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Christmas is just around the pine-tree-lined corner two days from now, more specifically and perhaps only now you re allowing yourself to slip into the spirit of the holidays via your television or computer screen. Or maybe you re a legendary procrastinator and you were planning to inhale an unhealthy percentage of the 99 new Christmas movies debuting on cable networks and streaming services before the chimney-sliding begins. Whatever the case, it s time to finalize your holiday binge schedule and we re not talking about peppermint chocolate chip cookies. (And yet, we kind of are.)
Yes, you ll find plenty of first snowfalls, second chances, happy endings, cable-knit sweaters, and sad-eyed widows willing to give this crazy thing we call love a shot. And, sure, there are time-travel flicks (Hallmark Channel s
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Audiences who love a good, fluffy made for TV Christmas movie are deep into the perfect time of year right now. Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries are helping to give us all the feels with nearly 24/7 showings of favorites from years past, as well as premieres for 2020 every Saturday and Sunday night. In an effort to help you hone your viewing choices, we re grading some of the new offerings so you know how they stack up compared to the typical fare of Hallmark movies. And, this week, it s time for us to take a look at the Tamera Mowry-Housley starrer
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The joy and celebration of Christmas will be doubled as Hallmark Channel has come up with an impressive collection of feel-good films this festive season. The movies that exhibit the festive spirit will start running on Hallmark Channel as part of the networkâs annual âCountdown to Christmasâ programming event. Of the exciting collection of films that are ought to give much respite in a pandemic, is âChristmas Comes Twiceâ.
The film explores some path-breaking choices and introspection by lead characters. It is interspersed with life lessons learned, inspirations and musings. Before we head to watch it, here s the starry cast of the film.
Inside Weekend TV: History’s
History’s Greatest Mysteries (Saturday, 9/8c) begins a three-part series, “Roswell: First Witness,” with a new investigation of the 1947 crash that includes an attempt to decode the diary of Major Jesse Marcel, who was the first to investigate the wreckage of a rumored UFO… CBS’s
48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c) revisits “The Hunt for the Long Island Serial Killer,” a still-cold case dating back a decade. Erin Moriarty’s report includes the first TV interview with Lily Waterman, the teenage daughter of one of the victims… Timothée Chalomet (
Call Me by Your Name, next year’s
Sheryl Lee Ralph Is Living The Life Of Her Dreams With over four decades on stage and screen, this actress and activist and now director shows no sign of slowing down.
Forty-three years ago, her acting career began. Thirty-nine years ago, she introduced us to Deena Jones, in the original
Dreamgirls on Broadway alongside a cast of more treasured Black queens like Phylicia Rashad, Loretta Devine and Jennifer Holliday. And although it may seem like yesterday that we were introduced to Dee Mitchell, the stepmom that we didn’t know we all needed on the forever favorite 90s hit sitcom,