It’s never too early to start making holiday plans — and Lifetime’s about to keep you very, very busy.
PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that the 2021 slate of"It’s a Wonderful Lifetime"films features a whopping 35 holiday movies, with stars includingReba McEntire,Smokey Robinson,Marie Osmond,Jana Kramer,Tia Mowry,Melissa Joan Hart,Kelly Rowland,Chad Michael Murray,Mario Lopezand so many more. And, of course, they’ll also feature mistletoe, good cheer, and hot cocoa connoisseurs.
Below, you’ll find the full slate of holiday offerings — all 35 new Lifetime movies, the stars, and the network’s official descriptions.
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An Ice Wine Christmas, starring Roselyn Sánchez and Lyriq Bent: One of Philadelphia’s top wine sommeliers, Camila (Sánchez) goes home to the magical vineyards of Evergreen, New York, to take part in the town’s annual Ice Wine Christmas Festival and harvest. While there, Camila spends time with her mother Sunny (Maria delMar) and sister Beth (AnnaMaria Demara), who manages the local winery for Camila’s former ice wine mentor, Henry (Richard Fitzpatrick). But Camila discovers changes are coming as Henry plans to retire, scaling down the Christmas Festival. Beth also recently hired wine specialist Declan (Bent) who plans to take the operation to full-year production. Believing in the importance of preserving the magic of ‘Christmas in a bottle,’ Camila shares with Declan her passion for Christmas and what an authentic ice wine harvest can bring.(Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Dancing Through the Snow, starring AnnaLynne McCord, Colin Lawrence and Bianca Lawrence: Michael Foster (Colin Lawrence) is a firefighter and devoted single father to 8- year-old Lily (Bianca Lawrence), an aspiring ballerina. After a video goes viral of Michael and Lily doing an adorable ballet routine, Michael becomes the most eligible bachelor, as women everywhere want to date this adorable Dad. However, the only woman Michael has eyes for is Lily’s ballet teacher, Olivia (McCord). Will Michael be able to dance his way into Olivia’s heart?(Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
You Make It Feel Like Christmas, starring Mary Antonini, Michael Xavier, Stephanie Sy and Alex Poch-Goldin: Emma (Antonini) is a talented designer who finds herself too busy to return home for the holidays after her work catches the eye of design guru Kate Marguiles (Sy), much to her father, Tom’s (Poch-Goldin) dismay. When her ex-boyfriend and childhood best friend Aaron (Xavier) returns home after active military duty, he makes it his mission to get her home to celebrate their Christmas traditions.(Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Baking Spirits Bright, starring Rekha Sharma, Dion Johnstone, Aadila Dosani, Praneet Akilla, Manoj Sood and Nimet Kanji: Mira Varma (Sharma) takes pride in her family’s business of making fruitcakes, despite the decline in its popularity of once being America’s most-gifted holiday confection. When Mira’s parents decide to hire Brady Phillips (Dion Johnstone) and his high-powered marketing company to boost sales for the holidays, Mira must fight to hold onto the heart of the company she loves so much.(Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Reba McEntire’s Christmas in Tune, starring Reba McEntire, John Schneider, Candice King and Justin David: Years after their personal and professional breakup, the singing duo of Georgia (McEntire) and Joe Winter (Schneider) agree to reunite after their daughter, Belle (King), asks them to participate in a Christmas Charity concert, only to find themselves getting back in tune on stage and off.(Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion, starring Michelle Argyris, Alonzo B. Slater and Asia’h Epperson: Event planner Amy (Argyris) helps rising singer Tiffanie Christmas (Epperson) plan her holiday family reunion. Along the way Amy must navigate some challenging family dynamics, especially amongst Tiffanie’s aunts as well as her own growing feelings for Tiffanie’s cousin, Calvin (Slater). Will she be able to pull off an amazing Christmas family reunion? Vanessa Williams, Wendy Raquel Robinson, and Catherine Haena Kim co-star.(Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Saying Yes to Christmas, starring Erika Prevost and Romaine Waite: A magical Christmas wish makes a career-obsessed June (Prevost) say “Yes” to every invitation while she’s home for the holidays. But when an old flame, Blake (Waite) joins her hectic schedule of Christmas activities, past feelings are reignited. June must choose between saying yes to her career and life in the city or to her heart in her hometown.(Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
