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hallmarknostalgia · 4 months ago

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It's been nearly three years since Signed, Sealed, Delivered aired its last original movie. Now, everyone's favorite quartet of post office detectives — Oliver (Eric Mabius), Shane (Kristin Booth), Rita (Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe), and Norman (Geoff Gustafson) — are back to solve the latest postal mysteries in two new films for Hallmark Mystery's longest-running movie franchise.

The first of the two movies, titled Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters, picks up six months after Oliver and Shane said "I do" in 2021's The Vows We Have Made. (The second, To the Moon and Back, was filmed simultaneously and won't air until 2025.) After enjoying their honeymoon period, the couple discovers that being married and living together isn't a walk in the park like they envisioned. "We see Shane and Oliver being pushed in directions we haven't seen before," Mabius told TV Guide.

As Oliver and Shane navigate rocky terrain, they're tasked with investigating three dead letters (aka undeliverable mail) — the results of which have a profound impact on the issues they're currently dealing with, and that Rita and Norman are also facing as they work on possibly expanding their family.

Ahead of Friday's premiere of A Tale of Three Letters, TV Guide spoke with Mabius and Booth about returning for more Signed, Sealed, Delivered movies after a three-year drought, the marital challenges Oliver and Shane face, and what may be in store for their future.

TV Guide: It's been three years since the last Signed, Sealed, Delivered movie. Did you think you would get another shot at continuing the story and playing these characters again?

Kristin Booth: It's such an interesting dance with this show because we're always at the point now where we're like, okay, this might be the last one. We always are hoping that there will be more because we really love the show, we love the characters that we get to portray, and we love working with each other. So there's always that hope. When we were told that we were going to shoot more [movies], we were absolutely thrilled and excited to get back at it. It's been a long time coming. We're so grateful that the POstables remain dedicated to the show and that the network has given us more opportunity to make these great movies.

Eric Mabius: Honestly, I didn't doubt it for a minute. Every time we come together, we don't necessarily know there's going to be another one. That's why it was so great to shoot two [movies] at a time. Hopefully we'll have more in the future, but there's still so many stories left to tell and [creator] Martha [Williamson] always brings her A-game when she's writing. There's so much depth and breadth of emotion, and there's an excitement when we all get back together to make these movies. To be back together with the people that I've grown to love so much over the last 11 years, I'm a lucky man.

Why do you think Signed, Sealed, Delivered has lasted this long?

Booth: There is something so unique about Martha's storytelling and we really become such a family, not just for each other, but for the people that watch the show. People genuinely feel a part of these character's lives. What's different about Signed, Sealed, Delivered is that it's not easily put into a genre. You get something family-friendly, which is the cornerstone of Hallmark but then you also get drama, mystery, comedy, love stories all wrapped up in one. That is what appeals to people. Whenever they tune into Signed, Sealed, Delivered they know they're going to get a beautiful, complex story.

Mabius: There isn't a fixed point of evolution. There isn't a plateau they hit and then there are no more stories to tell. It's more reflective of real life and the challenges that they have to face down, but doing it with humor and depth of emotion is really important.

When we last saw the gang, Oliver and Shane got married. What can you tee up as they enter a new chapter in their relationship?

Booth: Oliver and Shane are certainly entering a new period. In A Tale of Three Letters, we really get to explore what a new marriage can look like [and] Martha doesn't shy away from the challenges of a new phase of a relationship. When you take a relationship to a next level, there are always going to be surprises; sometimes those surprises can be wonderful and sometimes they can be a bit more disconcerting or challenging. I think what Martha does brilliantly with this movie is illustrate, with Shane and Oliver, that it doesn't matter how much you love someone or are committed to someone — that living with someone and marrying someone can be a whole new experience.

Throughout the movie, you see Oliver and Shane in their honeymoon period but then reality slowly settles in when the early bumps of their marriage begin to surface. How do they adapt to life as newlyweds?

Booth: The bumps that they experience are not devastating in the sense of, "We made the biggest mistake of our lives," but more so the fact that these bumps are unexpected. They both had this idea that the honeymoon phase was going to last forever and they knew each other so well that they weren't expecting any bumps. When you take a relationship to the next stage, there are always going to be bumps along the way because it's a change. Oliver and Shane aren't great when it comes to change, especially Oliver. He's very set in his ways. Ultimately, it comes down to when they are able to discuss what it is that is really getting on their nerves or really bothering them.

Kristin Booth and Eric Mabius, Signed, Sealed, Delivered Hallmark

There are also several scenes where they're in couples therapy as they try to figure out what's potentially wrong, which isn't often depicted on TV.

Mabius: I was surprised that each of them could be so stubborn and childish in many ways. I think the resolution that we achieved by the end is really earned. It's not pie in the sky. It's not completely fabricated for the two-hour movie structure. It happens in an organic, resonant way.

Booth: We really get to see their arc as a couple in this film. What [Martha] does with the ending is weave a lot of their history into the resolution, so to speak. Not only do we go on this journey with Oliver and Shane, navigating the challenges as a newly married couple, but we get to celebrate them as a couple and the history of this couple — and it's a vast history. I love that aspect of this film. You get the whole picture and for people who perhaps haven't even seen the previous films, this one can stand alone and that's the result of Martha weaving in the history and giving those answers to questions that might be there.

Was there anything that surprised you with the story that fans might enjoy?

Booth: I was surprised to see Oliver and Shane in this stage of their relationship, especially when the last time we saw them was at their wedding. A lot of fans are going to be excited. They won't feel like they missed a lot because we go from their wedding [to] this film, and we see a glimpse or two of their honeymoon. The audience is riding alongside Oliver and Shane in their journey through a new marriage and a new phase of living together.

Mabius: What I love about this movie is sometimes [Oliver] doesn't know what to say and he doesn't know what to feel. These two movies are really important for our evolution, certainly my experience playing him. It was nice for him to be pushed far off-balance in each of these movies in very different ways and for us to end up where we do.

Do you have favorite scenes you want to call out from A Tale of Three Letters?

Mabius: There are scenes between Oliver and Shane we've never seen before and I think it'll create a whole new type of emotional investment for the people who have been watching all these years and those who are tuning in for the first time. This movie on Friday is really about having the guts to admit you don't have the answers in a relationship and being willing to start over again. The fact that Hallmark has the guts to not present things in a neat and tidy bow all the time speaks to the quality of work they're striving towards.

You've already filmed the next movie, To the Moon and Back, which is slated to air in 2025. Anything you want to say or can say about that one?

Booth: There are lots of surprises coming up. It's going to be a lot of fun and it was for us to shoot the letter story in the next film, which takes the POstables out of the DLO (Dead Letter Office), which I personally always love. I love to see these four characters outside of their element and thrust into the real world, meeting new people, and tracking down all the clues in the letter. People are going to really enjoy the storyline of the next one.

When you started this journey on Signed, Sealed, Delivered, you probably didn't think that you would still be playing the same character 11 years later. How have your relationships to Oliver and Shane changed as time has passed?

Booth: It's an interesting question because when we started this show, you're right, I had no idea that 11 years from that moment, I would still be inhabiting this character and living in this world. I've always loved playing her, but what I love about Shane is that she seems to be always evolving. She never gets stuck in a rut. That's a great challenge for me as an actor as it doesn't become boring. The way that Martha has written these characters is they're constantly evolving. They're constantly faced with new challenges and dilemmas, often through the letter stories. Even though they're still working at the same job, no two letters are alike and no two mysteries are alike. So we get to see the characters' journeys mirrored back from these letters. As much as I've grown and known Shane, I'm still always discovering new things and that is rare.

Mabius: Taking a second to think about how we want to be treated before we act or speak to others is an important aspect of Oliver that I try to implement. Because it's been since 2013 when the pilot aired, I was in a very different place, as was everyone else. I was a father of two young boys and now [one of them] just graduated high school and I'm trying to help him find a car. All the things I learned over time — learning how to be patient, learning how to understand that my actions and words have a real effect on those around me — Oliver embodies that in a wonderful way. Not all the time, but it's something we should all strive for.

What would you like to see the characters do or experience?

Booth: I really would love to see the POstables travel outside of the country. I would love to see them put in a completely different culture. I think that would be really fascinating. Because they are characters who are quite unique and very set in their environment and protocols, putting them into something foreign could be hilarious but also bring out different sides of them that we perhaps haven't seen yet.

Mabius: There are a limitless number of things I'd like to see Oliver do. If you mean like learning how to ride a unicycle, I don't have any of those things on my bucket list. [Laughs] One of my favorite [movies] was when they head out in the RV [in 2018's The Road Less Traveled] and Jamie-Lynn Sigler was so great as our guest star, who I worked with on Ugly Betty, and pushed them out of their comfort zones.

