Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas starts Friday, Oct. 16, at 8/7c, with a record 34 new holiday movies airing through Dec. 20, including a Chicago Bears romance, a Disney World movie with Lacey Chabert, and a new Biltmore film with Andie MacDowell.
That’s 10 more new movies than last year, Hallmark announced. The channel will show Christmas movies around the clock through the holidays. New movies premiere most Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, with extra premieres over Thanksgiving weekend.
Below is Hallmark’s preview of this year’s Countdown to Christmas.
Highlights include Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story on Saturday, Oct. 17, the third movie in Hallmark’s NFL series. Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True airs Saturday, Nov. 28, and A Grand Biltmore Christmas follows on Saturday, Dec. 5. The mystery series Mistletoe Murders returns for Season 3 on Thursday, Nov. 5.
Below is Hallmark’s preview of Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story, starring Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley.
Below is Hallmark’s preview of A Danish Christmas, starring Emilie Ullerup and Corey Sevier, premiering Sunday, Nov. 1.
Below is Hallmark’s first look at Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True, starring Lacey Chabert.
Hallmark’s 2026 Christmas Movies
New movies premiere at 8/7c unless noted. Click a title for more details.
- Fri., Oct. 16: ‘Tis the Season for Setups (Amanda Schull, Victor Webster). Matchmaking at a ski resort’s Christmas party backfires into an unexpected romance.
- Sat., Oct. 17: Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story (Lyndsy Fonseca, Robert Buckley). A reporter profiling a Chicago Bears superfan falls for the fan’s firefighter grandson.
- Sun., Oct. 18: Mr. & Mrs. Christmas (Brendan Penny, Pascale Hutton). A single dad who designs holiday displays teams up with an accountant to revive a small town’s Christmas market.
- Fri., Oct. 23: Winter Wonderlanes (Ashley Newbrough, Franco Lo Presti). A restaurateur revives her late grandfather’s bowling tournament and reconnects with her high school boyfriend.
- Sat., Oct. 24: Forgotten Holiday (Janel Parrish, Daniel Lissing). After a car accident wipes out a man’s memory of the past year, his girlfriend retraces their romance to help him remember.
- Sun., Oct. 25: What If Christmas (Lori Loughlin, Tom Cavanagh). A woman who gave up fashion design wakes up in a life where she became a famous designer.
- Fri., Oct. 30: Who’s Coming for Christmas? (Rhiannon Fish, Jake Foy). A newcomer hoping to fill her table for Christmas Eve dinner sees her plans upended by a snowstorm.
- Sat., Oct. 31: Adopting St. Nick (Amy Groening, Michael Rady). A hardware store owner and the director of a retirement community’s Christmas program find an unexpected connection.
- Sun., Nov. 1: A Danish Christmas (Emilie Ullerup, Corey Sevier). A hotel executive goes all out at her family’s Copenhagen inn to impress a guest she mistakes for a travel writer.
- Fri., Nov. 6: Merry Memories (Lindura, Brendan Morgan). An accountant helping her nephew make a holiday scrapbook for his deployed mother warms to his free-spirited substitute teacher.
- Sat., Nov. 7: Holiday Unplugged (Nikki DeLoach, Juan Pablo Di Pace). A widowed mom declares a screen-free Christmas while secretly searching for lost home videos of her late husband.
- Sun., Nov. 8: A Season of Promises (Brooke D’Orsay, James Denton). Two estranged sisters team up to find their widowed father a new love by Christmas.
- Fri., Nov. 13: My Christmas Cowboy (Amy Acker, Luke Macfarlane). A Hollywood host returns to Texas and must learn to ride from the college crush he once wronged.
- Sat., Nov. 14: The Nights Before Christmas (Tyler Hynes, Laci J Mailey). A man stuck reliving Christmas Eve in New York tries to win over a woman who forgets him each time the day restarts.
- Sun., Nov. 15: Mistletoe and Mimosas (Tamera Mowry-Housley, Kristoffer Polaha). A consultant who inherits her uncle’s struggling Christmas bar faces off against a rival club owner in a holiday competition.
- Fri., Nov. 20: Our Holiday Playbook (Taylor Cole, Charles Michael Davis). A baker recruits a former football star to pose as her boyfriend at her family’s annual Christmas flag football game.
- Sat., Nov. 21: Christmas in Blue Dog Valley (Erin Cahill, Andrew Walker). A Hollywood veterinarian buys a small-town clinic and wins over skeptical locals with help from the town’s black sheep.
