A Little Women’s Christmas

Matt Roush says...

The Yule Log: Going back to the classics, Great American Family adapts the Louisa May Alcott favorite in A Little Women’s Christmas (Saturday, 8/7c) with a modernized version set in small-town Tennessee, starring Jen Lilley, Jillian Murray, Laura Osnes and Julia Reilly as the March sisters. Gladys Knight co-stars, singing her new original song “Joy.” Also from Great American Family: Christmas by Candlelight (Sunday, 8/7c), where Christmas candles rule.

Hallmark Channel offers Three Wiser Men and a Boy (Saturday, 8/7c), a sequel to Three Men and a Baby set five years later, with the Brenner brothers (Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes and Andrew Walker) taking over a school holiday musical while their mom (Margaret Colin) introduces them to her new boyfriend. In Hallmark’s To Have and to Holiday (Sunday, 8/7c), a pastor (Eric Close) puts an engaged couple (Madeleine Arthur and Robert Bazzocchi) through a “bootcamp” of Christmas-related challenges to test their relationship. On Lifetime, Christmas in the Spotlight (Saturday, 8/7c) depicts a budding romance between a popular singer (Jessica Lord) and a pro football player (Laith Wallschleger). Where do they get these crazy ideas? Also on Lifetime: Sincerely, Truly Christmas (Sunday, 8/7c) stars Paula Brancati as an unemployed event planner who magically develops a gift to hear what people want for Christmas. UPtv gives us The Search for Secret Santa (Saturday, 7/6c), about a reporter (Skye Coyne) tracking the history of a long-lost Secret Santa gift, and Festival of Trees (Sunday, 7/6c), about an interior designer (Kate Miner) who hopes to make a name for herself in the city’s annual Festival of Trees decorating contest.

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