Deck The Hallmark

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This Christmas movie came out on Halloween! Is it spooky? Let's find out!
ABOUT ADOPTING ST. NICK
As Christmas nears, single mom Maren, her adopted daughter Leah, and a Santa look-alike named Kris learn that family isn’t always about blood, and that the best holiday gift is finding where you belong.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR ADOPTING ST. NICK
October 31, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF ADOPTING ST. NICK
Director: Jeff Beesley
Writer: Susan Brightbill
Cast:
Amy Groening as Maren
Michael Rady as Reid
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Maren runs a hardware store where she also repairs sleds. Her daughter, Leah, runs in just as she’s talking to a Santa-lookin’ fellow who gives her a flyer for an “adopt-a-grandparent” program. If I didn’t know any better, I think he might be the real thing. And I think Leah thinks so too, so she asks her mom if they can do the grandpa thing.
The program is at this retirement community, Jolly Acres, which of course is run by hunk Reid. Chris comes up and Leah adopts him and then he snaps his fingers and the lights turn on on the tree. Leah is convinced he’s Santa and is going to do an investigation of her own.
So Jolly Acres is in the process of renovating a big room, with the goal of having it ready by Christmas Eve (OBVIOUSLY). But the contractor’s twins came 2 weeks early. He’s out. Maren takes a look at the project and says she can handle it. Obviously, Reid is thrilled because that means he gets to hang out with Maren more. She finds out that he doesn’t have a Christmas tree, so naturally they need to fix that. As they hang out, she finds out that he’s never stayed anywhere very long. Even with his current job, he goes and opens a center and then leaves once it’s good and heads to another. They end up holding hands but then she’s like uh oh....gotta go! But after the ugly Christmas sweater fashion show, they just can’t help themselves and they almost kiss...but Leah interrupts them. BOOOO!!!!
Bad news - he’s got his next assignment. Beautiful Honolulu. He tells her and shares he’s disappointed he couldn’t stay here longer because he felt like there was something worth staying for, and they hug.
Maren begins to be concerned with how much Leah thinks Chris is Santa, so she talks to him and then he tells her that he turns on the lights with a remote and he’s not Santa but believes in all the things Santa stands for and they hug.
Maren finishes the renovation gig. You can tell that Reid is really struggling with not wanting to leave, so later that night, he asks if she wants to go stargazing. She tells him it’s probably best if she just heads home.
Overnight, a pipe in the ceiling of the new room bursts. The room is ruined. The party isn’t going to happen.
But then Reid calls her. The party is on...in an entirely different room but it still looks great. When he sees the community he has here, he decides he’s going to stay.
He tells Maren that he’s staying and they KISSSSSSS!
They go back to her house for Christmas and Leah opens a gift from Santa, signed Grandpa Christmas. So I guess Chris really is Santa?

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It’s Tuesday which means there’s a new Hallmark movie to review!
ABOUT WHO’S COMING FOR CHRISTMAS?
Inspired by her late grandmother, Julie plans Christmas Eve dinner in her new home, without a guest list, and has faith that the eight seats around her table will be filled by friends and neighbors.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR WHO’S COMING FOR CHRISTMAS?
October 30, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF WHO’S COMING FOR CHRISTMAS?
Director: David I. Strasser
Writer: Juliana Wimbles
Cast:
Rhiannon Fish as Julie Wilson
Jake Foy as Mark Evans
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Julie just moved into her new house and is PUMPED when her table gets delivered. It belonged to her grandma and it means a lot to her. Some other items that belonged to her grandma arrive too, including a box that she doesn’t have the key to open.
She’s a librarian and she always gets into incredibly personal conversations with people. She checks out a guy named Mark (if you know what I mean....the books. She checked out his books, YOU FREAKS!). He also has a daughter named Vanessa who is a BOOKWORM! When she gets home after work, she’s shocked to find out that Mark is her neighbor! She asks him over to help fix a light and she shows off her grandma’s table. She explains her dream of filling the table for Christmas. He shares his dream of giving his daughter a perfect Christmas. So they agree to help each other - he’ll help fill the table with people and she’ll help give her a perfect Christmas.
She’s out here inviting everyone to Christmas Eve dinner but people be busy, people be bailing, people suck.
She spends a ton of time with Mark. Everything from shopping together, delivering presents together, winning a turkey together. She works with his daughter on her writing. Mark and Julie go for a picnic date and end up kissingggg! It’s all very sweet. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TABLE?! WHO IS GOING TO FILL UP THE TABLE?!
Well, she has Mark and Julie and Mark’s entire family, so it’ll be fine, right? WRONG! His family gets snowed in and isn’t going to make it. But wouldn’t you know it, everyone she invited ultimately ends up coming. It’s a perfect Christmas.
She goes over to Mark’s house for Christmas breakfast and they kiss.

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Alonso & Jacks are here to help us preview the Netflix (and Roku & Prime) movies that we will be covering this year!


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Let's hop in the DTH Time Machine for today's DTH Classic.
To prep for tonight's new Hallmark Christmas Movie, A Danish Christmas, it's time journey back to 2019 to revisit our chat with the star of that movie (and MANY other Hallmark Christmas classics, Emilie Ullerup! This episode originally aired on July 24, 2019.

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ABOUT: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 4)
Lorelai and Luke agree to speak about their success at the local high school. Lane attempts to assert her independence.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 4)
October 15, 2002 | The WB
CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 4)
Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 4) SYNOPSIS
Rory’s Harvard application arrives in the mail. It’s a BIG DAY! Lane is over - she wants to join a band and she’s gonna use the Gilmore residence as her office.
At Luke’s, Luke sees Taylor taking pictures of the building. What’s he up to?!
At school, Paris and Rory have put together a panel to help seniors with applying for colleges. All of their answers are making Rory overthink what she’s put in her application. She meets up with her mom at Emily’s and is in full freak out mode!
The next day, people start showing up at Luke’s asking for drinks he doesn’t make. It becomes clear that these people are being sent by Taylor. He confronts Taylor who wants to open a soda shop in the space next to Luke’s, which he owns. Luke says absolutely not for the rest of time!
Lorelai got a phone number from Headmaster Charleston from a Harvard graduate so that Rory could pick their brain and help ease her application anxiety. They go over and he’s excited to talk to them. It’s going well until the topic of their other daughter comes up. She’s following her own path. And the family is incredibly weird. Rory goes to use the restroom and meets their other daughter, Carol, who is working multiple jobs. She’s very anti-doing what her parents want. This just helps Rory be thankful for her mom who she knows will be proud of her no matter what.
The Gilmore girls make it back in time for town meeting and it’s a heated one thanks to the soda shop situation. But when Luke finds out that Lorelai and Rory like the idea of the soda shop, he softens to the idea.
Afterwards, a guy named Dave Rogowski shows up and wants to talk to Lane about his band.
Dean finds Rory and he starts asking questions about what happens when she goes off to college. It doesn’t go great.
Jackson asks Lorelai if he can rent Rory’s room when she leaves.
Things are starting to get serious.
The next day - the Harvard guy calls and tells Rory to pack her bags. He’s gonna give her a big recommendation to the Harvard brass. But Rory and Lorelai aren’t thrilled. They decide to cancel all their plans and just hang out that day.

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