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As the year winds down, fewer new series are making their debuts, and this week is no exception. What new shows that did premiere were mostly animated, with one new animated series making its debut in each of the three ...
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The Hallmark+ streaming service rolls out the second 'Cherry Lane' sequel ... or is it a prequel ... this week with the premiere of Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane. As with the first two movies, this one also takes place ...
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While the Lifetime channel has turned over its weekends to the 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' holiday movies, sister channel LMN (an initialism for the Lifetime Movie Network, also known as Lifetime Movies) is doing its own thing for the holidays ...
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With Christmas approaching, the studios are rolling out the big movies to draw crowds and court awards organizations, particularly in the latter part of the century. Things really get busy in 1964, which gave an actor and actress their signature ...
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Baltimore is the new Schenectady.  Let me explain.  For years, thanks to its proximity to New York City and a generous tax credit from the state of New York, the folks in Schenectady have been the first audiences ...
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As we all know, Christmas is December 25. But this year December 25 is also the start of Hanukkah, so Hallmark is giving some space to the Festival of Lights with its latest holiday film, Leah's Perfect Gift, starring Emily ...
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People who probably don't watch Hallmark movies like to joke that Hallmark movies have one or two formulas that all the movies follow. There is a popular meme that even suggests scientists are close to finding a second formula for ...
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There are a whole series of films set in Black-owned beauty salons and barbershops, and Lifetime is cashing in on the genre with its latest holiday movie, A Very Merry Beauty Salon, which stars and is executive produced by Tia ...
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The networks aren't being very jolly this week, with only one decade providing any new programming ... and the bulk of those were duelling Christmas moves and one special. One short-live reality series premiered on cable TV, and Netflix dumped ...
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In 2023, Hallmark produced a decades spanning holiday film titled Christmas on Cherry Lane. Set in three different decades, the film focuses on couples living in a house on the titular street, Number 7 Cherry Lane to be exact. The ...
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The top half of the century was loaded with new film releases with very few of them having any lasting impact. One 1944 film turned out to be a surprise hit for its comedy team stars, while a 1964 film ...
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You would have to be a very young human to not have any familiarity with The Sound of Music, the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical that first lit up the stage in 1959, became a major motion picture in 1965, ...
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