Christmas Comes Early! Your Guide to Every New Holiday TV-Movie in 2024
It’s never too early to get in the holiday spirit.
Netflix, Hallmark Channel, Great American Family and Lifetime have already announced several original Christmas movies on tap for 2024 — including a handful of films premiering as early as this summer.
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Beginning Saturday, June 29 and extending through Wednesday, Dec. 25, all of your favorite basic cable networks and streaming services are serving up yuletide cheer, and TVLine is compiling a comprehensive list to help you keep track of every festive flick.
Scroll down to browse our extensive guide — which is broken down by network and airdate — then hit the comments with your reactions to this year’s growing slate. Additional titles will be added as they’re confirmed.
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🎄 Brewster’s Millions: Christmas
Release Date: Thursday, Dec. 5
Cast: China Anne McClain, Romeo Miller, Richard Pryor Jr., Rain Pryor, Telma Hopkins, Tequan Richmond, Sierra McClain
Premise: A reimagining of the 1985 comedic classic Brewster’s Millions starring the late Richard Pryor that follows Morgan Brewster (China McClain) as she embarks on a unique and challenging journey of delightful chaos to inherit her uncle Montgomery’s fortune before Christmas. Along the way, she discovers the true meaning of love, faith, and family through the act of giving rather than receiving.
GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY
🎄 Christmas by Candlelight
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Erin Agostino, Harmon Walsh
Premise: Juliet pitches Christmas candles to her boss to earn a promotion and enlists the help of a candle store owner who refuses at first but reluctantly agrees when he realizes the money will help make his daughter’s Christmas wish come true.
🎄 A Christmas Castle Proposal
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Rhiannon Fish, Mitchell Bourke
Premise: Olivia, a commoner, travels with Prince Alexander to his family’s magical palace, Torovia so their families can spend a first Christmas together. The couple’s plans for a enchanted Christmas are threatened by comedic mishaps caused by cultural differences between the families.
🎄 Christmas in Scotland
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Jill Winternitz, Dominic Watters
Premise: A New York installation designer helps a small Scottish community create a dazzling light display to win “Best Christmas Village” festival. The designer is forced to work with a wealthy heir who doesn’t like Christmas, though feelings may change if the pair succeeds in creating joy for the community.
🎄 A Christmas Less Traveled
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Candace Cameron Bure, Eric Johnson
Premise: A local business owner finds an audio cassette in the player of her recently departed dad’s classic red truck. The message instructs Desi to go on a holiday road trip down memory lane where she meets a man who needs her help and who offers help in return.
🎄 A Cinderella Christmas Ball
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Danica McKellar, Oliver Rice
Premise: With only the Internet, a plane ticket and a lifelong determination to find her birth family Chelsea travels to royal hamlet, Havenshire, at Christmas. Along the way, Chelsea sneaks into a castle, teaches a stubborn Prince how to dance, and looks to be in the perfect place when the bells toll Christmas Eve.
🎄 Coupled Up for Christmas
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Sara Canning, Marcus Rosner
Premise: Two heartbroken strangers pretend to be dating others to win the affection of their true soulmates.
🎄 The Fabric of Christmas
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Ferelith Young, Harmon Walsh
Premise: Firefighter Liam and quilting teacher, Amy, come together to make the perfect quilt for Liam’s sister’s Christmas wedding. Two headstrong people discover the importance of putting personal differences aside to create what is most important at Christmas.
🎄 Get Him Back for Christmas
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Carlos PenaVega, Alexa PenaVega
Premise: Bella made it big in music. Jack stayed behind in his hometown working at The Salvation Army to help his family after his dad passes. Bella returns home after a heartbreaking split with her chart-topping singing partner and asks Jack to write the perfect song to get her boyfriend back. Carlos PenaVega wrote and performs an original song, “Get Him Back for Christmas” performed for the film at AT&T Stadium.
🎄 Home Sweet Christmas
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Candace Cameron Bure, Cameron Mathison
Premise: Two former childhood friends reunite after a beloved family members passes, leaving the future of his magical maple sugar farm in their hands.
🎄 A Little Women’s Christmas
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Jillian Murray, Trevor Donovan, Jen Lilley, Laura Osnes, Julia Reilly, Jesse Hutch, Gladys Knight
Premise: A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel.
🎄 Once Upon a Christmas Wish
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Mario Lopez, Courtney Lopez
Premise: A local mayor discovers his childhood Christmas wishes are coming true. With his childhood friend, the pair can inspire residents to showcase the town’s warmth and values while pushing back a major developer’s desire to take the community in a different direction.
🎄 A Royal Christmas Ballet
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Brittany Underwood, Jonathan Stoddard
Premise: A retired ballerina is pressed into service working with a visiting team of royal ambassadors to put on the season’s performance of “The Nutcracker” and finds herself center stage in an unexpected Christmas romance.
🎄 A Shelter and Season’s Greetings
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Ash Tsai, Eric Guillmette
Premise: Caleb is injured in the Army and recovers through help from shelter therapy dogs. As a sign of thanks, Caleb returns home to help Amber run the local shelter and, in the process, discovers his feelings for Amber go beyond gratitude.
