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Hallmark Christmas movie season is officially here! Up first is 'Tis the Season for Setups. This episode was recorded during the 2026 Marathon. We apologize for the less-than-stellar audio quality.
ABOUT ’TIS THE SEASON FOR SETUPS
Party planner Lexi clashes with ski instructor Ridge at a holiday resort. Spotting a spark between their parents, they scheme to set them up—but their matchmaking keeps becoming double dates, pulling them closer instead.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR ’TIS THE SEASON FOR SETUPS
October 16, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF ’TIS THE SEASON FOR SETUPS
Director: Jeff Beesley
Writer: Elena Zaretsky
Cast:
Amanda Schull as Lexi
Victor Webster as Ridge
Barbara Niven as June
John B. Lowe as Dan
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Single mom Lexi is hanging out with her mom, June. They get home and Lexi gets straight to work. She’s an event planner and things are serious. Nothing a little dance party with her mom and daughter, Piper, can’t fix. All Piper really wants for Christmas is to hit the slopes, but it’s too expensive. Naturally, June puts in a call to her old pal, Dan. They hatch a deal - they can all come to the ski resort if Lexi plans the resort Christmas party. She doesn’t want to say yes but Piper overhears and you can’t say no to Piper.
When they get there, she meets the ski instructor, Ridge. Ridge immediately clocks her as someone who doesn’t ski and for some reason, she finds that very offensive. But they gotta get over it quick cuz there’s a party to plan but they don’t quite agree on a vision yet. Lexi and Ridge see Dan and June talking and immediately decide they’re going to set them up.
It doesn’t take long for Ridge and Lexi to start opening up to each other and really enjoying each other’s company.
Ridge keeps coming up with excuses for his dad to hang out with June, but naturally that ends up leaving him to hang out with Lexi.
They end up all going to a Christmas escape room together and they win!!!
There’s cross-country skiing, there’s Christmas karaoke, there’s absolutely no Christmas party planning.
One night, they’re up late, hanging out, and THEY END UP KISSINGGGGG!!!! But the night gets crazy when they find out that Dan and June have been dating for a year now!!! So now is it weird that they’ve kissed? I DON’T KNOW!!!
So she takes a step back from being into Ridge and gets back into the reason she’s actually there - party planning.
The party happens and they overhear Dan and June in a huge fight. So they pull their parents aside and have nice heart to hearts.
The next day, Dan proposes and she says yes!!! Will that stop Ridge and Lexi from getting together? No. No it won’t.
She meets him on the slopes and they kiss big ones!

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Let's hop in the DTH Time Machine for today's DTH Classic.
New Hallmark Christmas movies are here! To celebrate, it's time journey back to 2018 to revisit our the first Christmas movie from our first season, Christmas at Pamberley Manor! This episode originally aired on October 29, 2018.




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Season 9 of Deck the Hallmark is HERE!
Today, we’re kicking things off by chatting about the three movies we’re most excited for — and the three we’re not as excited for.
Join us TONIGHT at 6 PM for our Season 8 Marathon!
👉 deckthehallmark.com/marathon

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We're back and it's time to breakdown the FINAL batch of Hallmark Christmas movies!

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ABOUT: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 2)
Christopher has a heated discussion with Lorelai, but Emily intervenes. Francie initiates a power struggle on the student council. Meanwhile Rory and Jess have it out about their hurt feelings. Kirk asks someone out.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 2)
October 1, 2002 | The WB
CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 2)
Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 2) SYNOPSIS
It’s Friday night dinner and Lorelai is clearly annoyed to be there. Rory tries to facilitate a conversation and it doesn’t go well.
The next day, they’re at Luke’s. Jess’ new boo thang walks in and they kiss hard again.
Apparently there’s a mouse at the inn. Kirk shows up and is surprisingly not the exterminator. Instead, he asks Lorelai out for dinner in 2 weeks.
It’s time for the first day of senior year. Rory invites her mom to see her speech after school as she’s sworn into student government and tells her that Emily is going to be there. Afterwards, Emily asks Lorelai if they can get lunch just the two of them.
The next day, a girl named Francine pulls Rory into the bathroom and tells her that Paris isn’t actually in charge. She’s the senior class president and the leader of the Puffs. She’s going to do what she wants, which starts with higher hemlines, OR ELSE!
Emily shows up at Luke’s for lunch. She insists there’s no hidden agenda. Then immediately goes right into how she called Christopher and she knows that he’s not in love with that woman and she implores Lorelai to call him and tell him that she wants him.
At the next student body government meeting, Rory pushes for the hemline thing that Francine wants. Paris goes for it.
It’s time for Friday dinner and the energy between Emily and her new maid is weird. Apparently Richard gave Emily a hard time about not being able to keep a maid so she’s committed. Christopher ends up showing up. He’s like you won’t return my phone calls and I knew you’d be there. It turns into a big thing where Rory tells him that he just needs to go and be someone else’s dad. Emily hears all of this go on and tells Christopher it’s time for him to go.
When they get back into town, Kirk stops Lorelai to ask if she’s allergic to tuna. She tells him that she can’t go out to dinner with him. While Rory is in Dosey’s, Jess is there. They finally talk. She asks him if anything interesting happened this weekend. He says her name is Shane. She’s like well it threw me off! He’s like well you didn’t reach out all summer. And you’re still with Dean.

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