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Deck the Netflix with a furry holiday tale! Jacks and Alonso join us for the review.
ABOUT A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMAS
A sage basset hound narrates how his family faces turmoil when Mrs. Goss falls into an induced coma, and a new Corgi pup helps unite the scattered household during their mother’s absence.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMAS
November 4, 2026 | Netflix
CAST & CREW OF A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMAS
Director: Cathryn Michon
Writers: W. Bruce Cameron, Cathryn Michon
Cast:
Dennis Quaid as Sander
Brooke Lena Johnson as Ello
Kathleen Rose Perkins as Juliana
Milo Ventimiglia as Hunter
Ethan Loomis as Sean
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Let’s start at the beginning. A cute Basset Hound named Winstead is given to a family for Christmas. His favorite words are “Merry Christmas” because it means people are happy. Hunter and Juliana gave the dog to their daughter, Ello. We get to see his family over the years and now Winstead is older. Hunter’s dad, Sander, moves in after his wife passed away. One day while everyone is gone (except for Winstead), he can tell that Sander isn’t doing well. So he asks him to take a walk. They end up at the Christmas market where Winstead gets into some pie and Sander meets a woman named Claire. But it doesn’t cheer him up. Sander is real sad despite Winstead doing everything that he can to cheer him up.
Hunter goes in for a big meeting with his boss to pitch something crazy called open concept offices. If this helps the branch thrive, he gets promoted. If not, he’s fired.
He tells his wife he has good news but she’s not thrilled at the possibility of him being gone even more and blurts out I’M NOT HAPPY IN THE MARRIAGE! He’s like wait, do you want a divorce? She’s like no! But the twins are the worst thing to ever happen to me! She needs him to help. She’s suffocating!
At school, Ello wins a scholarship and she’s not pleased because the popular girls hate her for it so she fakes sick. But when she gets home, her mom ends up throwing up. She ends up having to go to the hospital. The doctor is like chances are it’s just a bad UTI but she has to stay and run some tests.
It’s Thanksgiving but that doesn’t mean that Hunter isn’t going into the office. So it’s left for Ello to figure out Thanksgiving on her own. But after a bit of a shouting match with Grandpa Sander where he realizes that he’s not the only one sad about losing his wife, he decides to pitch in and help. While at the store, he bumps into Claire and begs her to come make Thanksgiving dinner. No luck.
The dinner is a bit of a disaster but Sander and Ello talk more and begin to understand each other a bit and they all get into a food fight together.
The next day, Sander takes Winstead to get some coffee. While Sander is inside, Winstead sees someone drop a puppy off on the side of the road. While walking home, that same puppy comes running up to Ello. With no tag, she decides to take her home. When Hunter shows up, he’s like WTF, we cannot keep this dog. But when he asks her to hang out with his boss’s son, she says yes, so naturally that means they’re gonna keep the pup. Luckily for Ello, he’s a cute new boy.
After finding out that Claire is also a widow, Ello ends up giving Sander a makeover.
Juliana doesn’t seem to be getting better in the hospital. In fact, she’s getting worse. It’s a kidney infection and they’re worried about sepsis.
Ello and cute boy Sean go skating together. Turns out they’re both phenomenal.
Back at home, Ello and Sander work together to decorate the house for Christmas to surprise her mom when she finally comes home.
The next day, Sander sees Claire and they bond over their mutual love of Joni Mitchell.
The family gets bad news. Juliana is in organ failure. It’s not looking good. Ello is really sad and Sander is there to help her.
One day after school, Ello gets a FaceTime from Hunter. It’s good news! Juliana is awake! She still can’t talk or move but it’s hopefully temporary.
Later, she starts moving and whatnot and Hunter puts her ring back on her finger.
Claire starts hanging out with Sander more and we’re all here for it. They end up kissing!!!!
Everything is looking great. Ello is hanging out with Sean after the parade and they have a real sweet gift exchange and they kisssssss thanks to a little nudge from Winstead. They go to have a little skate sesh and kiss some more. It’s real romantic.
Hunter gets a call. He got the VP promotion but he tells his boss he has a counteroffer for her.
The bad news is Mom won’t be home for Christmas Eve but they’re gonna let the entire family come see her. They let them use all the Christmas decorations from the gala. Hunter tells Juliana that he got the promotion and he negotiated a consulting job that would allow him to work from home and she’ll be able to go back to work if she wants to. They spend the evening celebrating Christmas together.

