After
learning she has been dating Prince Alex (Theo J Paul), Dana Charles (Kemberley
Fenton) now has to be trained to become a Princess by the royals, and finds
herself rubbing shoulders with Kings, Queens and Princes so is it possible to
make a silk purse from a sow’s ear and transport her from rags to riches?
After
learning she has been dating Prince Alex (Theo J Paul), Dana Charles (Kemberley
Fenton) now has to be trained to become a Princess by the royals, and finds
herself rubbing shoulders with Kings, Queens and Princes so is it possible to
make a silk purse from a sow’s ear and transport her from rags to riches?
Ari (Stefano Crescentini), a jungle boy of the fifth oracle, journeys to New York City accompanied by his talking dogs Winner (Sergio Luzi) and Fox (Fabrizio Mazzotta). Arriving in a snowy Christmas landscape they set off to find Father Christmas and help many people along the way.
Following
the death of her mother 14-year-old Megan (Brooklyn Nelson) is forced to move
from LA to West Virginia with her father Carl (Timothy E. Goodwin) to his old
childhood home.
When
her mother died, she stopped dancing, which was a passion they both shared, but
they are welcomed into the community and supported by the church and it’s at
the church in the nativity display where her Christmas miracle happens and she
is able to dance again.
Dean
Cain, Katherine Elise Shaw, Gant Montgomery, Davis Osborne, Barry Michael
Dailey, Veronica Rogers, Deven Bromme and Ronda Suder also star
While
attempting to write a new story, L. Frank Baum (Robert Notman), is
interrupted by his youngest son, Kenneth (Evan O'Donnell), their dog, Dorothy
and Butler Wilson (Paul Nicholas Mason) and he is persuaded to write a tale
about Santa Claus.
So,
he spins them a yarn about the Christmas Eve “Santanapping” which prevents
Santa Claus (Donald G. Baker) from performing his annual duties.
So,
it’s up to his second in command Holly (Diana Chrisman) to execute Santa's
emergency orders which name the ambitious young Elf, Whisk (Carter Treneer), to
full fill Santa's deliveries, with Kilter (Winny Clarke) the pixie and Nutter
the knock (Morgan Neundorf).
When
they were finished, they find Queen Lulea (Samantha Walkes) who tells them that
the Nogooders, Hatred, Envy and Regret (Reece Presley, Matthew Hawkins and
Keith Cooper) were the Santanappers, so they have to rescue Santa.
Sarah
Becker (Lucy DeVito) heads back to her hometown for Hanukkah with her fiancé
Chad (Cristián de la Fuente) but he tells her to keep it secret, and he chooses
to stay at a hotel to work on a big deal.
She soon discovers that the family's bakery is
in danger of closing down and her mother Linda (Gina Hecht) lets slip that her
father Frank (Bruce Nozick) has health problems and the next day he has a heart
attack.
But
the biggest shock comes when she realises it’s her fiancé who is planning to
take over the family business.
So,
it’s up her and her high school sweetheart Ben (Jonah Platt) to help save the
bakery but when they think they have failed, celebrity chefs Becky and Rachel
Baum (Laura and Sarah Silverman) step into save the day allowing Ben to show
Sarah the true meaning of love.
Carolyn
Giblin (Connie Selleca) is a therapist living in Los Angeles with her pre-teen
daughter Jordy (Asia Vieira) and has just gone through an extremely painful
divorce.
Carolyn
is anxious to move on, so she tells her daughter they are leaving LA and moving
back to Mayville, North Carolina, her hometown and Jordy is less than thrilled.
When they
arrive at Carolyn's grandma's old house they find it is in great need of many
and varied repairs.
Being a small-town
Carolyn soon runs into an old flame, Clay Traynor (Randy Travis) whom she left
at the alter a long time ago, but he's still angry about it, but his loving
aunt, Miz Leona (Rue McClanahan) is delighted to see Carolyn and to meet Jordy
which angers Clay further.
One
night, on hearing noises, Carolyn discovers that a young homeless boy William
(Kyle Fairlie) is living in her basement.
He won't
reveal where he is from or who his parents are and Carolyn befriend the boy,
much to the chagrin of the town's social worker Eve Stevens (Brenda Bazinet),
who also happens to have her eye on Clay.
