"Everything You Love About Christmas” will be UP's
(@UPtv, #ChristmasMovies) newest holiday season theme as the network kicks off
its annual Christmas programming slate with over 50 festive days and over 500
hours of uplifting Christmas movies, Christmas music specials and marathons
with some of television’s most beloved family-favorite series. Filled with
Christmas programming the whole family will love, “Everything You Love About
Christmas" launches Sunday, November 2 and runs through Wednesday,
December 31, 2014.
2014 UP Christmas Movies
Stars: Haylie Duff
(Napoleon Dynamite), Tilky Jones (Nashville), Maureen McCormick (The Brady
Bunch) and Terrence "T.C." Carson (Living Single).
It’s beginning to look
a lot like Christmas in Los Angeles and commuters have Pepper Sterling (Tilky
Jones), a cynical and funny radio comic, to keep them entertained. When
Pepper's latest radio antics anger an important advertising executive, he gets
shipped over to a sister station, KBRG in Idyllwild, Colorado, to serve out his
suspension until the dust blows over. Sandy Love (Haylie Duff), following in
her father’s footsteps, loves radio and came home to Idyllwild to host her own
talk show. She is unapologetically romantic and nostalgic, especially at Christmas.
Thrown together as co-hosts on her show "Dr. Love in the Morning,"
she is immediately at odds with Pepper, who never met a sentiment he couldn’t
twist into a punchline and has no use for Christmas. When Samantha and Pepper’s
"war of words" catches the attention of the small town, their joint
show becomes a hit and they start to see something in each other.
Stars: Matthew Settle
(Gossip Girl) and Josie Bissett (Melrose Place).
In Paper Angels, abused
wife Lynn (Josie Bissett) leaves her alcoholic husband Darryl, with her two
kids, Thomas and Sara, and moves to another town where she works as a waitress
to make ends meet. In that same town, we meet Kevin (Matthew Settle), whose
marketing and design company is on the brink of shutting down due to the
economy. Plus, Kevin’s wife Jenny is in a difficult pregnancy with twins.
Thomas starts a new school and becomes the target of a bully who is threatened
by how well Thomas plays basketball. Unable to join the high school team,
Thomas goes to the community center where he meets Kevin and the two of them
become unlikely friends through pickup basketball games. Little do they know
the tremendous impact they will have on each other’s families this Christmas
through The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree Program. Inspired by the hit country
Christmas song featured in the movie, "Paper Angels," by country
music star Jimmy Wayne and the same-titled book by Wayne with Travis Thrasher.
Wayne also has written and performed two new songs for the film.
Stars: Patrick Muldoon
(Starship Troopers), Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), Ian Ziering (Sharknado)
and Bill Cobbs (Night at the Museum).
Parents separated and
heading for divorce living on opposite sides of the country are brought
together in Palm Springs by their kids, who are doing everything to get them
back together before Christmas with a little help from a guardian angel.
Stars: Kevin Sizemore
(Resurrection), Terry Kiser (Weekend at Bernie’s) and Jill Whelan (The Love
Boat).
For the George family –
accustomed to the luxuries of a privileged suburban life – Christmas has become
a season of taking rather than giving. With dad preoccupied with work, mom on
edge, and self-involved teens Nick and Natalie fixated on their ever-growing wish
lists, the youngest, six-year-old Nina, is the only one with any true Christmas
spirit. When their dad loses his job just before the holidays, the family
ignores the severity of the situation and continues to live above their means.
When the consequences catch up with them, they are left with nothing and
nowhere to turn. Taken in by an eccentric Christmas tree farmer, the family
learns that miracles can come true…if you believe!
Stars: Reginald
VelJohnson (Family Matters), Vincent Giovagnoli (Passport to Explore), Lexi
Giovagnoli (Passport to Explore) and Lunden D’Leon (UP’s Somebody’s Child).