Is there anything you want to say to the POstables?

Mabius: Without having the POstables being such fervent fans, I don't know if we would be here, so the support has been overwhelming. There's a whole other vibrant life that's been set into motion just from the show. It's great to see all the new ways that the show continues to positively influence people in their daily lives. Rarely does someone get to be a part of a show that lasts as long. If they do, it's a procedural and they have 24, 25, 26 episodes a year and they're so overwhelmed they just want to be done with it. That's the opposite of our experience on Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

#hallmark #signed sealed delivered

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reviewsclown · 1 month ago

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Resident Evil 2002

Based loosely off the first game I believe? I admit I've not really interacted with that one ever. Really impressive set design and creature design IMO, like the industrial lab aesthetic is good, well the zombies kind of have very grey skin and are usually wholly intact, and the licker is a pile of CGI that only turns into an even bigger pile of CGI

Plots kinda solid? It's not too in depth, no game characters exist except Mila Jovovich is like vaguely Jill Valentine. There's really just not a lot to say about it honestly. There's a bit of an attempt at making it poetry what rhymes. The 2 scenes in the mansion at the beginning and end, in the beginning a bunch of dark suited guys in military gear bust in. In the end a bunch of guys in white hazmat suits bust in. Near the very beginning there's a zoom in shot from very far away, black background zooming into a white scene which is the hazmat container with the T-virus. Near the end of the movie they zoom out Mila Jovovichs entirely white cell through a window into a black room you don't get much detail of. Also, personally, the movie Really should've ended when they got captured by the hazmat guys that work for umbrella, keep the surgery scene where they want to reopen the hive, the part where they say they want Eric Mabius in the nemesis program, that's all the foreshadowing/sequel bait you need. But then they have the weird lab scenes that don't really, do anything? and just exist to have Mila escape into raccoon city and see that apocalypse has struck, you could've saved that for the next movie, it would've been a lot cooler of a reveal.

Love the music in this movie it's not what you'd expect from like, horror action or whatever, I suppose it's more solidly just action? IDK, I like it. They have 3 credits song, the first by slipknot, and they're all just, incredibly ass. None of the songs were good I don't know how they did it.

Final Review: If you want to watch 5 zombie movies featuring characters, locations and concepts vaguely based off your favorite game franchise, this movie is for you. I don't think it's bad but your mileage may vary.

#reviews #movies #resident evil

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norahastuff · 4 years ago

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So I’ve been meaning to look back at this post. I always intended on following up on it after the show was over because narratively and structurally the parallels were really interesting to me and I wanted to see how it would all play out in the end. I’ll explain.

It was back when we were having a discussion about slow burn couples and how they compared to what Spn was doing with Dean and Cas. I always maintained that they were following the same kind of model that the Ugly Betty writers did with Daniel and Betty, in that they were an endgame romance, and not endgame in the sense that they got together and broke up a bunch of times over the course of the show a la Ross and Rachel, but rather endgame in the sense that the fact that they had romantic feelings for each other wasn’t addressed until the end of the show. You can look at that post for more details about the parallels between the two.

Well in the end Dean and Cas went almost exactly the same way as Daniel and Betty, but as it turns out, Destiel was much more explicitly romantic. Daniel never confessed his love for Betty. It was pretty clear how he felt, but he never outright said it. And it was Daniel’s mother who indirectly told Betty how he felt by saying “losing you is very hard for him I don’t even think he quite understands why yet.” So yeah not nearly as explicit as Cas’ confession but people had no problem accepting that he had feelings for her, wonder what the difference between Dean and Cas and Daniel and Betty is?

The emotional heart of the finale wasn’t even Daniel and Betty, it was Betty saying goodbye to her family as she left for a life away from them. As important as Daniel and Betty’s relationship was, it was always her family that were the most important people in her life and so it makes sense that that goodbye would be the main focus. Seems relevant...especially to anyone who tries to shoot back at the people unsatisfied with Dean and Cas’ ending by saying the finale was always going to focus on the brothers. Those two things are not mutually exclusive? Nobody was expecting the whole episode to be the adventures of Dean and Cas, that doesn’t mean it still should not have been a part of it.

There was even a montage of Betty and her new life, we saw her thriving, busy, fulfilled and all seemed well...and then out of the blue, she bumps into Daniel. Because it wouldn’t have made sense for them to end the show with their relationship left unaddressed. Because despite everything else they were best friends and each others’ confidantes and romantic or not they needed to acknowledge how important that relationship was to both of them as well as the show. So Daniel gave up everything because Betty had taught him he could be more and he came to see her in her new life to thank her and to say goodbye. And possibly say hello. The show ends with Daniel asking her to have dinner and her saying yes. It’s not clear what that means. As friends? They’ve had dinner hundreds of times before. As something else? Seems likely. People had no problem extrapolating that he meant it romantically although it’s not made clear.

Betty’s feelings are not addressed at all, at least not textually. Subtextually the implication is that she feels the same way, but there’s no outright indication that she did - and honestly it’s nowhere close to what we’ve been shown Dean feels for Cas. Betty never made Daniel a mixtape.

I’m actually a little shocked at how similar it turned out that parallel was for both relationships. It really does feel like they followed the same blueprint. The crucial difference? That one missing scene. Daniel and Betty got to meet again one final time. They’d finally grown and changed enough that they could perhaps both find happiness with each other. Nothing was made explicit, in the actor who plays Daniel Eric Mabius’ own words “the possibilities are endless.” But they met. They acknowledged that this bond between them whatever you chose to call it, was important - both to Betty and to the show. They changed each other and they wouldn’t be the people they eventually grew to be if they hadn’t been in each others lives, and that final meeting was vital in order to acknowledge this, even though it was a short scene where not too much was said.

What Supernatural did, it’s what would have happened if Ugly Betty ended without Daniel going to talk to Betty again. If he’d just left everything unaddressed and ultimately let their whole relationship fall away without it meaning anything in the end. If they’d introduced this additional element of Daniel’s feelings for Betty (and vice versa even if it was more subtextual) and then just never acknowledged it. 15x18 took Dean and Cas further than Daniel and Betty...and then 15x20 just refused to follow up on it. So it’s not like they fall behind or anything, there’s literally just a page missing from their story. It’s hard to compare the endings because Dean and Cas just didn’t get one.

It’s unfortunate because I expected to be following up on this after the finale with the conversation centring more around how despite Daniel and Betty’s resolution being low key and not explicitly romantic, people (especially PR/interviewers/articles etc) had no problem accepting the two of them ending the series as a couple/potential couple, but Dean and Cas aren’t afforded the same consideration. And while that’s still true, turns out it’s so besides the point. We can’t discuss a resolution if they didn’t even get one.

#destiel #parallels #unfortunate all around #my spn thoughts #15x18 #15x20 #i like the ugly betty parallels in particular #because it's pretty much the same kind of relationship/growth #and literally any denial/criticism that people throw at destiel #can also be thrown at daniel and betty #i'm serious basically any one #try me #so yeah #spn

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tvmoviechristmas · 4 years ago

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas (Hallmark, 2019)

What happens in West Riverton, stays in West Riverton.

Starring: Tricia Helfer, Eric Mabius, Raf Rogers, Aliza Vellani

Plot Synopsis: When a New England Christmas decorating competition searches for the town with the most Christmas spirit, the mayors of East and West Riverton go all out to get their towns to the top of the holiday heap. (x)

In My Humble Opinion: Diversity and forward thinking has been the tagline of the Hallmark of the 2020 slate. Look at us! We have interracial couples and gay side couples and woman who don’t leave their cities for small towns! We are being progressive! We will not have controversies over lesbians in Kay ads anymore!

But after watching It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas, the final premier of their 2019 slate, I can’t help but wonder if they began their forward thinking journey even earlier than can be expected. There’s two reasons for this theory.

The first reason being that Tricia Helfer’s character is divorced and it’s a central aspect of her character. Her ex-husband is a major supporting character in the film, and she has multiple conversations about why she got divorced and whether it’s her fault for being too career-focused and competitive. Amazingly, the movie is clear that it’s not her fault! Hallmark allowing a divorced couple to get divorced and find new loves for no dramatic reason other than incompatibility. It’s insane to think about, but they did it.

Beyond that the movie also is incredibly happy to let Tricia Helfer wear heels for the majority of the longtime even though that makes her look taller than Eric Mabius in most shots. Now, that might not seem like a lot but I have seen Tom Cruise movies. I know there’s a height complex out there about taller women and shorter men and it seems like Hallmark would fall into that thinking. But not this time! Not this movie! It is astounding.

