The Hallmark Channel‘s Countdown to Christmas series concludes this weekend, finishing out a festive run of 40 new Hallmark holiday movie premieres since October. The weekend kicks off a little early tonight with the premiere of Heaven Down Here with Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon and Phylicia Rashad. Then, on Friday, it’s time for The Secret Gift of Christmas with Meghan Ory and Christopher Russell. Saturday brings Sealed With a List starring Katie Findlay and Evan Roderick. Then, closing out the final weekend of new Hallmark holiday movies this Sunday is Friends & Family Christmas with Humberly Gonzalez and Ali Liebert.
So if you didn’t have Christmas-centric plans this weekend, you do now! Here’s what you need to know about the new Hallmark Christmas movies, including plot info, how to watch Hallmark movies without cable and more.
Heaven Down Here
Alternatively titled Heaven Down Earth, this Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film follows four strangers who are snowed in at a diner together and must create their own Christmas magic to make it through. Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon and Phylicia Rashad star in Heaven Down Here, which premieres Thursday, Dec. 14, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the Hallmark Channel.
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The Secret Gift of Christmas
A personal gift shopper becomes the best gift a single father has ever received. Meghan Ory and Christopher Russell star in The Secret Gift of Christmas, which premieres Friday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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Sealed With a List
An ambitious woman and her coworker try to cross off her whole list of New Year’s resolutions in 31 days. Katie Findlay and Evan Roderick star in Sealed With a List, premiering Saturday, Dec. 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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Friends & Family Christmas
Two young women pretend to date to appease their prying parents over the holidays. Humberly Gonzalez and Ali Liebert star in Friends & Family Christmas, premiering Sunday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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How to watch Hallmark Christmas movies in 2023
If you’re already a cable subscriber and are looking for more ways to watch the Hallmark Channel, you should be able to log in with your cable credentials on WatchHallmarkTV.com and tune in to a free livestream of the new Christmas movies as they premiere. Don’t have cable? Here’s what we recommend subscribing to if you want the Hallmark Channel:
Where to stream Hallmark Christmas movies in 2023:
(Peacock)
(Hallmark Now)
If you want to subscribe straight to the source, Hallmark Movies Now will have all the new Hallmark Christmas movies available to stream. You can subscribe monthly for $5.99 per month or annually for $59.99.
2023 Hallmark Christmas movie Countdown to Christmas schedule and previews:
Premieres are 8 p.m. ET/PT unless otherwise noted.
Friday, Dec. 15
The Secret Gift of Christmas (working title)
Cast: Meghan Ory, Christopher Russell
Plot: Bonnie (Ory) is a personal shopper who helps her new, widowed client Patrick (Russell) reconnect with his young daughter. Though Bonnie’s and Patrick’s ideas of shopping couldn’t be more different, she is determined to get Patrick and his daughter everything on their wish list.
Saturday, Dec. 16
Sealed With a List
Cast: Katie Findlay, Evan Roderick
Plot: This holiday season, festive Carley (Findlay) sets out to conquer her list of abandoned resolutions from last year. Aided by co-worker Wyatt (Roderick), she finds love and the confidence to chase her dreams.
Sunday, Dec. 17
Friends & Family Christmas
Cast: Humberly Gonzalez, Ali Liebert
Plot: Daniella (Gonzalez) has recently moved to New York City to pursue an art career and decides to stay in town to share the holidays with her circle of artist friends, instead of going home to see her sweet but overbearing parents. Amelia (Liebert) is a talented entertainment lawyer trying to stay focused on her work after a broken engagement. When Daniella and Amelia are set up by their parents, they agree to pretend that they are dating to appease them for the holidays. However, as they spend time in each other’s worlds, they soon build a connection that is deeper than either of them could have hoped for.