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It’s a Thursday in November which means there’s a new Hallmark movie to review, and Canada’s Christmas Prince, Tyler Shaw, joins us for the review!
ABOUT A SEASON OF PROMISES
Two estranged sisters, a buttoned-up hockey broadcaster and an aspiring stand-up comic, join forces to find their widowed dad a date by Christmas, honoring their late mother’s final wish.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A SEASON OF PROMISES
November 8. 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF A SEASON OF PROMISES
Director: Stacey N. Harding
Writer: Michael Grimm
Cast:
Brooke D’Orsay as Heidi
Ali Liebert as Sophie
James Denton as Ed
Edward Ruttle as Nurse Brad
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
It’s Christmas 1996 and we’re watching an old tape of these 2 sisters running downstairs for Christmas morning. One of the sisters loves hockey. One of them loves being a little goofball. 30 years later, not much has changed. Heidi works doing TV for the local hockey team...not play-by-play though. Not yet anyway.
We then meet Sophie. She’s a waitress who is pursuing her dream of doing stand-up comedy. Her boyfriend Adam is like hey so...your comedy career isn’t really taking off. I think it’s time for you to go back to a corporate job. She’s like nahh, I don’t want that, so they break up.
They get a call that their dad, Ed, is in the hospital and when they both show up, it’s clear their relationship is strained. We find out that they haven’t been in the same room together since their mom passed 4 years ago. Heidi is like ok cool, Dad is fine, I gotta get back to work and not be around you.
Sophie is taking the dad thing a lot more seriously. And she is comforted by a goofy nurse named Brad. He tells her about a program they offer that’ll help her dad talk about how he’s feeling in a casual way which she is all about.
She goes over to her dad’s house to clean up and put up his Christmas tree to surprise him when he gets home. When she pulls the tree out of the box, she finds a box that contains a thumb drive that is for Sophie & Heidi. It’s a video of their mom asking them to work together to help their dad get back out there.
The sisters talk about it and agree to get him to go on 1 date so that they can say they fulfilled their mom’s wish. Naturally, Nurse Brad is down to help.
They pitch Dad and he’s not about that life but they say 1 date before Christmas or else the sisters go back to not talking. Naturally, he agrees. 1 date. No online nonsense.
He ends up meeting up with a woman named Janice, a part of the “Lend an Ear” program. The first meeting doesn’t go great and he ends up leaving quickly.
The sisters give their dad a little makeover. Afterwards, he bumps into Janice and invites her to join him for a hike since he mentioned that he likes nature.
The sisters put Dad through first date boot camp with 3 practice dates with regulars at the restaurant Sophie works at.
Sophie starts hanging out with Nurse Brad more. He even comes to one of her open mic nights and laughs hardddddd.
Ed shows up for the hike with Janice and it goes way better.
He’s ready to get back out there and he ends up asking a woman out at the cafe. They tell him no rock talk. He talks exclusively about rocks.
It’s a big night for Sophie. A big comedy scout will be in attendance. And it’s a big night for Heidi. She is expecting the play-by-play gig to be announced at the Christmas party. She doesn’t get it and she grabs the mic and QUITS!!!
The date is going so well that they end up going ice skating but then he thinks he sees his wife and runs off.
He texts his daughters and Sophie leaves before her set starts. Both sisters are there and end up having a big argument about what happened when Mom passed away. Dad ain’t having it. But Sophie has to go to get back to the comedy club. But she gets up there and she can’t be funny. She just talks about how much her mom loved Christmas and then storms off the stage. Nurse Brad runs after her and tries to comfort her but she’s like I don’t want you around right now.
Ed decides to take Janice’s advice and go somewhere that makes him think of his wife. So he goes and talks to horses.
The sisters meet up at the town Christmas tree, sing O Holy Night, and make up.
They all spend Christmas morning together as Tyler Shaw sings to us.
Heidi ends up getting an interview with an NHL team. Sophie ends up getting back up on that stand-up stage and going out with Nurse Brad and they kissss. And Dad goes on some more walks with Janice.
One year later, Dad and Janice are kissing, Sophie and Brad are kissing, and Heidi...got the play-by-play gig and is still close to her sister.

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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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