🎄 Sleigh Bells and Sugar Plums
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Jill Wagner, Jesse Hutch
Premise: A historian seeks inspiration for her next project in her family’s hometown of Aurora, which is famous for experiencing the Northern Lights. While there, she bonds with a local tour guide who shows her the town’s Christmas traditions and witnesses a harbinger of miracles to come.
🎄 A Vintage Christmas
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Merritt Patterson, Christopher Russell
Premise: A dedicated preservationist battles a developer’s ambitions to tear down a historic Post Office with ties to her family. The choice of old versus new threatens to divide the small town unless there is a solution for the greater good of all concerned.
🎄 Wreathmaker Christmas
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Kristin Wollett, Casey Elliott
Premise: A wreathmaker slips on ice and injures her arm which puts her holiday wreath deliveries in jeopardy until a selfless neighbor steps up to keep her business afloat.
HALLMARK CHANNEL
🎄 Falling Like Snowflakes
Premiere Date: Saturday, June 29 at 8/7c
Cast: Rebecca Dalton, Marcus Rosner
Premise: A photographer (Dalton), determined to complete her exhibit by capturing a rare photo of a 12-sided snowflake, enlists the help of a childhood friend (Rosner) and they go on a mission they’ll never forget.
🎄 Three Wise Men and a Baby (Extended Cut) — new to Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, July 6 at 8/7c
Cast: Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker, Margaret Colin
Premise: Three brothers (Campbell, Hynes, Walker) get the surprise of their lives when they are forced to work together to care for a baby over the holidays.
🎄 Rescuing Christmas — new to Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, July 13 at 8/7c
Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Sam Page
Premise: Erin (Cook) is granted three Christmas wishes – with her final wish being that Christmas would just disappear. And to her bewilderment, it does! Can potential suitor Sam (Page) help her bring back Christmas?
🎄 A Very Vermont Christmas
Premiere Date: Saturday, July 20 at 8/7c
Cast: Katie Leclerc, Ryan McPartlin
Premise: A local champion skier (Leclerc) and Vermont brew master (McPartlin) teams up with an unlikely match to create a seasonal microbrew, in order to save her family’s business by Christmas.
🎄 Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story
Premiere Date: Saturday, Nov. 30 at 8/7c
Cast: Tyler Hynes, Hunter King, Ed Begley Jr., Jenna Bush Hager, Diedrich Bader, Megyn Price, Richard Riehle, Christine Ebersole, Richard Christie, Donna Kelce, Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid
Premise: Alana Higman (King) is sure that her family’s lifelong history as Kansas City Chiefs superfans makes them a frontrunner to win the team’s “Fan of the Year” contest. Derrick (Hynes), Director of Fan Engagement, is tasked with evaluating how Alana and her family stack up against the other two finalists. As the pair spends time together, it’s clear there’s a spark between them — but when her grandfathers (Begley Jr.) vintage Chiefs, good luck winter hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate, destiny and even questions her future with Derrick… unless, that is, a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary.
🎄 The Christmas Quest
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Lacey Chabert, Kristoffer Polaha
Premise: An archeologist (Chabert) and her ex-husband (Polaha), an expert in ancient Norse languages, are sent to Iceland at Christmastime to search for a legendary treasure. When others join in the hunt, the pair find themselves swept into a thrilling adventure as they race to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
🎄 The Finnish Line
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Kim Matula, Beau Mirchoff, Nichole Sakura, Páll Sigþór Pálsson
Premise: Inspired by her father’s acclaimed legacy in dog sled racing, Anya (Matula) decides to follow in his footsteps. After his passing, she heads to Finland to participate in the 40th annual Joulurauha race, her father’s final race where he fell short of the victory. Following an injury to her lead dog during the qualifying race, Anya finds herself partnered with a new canine companion owned by journalist and former racer Cole (Mirchoff), who aims to pen a story about her journey. Struggling to build trust with her new dog and facing her father’s rival, Monty (Pálsson), Anya must navigate many challenges as she strives to win the race.
🎄 Santa Tell Me
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Erin Krakow, Daniel Lissing
Premise: The film reunites fan-favorites Krakow and Lissing from Hallmark’s longest-running series, When Calls the Heart (which was recently renewed for Season 12).
🎄 Three Wiser Men and a Boy
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker, Margaret Colin, Miles Marthaller
Premise: The sequel begins five years later, with the Brenner brothers preparing for another memorable Christmas. In a crazy turn of events, possibly brought on accidentally by the brothers themselves, the director of Luke’s (Walker) son Thomas’ (Marthaller) school holiday musical steps down. Luke is desperate to make his son’s stage dreams come true, so he enlists the help of his brothers Taylor (Hynes) and Stephan (Campbell). Meanwhile, the trio navigates meeting their mom Barbara’s (Colin) new boyfriend and the brothers grapple with their own feelings about this relationship. In true Brenner brother fashion, they are all in for a Christmas they will never forget.