- Sun., Nov. 22: Double Booked for the Holidays (Rachael Leigh Cook, Owain Yeoman). Identical twin sisters who run a bookshop in Wales are courted by two men who don’t know there are two of them.
- Thu., Nov. 26: Christmas Delivered (Autumn Reeser, Wes Brown). A methodical woman helps a tree farmer fix his struggling Christmas tree delivery app.
- Fri., Nov. 27, 6/5c: The Christmas Eve Feast (Daniella Monet, Kevin McGarry). A disillusioned chef returns home to Boston to cook her family’s Feast of the Seven Fishes and meets a photographer.
- Fri., Nov. 27, 8/7c: Return to Santa (Paul Campbell, Rachel Boston). A man who stopped believing in Santa sees his forgotten childhood wishes come true, with chaotic results.
- Sat., Nov. 28, 6/5c: The Most Wonderful Secret (Tammin Sursok, Peter Porte). A burned-out art teacher helps revive her town’s holiday block party and falls for her electrician neighbor.
- Sat., Nov. 28, 8/7c: Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True (Lacey Chabert, Travis Van Winkle). Two people with a disastrous date behind them end up in neighboring rooms at Walt Disney World over Christmas.
- Sun., Nov. 29, 6/5c: Eight Nights for Love (Hunter King, Dan Jeannotte). During Hanukkah, a magical menorah shows an auction house employee moments from her past and her true feelings for her best friend.
- Sun., Nov. 29, 8/7c: Miles to Christmas (Ashley Williams, Steve Lund). A stranded traveler hitches a ride home for Christmas with a free-spirited trucker and his sister.
- Fri., Dec. 4: The Snowflake Effect (Heather Hemmens, Mark Ghanimé). An attorney cursed with bad luck races across Chicago with a gift shop clerk to find a magical antique snowflake before Christmas.
- Sat., Dec. 5: A Grand Biltmore Christmas (Holland Roden, Niall Matter, Andie MacDowell). A woman from 1915 is carried into the present day with a boy she met at Biltmore House as a teen.
- Sun., Dec. 6: An Angel in My Stocking (Fiona Gubelmann, Marco Grazzini). A divorced woman stranded in a small town with her ex-husband meets a stranger who says she’s her guardian angel.
- Fri., Dec. 11: Christmas in Canterbury (Jessy Schram, Will Kemp). An American choir director in England competes with a traditionalist boys’ choir master for a spot in a Canterbury Cathedral concert.
- Sat., Dec. 12: Snow Globe Town (Kimberley Sustad, Scott Michael Foster). A woman helping with her sister’s proposal in a town famous for Christmas engagements is paired with a skeptical journalist.
- Sun., Dec. 13: Noelle Nomads (Benjamin Ayres, Torrey DeVitto). A doctor and his daughter stranded at a remote campground are drawn into its quirky community.
- Fri., Dec. 18: Hearts All Aglow (Mishael Morgan, B.J. Britt). A music historian and a New York attorney team up at a museum’s Christmas gala, each chasing a different goal.
- Sat., Dec. 19: Barking All the Way (Ian Harding, Tori Anderson). A workaholic realtor dog-sitting over Christmas is pulled back toward her high school ex by a mischievous dog.
- Sun., Dec. 20: Save the Date for Christmas (Jonathan Bennett, Italia Ricci). Two longtime friends who swore off love attend a string of Christmas weddings together, and their friendship starts to shift.
See times on the Hallmark Channel schedule.
The Hallmark App
The Hallmark App for iPhone, Android, Roku and Fire TV lets you view the live Hallmark Channel and see replays of some of your favorite shows, such as Chesapeake Shores. Here’s how to get and use the Hallmark App for free.
- Download the Hallmark App at: Hallmark App – Select Your Device
- Click Sign In and create and account with your email address.
- Next you’ll need to verify that you have Hallmark TV through your cable or satellite TV provider. Pick your provider and proceed.
Next you should see the Hallmark TV screen at left and start watching the live channel or featured replays.
Hallmark Plus
If you want to see your favorite Hallmark movies and series any time, any day, you may want to try Hallmark Plus, the Hallmark Channel’s streaming on demand service.
Hallmark Plus costs $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year. To celebrate Christmas in July, get a full year for just $39. Use promo code STREAM4SUMMER to get the half-price deal. To subscribe visit:
The Hallmark+ half price deal ends Aug. 31, 2026.
To browse through the Hallmark offerings, visit: Hallmark Plus Movies and Hallmark Plus TV Series
You can also see previews on the Hallmark Plus YouTube Channel.
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