Jingle Bell Run

Matt Roush says...

The Yule Log: So many holiday movies. On Hallmark Channel: Jingle Bell Run (Saturday, 8/7c) stars Ashley Williams and Andrew Walker as teammates who get very acquainted while traveling the country on the Amazing Race-style reality competition The Great Holiday Dash. In Confessions of a Christmas Letter (Sunday, 8/7c), The Office’s Angela Kinsey is a matriarch who hires a novelist (Alec Santos) to help her win a holiday letter-writing contest, with complications ensuing when rumors link him romantically with her daughter.

Lifetime’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” movie series gets started with Christmas at Plumhill Manor (Saturday, 8/7c), starring Maria Menounos as an architect who finds romance across the pond when she inherits an English countryside estate. In Holiday in Happy Hollow (Sunday, 8/7c), a real-estate developer (Tamara Almeida) discovers that the Christmas tree farm she bought includes small deeds belonging to local families.

On Great American Family: A Christmas Less Traveled (Saturday, 8/7c) stars channel favorite Candace Cameron Bure as Desi, who discovers an audiocassette in her late dad’s truck with directions for a road trip to romance. In A Christmas Quilt (Sunday, 8/7c), Ferelith Young is a quilting teacher who bonds with a firefighter (Harmon Walsh) when she makes a quilt for his sister’s Christmas wedding.

On UPtv: Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays (Saturday, 7/6c) features Vivica A. Fox in the story of a social influencer whose puppy is kidnapped, with her assistant and a local vet growing close while joining the search. In A Very English Christmas (Sunday, 7/6c), Kimberly Nixon scrambles to help plan her sister’s impromptu Christmas Eve wedding in England.

What's Worth Watching (Nov 16)