Happy Howlidays

Matt Roush says...

The Yule Log: Leading this weekend’s cornucopia of Christmas movies: Hallmark Channel’s Happy Howlidays (Saturday, 8/7c), featuring the debut of Ezra Moreland, the handsome winner of the Hallmark+ Finding Mr. Christmas reality competition. The model and former Navy rescue driver joins Hallmark’s hall of hunks as Max, a dog shelter owner who bonds with Seattle webpage editor Mia (Jessica Lowndes), who’s taken in a stray pooch at Christmastime.

On Lifetime, A Carpenter Christmas Romance (Saturday, 8/7c), pairs novelist Andrea (Sasha Pieterse), who’s bunkered in her family’s farmhouse to finish a book in private, with ex-crush Sam (Mitchell Slaggert), a woodworker helping rebuild the town of Wildwood after a fire. In Engaged by Christmas (8/7c), broken-hearted Zoe (Brittany Bristow) confronts advice columnist Dear Adora, only to learn Adora is a guy named Adam (Marcus Rosner). OWN‘s 24-Karat Christmas (Saturday, 9/8c) stars Samantha Marie Ware as jewelry designer Trish, who tracks down missing wedding bands with best man Book (Curtis Hamilton) before a Christmas Eve wedding deadline. Other highlights include Great American Family’s A Royal Christmas Ballet (Sunday, 8/7c), with Brittany Underwood as a former ballerina helping a team of royal ambassadors to stage The Nutcracker, and on UPtv, A Country Music Christmas (Saturday, 7/6c), North by North Pole: A Dial S Mystery (Sunday, 7/6c), and a new season of Small Town Christmas (Sunday, 9/8c), with visits to holiday celebrations in Oxford, Mississippi, and Bryson City, South Carolina.

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