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🎄 Operation Nutcracker
Release Date: Monday, July 1
Cast: Ashley Newbrough, Christopher Russell
Premise: When an antique nutcracker set to be auctioned at the Warby family Christmas charity goes missing, a demanding event planner (Newbrough) and the heir to the Warby dynasty (Russell) try to track it down.
LIFETIME
🎄 Christmas In the Spotlight
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Jessica Lord, Laith Wallschleger, Jeannie Mai, Haley Kalil
Premise: It follows Bowyn (Lord), a popular musician and celebrity, who despite always singing about love and relationships, hasn’t found Mr. Right yet. Her fame and busy recording schedule make it nearly impossible to date, but when she meets Drew (Wallschleger), a pro football player, backstage at her show with his niece, there’s an undeniable spark between the two of them. When Drew publicly declares he has a crush on Bowyn, they decide to give dating a shot, much to the excitement of her manager Mira (Mai). With each passing day they spend together, their feelings grow stronger… but can it last in the limelight, especially when they both have such hectic schedules? With people questioning if their feelings for each other are real or just for show, the pressure mounts from the press, paparazzi, their fans and even their family, including Drew’s sister-in-law, Nicole (Kalil). The pair has until the end of the holiday season to decide if they want to stay together, or let it go down in flames.
🎄 The Holiday Junkie
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brian Hallisay
Premise: It follows the decorating and planning service company run by Andie (Hewitt) and her mother Mimi. After Mimi passes away, Andie is forced to face her first Christmas without her mother and carry The Holiday Junkie torch on her own. Despite the challenges, Andie may also find some love at Christmas along the way!
NETFLIX
🎄 Hot Frosty
Release Date: TBA
Cast: Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Craig Robinson, Joe Lo Truglio, Katy Mixon, Lauren Holly, Chrishell Stause
Premise: Two years after losing her husband, Cathy magically brings a handsome snowman to life! Through his naïveté, the snowman helps Cathy to laugh, feel and love again, as the two fall for each other just in time for the holidays… and before he melts.
🎄 Meet Me Next Christmas
Release Date: TBA
Cast: Christina Millian, Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola Matt Sallee, Kofi Siriboe, Kalen Allen
Premise: The film follows the yuletide journey of Layla, a woman whose pursuit of a fairy-tale romance with the man of her dreams leads her on a race against time to secure tickets to New York City’s hottest gig: the sold out Pentatonix Christmas Eve Concert.
🎄 Our Little Secret
Release Date: TBA
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Kristin Chenoweth, Ian Harding, Jon Rudnitsky, Chris Parnell, Tim Meadows, Dan Bucatinsky, Henry Czerny, Katie Baker, Ash Santos, Jake Brennan, Brian Unger
Premise: Two resentful exes are forced to spend Christmas under the same roof after discovering that their current partners are siblings.
UPtv
🎄 Festival of Trees
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 24 at 7/6c
Cast: Kate Miner, Greg Perrow, Josie Davis
Premise: Jacquie Miller is an interior designer desperate to catch a break. The city’s annual Festival of Trees decorating competition, known for putting local artists on the map, may be just the answer! But competing with the city’s top designers is not for the faint of heart. With the help of her quirky assistant, a charming stranger and an inspirational young girl, Jacquie embarks on a humor-filled and heart-warming journey to create a tree that will knock the stockings off Santa himself.
🎄 A Bluegrass Christmas
Premiere Date: Sunday, Dec. 1 at 7/6c
Cast: Amanda Jordan, David Pinard, Shaun Johnston
Premise: Katie’s family’s horse sanctuary is on the brink of closure, but in a last-ditch effort to raise the money, Katie must coax her reclusive grandfather, Bluegrass legend Ben Pendleton, back onto the stage for a Christmas benefit concert.
🎄 A Novel Christmas
Premiere Date: Sunday, Dec. 15 at 7/6c
Cast: Brigitte Kingsley, Landy Cannon, Alys Crocker
Premise: When a successful children’s book author Chloe Anderson heads to the cozy town of Noelville to spend time with her sister’s family and help care for her recently widowed father, she didn’t expect the instant-connection with the local bookstore owner and single dad, Ethan; or find her number one fan in his daughter, Alex. Will the small town’s charms be enough to rekindle a grieving family’s Christmas spirit along Chloe’s dreams of writing her first novel – let alone a chance at love?
🎄 North by North Pole: A Dial S Mystery
Premiere Date: Sunday, Dec. 22 at 7/6c
Cast: Abby Ross, Joey Scarpellino, Andrea Reindel
Premise: Santa is back to help a new couple solve a mystery and find romance. Zoey has one Christmas wish…to produce the perfect Christmas Festival for her hometown of Willow Creek. That wish becomes more difficult when Dalton, the sponsor’s handsome but aggravating son, becomes her partner and his modern ideas clash with Zoey’s more traditional vision. However, when suspicious things start happening, they realize someone is trying to stop the festival. They must team up to save it and soon find that they have a lot more in common than they thought.
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