Believe in Christmas

Matt Roush says...

The Yule Log: Gospel great BeBe Winans stars in Lifetime’s BeBe Winans’ We Three Kings (Saturday, 8/7c) as Lincoln King, whose three estranged daughters return home after their mother’s death for a holiday visit. With the help of a family friend (played by his niece Deborah Joy Winans), Lincoln heals the family rift through music. Also on Lifetime: Make or Bake Christmas (Sunday, 8/7c) stars Vivica A. Fox as a lifestyle goddess who sends an employee (Jasmine Aivaliotis) undercover at a bakery she hopes to acquire.

Hallmark Channel’s Saturday double feature includes Believe in Christmas (6/5c), a fable starring Chesapeake Falls alum Meghan Ory as a skeptic who succumbs to the charms of Christmasland and a handsome stranger (John Reardon), and the football-themed Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story (8/7c), starring Hunter King as a Kansas City Chiefs superfan determined to show the team’s director of fan engagement (Tyler Hynes) that her family deserves to win “Fan of the Year” honors. Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and Chiefs players Trey Smith, Mecole Hardman Jr., Clyde Edwards-Helaire, and George Karlaftis appear in cameos, along with Donna Kelce (mother of Travis and Jason) as the manager of a BBQ joint. Hallmark also doubles up on Sunday, with The Finnish Line (6/5c), in which Anya (Kim Matula) travels to Finland to continue her late father’s legacy of dog sled racing with the help of a journalist and former racer (Beau Mirchoff); and The Christmas Quest (8/7c), set in Iceland, where an archaeologist (Lacey Chabert) and her ex-husband (Kristoffer Polaha) search for a fabled treasure at Christmastime.

And there’s more! Great American Family follows an encore of I Heard the Bells (Saturday, 8/7c) with Home Sweet Christmas (Sunday, 8/7c), starring channel faves Candace Cameron Bure and Cameron Mathison as childhood buds who reunite to save a maple sugar farm. On UPtv: A Prince and Pauper Christmas (Saturday, 7/6c) presents a caper in which a federal agent convinces a look-alike to step in when a confidential informant goes missing; and A Bluegrass Christmas (7/6c) stars Amanda Jordan as Katie, who convinces her grandfather, a bluegrass legend, to go back on the stage for the good of the family horse sanctuary.

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