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The amazing Jen Kirkman RETURNS to help us review another new HallmarkChristmas movie!
ABOUT HOLIDAY UNPLUGGED
When Sally, a widowed art teacher, loses years of treasured family videos, she declares a screen-free Christmas. She enlists Damon, a former colleague and her new dating-app match, to help recover them in time for the holidays.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR HOLIDAY UNPLUGGED
November 7, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF HOLIDAY UNPLUGGED
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Zac Hug
Cast:
Nikki DeLoach as Sally
Juan Pablo Di Pace as Damon
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
We meet Sally, who is a widowed school art teacher on the dating apps. We see that she matches with Damon who, lucky for her, IS HOT!
She has a son, Keegan, home from college, and a teen daughter named Boo. Both are obsessed with their phones! There’s like an app that holds all of the memories and videos of Sally’s husband and the app is down. Keegan is very concerned.
We meet hot Damon who used to teach kindergarten at the school. Now he works at his uncle’s store. Instead of meeting at the store where he works, Sally bumps into Damon at Michaels...SHOUT OUT! They’re both like oh hey, I know you from the app! Damon is like should we just go get coffee now? She’s like ugh, I’m so busy with Christmas stuff! She just blurts out TEXT?! And he’s like yeah!
She gets bad news - they may have lost all of her husband’s videos. The app has a server snafu. This is bad news. Luckily, she has the videos on her phone. No biggie. EXCEPT...she dropped her phone and broke it! So instead of telling them that she may have lost all of the videos, she proposes a digital detox.
This won’t be a problem until Grandma and Grandpa show up and give them new phones.
She pitches the detox to everyone and they all agree. Hopefully that buys her enough time to figure out that video situation. She finds her husband’s old camcorder. If she can get it working, then she can play the videos that way. So she brings it to a shop and guess who’s working...it’s Damon! He’s gonna try to fix the camera. She gives him her home phone number since her cell phone is broken and asks him to call her.
The next day, he shows up and is like I know someone that may be able to help get the videos off of her broken phone. Naturally, it’s his friend that works at a Christmas tree farm. Bad news though...all the files are corrupt. Now it’s about finding the tapes and getting the camcorder up and running. He agrees to help her so they go out to this cabin where they might have the tapes. Naturally, that leads to them slow dancing. They almost kiss but then she sees an envelope that she thinks might hold all the tapes. It’s not the tapes but it’s pictures she thought they lost.
The friend that started the company with her husband found the tapes but they’re all deteriorated and broken. WORST CHRISTMAS EVER!
The word finally comes out about the broken phone and the lost tapes. The kids handle it well. They learn that they don’t need the tapes to remember their dad because they are their dad and his memory lives in them.
Damon comes over for the Christmas crawl and brings her a gift - a really cool storage box for her ornaments.
They end up getting their dad’s old laptop and figure out the password and find the videos (and a new one) in there!
Sally & Damon go outside to talk and he says he wants to figure out life together and they kisssssss.

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It’s Tuesday which means there’s a new Hallmark movie to review!
ABOUT MERRY MEMORIES
A rigid accountant helps care for her young nephew while his mom is deployed over Christmas. When his holiday scrapbook project for his mom forces her to team up with his free-spirited substitute teacher, she learns to embrace imperfection and open her heart.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR MERRY MEMORIES
November 6, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF MERRY MEMORIES
Director: Amy Force
Cast:
Lindura as Michaela
Brendan Morgan as Bryan
Omi Fitzpatrick-Gonzales as Danny
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Michella is waiting in line for a coffee, taking a gander over her to-do list. A hot fella named Bryan is behind her and they meet cuz a kid threw a snowball at her. Her to-do list gets some whipped cream on it. IT’S A DISASTER! She goes to pick up her nephew from school and finds out that Bryan is his teacher!!! Her nephew, Danny, has a pretty serious Christmas scrapbooking project due. She offers to help him with it. But all Michella knows is order. Scrapbooks aren’t for order! So she asks Bryan if he’d be willing to help which leads to them doing all of the Christmas activities - getting a Christmas tree, going roller skating, etc. THE SPARKS ARE FLYING! But here’s the thing - he’s a traveling substitute teacher. He doesn’t actually live here. Through hanging out with Bryan, Michella learns that organization isn’t everything. So she hands off some of the office Christmas party planning to a couple of coworkers, and guess what---THEY SCREW IT UP! This is why you don’t just go with the flow!
After they take Danny to see Santa, they’ve officially checked off everything. I guess they’ll stop hanging out now. WRONG! She figures out her Christmas party thing and he goes with her to the party and she ends up telling him that she hopes he stays...for Danny.
Naturally, Danny invites Bryan to Christmas dinner. Her brother encourages Michella to go tell Bryan that SHE wants him to stay. So she goes to see him at school but overhears him talking on the phone about his next gig. He’s still leaving.
It’s time for the scrapbook presentation and Danny’s troop mom comes home. And then Michella tells Bryan that he’s what she wants for Christmas and they kissssss. They spend Christmas together.