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A Christmas Dance Reunion, starring Monique Coleman, Corbin Bleu and Kim Roberts: Successful attorney Lucy Mortimer (Coleman), along with her mother Virginia (Roberts) returns to the Winterleigh Resort to help celebrate the hotel’s final Christmas season. Once there, Lucy is reunited with the owner’s nephew and her childhood Christmas Dance partner, Barrett Brewster (Bleu). Though the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most holiday events, Lucy leads the charge in recreating the beloved Christmas traditions, including the popular Christmas Dance, to bring together new families and new hope to the resort. Now, Lucy must decide if she’s willing to take a risk on love and partner up once more with Barrett for what could be the last Christmas Dance.(Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Secretly Santa, starring Alicia Dea Josipovic and Travis Nelson: Miranda (Josipovic) and Paul (Nelson) are business rivals who accidentally meet at a costumed Santa crawl and spend a romantic evening together without learning each other’s identities. As their anonymous romance continues online, their businesses merge, forcing them into an unwanted partnership. As they clash while working together on a holiday gift-giving app, their hearts must reconcile their online love when unexpected feelings develop for one another.(Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Christmas Movie Magic, starring Holly Deveaux and Drew Seeley: When entertainment writer Alli Blakeman (Deveaux) is assigned a story covering the anniversary of a classic Christmas movie in the small town where it was filmed, she agrees on the condition that it could lead to a big promotion. When she meets a local theatre owner Brad (Seeley), they unravel the mysterious origins of the movie’s signature song and Alli learns that movie magic isn’t always just on-screen.(Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Christmas with a Crown, starring Marcus Rosner and Lisa Durupt: After Cassie (Durupt) returns to her hometown to revive her family’s traditional Christmas festival, she meets a dashing stranger, Nicolas (Rosner), who’s volunteered to help organize the event. Sparks begin to fly between them, but little does she know that he’s really a prince in disguise, longing to find the true spirit of the holidays. It will take a Christmas miracle of royal proportions for their hearts to meet as one.(Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
A Fiancé for Christmas, starring Marie Osmond, Amanda Peyton and Adam Gregory: Perpetually single Sawyer (Payton) makes a fake wedding registry, hoping a shopping spree with a scan gun will be the ultimate retail therapy. But when the registry is discovered and the whole town throws her a surprise bridal shower, she’s too embarrassed to tell the truth. Instead, she finds a fake fiancé to help her navigate through the lies and holiday festivities. However, as real feelings develop between Sawyer and her fake fiancé, they may turn into the real deal after all.(Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
The Holiday Fix Up, starring Jana Kramer, Ryan McPartlin and Maria Menounos: When Sam (Kramer), the designer behind a popular home renovation show, returns to her hometown during the holidays to help renovate the Bell Harbor Inn, she gets paired with Coop (McPartlin) as her lead contractor. The only problem: he’s the guy who broke her heart and she’s the one who got away. Sparks fly as they work closely to get the renovations done in time for the inn’s annual Christmas Eve Harborfest. Will they be able to fix the mistakes of their past to build a future together?(Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Maps and Mistletoe, starring Humberly González and Ronnie Row: Emilia Martin (González), a cartographer of school maps, has plans for a cozy Christmas at home until her boss has a last-minute project for her, designing a novelty treasure map of the North Pole. Emilia decides to seek out the expertise of North Pole explorer Drew Campbell (Rowe), who reluctantly agrees to help her. As the two work closely, they discover more than either of them ever expected.(Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
