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It’s here! It’s here! Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas Begins Today on W Network

Canada’s favourite annual tradition, Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas on W Network has finally arrived! From November 1January 1, cozy up with over 30 heart-warming, exclusive premieres and returning holiday favourites featuring a star-studded lineup including Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Kristin Chenoweth, Jodie Sweetin, Chad Michael Murray, Dolly Parton, Priscilla Presley, Scott Wolf, and many more.

NOTABLE MOVIE PREMIERES

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Merry & Bright
Saturday, November 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Starring Jodie Sweetin (Fuller House), Andrew Walker (Against the Wall) and Sharon Lawrence (Shameless)

The story begins when Cate (Sweetin), CEO of the Merry & Bright Candy Cane Company, meets Gabe (Walker) during the busy Christmas season. She assumes Gabe is the suitor her well-meaning mother is trying to set her up with when in reality, he works for Empire Corporate Recovery, which has been hired to take a closer look at Merry & Bright’s operation and find ways to make the company more profitable. As Cate and Gabe begin to work together, they find ways to elevate the business and find that they have more in common than savvy business sense.

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Christmas in Rome
Saturday, November 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Starring Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) and Sam Page (The Bold Type)

Lacey Chabert plays an independent-minded American tour guide named Angela, who is fired from her job in Rome just before Christmas. She crosses paths with an American executive named Oliver (Page), who wants to buy a high-end Italian ceramics company. Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around the Eternal City, as the owner of the ceramics company won’t sell it to him until he learns “the heart and soul of Rome.” But is there another heart and soul that he may win?

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Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy
Sunday, December 1 at 7 p.m. ET/PT

Starring Maggie Lawson (My Favourite Wedding) and Paul Greene (Wicked Wicked Games)

As the town searches for a rumored Christmas Time Capsule, a skeptical writer arrives in Evergreen to get the story on the town’s “too-good-to-be-true” Christmas-fever.

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Christmas Town 
Sunday, December 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Starring Candace Cameron Bure (Fuller House), Tim Rozon (Schitt’s Creek) and Beth Broderick (Sharp Objects)

Lauren Gabriel (Cameron Bure) leaves everything behind in Boston to embark on a new chapter in her life and career. But an unforeseen detour to the charming town of Grandon Falls has her discover unexpected new chapters – of the heart and of family – helping her to embrace, once again, the magic of Christmas.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation of A Christmas Love Story
Saturday, December 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Starring Tony® and Emmy® Award winner Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies) and Scott Wolf (Nancy Drew)

Katherine Clark (Chenoweth) is a youth choir director who needs to write a big song for a Christmas Eve show but is distracted when a boy with a golden voice joins her choir, which comes as a surprise to his widowed father (Wolf).

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Christmas at Dollywood
Sunday, December 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Starring Danica McKellar (The Wonder Years), Niall Matter (The Predator) and Dolly Parton

Rachel Lewis (Danica McKellar) is a single mom and award-winning Broadway producer with family roots in Appalachia. When a friend calls from Tennessee to tell her about an opportunity at Dollywood, she heads south with her daughter Amy in tow. Rachel soon learns she’ll be working with Dollywood entertainment director Luke Hakman (Niall Matter), who initially sees the holiday show as a stepping stone to a position for himself as Dollywood’s general manager. While the bedtime stories Rachel tells Amy inspire her vision, Luke has some other ideas about what the show should be.

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What's On?

What’s On? June 15 - 28:

SERIES PREMIERE
Countdown
Hell Motel
Inside
Ironheart
Long Bright River
Smoke
We Were Liars
The Veil
The Waterfront

SEASON PREMIERE
The Bear
The Buccaneers
The Chosen
The Gilded Age

SEASON FINALE
Adults
Leverage: Redemption
Scrublands
Sullivan's Crossing
The Walking Dead: Dead City

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