Hallmark Movies and Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas Schedule
Premieres at 8 p.m. ET/PT unless otherwise noted
Thursday, Dec. 14
Heaven Down Here
Cast: Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon, Phylicia Rashad
Plot: Inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, “Heaven Down Here” tells the story of four people from varied backgrounds who find themselves stranded by a snowstorm in a local diner on Christmas Eve. Imami (Brown) is a widowed mother of two who’s having trouble making ends meet and reluctantly agrees to work the Christmas Eve shift, where she clashes with her boss, Dan (Harmon), who doesn’t exactly embody the Christmas spirit. Felix (Riedinger) is a local pastor desperately trying to secure food for parishioners while his faith is challenged by his alienation by his son. Clara (Lifford) is a hospice nurse with an obstinate patient (Rashad) and whose daughter is moving away, causing her to question her place in this world. Throughout the evening, the four bicker, bond and unwittingly provide one another with the answer to their respective prayers.
Thursday, Dec. 21
Miracle in Bethlehem, PA
Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Ayres
Plot: A New DaySpring Movie. Successful and fiercely independent, Mary Ann Brubeck (Vandervoort) adopts a baby girl to raise on her own just before Christmas. Due to weather, she and the baby get stuck in Bethlehem, Pa., for the holidays. When there is no room at the inn, her only option is to stay with the innkeeper’s brother Joe (Ayres), a quintessential bachelor who lives in a house that he treats like a barn. As Mary Ann learns the value of community by spending time with Joe’s family and participating in the local church’s Christmas events, Joe starts getting his act together with new motivation … and the two begin to see each other in a new light.
Hallmark Movies Now’s Movies & Mistletoe Schedule
Thursday, Nov. 9
A World Record Christmas
Cast: Nikki DeLoach, Lucas Bryant, Aias Dalman
Early access before the Nov. 16 premiere on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Thursday, Nov. 16
Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas
Cast: Shenae Grimes-Beech, Chris Carmack, Grace Leer
Early access before the Nov. 30 premiere on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Monday, Nov. 27
Three Wise Men and a Baby (extended cut)
Cast: Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker, Margaret Colin
A never-before-seen extended cut exclusive to Hallmark Movies Now.
Plot: 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. As they slowly get the hang of things, they find themselves on unexpected journeys of self-discovery and begin to rebuild their relationships as brothers, as well as the damaged romantic and professional relationships in their respective lives … all while rediscovering their love of Christmas.
Thursday, Dec. 7
Rescuing Christmas (working title)
Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Sam Page
Plot: In a world where Santa (T. Mychael Rambo) is real and wants to drum up some holiday spirit, two of Santa’s elves, Chuck (Patrick Thomas O’Brien) and Debbie (Bailey Stender), devise a plan to grant one human on Earth three wishes to kick-start the holidays. Unfortunately, that human is Erin (Cook), who has lost all affection for the season. Even a blind date set up by her sister, with the affable and charming Sam (Page), won’t change her mind about Christmas. But when she makes the mistake of wishing Christmas would “just disappear,” Erin wakes up to a world where the holiday never existed! Horrified, she realizes that she has taken away everyone’s joy, so she enlists Sam to help her reinvent the festivities from scratch. In the process, Erin learns just how much this holiday and its traditions have meant to everyone around her — and how much Sam has come to mean to her.
Thursday, Dec. 14
An Ice Palace Romance
Cast: Celeste Desjardins, Marcus Rosner
Plot: A journalist (Desjardins) faces old fears when she returns to her hometown ice rink to cover a story. With the help of the owner (Rosner) and his young daughter, she begins to reevaluate her life’s purpose.
Thursday, Dec. 21
A Holiday Spectacular (extended cut)
Cast: Ginna Claire Mason, Derek Klena, Eve Plumb, Ann-Margret, the Radio City Rockettes
Plot: In 1958, Maggie (Mason) is an heiress from Philadelphia who puts her high-society wedding plans on hold in order to sneak up to New York City and make her secret dream come true: dancing live onstage in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.