These seem like very minor things but they are astounding to find on Hallmark’s 2019 slate which was rightfully dragged for being incredibly behind the times. Maybe the little tiny crumbs of being progressive were the reason this movie was dumped in the final days before the holidays. Probably not, but it’s nice to pretend.

Watch If: You majored in political science in college, if you would rather be your own spy or if you are not nervous, you’re hungry.

Skip If: You believe that opposites attract, if your town is not your family or if you would rather have snowplows than Christmas lights.

Final Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

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#review #it's beginning to look a lot like christmas #hallmark #3 stars

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tvmoviesparks · 4 years ago

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Day 20 #POstables advent I have amazing my own divine delivery story of my own to share today

Once upon before signed sealed delivered there was ugly Betty starring Eric mabius and my favorite ship was Daniel and Betty I have searching tirelessly for year's after ugly betth a song that Daniel and Betty were dancing to In The season 3 finale. I went all Shane McInerney on it google search apple music Amazon YouTube finding the song title and artist but not seconds of lyrics and music to go by seriously thought it was the theme song of ssd it was the song that designed for the show.

Anywho today I start trying to search on new google music search widget nothing message Eric on on Instagram and Twitter about it also tweeting if one could find it I would make a Christmas wish come true. Then minutes after I tweeted that Faith Calderwood Echols fellow POstable tweeted me the artist and name and found on YouTube

https://youtu.be/DJs0ijCdilw

Then and ask her wish and she tweeted

”You have made it happen already. It makes me happiest when I have the opportunity to bring joy to others, especially during this season. Merry Christmas!😊”

So fellow faith on twitter

https://twitter.com/faith34767517?s=21

Give some #POstables love for me as my divine delivery Christmas wish for me and I am blessed happy holidays

#postables #Ugly Betty #daniel and betty #song search

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hallmark-movie-fanatics · 5 years ago

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‘WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS’ MARATHON OF ‘COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS’MOVIES RETURNS TO HALLMARK CHANNEL FRIDAY, MARCH 27 – MONDAY, MARCH 30

STUDIO CITY, CA – March 26, 2020 – Hallmark Channel is giving viewers more of what they asked for with another weekend of ‘We Need a Little Christmas,’ a special marathon featuring “Countdown to Christmas” movies, Friday, March 27, through Monday, March 30.

The Hallmark Channel premiere of “Just My Type,” on Saturday, March 28, as well as new episodes of “When Calls the Heart” and “When Hope Calls” on Sunday, March 29, will air at their originally scheduled times.

“Countdown to Christmas” movies starring fan favorites Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Holly Robinson Peete, Cameron Mathison, Alison Sweeney, Danica McKellar, Andrew Walker, Jill Wagner, Wes Brown and more will let viewers cozy-up at home and watch the movies they asked for. The weekend kicks off with “Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa” starring Wagner, Mark Deklin (“Designated Survivor”), Robinson Peete (“Morning Show Mysteries,” “Hanging with Mr. Cooper”), Barbara Niven (“Chesapeake Shores”), Andrew Francis (“Chesapeake Shores”), Rukiya Bernard (“One Winter Weekend”) and Ashley Williams (“The Jim Gaffigan Show”). The marathon continues throughout the weekend with movies including “Christmas at Holly Lodge,” “It’s Christmas, Eve,” “A Christmas Duet,” “A Christmas Wish,” and concludes with “Jingle All the Way” (Monday, March 30, 3:30 a.m. ET/PT).

The Full schedule appears below:

FRIDAY, MARCH 27th

12:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa” Stars: Jill Wagner (“Pearl in Paradise,” “Teen Wolf”), Mark Deklin (“Designated Survivor”), Holly Robinson Peete (“Meet the Peetes,” “Hanging with Mr. Cooper”), Barbara Niven (“Chesapeake Shores”), Andrew Francis (“Chesapeake Shores”), Rukiya Bernard (“One Winter Weekend”) and Ashley Williams (“The Jim Gaffigan Show”)

2:00 p.m. ET/PT: “The Mistletoe Promise” Stars: Jaime King (“Harts of Dixie”) and Luke Macfarlane (“Killjoys”)

4:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Christmas at Holly Lodge” Stars: Alison Sweeney (“Days of our Lives,” “The Biggest Loser”), Jordan Bridges (J. Edgar, Mona Lisa Smile) and Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Instant Mom,” “Ray Donovan”)

6:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Picture a Perfect Christmas” Stars: Merritt Patterson (“The Royals”) and Jon Cor (“Shadowhunters”)

8:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Christmas Town” Stars: Candace Cameron Bure (“Fuller House”), Tim Rozon (“Schitt’s Creek”) and Beth Broderick (“Sharp Objects”)

10:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Write Before Christmas” Stars: Torrey DeVitto (“Chicago Med”), Chad Michael Murray (“Riverdale”), Grant Show (“Dynasty”), Lolita Davidovich (“How to Get Away with Murder”) and Drew Seeley (“Glory Daze”)

SATURDAY, MARCH 28th

12:00 a.m. ET/PT: “My Christmas Dream” Stars: Danica McKellar (“The Wonder Years”), David Haydn-Jones (“Bridal Wave,” “A Cookie Cutter Christmas”) and Deidre Hall (“Days of Our Lives”)

2:00 a.m. ET/PT: “12 Gifts of Christmas” Stars: Katrina Law (“Snow Bride”), Aaron O’Connell (“The Haves and Have Nots”) and Donna Mills (“Knots Landing”)

3:30 a.m. ET/PT: “It’s Christmas, Eve” Stars: LeAnn Rimes (Logan Lucky) and Tyler Hynes (“UnREAL,” “Saving Hope”)

5:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Christmas at the Palace” Stars: Merritt Patterson (“The Royals,” “The Christmas Cottage”), Andrew Cooper (“Royal Hearts,” “Damnation”) and Brittany Bristow (“Holiday Date”)

7:00 a.m. ET/PT: “A Christmas Duet” Stars: Chaley Rose (“Nashville,” “Code Black”) and Rome Flynn (“How to Get Away with Murder,” “The Haves and the Have Nots”)

9:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Christmas Connection” Stars: Brooke Burns (“The Chase,” “Gourmet Detective”) and Tom Everett Scott (“13 Reasons Why,” That Thing You Do!)

11:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Christmas at Pemberley Manor” Stars: Jessica Lowndes (“90210,” “Magical Christmas Ornaments”) and Michael Rady (“Timeless,” “Jane the Virgin”)

1:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Let it Snow” Stars: Candace Cameron Bure (“Fuller House”), Emmy® nominee Alan Thicke ("The L.A. Complex") and Jesse Hutch (“Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove”)

3:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Check Inn to Christmas” Stars: Rachel Boston (“A Ring by Spring”), Wes Brown (“True Blood”) and Richard Karn (“Home Improvement,” “Family Feud”)

5:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Christmas Getaway” Stars: Bridget Regan (“The Last Ship,” “Jane the Virgin”) and Travis Van Winkle (“The Last Ship,” Hart of Dixie”)

7:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Christmas Next Door” Stars: Jesse Metcalfe (“Chesapeake Shores”) and Fiona Gubelmann (“Wilfred”)

11:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Reunited at Christmas” Stars: Nikki DeLoach (“The Perfect Catch”) and Mike Faiola (“Yellowstone”)

SUNDAY, MARCH 29th

1:00 a.m. ET/PT: “A Wish for Christmas” Stars: – Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls, “Party of Five”) and Paul Greene (“When Calls the Heart”)

3:00 a.m. ET/PT: “A December Bride” Stars: Jessica Lowndes (“90210”) and Daniel Lissing (“When Calls the Heart”)

4:30 a.m. ET/PT: “Double Holiday” Stars: Carly Pope (“Suits”) and Kristoffer Polaha (“Condor”)

6:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Christmas Land” Stars: Nikki DeLoach (“Love Takes Flight”) and Luke Macfarlane (“Killjoys”)

8:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Crown for Christmas” Stars: Danica McKellar (“The Wonder Years”) and Rupert Penry-Jones (“Black Sails”)

10:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Merry & Bright” Stars: Jodie Sweetin (“Fuller House,” “Love Under the Rainbow”), Andrew Walker (“Bottled with Love,” “Love in Design”) and Sharon Lawrence (“NYPD Blue,” “Shameless”)

12:00 p.m. ET/PT: “With Love, Christmas” Stars: Emilie Ullerup (“Chesapeake Shores”) and Aaron O’Connell (“The Haves and the Have Nots”)

2:00 p.m. ET/PT: “The Mistletoe Secret” Stars: Kellie Pickler (“Pickler & Ben,” “Wedding at Graceland”), Tyler Hynes (“UnREAL”) and Patrick Duffy (“Dallas,” “Step by Step”)