The Enchanted Christmas Cake, starring Erica Durance and Robin Dunne: After recently losing her grandmother, Gwen (Durance) is struggling to run their bakery, regain the Christmas spirit, and figure out her grandmother’s magical recipe for the town’s legendary Enchanted Christmas Cake. So, when a high-end chef comes to town to film a Christmas special, Gwen reluctantly agrees to help the producer Gavin (Dunne) prepare for the shoot to help support the bakery. As sparks fly, will she discover that Gavin is the secret ingredient she was missing all along?(Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Mistletoe in Montana, starring Melissa Joan Hart, Duane Henry and Jamey Sheridan: Welcome to Paradise Ranch, where city slickers get to be cowboys and cowgirls. Merry (Hart), who owns the ranch has been unlucky in love, but that’s about to change when a single father, Mark (Henry), and his two kids book the ranch for Christmas week. Adventure is on the menu, the holiday spirit is everywhere, and love is in the air.(Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Under the Christmas Tree, starring Elise Bauman, Tattiawna Jones and Ricki Lake: Marketing whiz Alma Beltran (Bauman) and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie Freemont (Jones) cross paths when Charlie finds the perfect tree for the Maine Governor’s Holiday Celebration — right in Alma’s back yard. While they initially spar, romantic sparks soon begin to fly between the two women as the enchanting tree and some Christmas fairy dust from the town’s pâtissière extraordinaire (Lake) bring out the best in them and spark each other to take leaps of faith and fight for love and Christmas magic.(Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Candy Cane Candidate, starring Jacky Lai and Jake Epstein: Natural-born leader, Julia (Lai), returns to her hometown of North Falls for Christmas to drown her sorrows in eggnog, cookies, and Yuletide after her recent political campaign for city council ended in a landslide loss. It’s the perfect place for Julia’s holiday escape — until she realizes coming home means running into her old high school rival, Parker (Epstein), the arrogant know-it-all who beat her in a race for senior class president. When the North Falls mayor resigns, the town holds an emergency election, and Julia and Parker find themselves once again facing off. But as Julia and Parker campaign their way through the Christmas season and plan a toy drive together, Julia begins to see a different side of Parker, and the ice between them slowly begins to thaw. As their political race comes to a head, Julia and Parker discover winning isn’t everything.(Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
The Christmas Ball, starring Deidre Mullins, Nick Hendrix and Caroline Langrishe: When lead ballerina Clare Fitzgerald (Mullins) is let go before the Christmas season’sNutcracker, she’s beyond devastated and jumps at the opportunity to visit her Aunt Bridget (Langrishe) in England during the holidays. Once there, she meets Liam (Hendrix), a local professor and historian who is helping Aunt Bridget preserve the family manor. Clare discovers that Christmas Regency balls were once held at the manor, prompting Aunt Bridget to propose they hold a ball as part of Liam’s presentation to the preservation society. As Clare and Liam work together, the two also waltz into a new romance.(Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
It Takes a Christmas Village, starring Brooke Nevin, Corey Sevier and Alli Chung: In order to make the town’s Christmas market a reality, Mayor Alex Foster (Nevin) must convince the reclusive Darcy Hawkins (Sevier) to loan out his family’s historic mill, which is no easy task thanks to a long-running family feud. But as Alex slowly chips away at Darcy’s frosty exterior, their feelings grow beyond the interest of the town, leading this unlikely duo to the prospect of love.(Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Rebuilding a Dream Christmas, starring Meggan Kaiser, Zane Stephens and Bryson JonSteele: Successful real estate broker Abbey (Kaiser) is forced back to her hometown to repair a Victorian house she inherited from her grandmother. She decides to sell the house and hires single dad Josh (Stephens) to help with the repairs. Working together brings up memories from her past and as her relationship with Josh and his eight-year-old son Noah (JonSteele) grows, Abbey finds her calling and makes a home for herself.(Dec. 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Hot Chocolate Holiday, starring Aubrey Reynolds and Jonny Swenson: Colette (Reynolds) runs a coffee shop that is known for her secret and famous hot chocolate. When Marcus (Swenson), a new dessert shop owner, starts to draw in Colette’s customers with his very own specialty hot chocolate that tastes exactly like the recipe from her beloved grandmother, she is determined to expose him. But as she gets to know Marcus, sparks fly between the cocoa connoisseurs.(Dec. 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
Writing Around the Christmas Tree, starring Krystal Joy Brown and Curtis Hamilton: Mikaela (Brown), a successful romance novelist who has had bad luck in love, visits a quaint bed and breakfast for a Christmas writer’s retreat near a snowy lake town each year. Upon arriving, she meets dashing writer, Levi (Hamilton) who soon convinces Mikaela that she shouldn’t be writing about love if she doesn’t allow herself to get out and actually experience it.(Dec. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT)
source: people.com
