I agree. The only ION movie I really liked so far, that I've seen is their version of
A Cinderella Christmas. They seemed to have actually spent some money on that one and hired better writers, actors and styled it better.
Lifetime tends to have really low budgets for some of their movies. But, some times their stories are more interesting. They are willing to take more chances.
Speaking of
A Cinderella Christmas, the actor in that movie, Peter Porte, along with Andie MacDowell who plays his mom, will be in a gay Christmas movie,
Dashing in December, on the Paramount Network. I saw the ad while watching a Hallmark movie yesterday. It looks interesting. I never even heard of the Paramount Network. It's obviously not a channel I usually watch. It usually just shows a lot of (Paramount) reruns, I guess.
Peter was in one of my favorite Hallmark Christmas movies,
A Gift to Remember. He plays someone who was run over by a woman on a bicycle, as she was riding to work at a bookstore. He ends up with amnesia and they try to piece together his memory, while of course falling in love.
If one is interested is watching
Dashing in December, it's on this Sun, Dec 13, 7pm ET, and re-airs a couple more times that night. You can read the movie description and see a preview here:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13454498/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
And if anyone is as clueless about the Paramount Network as I was, you may be able to find the channel number here:
https://www.buyinternetcable.com/blog/paramount-network-on-spectrum
Or while scrolling the Spectrum channel guide, the channel is listed as: PARHD.