4:00 p.m. ET/PT: “The Christmas Club” Stars: Elizabeth Mitchell (“The Expanse”) and Cameron Mathison (“A Summer to Remember”)

6:00 p.m. ET/PT: “Christmas Under Wraps” Stars: Candace Cameron Bure (“Fuller House”), David O’Donnell (“12 Wishes of Christmas”), Brian Doyle-Murray (“The Middle”) and Robert Pine (“Frozen”)

MONDAY, MARCH 30th

12:00 a.m. ET/PT: “The Nine Lives of Christmas” Stars: Brandon Routh (“Arrow”) and Kimberley Sustad (“A Bride for Christmas”) 2:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Welcome to Christmas” Stars: Eric Mabius (“Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” “Ugly Betty”) and Jennifer Finnigan (“Salvation”)

4:00 a.m. ET/PT: “Jingle Around the Clock” Stars: Brooke Nevin (“Chicago Hope,” “The Christmas Cure”), Michael Cassidy (“The OC”)

LINK HERE

#we need a little christmas marathon #press release #news #link #hallmark movies #hallmark channel #countdown to christmas

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thoughtfulpaperback · 5 years ago

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My 5 Television/Movie Cushes

I will preface this list by saying that most of my crushes are on the fictional characters rather than the actors, except for the first. I am weird because I can think the character is cute and have a crush on them, but the actor or actress that plays them I dont have a crush on... like i have seperated them in my mind somehow, but still appreciate that they are good looking but not interested in them. Now in no particular order:

1. Cesar Evora

My first ever crush was on Cesar Evora. I was so confused. It was 1998 and he was a priest on El Privilegio de Amar (The privilege of loving). At first I was just like "He is good and nice to look at, is it wierd that I like looking at a priest so much!?!", But then in 2002, he was in Entre el Amor y el Odio (between love and hate). It was the first televison show I was ever committed to. I didn't miss a single episode. It was also my introduction to sex at a very tender age. Specifically a sexual cesar evora who I started watching the show to see again... and continued to watch to see MORE of him... a lot more. I had feelings and curiosities I knew nothing of and pretty much continued to watch anything he was in just to see him.

2. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Katara was my third tv crush and It was weird because like while novelas and other dramas had been my introduction to sex/attraction/relationships which were all heterosexual and real people, I had no problem being head over heels for Katara. I thought she was beautiful. I could watch reruns of just her water bending for hours if possible. The way she moved and how kind and brave and strong she was, ugh. Like two years into the crush my friend pointed out that I might be too obsessed with her, and should shut that down. So I stopped watching the show. The older me eventually watched the whole series and realized my friend was an ass and really what harm was a tv crush on an animated character doing anyways.

3. Daniel Meade (Ugly Betty)

My very first ship and OTP was Detty. Honestly, Daniel Meade was my first-sorta- problematic crush. I didnt see a problem but others did. He was immature and could be a real jerk in the beginning (sometimes even later on too although not in the same way) but then he would do all these little and big things for betty and/or his mom and I would just swoon. Plus the sad puppy eyes. Heart eyes every damn time. Like I loved him and would defend his character even when he did something stupid. And like I understood what toxic and problematic relationships were and looked like. I did not like the Cole x Phoebe relationship on Charmed although I loved the Cole as a tragic character. But I didn't get those vibes from Daniel and Betty. And I just loved daniel to pieces. I think Eric Mabius just brought a lot to the character too and i just appreciate the work and writing that went into Daniel's character arch.

4. Mr. Darcy/Bridget Jones

Okay so, I love pride and prejudice and every iteration pretty much. But the Bridget Jones's diary had me all sorts of messed up and in love with the two main characters. There is no better Darcy than Colin Firth who can pull off being two different Darcy's in a career and be incredibly charming, awkward, and amazingly handsome as both. I just loved this Darcy and I just wanted to kiss his face even when he was jerkish. Bridget...OMG. talk about problematic crush. She was just such a mess. But I loved her. She had a real normal person body and I was just fascinated with that. She was a drinker, smoker (total real life turn offs for me), and not smart when it came to men, But she was bold, honest, a total klutz, funny, awkward, inappropriate, and just so damn resilient. I was equally awed and enamored with her as Darcy.

4. Harry Greenwood ( Charmed [2018])

My good God. Knowledgeable, dorky, can dodge a flying projectile and sustain massive amounts of damage, and the first male (in a female centric show) who isnt relegated to being passive or sidelined because the writers don't know how to write males interacting with females without making them problematic. I love and would die for Harry. His aesthetic is like killing me and just everything about him makes me want to hug him and never let go.

5. Prue Halliwell (Charmed [1998])

Okay so you know that point in you life where you dont understand crushes and sexuality since you are a young bean and the world has not yet tried to discourage "wrong" or "shameful" feelings. My second tv crush was at that point. Prue just freaking got me: The oldest sibling taking care of her younger siblings, a bit controlling, held a lot in. I mean in some ways I wanted to grow up to be her, because I mean she was just so beautiful, intelligent, POWERFUL, and capable. Good lord, I just loved looking at her back then. I loved watching the show and just thought she was the prettiest, best, and most amazing character on tv. Now I love her for more reasons, but when i first saw the show those where my feelings. Also I don't think any sort of sexuality or attraction is wierd shameful or wrong. Just sharing that old experience or my tv crush.

What about y'all? Who were/are your tv and film crushes? Do y'all remember the first ones?

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The Season 3 finale of Ugly Betty wasn't kind to Daniel Meade: His new bride, Molly, died of cancer. Eric Mabius, who plays the grieving editor-in-chief of Mode, explains how Daniel is coping with his loss, how he ends up involved in a cult and whether he thinks Daniel and Betty will ultimately be together.

TVGuide.com: Is Daniel coping with Molly's death?

Eric Mabius: Daniel is kind of losing it this season. There's a bunch of funny stuff that happens, but it's sad at the same time. For quite a few episodes, we see him lost and sort of little boy-like. He's grasping at straws, and he's having serious anger issues, which he's trying to get a handle on. Daniel's lost because this was the first mature love of his life. He's completely not over Molly and doesn't know how to process it.

TVGuide.com: So what does he do? Mabius: Things eventually get so bad that he starts going to a support group that winds up being a cult whose leader promises the hope of reuniting with lost loved ones. It gave us a great opportunity to bring in some amazing guest stars, like Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Dylan Baker. You start thinking it's going to be like Fight Club because Jamie-Lynn plays this dark character, but it goes down a completely different track.

TVGuide.com: Things must be tough at Mode with all this going on. Mabius: With Daniel losing control in certain areas of his life, he's trying to grasp harder at others. Matt is pained over the rejection from Betty, and it's very clear there's some jealousy. So Daniel really tries to rush to Betty's aid, and it ends up creating a whole bunch more drama for her in the workplace. That's what brings Daniel to punch out one of his co-workers in a fit of rage in Betty's defense. It's always one step forward and 10 steps back for Daniel.

TVGuide.com: With Daniel and Betty constantly rushing to each other's sides, do you think they will eventually become a couple like they have on versions of the show that have aired in other countries?

Mabius: I never know an answer to that question. People feel attached to the bond between Daniel and Betty because it's complex. Sometimes she's the older sister to the younger brother, or it's the reverse. It's always fluctuating — even though it's some form of Betty saving Daniel's ass. I think having them get married would really speed up the inevitable end. Having Matt there gives Betty her own identity separate of her relationship with Daniel. I think they will eventually come together, but not in a romantic way. It's kind of like Joanie and Chachi. You think you want to them to get together, but after that's achieved, it's like bad chocolate. You're left feeling a bit dissatisfied.

TVGuide.com: How long before Daniel snaps back to reality? Mabius: He'll try to get back on the horse. We just shot some scenes in the Bahamas where he and Marc go to hit on guys and girls together. Marc can't get lucky because apparently there are no gay people in the Bahamas, and Daniel can't get lucky because apparently, he lost his game. They sort of help each other out and it's really funny and sweet.

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There is NO Return-to-Sender on this one! Hallmark Mystery took to its Social Media last night to officially announce/deliver the exciting news ALL POstables (Signed, Sealed, Delivered fans) have been waiting for: "#POSTABLES, WE'RE BACK!" I captured the image above as soon as I saw it, and I may have squealed with excitement!

Hallmark shared this wonderful news with the image (above) of the main Signed, Sealed, Delivered cast - Eric Mabius, Crystal Lowe, Kristin Booth, and Geoff Gustafson - from the movie Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again, and I must say, the series truly is returning to its Hallmark home - once again!

The last Signed, Sealed, Delivered film, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made, was released in 2021, so it's been a long hiatus. Will the cast pick up where they left off—immediately after Oliver and Shane were married—or will time have gone by since then? Ironically enough, only time will tell. Certainly, there will be some changes; even the channel SSD premieres on has changed, from Hallmark Movies & Mysteries to Hallmark Mystery!

