The Holiday Junkie

Matt Roush says...

The Yule Log: On Lifetime: 9-1-1’s Jennifer Love Hewitt is director, executive producer, and star of The Holiday Junkie (Saturday, 8/7c) as Andie, who’s carrying on the family’s decorating and planning service after her mother passes away, finding romance with a dreamy handyman (Hewitt’s husband, Brian Hallisay). Then spend Christmas on the Alpaca Farm (Sunday, 8/7c) with “Queen of Christmas Sweaters” Jess (Kirsten Comerford), a fashionista who finds holiday joy with a single-dad alpaca farmer (Matt Wells).

Great American Family features another real-life couple, Alexa PenaVega and Carlos PenaVega (who wrote and performs the title song), in Get Him Back for Christmas (Saturday, 8/7c), with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders making a special appearance; and then heads to Christmas in Scotland (Sunday, 8/7c), where an installation designer from New York (Jill Winternitz) and a wealthy Scrooge team up to help a small Scottish town win a blinding Christmas light contest.

Hallmark Channel’s The Santa Class (Saturday, 8/7c) is set at a struggling Santa School, where proprietor Kate (Kimberley Sustad) and co-worker Dan (Benjamin Ayres) believe they’ve found the genuine article, an amnesiac St. Nick. Also on Hallmark: Following Yonder Star (Sunday, 8/7c) stars Brooke D’Orsay as a disgraced TV star who finds shelter at a Vermont B&B whose owner (John Brotherton), an astronomy teacher, is awaiting the Christmas Eve appearance of a star mirroring the Star of Bethlehem in the night skies.

OWN offers Mistletoe & Matrimony (Saturday, 9/8c), with Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut as a wedding planner prepping her sister’s Christmas Eve wedding when her ex (Etienne Maurice) arrives to lend a helping hand, and then some.

On UPtv: Holiday Hideout (Saturday, 7/6c) stars Arielle Kebbel as a federal marshal keeping an informant (Colin Egglesfield) cozy until he can testify after Christmas. In A Novel Christmas (Sunday, 7/6c), a children’s book author (Brigitte Kingsley) heads to Noelville (get it?) to tend to her newly widowed dad and fall for a single-dad bookstore owner (Landy Cannon).

What's Worth Watching (Dec 14)