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Ryan is here to help us cover some UPtv Christmas movies, and we’re starting with Snowbody Like You!
ABOUT SNOWBODY LIKE YOU
A holiday first date ends in a misunderstanding with Peyton and Ethan going their separate ways. Years later, a Christmas blizzard brings them back together, giving them one more chance to discover if the magic between them is lasting.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR SNOWBODY LIKE YOU
November 5, 2026 | UPtv
CAST & CREW OF SNOWBODY LIKE YOU
Director: Nanea Miyata
Writer: Nanea Miyata
Cast:
Kelley Jakle as Peyton
Colton Little as Ethan
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Peyton goes to buy a cake from a cash only cake establishment. She gets the LAST cake but she doesn’t have the cash. So a guy behind her is like I got cash right here, I’ll take the cake. But then suddenly this random dude swoops in and is like hey boo boo you forgot your cash in the car. So he buys the cake for her and the sparks start to fly. His name is Ethan and they end up going back to his place FOR DINNER, YOU FREAKS! They have a great night but at the end of the night she’s like I’m a mess - we can’t exchange numbers. He’s like ok well how about if you wanna see me again, we meet up for dinner at this place at a certain time. Apparently that’s the old-fashioned way.
The next day at work, she is told she has a meeting with her boss at 8:30 where she’s going to pitch some stuff and hopefully get a promotion. But when she gets there, Ethan is in there having an interview, sharing her ideas. Naturally he gets the job and she thinks he stabbed her in the back, so she doesn’t show up to dinner.
Cut to 2 years later, she’s now running her own business and she’s going to a cabin for some work related thing with other professionals in her field I THINK! But there’s a crazy blizzard, so when she gets to the cabin there’s only 1 person already there, and it’s ETHAN! She makes it clear that she’s not excited to see him but won’t tell him why. After a couple of frosty days, they call a truce and go outside and have a snowball fight and head into town for supplies. The sparks are beginning to spark again. THEY LIKE EACH OTHERRRRRR! But it all comes to a head when work stuff gets in the way AGAIN and she accuses him of spying on her all week. I’ll be honest....I’m not sure what the heck happened here but it’s not good. They go their separate ways after a little screaming match.
He makes sure that she gets the job. And then they meet up and do some more snow puns and they kissssss.

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ABOUT: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 5)
Lorelai is cornered by a new local and talked in to watering his garden whilst he's away on a business trip. When Lorelai has to get to work, she asks Rory to take over, but when things go wrong she has to enlist Jess' help. Lorelai also asks Emily for help finding a guy she met at an auction house, but realizes he's not quite what she anticipated.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 5)
October 22, 2002 | The WB
CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 5)
Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 5) SYNOPSIS
The Gilmore Girls show up at Luke’s diner and Luke is grumpy because there’s a big table of parents with babies at the diner. He hates them. Classic Luke.
Emily calls Lorelai and invites her to an auction that’ll have furniture that may be great for the inn. When Michel finds out, he BEGS to go!
Lorelai gets home and meets a new neighbor named Dwight who asks if she’d be willing to turn on and off his sprinkler system at his house, which he calls the Oasis, while he’s out of town. She reluctantly agrees.
At the auction, Lorelai goes to get a drink and bumps into Jon Hamm and the chemistry is nuts. She doesn’t get his name, so when she gets home, she calls the auction house to try to get his name. Obviously, they can’t.
So at Friday night dinner, she awkwardly gets his name from Emily. It’s Peyton.
The next day, Lorelai and Rory have to run by the Oasis before they head to Luke’s. Dwight left her a note asking if she’d also be willing to go inside and water the violets. She gets a call from Peyton and he asks her out for dinner and also to a David Bowie concert.
She ends up coming back by 10:15p because Peyton is real boring. But when Emily finds out that she doesn’t want to go on a 2nd date with him, it doesn’t go well.
Later, Lorelai gets a call from Dwight asking if she’d be willing to change from watering 2 times a day to 3 times a day. Lorelai has to get to work, so she asks Rory if she could go for her.
Lorelai gets a call from Richard and apparently Richard is very concerned about the ramifications of her not going on a 2nd date with Peyton. He begs her to go on a 2nd date so that Emily doesn’t lose her prime tea spot.
Rory runs into an issue with the sprinklers and can’t get ahold of Dean. She runs to go get him but bumps into Jess first. He runs over and saves the day. They then sit there, soaking wet, making eyes with each other. He finds out Dean is on the way to help so he turns the sprinklers back on and goes on his way.
At Friday night dinner, Lorelai apologizes for not thinking about how going out on a date with Peyton might affect her and she’ll go on a 2nd date if she really wants her to. Emily smiles and says it means so much that she’d even offer that and to be sure to pack the blue sweater when she goes.