Fans took to Social Media with the best enthusiastic responses to this news:

That is so exciting!!!! Love these movies!!!! ~melans4 Ohhh my goodness!! One of my favorite shows everrrr ~wildflowerlynn17 Yay! It’s my favorite show! ~caryhayes9 On Cloud 9 from hearing this news!! Thank you to all involved in making this dream a reality!! #POstables. Trust the timing and the time is now!! Woohoo! ~@TomaselloNat This is great news! Thank you to seeing that fans and making this happen. Can hardly wait! ~@DarleneCoward Better late than never! This is spectacular news! Best movie series on Hallmark! ~@BethP9999 Seeing all the happy #POstables fans on my timeline tonight makes me so happy!! 😁 #SSD #Hallmark ~@MarieP864248 This is such great news! Thank you to everyone for making it happen! ~@metallicangel1 BEST. NEWS. EVER!!! #POstables ~@ChicadeeB Wahoo! The Best Cast & Crew Ever! The Best Fans Ever! #POstables Perseverance!!!📫❤️📫 ~@BellgalAnn YAY!! We POstables have been waiting years for this news!! Thank you Hallmark, Ms. Williamson, & fab 4! Keep 'em coming!! ~@A_Plain_Janeite #POstables #TheMasterpiece is coming back! We are excited about the announcement of more #SSD! We have missed ⁦ @MarthaMoonWater @kristintbooth @Eric_Mabius @RealCrystalLowe and ⁦@geoffgustafson! Thank you, #LisaHamiltonDaly @hallmarkmystery ~@dcrittenden78 This gives a whole new meaning to March Madness! I cannot believe it - I'm SO grateful to @hallmarkmystery! @MarthaMoonWater & Oliver O'Toole taught us to always Trust The Timing! The DLO is officially open! Break out the Yoo-Hoo: Double Fudge! #POstables ~@TennisChik OH HAPPY DAY!!!!! This is amazing! So exciting! Thank you, Hallmark Mystery, for this great news and for believing in this Emmy-worthy series, sublime writing, and stellar cast. It is a great day to be a #POstable, that's for sure!!! ~@wowbax “It’s all good and it keeps getting better…” We trusted the timing and it paid off!! So excited that the DLO will be open once more and we get to see the Fab 4 [and Joe, Sharon and Ramon] #POstables ~@lynneaosborn Wow!! This is knockout news! #Postables #SSD ~@RPopBox BEST news ever 🥰 Cue the happy tears 🥹 Couldn’t be more excited to see this amazing cast back together solving more letter mysteries in 2024 👏🏻💌 Thank you @hallmarkmystery! ~@SwingMyHeartPod I’m so thrilled with this announcement of an SSD movie for 2024! This @MarthaMoonWater creation is so special to me & the cast is beyond compare! May this be the beginning of a wheel of movies that will continue for years to come. Your viewers are thankful & I know more will come ~@TrevaCorke #POstables are ecstatic! 🎉 It was hard to #TrustTheTiming, but it paid dividends! Can’t wait to see the best ensemble cast back to tell more unique & meaningful stories! Yay #POstables ❤️📬🎬🎉 ~@MarybethMkprudz Signed sealed delivered miracles do happen #POstables so happy I am crying. Tears of joy ~@tvmoviesparks88 The moment we’ve long been waiting!!! Our prayers have finally been answered #POstables!! Thank you @hallmarkmystery for not giving up on us!! I’m literally in tears, HAPPY TEARS!! 🙏❤️ ~@FotoulaB #POstables there’s a time to laugh and a time to love, there’s a time to dance and a time to celebrate. Today is that day! Our favourite show is coming back!! @Eric_Mabius @kristintbooth @RealCrystalLowe @geoffgustafson Woohoo!! ~@Discoqueen63

I just loved reading everyone's excitement over this news! Even though we sort of knew it was happening due to production notes and clues from the cast, it was still a huge thrill to see Hallmark's official announcement! If you'd like to check out this wonderful series filled with moments of faith, love, drama, inspiration, humor, and more... please be sure to visit my Signed, Sealed, Delivered Series/Movies in Chronological Order page - here. DVDs for each film are also listed there.

Also, if you have the Hallmark Family channel, you can look forward to a 3-day SSD marathon next week, running from Monday, March 25th through Wednesday, March 27th! Thank you to the incredible SSD cast and Hallmark for making these new Signed, Sealed, Delivered movies possible! It was divine providence, I believe, that Hallmark chose the image from Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again to share this news because we POstables are absolutely ready to welcome Signed, Sealed, Delivered into our Homes Again!

Sincerely,

Net✍

#signed sealed delivered #hallmark

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ATX Television Festival Founders on the Lessons They've Learned

In most parts of the world, you don’t have to look very far to find a film festival. But a television festival? That’s a rarer genre. At least, it was before the ATX Television Festival flickered to life in Austin in 2012. The brainchild of TV lovers Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland, this four-day celebration of all things televised has quickly grown from its humble freshman year origins to become a major destination for people who might otherwise be loathe to leave the company of their DVR.

Staging reunions for such beloved shows as Friday Night Lights and Gilmore Girls has vaulted ATX into the pop-culture consciousness in a big way, and has shown other festivals the power and popularity of including television in the program. Sundance, Toronto, and Tribeca are just some of the film festivals who have made room for TV premieres in recent years, and in May, the storied Cannes Film Festival screened episodes of Twin Peaks and Top of the Lake: China Girl to great acclaim. We spoke with ATX’s founders about being the Peak TV Festival in the era of Peak TV, and what they’re most excited to present at the sixth edition of the festival, which runs from June 8-11 in Austin.

ATX Television Founders Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland (Photo: ATX)

Before this interview, I stumbled upon the Kickstarter campaign you organized to help launch the first-ever ATX Festival in 2012. It’s an amazing contrast between where you were then and where you are now.

Emily Gipson: Every once in a while I come across that page, too. We had one year with that original logo, and then every other year since has been our current logo. I think of all the people who helped us make that Kickstarter video, some of whom we’ve never met. At the time, nobody knew what they were going to or promoting. It’s kind of amazing.

2012 was just before the Peak TV era. Did you have a sense of where the industry was going, or did you launch the festival purely out of passion for the medium?

Caitlin McFarland: It was a mixture of things. We’ve talked about how part of the reason for creating a TV festival was us wanting to go to one or wanting to go work for one, and not finding it. Emily and I originally became friends when we were out in L.A. working as assistants at Fox. We loved to talk about movies and pop culture, and we just found ourselves talking about television more than film. Even five years ago, we were so much more excited about the things that were on our DVR rather than what was playing in movie theaters.

Then I was unemployed, and went to look for work at a television festival specifically and was really shocked that they didn’t exist when there were thousands of film and music festivals. How could there not be the same community and event environment for television? That was when Emily said, “Write it down. What does it look like? What do you want to go to?” Together we created this thing, and took baby steps towards the Kickstarter page. We launched it in January 2012, the campaign ended in February, and then we had the festival in June! So whenever I feel like I’m behind nowadays, I remember that we practically planned the whole thing in three months the first time and I feel better about life. [Laughs]

Did you both originally go to L.A. with the intention of being part of the industry?

Gipson: We definitely moved out there wanting to create, whether it be film or television. That was our passion when we went to school, knowing that we loved storytelling and really wanted to be part of that process. At the time we moved to L.A. — this was 2004 or 2005 — film was what you went there for. People weren’t really going there to start TV careers. Funny how things change so quickly!

McFarland: Emily and I were on either side of the Fox lot, and oftentimes we’d walk by the sets for Bones, How I Met Your Mother, House, and Arrested Development. There were a lot of Buffy cast members around, too, which is Emily’s favorite show.

Gipson: It would be like, “David Boreanaz is blowing something up on the lot — come on down!” [Laughs] I decided what my role in the creative process was going to be through the process of elimination. I knew I didn’t want to be an actor, I slowly figured out that I liked to write, but probably shouldn’t be a writer. So it landed closer to producer, for me. And producing the festival is kind of like producing a season of television.

McFarland: It really is. We both still have this huge passion for story, and have a production arm that we’ve been in the process of launching for the past year. We have a “Pitch Competition” at the festival and we’re attached as producers for the winner that’s announced every year. So we still have this huge love for [telling stories]. Five years ago, we never dreamed we’d be sitting here about to plan Season 6 of the festival. I don’t think that we even knew how much we were going to love doing this, and love bringing these people out to talk about TV and experience TV together. We’re television fans to our core, but we’re also part of the industry.

