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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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ABOUT THE HOLIDAY SPARK
Firefighter Dean enlists illustrator Laura to help plan a holiday party for his firehouse. As they plan the epic party, both begin to question their views on romance and the possibility of love at first spark.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR THE HOLIDAY SPARK
November 2, 2026 | Roku
CAST & CREW OF THE HOLIDAY SPARK
Director: Rhonda Baraka
Writer: Mary Kate Hegarty
Cast:
Joey Graziadei as Dean
Jamie Chung as Laura
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
We meet Dean - a firefighter who smiles after walking out of a burning building. Unfortunately for him, he draws the short candy cane and has to plan the firehouse Christmas party.
We then meet Laura - an illustrator who is booked and blessed. When she gets home, she sees a firetruck outside of her parents’ house. Nothing to worry about but when Dean and Laura meet each other, the fire in the fireplace literally turns on. Subtle, Roku. Subtle. When she finds out that he doesn’t do holiday events cuz he works a lot, she encourages him to meet her later at the first event - Cocoa Madness. He agrees much to the shock of the other firefighters. After hanging out, he asks if she’d be willing to illustrate the invite for the Christmas party. Obviously, she says yes. She goes to bring them right as they’re in the middle of their tire lifting workout, so he’s not wearing his shirt. Classic. She decides she’s gonna help with the party planning cuz he’s got no vision and they go to chop down trees together. He teaches her how to chop and then she jumps into his arms. OK YOU TWO!
They start hanging out CONSTANTLY and almost kiss while decorating a tree. The problem is he’s sworn off dating - he just needs to focus on his job. And he’s distracting her from doing her own work.
But he’s sending mixed messages when he shows up to decorate cookies at her parents’ house. WHAT DO YOU WANT, DEAN?!
Well, what he really wants is to win the chop-a-thon but they don’t have enough people on their team to compete. So why not Laura?! She knows how to chop now. They win and his boss comes up and tells him he got the gig - the promotion.
Feeling real good about himself, he tells her he can’t stop thinking about her as more than a friend and asks her out to dinner.
But before dinner, he goes in and finds out that the gig he got isn’t a promotion, rather he gets to play firehouse Santa.
They go out to dinner and it’s going well until he hears the 3rd siren - he says he has to go.
After they put out the fire, the other firefighters are like dude you’re an idiot. If we needed your help, we would’ve called you.
He goes to tell his boss that he needs to take Christmas off because there’s a girl he really likes. His boss is like that’s what I needed to hear. You get the job because you now know what it looks like to take care of yourself.
He goes to make things right with Laura but she has her notifications off. She doesn’t wanna hear from you, BRO!
She ends up coming to the party and they go back to her place and KISSSSSS.

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The final Hallmark Christmas movie of last weekend is here! Let get Danish!
ABOUT A DANISH CHRISTMAS
Hotel tech executive Marie heads home to Copenhagen for Christmas to help save her family’s inn. When she mistakes a guest for a travel writer, she plans him the perfect holiday tour, and romance follows.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A DANISH CHRISTMAS
November 1, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF A DANISH CHRISTMAS
Director: Colin Theys
Writer: Juliana Wimbles
Cast:
Emilie Ullerup as Marie
Corey Sevier as Ryan Miller
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
We meet Marie, who is a hotshot deal maker at a hotel in Chicago. She’s rolling out new tech, really doing stuff. She decides she’s going home to Copenhagen for Christmas to spend the holiday with her family! She shows up and knows exactly what to do, hop on a bike, and get going. But then we meet fellow American Ryan who also shows up in Copenhagen, confused as can be.
Naturally, her family runs an inn, so she gets right to work on her vacation. She goes for a walk and bumps into Ryan Miller, who is lost as can be. She kinda helps and off she goes. Of course, he shows up at the inn to check in.
Marie googles him and finds out that he’s a travel writer, except he’s not, he just happens to share his name. But she doesn’t know that. So she decides she needs to make his stay perfect, complete with their famous Christmas tour...that they haven’t actually offered since her father passed away. When Marie tells her mom her plan, her mom is like don’t bother - I’m selling the inn in the new year. OVER MARIE’S DEAD BODY! She says let me do this and show you that the inn can still be successful!
So they start doing all the tour stuff, which is a bit of a learning curve for both, but obviously they start digging each other. But then things get CRAZY!
Another Ryan Miller shows up to check in. He’s the real Ryan Miller. Turns out our Ryan Miller was supposed to go to Hotel Anderson, not Anderson Inn. He goes to leave in a massive snowstorm and Marie goes after him to ask him to come back. Naturally he does and commits to continuing the Christmas tour along with the other Ryan Miller.
The other Ryan Miller doesn’t seem to be a big fan of much of the tour and our Ryan Miller tries his best to help but it’s not great.
She and our Ryan Miller decorate a tree and almost kiss but are interrupted by the other Ryan Miller who was going to leave but decided to stick around to finish his piece on the magic of a Danish Christmas. He then talks to Ryan and is like which of you is moving? Long distance is hard. Good luck out there.
Naturally, our Ryan wakes up the next day and leaves. He says she needs room to shine bright and off he goes.
She decides she’s going to stay in Denmark and asks if she can take over the inn. She doesn’t want her mom to sell it. Her mom is like well that’s nice but you need to go and tell Ryan how you feel before he leaves! So off she goes to stop him but he’s already on his way back! He tells her he’s staying forever I guess and they kiss!!! They head back to the inn to celebrate Christmas with her family.

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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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