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Alonso joins us to begin our journey through Season 3 of Mistletoe Murders!
ABOUT: MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 1
Emily and Sam investigate a wreathmaker accused of murdering her husband, while Violet and June nominate Emily for town Cheerman, hoping to convince her to stay in Fletcher's Grove.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 1
November 5, 2026 | Hallmark Channel
CAST & CREW OF: MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 1
Sarah Drew as Emily
Peter Mooney as Sam
BRAN’S MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 1 SYNOPSIS
We picked back up right where we left off last season. Aaron is there. Obviously he knows that he didn’t kill her way back when. He tells her that Chimera is back - someone is running it. He thought she should know. After he leaves, Sam shows up and she starts crying and they hug. She tells him everything. She says she has to leave. He says I’ll go too. She says you’re a cop - you can’t go where I’m going. She says she’ll only be gone for a month or so. And they kiss big ones on the couch.
She closes up the shop, packs her bag, and off she goes.
Cut to 11 months later. We meet a family. The dad, Richard, is having an argument with his adult daughter, Ruth. She leaves and he gets back to decorating the outside of the house for Christmas. His wife, Helen, is inside working on a wreath. We see that Richard is up on the roof. Someone lays the ladder on the ground. Next thing you know, Richard starts talking to someone on the roof, saying “you shouldn’t be up here.”
Ruth shows up later to find Richard on the ground clutching a red mitten, much to her shock. Helen comes out and is also shocked. WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?!
Sam gets the call and comes out to examine the scene. We find out that Helen is Ruth’s stepmom. She was married to Richard for less than a year.
We meet the neighbor, Albert, who seems concerned. But also very annoyed at how bright the Christmas lights are.
Sam goes to talk to Helen. We see she has the other mitten. And then we hear her mutter under her breath “I never should’ve married him.” She says she can’t talk right now.
The next day, he’s at the diner and sees Ruth. Apparently she’s been coming to the diner daily since she came to town. Helen comes down to the station. He asks about how Richard ended up with one of the mittens in his hand. She says she doesn’t know. She does say that things have been rough since Ruth came back to town.
Sam drives and sees the lights are on at Emily’s shop. SHE’S BACKKKK. They hug and he says you’re back! She’s like... it’s complicated. They agree to meet up later to talk. Via narration, we find out that she’s made promises over the past year that she has to keep, even if it means hurting Sam.
Sam goes to talk to Ruth at the diner. She tells Sam that after the wedding, she noticed her dad getting distant and secretive. Then she got a text from an unknown number a month ago that said that Helen was dangerous. So she had to show up and she witnessed firsthand the friction between the two of them. He asks if she had an argument with her dad last night. She says she just asked him to be careful and take precautions which he didn’t like.
We find out that Emily is having an “everything must go” sale. Naturally that means she’s gonna need to hire Violet.
Emily finds out that Brooke is already running for Chairman now that Richard is dead. Naturally, that means Emily is gonna investigate. She knows Helen because she makes her a wreath for the shop every year, including this year.
In a wild turn of events, Famous Ray is now the mayor! Sam is having a conversation with him when he hears someone yelling demanding an arrest. Sam asks what’s up and he says Helen killed her husband and she’s done it before. He knows this because she was his stepmom before she killed his dad. He was the one that texted Ruth. A lot of good that did!
We see a flashback to Emily training for that shadow ops thing. She was only supposed to be a cyber ops agent but they see potential in her out on the field.
Mayor Famous Ray isn’t happy that Sam is keeping the investigation open. Richard was his friend and he doesn’t want the investigation to make Helen look guilty to the town.
Emily goes to talk to Helen and she admits that she killed her ex-husbands...via her inaction. She believes she’s cursed. She asked Richard not to propose to her because she believed it was a death sentence. Emily is like oh you silly.
When she goes to leave, Sam shows up. The neighbor Albert is being weird again. Maybe he did it. Maybe he’s just weird.
Violet & June nominate Emily for Chairman. Brooke is PEEEVED and Emily is like I can’t accept.
Emily sees Ruth & her stepbrother at the diner. He goes on a full rant about how Helen is a murderer to make sure that everyone hears him.
Sam calls Emily and asks her to join him to talk to Helen again. On their way, he gets a call. There’s a home invasion at Albert’s house. They go and...IT’S HELEN!

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