Jesse Plemons and cast members attend the Friday Night Lights Tailgate and Pep Rally Reunion at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, TX on June 10, 2016. (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly)

Do you point to one particular edition as a turning point?

Gipson: When we did a Friday Night Lights panel [in 2013] and surprised the audience with Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler, I felt us being Tweeted for the first time. You just feel the energy in the room. After that, I would say the Gilmore Girls reunion in 2015. That was something we had been working on for over a year, and the timing lined up with [the original run] being released on Netflix. The build-up and intensity leading into it, you could already feel it was different. We doubled in size that year, and launched to a new level in terms of awareness. And each year’s programming is bringing us a new audience. We’ll get people [this year] who are coming for a Battlestar Galactica reunion or the premiere of Glow and the hope is they’re going to be exposed to something else they didn’t come for and understand that good TV is good TV, and there’s a lot of it to be discovered.

McFarland: One big lesson we learned from the Gilmore Girls reunion is because we knew that people were obviously coming for that show, we couldn’t lose Amy Sherman-Palladino, Lauren Graham, or Alexis Bledel. If we lost one of them, there could have been riots!

Gipson: There was so much pressure on us [that year] that we took the mantra of creating a festival that’s so well-balanced that if any one person drops out, the festival can still stand and be strong. We’re always super sad when someone can’t come, and there were a couple of reunions that had to go away this year. That’s sad, and we’re sad to tell our audience, but at the same time, we feel we’ve got such a great balance that it’s still a strong festival. We keep telling people over and over and over again, “Don’t come for one thing. Come because you love TV.”

America Ferrera, Ana Ortiz, Eric Mabius, and Vanessa Williams attend the Ugly Betty Reunion at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, TX on June 11, 2016. (Photo: Rick Kern/Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly)

The older shows programmed at the festival tend to be rooted in the ’90s and ’00s era — Alias, Battlestar Galactica, and Northern Exposure are all represented this year. There’s also a tribute to Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who created such ’80s favorites as Designing Women. Are you interested in programming more series from earlier decades?

Gipson: It’s harder to do reunions of much older shows. In our third year, we added our Achievement in Television Excellence Award, which we’ve given to Henry Winkler, James L. Brooks, and Norman Lear. This year, we’re not presenting an award during the festival, but we’re looking to do an event in L.A. in a couple of months. We also hope to start having current creators, producers, and writers talk about the television that inspired them. We’re always looking for ways to get past the ’80s, basically. If we could do an I Love Lucy reunion, we would!

McFarland: Our audience is a little more female, and the age range is 17 to 70. My mom keeps throwing out these shows she watched in the ’60s that were on for 24 episodes and then went away. I say, “I don’t know that we can do that, but we can always use your help.”

In terms of your own TV influences, what are some of your formative shows?

McFarland: My parents were pop-culture junkies, so I really did grow up on I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Those shows are still my happy places, and I laugh at all of them. In the ’90s we were WB viewers, so Buffy, Dawson’s Creek, and definitely Felicity. I watched Lois & Clark with my mom, and in college, my mom was mailing me VHS tapes of Gilmore Girls and Friends. With the exception of those shows, I have a black hole of TV viewing during my college years.

Gipson: It’s funny, because my parents were not pop-culture junkies at all. I grew up on old movies, but I didn’t really grow up on a lot of TV shows. The first shows I really remember are Saved by the Bell and Home Improvement — that was the one show my family all watched together. Buffy was the first show that I discovered that was mine. And Buffy was a year older than me in the show, so I grew up in my teen years with her.

So your personal TV tastes are already very diverse and wide-ranging. Early on in the life of ATX, did you have to make a conscious choice whether to prioritize genre shows, which often come with a devoted fanbase, or series that you weren’t necessarily as sure people would turn up for?

Gipson: It’s funny because when Buffy was on, I didn’t even know that it was a genre show. To me it was a high school show that happened to have vampires. It’s been a lesson learning that there are these shows that have these really cult fanbases. But the thing that we realized the first year of the festival was that Firefly fans were just as devoted as Parenthood fans. Those two screenings were up against each other that first year of the festival, and people were super-excited and crying in both of them. So I think that’s what we realized coming out of that first festival; there are these other shows that people love so much and they don’t have a place to go. I think all of the excitement around Gilmore Girls was that was never a show that was going to have a convention or that kind of fan gathering, because people who want to celebrate non-genre shows don’t have the place to do it. Genre shows have a place, and we’d be in heavier competition with Comic-Con or their show-specific conventions.

McFarland: To add on to that, I would say that we do not consider ourselves a convention. So even when we do genre shows, we’re trying to do it differently than others. We are shifting into trying to figure out the best ways to honor them in ways that don’t compete with Comic-Con, which happens the month after us.

Gillian Alexy, Ryan Hurst, Christina Jackson and Executive Producer Peter Mattei at Sony Pictures Television and WGN America’s Outsiders Q&A at the ATX Television Fesitval on June 11, 2016 in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Sarah Kerver/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Television)

Speaking of competition, I’m sure it’s not lost on you that film festivals like Sundance and Cannes have started to screen TV shows. Do you credit yourselves with spurring that on a little bit?

Gipson: They would have gotten there on their own, but I think it’s great. We spent a few years convincing people that television would work in a festival format, and that people would want to watch TV on a big screen together. There’s room for many more television-specific festivals as well as television in traditional film festivals, it’s just about figuring out how they’re going to showcase them. I know that South by Southwest has a pretty hard rule that the TV shows they showcase are mostly first episodes of first seasons. They may do conversations about other shows, but in terms of their screenings, they mainly show first episodes of brand new series.

The Split Screens Festival hosted its inaugural edition in New York earlier this month. Did they reach out to you for advice in organizing a television-specific festival?

McFarland: They did not reach out, but we did hear about it. I think that it’s really interesting. New York is going to be a different audience and, I think, a different showcase. That’s part of it, too, when you’re creating an event: what kind of community are you creating? We talk a lot about how our festival feels like TV camp for grown-ups. It’s a destination, and our goal is to create a physical community of TV. If you meet somebody on the street [at the festival] and you love the same show, you feel like you’ve found your people. So for Split Screen, I am really interested to see how it goes, how many people go, and the flavor and tone going forward. We joke all the time that we actually didn’t know what we were starting. It almost seemed to define itself.

For this year’s program, is there one panel or series that you’re particularly excited to present to people?

Gipson: There’s a couple. I’m excited about a panel called “Complex, Not Complicated,” which is about strong female characters and the people who create them. Kyra Sedgwick and Mary McDonnell, who I’m big fans of, are on that, along with Casual‘s Liz Tigelaar, and Tayor Dearden and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson who did Sweet/Vicious. We sometimes have to go searching for panelists, but that group came together very organically, because they all wanted to talk about this topic, and I think it’s a nice balance between actors and creators. We also created a “Directors & Showrunners” panel, where pairs of directors and showrunners talk about how they work together. If TV is a writers’ medium, but you have recurring directors, how does that work for the vision of a show?

In terms of the show panels, I’m really excited about The Leftovers, because it’s happening four days after the finale aired, and I think that all I want to do is sit in that panel and ask questions. We love that show so much here in the office. We’re also doing a script reading of the Suits pilot with the entire Suits cast to celebrate their 100th episode. Suits was our first-ever Opening Night screening in 2012, so it’s really cool for a number of reasons.

McFarland: The fact that they took that chance on us in our first year, and now the script reading is the second-to-last piece of programming six seasons into the festival is really nice for us. It kind of says, “Look where we’ve come.”

The ATX Television Festival runs from June 8-11 in Austin, TX.