With a
possible romantic triangle brewing, two energetic kids, a Christmas pageant, and
more, what will happen next in Mayville?
This is
an excellent holiday offering for fans of romantic comedy, but it is that and
far more.
After
her father (Eric Pollins) retires and moves to Florida Kate North (Kimberley
Sustad) reluctantly takes the reins of his struggling North Star Santa School,
aided by her sister Bailey (Lindsay Winch).
At
the same time former employee Dan (Benjamin Ayres) is fired from the St.
Nicholas School which is taking all of North Star’s business.
Kate
unwillingly takes him on for the weeks leading up to Christmas but on their way
to the school's next session they discover Nick (Trevor Lerner) the real Santa
Claus, lost and confused with no memory and they watch his sleigh take
off into the night sky.
In
order to help him remember they invite him to participate in the intense Santa
training program, along with an odd assortment, Timothy, Isaac, Megan, Patrick,
Bruce and Paul (Graeme McComb, Ryan Beil, Carmel Amit, Tom Pickett, Gary Jones
and Paul Campbell).
There's
a lot at stake for the school as they need to beat their great rival Blaise
(Alessandro Miro) and his St. Nicholas School for the cup or be forced to close
their doors.
On
top of that Nick (Santa Claus) needs to remember who he is, as the fate of
Christmas is at stake.
While
all this is going on Kate and Dan’s hearts become entwined.
Dennis Mitchell (Maxwell Perry Cotton) is an
energetic 6-year-old who can’t do right for doing wrong and drives his parents
Henry and Alice (George Newbern and Kim Schraner) to distraction while having
to contend with the neighbourhood bully Jack Bratcher (Isaac Durnford).
He also has a disproportionate number of encounters
with his long-suffering neighbour George Wilson (Robert Wagner) who always
comes off worse despite his wife Martha (Louise Fletcher) reassuring him
otherwise.
Dennis
is dreaming of getting a brand-new bike for Christmas because but it was
looking less and less likely with every passing day, but he wants to make sure that
Mr. Wilson has a perfect Christmas and makes a list, but each and every one
backfires, and finally George snaps and yells at Dennis that there is no Santa.
So, it’s up to Bob the Angel (Godfrey) to put on
his own version of “A Christmas
Carol”, where he plays the ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future to show
him the similarity between George and Dennis.
So, Will Bobs efforts bear fruit, and will Dennis get his bike?
While
attempting to write a new story, L. Frank Baum (Robert Notman), is
interrupted by his youngest son, Kenneth (Evan O'Donnell), their dog, Dorothy
and Butler Wilson (Paul Nicholas Mason) and he is persuaded to write a tale
about Santa Claus.
So,
he spins them a yarn about the Christmas Eve “Santanapping” which prevents
Santa Claus (Donald G. Baker) from performing his annual duties.
So,
it’s up to his second in command Holly (Diana Chrisman) to execute Santa's
emergency orders which name the ambitious young Elf, Whisk (Carter Treneer), to
full fill Santa's deliveries, with Kilter (Winny Clarke) the pixie and Nutter
the knock (Morgan Neundorf).
When
they were finished, they find Queen Lulea (Samantha Walkes) who tells them that
the Nogooders, Hatred, Envy and Regret (Reece Presley, Matthew Hawkins and
Keith Cooper) were the Santanappers, so they have to rescue Santa.
Successful Boston attorney Mary Ross (Emily Rose) inherits a house in Plymouth, Massachusetts from her deceased aunt and when she went to see the house with her boyfriend Rick Allen (Adam Kaufman) they find local historian Everett Mather (Justin Bruening) in the garden taking core samples to prove it’s the true sight of the very first Thanksgiving.
Mary doesn’t want anything to do with it and takes
legal action, but Rick just sees dollar signs which leads them to split up and
the situation over the property is made worse by local journalist Victoria
(Julia Jones).
As time goes on Mary becomes less hostile to the
idea as she gets to know Everett and his parents Abigail and Parker (Lindsay
Wagner and Bruce Boxleitner) culminating in a healing Thanksgiving dinner.