When a foster teenager,
who can’t seem to stay out of trouble, is assigned to work at a no-kill animal
shelter for his community service, he finds a sense of responsibility and real
connection to the true spirit of Christmas for the first time in his life. The
shelter’s owner finds that she can no longer afford to fund the shelter and the
clock begins to tick to get all the dogs placed in loving homes before
Christmas.
Stars: Martin Freeman
(The Hobbit), Marc Wootton (Arthur Christmas) Ashley Jensen (Ugly Betty) and
Jason Watkins(The Golden Compass).
This Christmas, primary
school teacher Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman) is charged with producing the
school's nativity play. Competing against the posh rival school for the honor
of best reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when Paul idly boasts that
his ex-girlfriend Jennifer (Ashley Jensen), a Hollywood producer, is coming to
see his show with a view to turning it into a film. The only trouble is they
haven't spoken in years. With eccentric assistant Mr. Poppy (Marc Wootton)
fueling his "little white lie," Maddens suddenly finds himself a
local celebrity and at the center of quarreling parents and over-excited
children desperate in their bid for fame and fortune. Maddens' only hope is to
get back in touch with Jennifer and lure her to town so that everybody's
Christmas wishes come true.
Stars: David Tennant
(Doctor Who) and Marc Wootton (Arthur Christmas).
This Christmas, the
unforgettable pupils of St. Bernadette's have set their hearts on competing in
the national choir contest, "A Song For Christmas." But with the
headmistress not in favor of the plan, new class teacher Mr. Peterson (David
Tennant) has his hands full trying to curb the enthusiasm of the kids, not to
mention Mr. Poppy (Marc Wootton).
Stars: Lacey Chabert
(Party of Five).
Imaginative,
hard-working Molly Logan (Lacey Chabert) grew up on her family’s
generations-old Christmas tree farm in rural Vermont and would often write
stories about individual trees as they shipped out, her favorite being a
"Charlie Brown" tree struggling to grow. One day, after hearing the
roar of buzz saws used to clear the woods of sickly saplings, nine-year-old
Molly ran to save her favorite – even after her father Gordon and his crew had
made a gash in its trunk. She knew that someday this little tree would have a
tale to tell. Now 29, Molly is pursuing her writing career in Manhattan.
Unfortunately as Pendant Publishing CEO Walter Dunlap’s assistant, Molly has no
life and little chance to write. She's devastated to learn from her architect brother
Ryan that the bank is foreclosing on her parents’ heritage tree farm. This will
be her family’s last Christmas there. However, a frustrated Molly can’t make it
home thanks to obligations to her boss and his young daughters. Much to her
shock, Molly discovers that the Christmas tree she ordered for the Dunlap home
is that same one she saved years ago. Certain that it is the same tree from her
youth – and a sign – Molly drags the pine back to her Vermont home and embarks
upon a plan to save the family farm – with some surprising, inventive help from
her brother and former boyfriend/banker Lucas.
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| Marry ME for Christmas is the Prequel |
Stars: Malinda Williams
(Soul Food), Victoria Rowell (The Young and the Restless) and Karon Riley (35 and
Ticking).
In the sequel to last
year’s popular UP Original Movie Marry Me For Christmas, it’s a year after
Marci (Malinda Williams) and Blair (Karon Joseph Riley) declared their love for
each other and decided to tie the knot. But as the big day approaches, Marci is
so consumed with work that she hasn’t had time to plan her wedding. To make
matters worse, she may have to team up with former assistant/fake fiancé Adam
to win a project she’s been vying for – a little tidbit she hasn’t shared with
Blair. But Blair, as it turns out, has a secret of his own. Thanks to years of
doing pro bono work for financially-strapped clients, he quickly is running out
of cash and might have to accept an offer to work for his longtime nemesis,
Marci’s manipulative cousin Preston. Meanwhile, Marci’s mother Stephanie (Victoria
Rowell) is making some rather bold moves of her own with her sexy salsa
teacher, Antonio, who’s more than a little smitten with her — and about 20
years her junior. Will there be a wedding for Christmas? Better yet - whose
wedding will it be?
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