The Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas is an annual tradition that only seems to get bigger and more robust with every passing year. The holiday-themed slate of shows and movies typically begins in October -- before Halloween is even over, the audacity! -- and runs for more than two months, offering holiday-themed romantic comedies, frosty winter adventures, festive competition shows and murder mysteries. (Murders just go down easier when they're Christmas-themed.) The Countdown to Christmas is already underway, but there are still dozens of great shows and movies to watch between now and Dec. 25.
While the Hallmark Channel comes standard with many cable plans, if you've cut the cord and are looking for a way to watch Countdown to Christmas, there are plenty of options. You can find Hallmark Channel favorites on Philo, Frndly, YouTube TV or Fubo, or get the standalone Hallmark Plus plan that includes a vast library of this year's releases and older hits. Trying to save some money? You can watch all of this year's new releases free with a Hallmark Plus BingePass on Hoopla if you have a library card.
Here's a look at everything still to come on the 2025 Countdown to Christmas and the best ways to watch.
Hallmark Media Mistletoe Murders, season 2 (Nov. 7) The first season of Mistletoe Murders was released on the Hallmark Channel in October, and season 2 arrives just a few weeks later, showing you just how addictive this mystery series is. The show stars Sarah Drew as Emily, the proprietor of a Christmas-themed gift shop in the small town of Fletcher's Grove (that's an Easter egg for you Murder, She Wrote fans). Emily's an excellent sleuth, a good thing as there's a disproportionate number of murders in this town that need solving. Two new episodes of the show will drop weekly on Nov. 7, 14 and 21.
Hallmark Media Christmas Above the Clouds (Nov. 8) Christmas Above the Clouds is a riff on A Christmas Carol and, in case you're someone who thinks Hallmark movies are bland or boring, let's see how you feel when I tell you that the main character of this film is named Ella Neezer. ELLA NEEZER! Erin Krakow, who also stars in When Calls the Heart, plays the Scrooge-inspired character, a workaholic with no real sense of the Christmas spirit who attempts to skip the holiday by leaving town. Then she boards her flight to Australia and ends up being visited by three spirits, as well as by her ex-boyfriend (Tyler Hynes).
Hallmark Media A Keller Christmas Vacation (Nov. 9) Jonathan Bennett has become a familiar face on Hallmark, and in A Keller Christmas Vacation, he stars with Brandon Routh and Eden Sher as siblings who have drifted apart but reunite when their parents take them (force them?) on a holiday cruise down the Danube. A fun family comedy, the film premieres on Nov. 9. (The movie is actually a pretty good advertisement for river cruises. Send help, I'm turning into my parents.)
Hallmark Media Finding Mr. Christmas, season 2 (Nov. 10) Finding Mr. Christmas is Hallmark's first reality competition series. Hosted by Jonathan Bennett, the show features 10 aspiring actors competing in a variety of entertaining challenges "with a Hallmark twist." The winner will be crowned Hallmark's next leading man and take home the title of "Mr. Christmas." The show premiered on Oct. 27 and new episodes will air weekly on Mondays through Dec. 15 when the winner is revealed. A reunion episode will air on Saturday, Dec. 20.
Hallmark Media Baked With Love: Holiday (Nov. 10) Tamera Mowry-Housley hosts Hallmark's baking competition Baked With Love: Holiday, where she and judges Anna Haugh and Vaughn Vreeland set out to determine the best home bakers who compete in a series of holiday-themed challenges using their own family recipes. The show premiered on Oct. 27 and airs weekly on Mondays through Dec. 15.
Hallmark Media Three Wisest Men (Nov. 15) A trio of Hallmark Channel's popular leading men play the titular Three Wisest Men in this upcoming holiday comedy. Three Wisest Men is the third film in an annual holiday series (see also: Three Wise Men and a Baby and Three Wiser Men and a Boy) about the Brenner brothers. They're three grown, just barely-adult men who live near their mom (Margaret Colin) and are navigating life changes, new relationships, and the fact that their mom is putting their childhood home up for sale, and this is the last Christmas they'll be spending there.
Hallmark Media Tidings for the Season (Nov. 16) Tamera Mowry-Housley stars as Lucy, a single mom taking care of her son Robbie (Elijah-Justus Lewis) in Tidings for the Season, out on Nov. 16. Robbie's a big fan of a local newscaster named Adam (B.J. Britt) and is excited when he gets to meet his hero and, this just in, it turns out Lucy and Adam might just be the perfect co-anchor to one another.
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