Successful
Boston attorney Mary Ross (Emily Rose) inherits a house in Plymouth, Massachusetts from her
deceased aunt and when she went to see the house with
her boyfriend Rick Allen (Adam Kaufman) they find local historian Everett Mather (Justin Bruening) in the garden taking core samples to prove it’s the
true sight of the very first Thanksgiving.
Mary doesn’t want anything to do with it and takes
legal action, but Rick just sees dollar signs which leads them to split up and
the situation over the property is made worse by local journalist Victoria
(Julia Jones).
As time goes on Mary becomes less hostile to the
idea as she gets to know Everett and his parents Abigail and Parker (Lindsay
Wagner and Bruce Boxleitner) culminating in a healing Thanksgiving dinner.
Its Christmas time again in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and the Mayor (Dean Cain) and his assistant Charlie (Jessica Adams) are finalising the preparations for the Christmas Parade and retired Toymaking Elf Hank Graham (Michael Siglerl) is going to lead the bikers in the parade.
However the head of the bikers, Slider (Richard
Grieco) plans to cause destruction and mayhem in the town instead and it’s up
to Hank and the ghost of Elvis (Joe Kent) to show him the error of his ways.
Sarah
Becker (Lucy DeVito) heads back to her hometown for Hanukkah with her fiancé
Chad (Cristián de la Fuente) but he tells her to keep it secret, and he chooses
to stay at a hotel to work on a big deal.
She soon discovers that the family's bakery is
in danger of closing down and her mother Linda (Gina Hecht) lets slip that her
father Frank (Bruce Nozick) has health problems and the next day he has a heart
attack.
But
the biggest shock comes when she realises it’s her fiancé who is planning to
take over the family business.
So,
it’s up her and her high school sweetheart Ben (Jonah Platt) to help save the
bakery but when they think they have failed, celebrity chefs Becky and Rachel
Baum (Laura and Sarah Silverman) step into save the day allowing Ben to show
Sarah the true meaning of love.
Its
Christmas and Elizabeth Elliot (Molly
Flanagan)
is divorcing her husband Frank (Jonathan
Cahill)
and as he is also a co-worker their boss Bob (Joseph Callari)
insists she takes some leave.
So,
she reluctantly takes a trip home for the holidays with her free-spirited
sister Sam (Tess Rianne
Sullivan),
but she hasn’t told the family about the divorce because she felt ashamed, so
she becomes entangled in a web of lies.
They arrive home three days before Christmas and
discover nothing was in place for the family's annual Charity Christmas party
because their parents (Patrick Flanagan and Susan
Crawford)
want the girls to plan the party themselves and they must learn to work
together.
To
complicate matters they are forced to employ the services of a local handyman David
(Michael Joseph Nelson) and there is an
obvious attraction, but she tries to ignore the feelings she has for him.
But
how will the family react when the truth comes out, and will the party be a
success?
And
will David be there to see it happen?
Allen
Karroll (Tom Everett Scott) is a Christmas hater ever since his
ex-girlfriend humiliated him in front of thousands of people one Christmas Eve
which is a handicap for a greeting card writer.
He
is also feuding with his neighbour across the road Zeb Rosecog (Wallace Shawn) who he hates.
Because of his preoccupation with Zebb he is in
danger of losing his girlfriend Carrie Ford (Deanna Milligan) if he doesn’t sort
his life out.
So,
on Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley (Dan Joffre), then the ghost of Christmas present Jodie McDougall (Alanna
Ubach), the ghost of Christmas past Barry Freedman (Larry Miller) and the ghost
of Christmas future Spike (Verne Troyer) but they have all come to
the wrong address, they should have gone to his neighbour Zeb Rosecog.
However,
they won’t listen to his protests, at least at first, and when they eventually do,
he agrees to help them and learns a lot about himself as well as Rosecog, and
that they have a lot in common.
So,
when he awakes on Christmas Day, he sets about making Rosecog see the light and
rediscover the joy of Christmas and also secure his own future with Carrie.
Two polar opposites have late night talk shows on WCV-Chicago, Sonia Mayerick (Alison Sweeney) has a feminist slant to her show whereas
Nick Linden (Jonathan Scarfe) has his "Man cave" show with a misogynistic
slant.