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Ranking The 22 Absolute Worst Characters On The OC

Can you believe it’s been ten years since The O.C.’s final drama-driving chapter? We definitely can’t—it’s as if Mischa Barton never competed on Dancing with the Stars, Benjamin Mckenzie never turned 38, Adam Brody didn’t settle down with Blair Waldorf, and Rachel Bilson never got with Anakin Skywalker. Ahh, what a time to be alive. As much as we miss those four years of O.C. madness, there are a couple of characters we wouldn’t dare invite to our fantasy reunion — in fact, there are 22 of them. The series wouldn’t be what it is without them, but we would’ve a lot of edits to their time on screen. Scroll down below for our definitive list of the worst of Newport Beach’s many shady characters. 1. Oliver Trask (Taylor Handley)

Any true, or even casual O.C. fan will tell you, Oliver Trask was the worst thing to ever happen to the series. Yes, worse than the road raging “surf Nazi.” Volchok’s character flaws were never glossed over by any of the Newport Beach crew—even Marissa knew what she was getting into. Oliver, however, managed to turn Ryan’s friends against him in an elaborate ploy to steal his girlfriend. (EVIL.) Despite his inherent awfulness, Oliver ended up creating one of the most exciting story lines in the show’s four-season run—plus everyone learned a valuable lesson: always trust Ryan Atwood. ALWAYS. 2. Kevin Volchok (Cam Gigandet)

Surprise, surprise, the man who killed fallen O.C. golden girl Marissa Cooper and tarnished the bulk of season three with his unchecked aggression is not a standup guy. I hold Volchok 100% responsible for the series’ ultimate cancellation. Booooo. 3. Johnny Harper (Ryan Donowho)

Okay, unpopular opinion, but Johnny needed to go. To me, Johnny was Oliver 2.0—just another whiny obstacle standing between star-crossed lovers Ryan and Marissa. Silver lining: without Johnny, we never would have heard the amazing Sufjan Stevens song that played at his funeral. 4. Trey Atwood (Logan Marshall-Green)

Like Ryan Atwood himself, we held out hope that Trey would follow in his brother’s footsteps. Spoiler alert: he so didn’t. Trey takes advantage of everyone in Newport Beach, including his brother’s girlfriend (!)—in short, he’s the anti-Ryan. 5. Kaitlin Cooper (Willa Holland)

After about a year away at boarding school, Marissa’s lil’ sis’ returned to The O.C. as a literal different person (the precocious tween played by Shailene Woodley was replaced by wild child Willa Holland) and consequently became the worst. After Kaitlin’s initial return in the third season, Holland became a fourth season regular—signaling to audiences everywhere that the series was far past its prime. 6. Charlotte Morgan (Jeri Ryan)

Conning rehab-goers? That’s pretty low, even for the depraved money-grubbing residents of Newport Beach. Charlotte literally pretended to be an alcoholic to get to Kirsten’s money—eek! Even the show’s creator, Josh Schwartz, found the story line pretty ridiculous. “We were told to add this Jeri Ryan character to the show that we had no idea what to do with, Schwartz told Vulture, “We were just told we had to add an adult female character. It went nowhere, and we had no plan for it, and it just didn’t fit the show.” 7. Reed Carlson (Marguerite Moreau)

Reed, who helps publish Zach and Seth’s comic book—sorry, “graphic novel,” Atomic County, causes some major riffs between Seth and Summer. Byeeeee! 8. Jess Sathers (Nikki Griffin)

Oh, Jess… Trey’s drug-dealing moral equivalent and sometime girlfriend was welcomed into the series’ narrative after being found unconscious in the pool. Somehow, this was a totally appropriate introduction to Jess Sathers. 9. Dean Hess (Eric Mabius)

Harbor’s Dean of Discipline was out to get well-intentioned bad boy Ryan, and he was carrying on an affair with a student (Taylor Townsend). BAD MAN. 10. Eddie (Eric Balfour)

Theresa’s ex and presumptive baby daddy crashes Newport parties, punches Ryan in the face, and gives Theresa a black eye. Game over, Eddie. 11. Jodie (Emmanuelle Chriqui)

Alex’s (Olivia Wilde) ex interfered in her relationships with both Seth and Marissa. Ugh! Luckily, Marissa and Alex exact their revenge by stealing a sentimental necklace from her bedroom. BOOM. 12. Grady Bridges (Colin Hanks)

The Valley star puts the moves on teen soap-obsessed Summer while she’s dating Seth—um, ew! 13. Donnie (Paul Wesley)

Though Donnie may have a way with “the honeys,” he’s really not the kind of guy you want hanging around. He shot Luke, after all! 14. Gabrielle (Nichole Hiltz)

The fact that a twenty-something model was dating Kirsten’s dad is a travesty unto itself—but worse yet, Gabrielle and Ryan’s fling drives Marissa to sleep with Luke! If you connect the dots, Gabrielle’s interference basically leads to Marissa ODing in Tijuana. Go home, Gabrielle. 15. Theresa Diaz (Navi Rawat)

Let me count the ways… Not only does Theresa disturb the peace (and love!) between Ryan and Marissa, she also lies to Ryan about the baby he’s vowed to raise, and judges him for leaving Chino. WHAT. A. JERK. 16. Lindsay Gardner (Shannon Lucio)

She’s perfectly nice, I guess, but we really can’t forgive her for breaking Ryan’s (and Kirsten’s!) heart. 17. Taylor Townsend (Autumn Reeser)

Ryan-Taylor politics aside, I think we can all agree that Ms. Townsend was one of the most obnoxious residents of Newport Beach. 18. Holly Fischer (Ashley Hartman)

Marissa’s “BFF” made fun of her dad and hooked up with her boyfriend. Good riddance, Holly!

19. Rachel Hoffman (Bonnie Somerville)

Sandy’s presumptuous co-worker tried to seduce him one late night at the office—not cool. 20. Lance Baldwin (Johnny Messner)

This ghost from Julie Cooper’s desperate past (read: she starred in the epically titled The Porn Identity) comes back to blackmail the now wealthy Mrs. Cooper Nichol. We later learn Lance isn’t all bad, and then he and Julie share a magical moment set to the strum of Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” but still, he hammered the final nail in Julie’s already questionable reputation, and for that there are no second chances. 21. Taryn Baker (Kimberly Oja)

The Newpsie Queen desperately needed some damage control. 22. Matt Ramsey (Jeff Hephner)

Continued below…

Matt was one of many unfortunate cogs in Sandy’s weird turn as the C.E.O. of the Newport Group following Caleb’s death. Also, he took teenaged Ryan to a strip club—we object.

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Richard Says Goodbye (Feature)

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp is in town for his latest movie called Richard Says Goodbye. The movie was written by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye) and is about a college professor who decides to live out the rest of his time on the edge following a diagnosis with a life threatening illness. Roberts also serves as director for the film.

According to Variety.com, Depp will be joined by Zoey Deutch, who portrayed Samantha in the film adaptation of the young adult novel Before I Fall; which also filmed in Vancouver. Johnny is no stranger to filming in Vancouver either. Last year, he was in the city for a brief period of filming for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Earlier in his career he spent a lot of time in Vancouver while filming the TV series 21 Jump Street.

Variety.com also revealed more of the cast including Danny Huston (Wonder Woman), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land), Devon Terrell (Barry) and Odessa Young (Looking For Grace).

Production kicked off Tuesday at a couple of locations in downtown Vancouver including The Blackbird Public House on Dunsmuir Street. They were be back in the area yesterday filming at The Butcher and Bullock on West Pender Street . Thank you to @drcru for finding and posting the filming notice. Today, the movie is filming at The Bimini Public House on West 4th Avenue; thank you @LammaSam for the info! If you’re interested in Richard Says Goodbye filming locations, keep an eye on our Current Filming Locations page where we post info as it comes available.

Thank you @lemon_buzz for breaking the news that Richard Says Goodbye would be coming to Vancouver to film.

Richard Says Goodbye is currently scheduled to continue filming in Vancouver and British Columbia until August 25th and it’s expected to be released in 2018.

The Exorcist – Season 2 (TV Series)

After filming its first season in Chicago, The Exorcist season 2 has relocated to Vancouver and area. The series is based on the 1973 classic horror film of the same name by William Peter Blatty.

During their Comic Con panel last weekend, the show runners revealed that The Exorcist Season 2 will be set in the Pacific Northwest, near Seattle specifically. This explains the show’s need for a change of scenery; after all, it seems there’s no better place to stand-in for the Seattle area.

In addition to a new setting for The Exorcist season 2, there will be a few new faces as well. Deadpool star Brianna Hildebrand, John Cho (Star Trek Into Darkness) and Zuleikha Robinson (Hidalgo) all joined the cast over the last few week. Alfonso Herrera, Kurt Egyiawan and Ben Daniels are expected to reprise their roles as Father Tomas Ortega, Father Bennett and Father Marcus Keane respectively.

The Exorcist season 2 is scheduled to continue filming in Vancouver and British Columbia until November 14th and premieres Friday, September 29th on Fox in the US and CTV in Canada.

Miss Christmas (TV Movie)

In Washington, DC, Holly Kuhn is known as ‘Miss Christmas’. She’s in charge of finding the perfect evergreen to become The National Tree for a Christmas festival held in the city. During this year’s pursuit, Holly finds herself drawn to a small town after receiving a letter from a boy claiming that he knew just where to find the tree she sought after.

When she arrives, Holly discovers there’s only one thing standing between her and the perfect tree: Sam, the boy’s uncle. Sam owns the land where the tree is standing. Despite Holly’s best intentions, the tree has sentimental value to Sam and he’s reluctant to let it go. Eventually, Holly begins to fall in love with Sam, and together they learn that this tree is just what they need to bring magic to the holidays.

There hasn’t been any official casting announcements so far, but we’ll update this article as more information becomes available.

