at The Hallmark Channel, we can tell you that they’re both by Toronto Rockabilly band The Millwinders. The song that plays during the wedding is titled “Ain’t No Laughing Matter,” then “In Time She Will” plays at …

As we get closer to the holidays there are, of course, plenty of holiday-themed movies coming up in November as well as other made-for-TV movie and mini-series debuts, returning cable dramas and a late-in-the-season debut on NBC. First, let’s take a quick look at all of the holiday films that will air in November: November 1 – One Starry Christmas …

Screenwriter Gary Goldstein landed on my radar a couple of years ago when I was utterly charmed his Hallmark holiday movie Hitched for the Holidays. This week, Gary has two movies debuting for Hallmark, in very different genres. Along Came a Nanny debuted on the newly rebranded Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel last Sunday (read Rueben’s review here), and My Boyfriend’s …