Then
one day they fight like cats and dogs live on the air and the ratings go
through the roof, so the station bosses give them their own morning drive time slot,
and it becomes an instant hit because people love to hear them argue.
But
love and hate are two sides of the same coin, and the two opposites soon attract
but is there a future for them.
“Jingle All the Way”
is a delightful, animated Christmas tale about a young boy named Andrew (Ryan Bley) who visits a Christmas tree farm with his parents (Morgan Elizabeth Cox and Nathan Dunkin) in the run up to Christmas.
While he’s there, he meets an
old lady, Mrs. Hibbert (Pamela Chollet) with a basket of Husky
puppies she is searching
for home for, and he instantly bonds with a young Husky pup he named
Jingle, but he is unable to keep him.
As the car drives away Jingle
escapes from the basket and embarks on a snowy journey to find his friend again, he is aided by a wise cardinal bird and is drawn to
the sound of bells in Pineville but ultimately its Santa who delivers him to
his destination.
“Jingle & Bell's Christmas Star” is a delightful, animated Christmas
tale about a young boy named Andrew (Ryan Bley) and his Husky pup Jingle who
live in Pineville.
Then
just before Christmas they get new next-door neighbours who have moved from
sunny Palm City, a girl the same age as Andrew, Sofia (Ami Shalabh) who also
has a Husky pup, called Bell,
He is hoping to make some new friends,
but Sofia and Bell's world has been turned upside down and all she wants is to
celebrate Christmas in Palm City instead it looks like it might be her worst
Christmas ever.
So,
it’s up to Andrew and his buddy Jingle to show her that Christmas joy isn't
about where you are but who you are with.
“The
Christmas King!” is an animated Christmas movie from the Garden Cartoon company,
in which, Lenny the Lion and Lucy the Lamb have to journey to the Christmas
Mountain to deliver the first snowflake of Christmas to the Christmas King.
There
are many distractions along the way of their adventure, like a Penguin wedding,
an angry beaver, a candy cane forest, and even have to outrun a Christmas
kraken, is just beginning, but their reward for their persistence in meeting
the Christmas King.
Vocal talents provided by Cristina M. Medina, Brian Stivale and James Arnold Taylor
“A
Mighty Merry Christmas” is an animated Christmas tale about Mighty Man and his
team of Mighty Wheels trucks in Motor City.
This
Christmas they want to do something special for Pop at Scoops
because he is missing his deceased wife Lolli so they have to find a lost scarf
that Lolli gave him before she died and the Mighty Wheels go off to find Pop’s
perfect Christmas Tree and finally Thunder Ted has to make it snow in Motor City.
So,
mission accomplished they helped Pop rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.
Vocal talents provided by Joshua Graham, Christina
Shrewsbury, Ed Mace, Blythe Melin. Cat Protano, Ed Robinson, Bill Rogers, Liv
Smith, Michael Ursu and Bailey Varness.
“The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol” is a delightful, animated version of
Charles Dickens classic tale.
Christmas
has arrived in the Smurfs village and Papa Smurf (Jack Angel) leads a group of
carolling villagers around the village and everyone is full of excitement
except for one miserable Smurf, Grouchy (George Lopez), who behaves very badly and
snarls at everyone that mentions Christmas and wants nothing to do with
anything that involve Christmas.
Even
Smurfette (Melissa Sturm) fails to get through to him, so Papa mixes up a magic
potion which he lets loose, and it makes its way around the village until it reaches
its destination, Grouchy Smurfberry Nog, and when he drinks it, he goes
straight to sleep.
When
he awakens the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future teach him to
appreciate Christmas.
Other
voices are provided by the vocal talents of Fred Armisen, Hank Azaria, Gary
Basaraba and Anton Yelchin.
The
incomparable Fred Astaire plays a multitude of characters including the
mysterious owner of a costume store who rents Santa Claus suit to three very
different men.
The
first one is Bob Willis (Gary Burghoff) a math teacher who is desperate to
propose to his model neighbour Polly Primer (Tara Buckman) and needs the suit
to give him the nerve to do it.
The
second is a homeless former restaurateur John Byner (Stan Summerville) who is trying
to hide from two mobsters Babyskin and Bruno Betinger (Eddie Barth and Ron
Feinberg).