Miss Christmas will continue filming in British Columbia until August 11th and will premiere during Hallmark’s annual Countdown to Christmas.

Also Starting This Week

The Crossing – Season 1 (TV Series) Cast: Steve Zahn, Sandrine Holt, Rob Campbell, Jay Karnes, Simone Kessell, Grant Harvey, Kelley Missal, Maddie Phillips, Marcuis W. Harris Filming until November 24th. For more details about The Crossing, check out our 2017 TV Pilot Season Roundup.

The Good Doctor – Season 1 (TV Series) Cast: Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Gonzalez, Chuku Modu, Hill Harper, Irene Keng, Richard Schiff, Beau Garrett Filming until December 15th. For more details about The Good Doctor, check out our 2017 TV Pilot Season Roundup.

The Arrangement – Season 2 (TV Series) Cast: Christine Evangelista, Josh Henderson, Michael Vartan Filming until November 3rd

Falling For Vermont (TV Movie) Cast: Benjamin Ayres, Larissa Albuquerque Filming until August 12th

Peared With a Kiss (TV Movie) Cast: Ryan Paevey, Lini Evans, Aaron Craven, Barry Levy, Lucia Frangione Filming until August 12th

Four Christmases and a Wedding (TV Movie) Filming until August 14th

For a full list of what’s filming in Vancouver and British Columbia right now, check out our In Production page.

Wrapping Up This Week

A Bramble House Christmas (TV Movie) with Autumn Reeser and David Haydn-Jones wraps up July 28th

Gourmet Detective 4: Eat, Drink and Be Buried (TV Movie) with Dylan Neal, Brooke Burns, Brittney Wilson, David Paetkau, Ali Skovbye, Gelsea Mae and Bruce Boxleitner wraps up July 28th

Travelers – Season 2 (TV Series) with Eric McCormack, Mackenzie Porter, Patrick Gilmore, Jared Paul Abrahamson, Nesta Marlee Cooper, Reilly Dolman, Enrico Colantoni, Stephen Lobo and Amanda Tapping wraps up July 28th

Signed, Sealed, Delivered 8 & 9 (TV Movie) with Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Crystal Lowe, Geoff Gustafson and Emilie Ullerup wraps up July 28th

If you see any of these productions, including Richard Says Goodbye or The Exorcist season 2 filming in Vancouver and British Columbia, be sure to let us know by tweeting us (@WhatsFilming) or via our Submit a Location page.

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Welcome to Christmas (Hallmark, 2018)

Dana, I just took out Santa Claus.

Starring: Eric Mabius, Jennifer Finnigan, Susan Hogan, Lauren McNamara

Plot Synopsis: Sheriff Gage McBride and the residents of tiny Christmas, Colorado work to convince hard-nosed resort developer Madison Lane to build her company’s newest resort nearby, which will save the struggling town. Despite her misgivings about building the resort there, workaholic Madison finds herself falling for the charming town, as well as the kind and handsome widowed sheriff and his family who have embraced her as one of their own. (x)

In My Humble Opinion: I watched Welcome to Christmas at 2 A.M, and it probably doesn’t speak well of the movie that I zoned out during the last ten minutes and didn’t end up remembering how everything concluded.

Then again, it probably says something that I ended up rewatching the last five minutes of my Sling recording to figure out how everything worked out for the denizens of Christmas. I had some level of investment in how everything worked out.

Welcome to Christmas was interesting because it was about a town that wanted a ski resort and was courting a real estate developer when usually it’s the complete opposite. It was nice to see a movie being about more than just the usual “please save us from the corporate overlords trying to destroy small town life forever”. There’s something to be said for variation in a world where every Christmas movie can feel so similar.

There’s still all the same tropes that can be a bit tiresome present in Welcome to Christmas -- single dads, learning about how awesome small towns are, a woman who downgrades her career for love. But sometimes one slight change can make all the difference in making a movie worth revisiting, and Welcome to Christmas played enough with the conventions that I wanted to doublecheck how it ended. That means something during a time of year when I barely have time to breathe.

Watch If: You welcome anyone who likes reindeer with open arms, if you were a kid once upon a time, or if you get distracted by giant Santa Claus signs.

Skip If: You think there is an age limit on Christmas spirit, if you think normal people make stockings, or if you don’ think you can spoil A Christmas Carol.

Final Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

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#welcome to christmas #review #hallmark #3 stars

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See first photos of all 40 new Hallmark Christmas movies (Only posting new photos, others have been posted before.) Part One

Our Christmas Love Song (Nov. 24, 9 p.m., Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)

Stars: Alicia Witt, Brendan Hines

Contains: Plagiarism accusation, holiday homecoming for famous person

Official synopsis: “A country music star accused of plagiarism returns to her all-American hometown for the holidays in search of solace, and the original song lyrics that will prove she wrote the hit. There, she rediscovers the importance of home, family, and the special duet partner who she never stopped loving.”

Time for You to Come Home for Christmas (Dec. 6, 9 p.m., Hallmark Movies & Mystery)

Stars: Alison Sweeney, Lucas Bryant

Contains: Widow, veteran, holiday homecoming

Official synopsis: “When Katherine returns home after her husband passed, she meets a veteran who is on his own holiday journey. As Christmas nears, they learn of a bond that may be the miracle they need.”

Christmas at Dollywood (Dec. 8, 8 p.m., Hallmark Channel)

Stars: Danica McKellar, Niall Matter, Dolly Parton

Contains: Event planner returning to her Appalachian roots, Dolly Parton as matchmaker

Official synopsis: “Event planner Rachel Davis returns to her Tennessee hometown to take on the biggest job of her career – Dollywood’s 30th Smoky Mountain Christmas celebration – and is teamed up with unimaginative operations director Luke Hakman to plan the event that has to be as bombastic and glamourous as Dolly Parton herself. And when Dolly gets involved in a little matchmaking, Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas event lights up the sky with joy, laughter and love.”

Christmas in Montana (Dec. 14, 9 p.m., Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)

Stars: Kellie Martin, Colin Ferguson

Contains: Cattle ranch in jeopardy, big-city woman wooed by small-town life

Official synopsis: “As Christmas approaches, Sara, a Los Angeles-based financial advisor and single mom, is sent to a small Montana town to help save a financially struggling cattle ranch. There, she meets Travis, the handsome owner of the troubled ranch now facing its last Christmas. Before long, Sara’s ambitious efforts to generate revenue clash with Travis’ laid-back business approach. When she unexpectedly starts to fall for small-town life — and for Travis — Sara must find a way to save the ranch without compromising his traditional values and must decide whether she’s going to return to L.A. or spend Christmas in Montana.”

Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday (Dec. 15, 9 p.m., Hallmark Movies & Mystery)

Stars: Jen Lilley, Carlo Marks, Eric Close

Contains: Bookstore kismet, divine intervention

Official synopsis: “Chloe, still upset with Ryan, who took her dream job in New York years ago, is fuming he’s back in Angel Falls consulting at her publishing company. Going to the bookstore to distract herself, she finds Memories of Christmas, left for her by an ‘angelic’ gentleman. Coincidentally, Ryan just rented his parents’ estate to the author, who Chloe would love to sign. But memories of the author’s late husband loom large, and she wants to leave. Someone ‘angelic’ better intervene to keep Ryan from running again, or Chloe, and Angel Falls, will lose out.”

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (Dec. 21, 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel)

Stars: Eric Mabius

Contains: Rival mayors, Christmas competition

Official synopsis: “The two neighboring New Hampshire towns of East and West Riverton have been rivals for years, battling each other for everything from the winning high school football team to which town gets the most “likes” on Facebook. When a big company decides to hold a contest to find the small American town that best represents Christmas – and offers some large rewards to the winner – the mayors of East and West Riverton, the extremely competitive Gavin (Eric Mabius) and the equally competitive Stella decide to go all out to get their respective towns to the top of the holiday heap. It becomes a free-for-all of Christmas cheer as Gavin and Stella continually try to outdo each other with decorations, events, performers, parades, and more. The ever-escalating contest leads these two not only to realize what Christmas is really all about, but to find love with one another along the way.”

Christmas on My Mind (Dec. 21, 9 p.m., Hallmark Movies & Mystery)

Stars: Ashley Greene, Andrew Walker, Jackée Harry

Contains: Head trauma, rekindling of old flame

Official synopsis: “A bump on the head, an unexplained wedding dress and temporary short-term amnesia lead Lucy Lovett on a search for the truth about her breakup with longtime sweetheart Zach Callahan. She returns to Bedford Harbor, Maine, for the town’s Christmas celebration and rediscovers the woman she used to be, what matters most, and that a Christmas miracle can bring back love thought to be lost forever.”

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