And
the final one was a harried political speech writer Gil Travis (Bert Convy) who
is planning to visit his estranged wife Linda (Brooke Bundy) and son Terry (Andre
Gower).
So
will their lives be inexorably changed by their experience of wearing the Santa
suit?.
Also
featuring Nanette Fabray, Harold Gould, Ray Vitte, Debbie Lytton, Pat Petersen,
Danny Wells and
David
Greenan.
The
Story is set in England in the 1920s, and is a modern day re-telling of the
Hansel and Gretel story.
The
protagonist is an insane and elderly widow named Mrs. Forrest (Shelley Winters)
who keeps the mummified corpse of her little daughter, Katharine, in a nursery
in her attic.
To
the children and staff at the local orphanage Auntie Roo is a kindly American
millionaire who holds a lavish Christmas party every year at her mansion,
Forrest Grange, for 10 orphans, and they get to spend the night.
Christopher Coombs (Mark Lester) and his sister Katy were not invited so they stowed away
in the boot of Inspector Ralph Willoughby’s (Lionel Jeffries) car.
When they are discovered by her servant Albie
(Michael Gothard) Mrs Forrest allows them to stay.
On
that Christmas Eve, she holds a seance with Mr. Benton
(Ralph Richardson) she sees
little Katy who resembles her daughter Katharine and she wants her to stay.
When
she and Christopher are in the house, she kidnaps Katy and locks her up in the
attic nursery.
Nobody
believes her brother, Christopher, when he tells them what has happened,
because he has a history of trying to scare the children so he goes to Forrest
Grange alone to rescue her, so will he succeed or will he end up imprisoned
himself.
Two polar opposites have late night talk shows on WCV-Chicago, Sonia Mayerick (Alison Sweeney) has a feminist slant to her show whereas
Nick Linden (Jonathan Scarfe) has his "Man cave" show with a misogynistic
slant.
Then
one day they fight like cats and dogs live on the air and the ratings go
through the roof, so the station bosses give them their own morning drive time slot,
and it becomes an instant hit because people love to hear them argue.
But
love and hate are two sides of the same coin and the two opposites soon attract
but is there a future for them.
The
Story is set in England in the 1920s, and is a modern day re-telling of the
Hansel and Gretel story.
The
protagonist is an insane and elderly widow named Mrs. Forrest (Shelley Winters)
who keeps the mummified corpse of her little daughter, Katharine, in a nursery
in her attic.
To
the children and staff at the local orphanage Auntie Roo is a kindly American
millionaire who holds a lavish Christmas party every year at her mansion,
Forrest Grange, for 10 orphans, and they get to spend the night.
Christopher Coombs (Mark Lester) and his sister Katy were not invited so they stowed away
in the boot of Inspector Ralph Willoughby’s (Lionel Jeffries) car.
When they are discovered by her servant Albie
(Michael Gothard) Mrs Forrest allows them to stay.
On
that Christmas Eve, she holds a seance with Mr. Benton
(Ralph Richardson) she sees
little Katy who resembles her daughter Katharine and she wants her to stay.
When
she and Christopher are in the house, she kidnaps Katy and locks her up in the
attic nursery.
Nobody
believes her brother, Christopher, when he tells them what has happened,
because he has a history of trying to scare the children so he goes to Forrest
Grange alone to rescue her, so will he succeed or will he end up imprisoned
himself.
Vocal
talents provided by Cristina M. Medina, Brian Stivale and James Arnold
Taylor
After
missing out on the reboot, former child star, middle-aged Eve Carter (Leanna Adams) escapes
to the empty house belonging to her sister Ashley Carter
(Ashlee Heath), for
the holidays to keep a low profile and not get into any more viral trouble so
she can land her dream role off Broadway.
However,
although she is only expecting to find Ashley’s pet dog Mickey, she is shocked
to discover an injured stunt man, Ace Strong (Tyler
Buckingham) dog-sitting
for the holidays while recuperating and she wants him out asap.
The
only problem is he won’t go and worse than that he wants her out, so a hostile
beginning moves quickly into a period of tit for tat acts of sabotage.
Eventually
they negotiate a truce, and she even agrees to help him get back with his ex-girlfriend
Bianca (Naddya Alicea) so she can get him out of the house.
The
only problem is in the process of matchmaking they begin to fall for each other.
“A Mighty Christmas Adventure” is an animated Christmas tale about Mighty
Man and his team of Mighty Wheels trucks in Motor City.
This
Christmas they must defeat the Destructo Boys who
hijack Santa's sleigh during his annual Christmas Eve flyover and plunder all
the Mighty Rally toy sets.
They have to find Santa's scattered
reindeer, his missing sleigh so he can deliver toys around the world,
Vocal talents provided by Bill Rogers, Brian
Stivale, Andy James, Jacob Browning, Lisa Valentine Clark, Paul Davies, Joshua
Graham, Susan Hackel, Ed Mace, Jenny Maxwell, Christopher McCullough, Don
McDonald, Blythe Melin, Cat Protano, Ed Robinson, Liv Smith,
Bailey
Varness and Duffy Weber
“The
Christmas King!” is an animated Christmas movie from the Garden Cartoon company,
in which Lenny the Lion and Lucy the Lamb have to journey to the Christmas
Mountain to deliver the first snowflake of Christmas to the Christmas King.
There
are many distractions along the way of their adventure, like a Penguin wedding,
an angry beaver, a candy cane forest, and even have to outrun a Christmas
kraken, is just beginning, but their reward for their persistence in meeting
the Christmas King.
The
Story is set in England in the 1920s, and is a modern day re-telling of the
Hansel and Gretel story.
The
protagonist is an insane and elderly widow named Mrs. Forrest (Shelley Winters)
who keeps the mummified corpse of her little daughter, Katharine, in a nursery
in her attic.
To
the children and staff at the local orphanage Auntie Roo is a kindly American
millionaire who holds a lavish Christmas party every year at her mansion,
Forrest Grange, for 10 orphans, and they get to spend the night.
Christopher Coombs (Mark Lester) and his sister Katy were not invited so they stowed away
in the boot of Inspector Ralph Willoughby’s (Lionel Jeffries) car.
When they are discovered by her servant Albie
(Michael Gothard) Mrs Forrest allows them to stay.
On
that Christmas Eve, she holds a seance with Mr. Benton
(Ralph Richardson) she sees
little Katy who resembles her daughter Katharine and she wants her to stay.
When
she and Christopher are in the house, she kidnaps Katy and locks her up in the
attic nursery.
Nobody
believes her brother, Christopher, when he tells them what has happened,
because he has a history of trying to scare the children so he goes to Forrest
Grange alone to rescue her, so will he succeed or will he end up imprisoned
himself.
In
the small Wisconsin town of Paradise as another Christmas approaches, Lucy
Collins (Hannah
Fager), the local television news
director, channel 7, does not look forward to Christmas with a full heart.
She
has struggled to recapture the joy of Christmas after a tragic and traumatic
event only two years earlier, on top of that a statewide broadcaster is aiming
to open a bureau
in town.
So,
when a handsome mysterious man, Joe McNamara (Matt
Koester), arrives from Chicago seemingly, to apply for the associate producer position at the small independent television station, things change for Lucy, her family, and their small-town station.
However,
there is more to him than meets the eye, what are his intentions and what made
him make the journey to Paradise?
Also
starring Jocelyn Dawson, Roseanne Fasi, Len Gordon, Daniel Koester, Rachael
Lau, Jan Nelson, Rick Richter, Karen Spiegelberg, Ken T. Williams and Rachel M.
Williams.
When
Sam Whipple (Paul Tripp) was a boy he wrote a letter thanking Santa for the
presents he received and offered to return the favour someday if the need ever arose
and Paul grew up to be an attorney.
One
day in his office he is flabbergasted to be visited by Santa Claus (Alberto
Rabagliati) shortly before Christmas because he was desperately in need of his
services.
The
nature of the problem was that an unscrupulous, odious grasping old miser named
Phineas T. Prune (Rossano Brazzi) had managed to get his hands on the deeds to
the North Pole.
Prune
was demanding back rent and if it doesn’t settle up Santa, Mrs. Claus (Lydia
Brazzi) and all the elves will be evicted, and he will seize all the Christmas
toys.
So,
it's up to Sam and Santa to find a way to pay off Prune and prevent Christmas
from being cancelled forever.
