Like I just mentioned above my husband and I watched our first one together this season. About half way through I got a hankering for nutella and I had already a recipe in mind so we paused the move. Not too long later we had nutella crescent rolls straight out of the oven with a bit of powdered sugar and resumed the movie. Def. made it feel cozier.
Every year I tell myself "I'm gonna leave enough room on the DVR for October-December when Christmas movies start up again" and do I? No I do not
Eventually I'll need to reschedule some of the movies that I've either recorded or will be recording because I'll run out of space especially with fall tv shows starting again, it's just a good thing these channels often do multiple showtimes. I do have some 2019 Christmas movies on the DVR that I need to get to watching...
IF they re-air. So one has to make room for those movies. I wish ION would do a re-airing on Wed too. They show reruns every other day of the week. You'd think they'd be able to give up another day of programming during Christmas season. 
The problem is: next week is the week before Hallmark's 7 Days of Christmas, (or called something like that,) where there will be a new Hallmark movie every night during Thanksgiving week.
Yes, they will re-air the new movies, but that's when stuff REALLY starts to pile up on the DVR.
Add to that, the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend is when ION starts their Christmas season. Since they ONLY air Christmas movies on Sundays, the next time a movie may re-air, (old or new,) could be 3-4 weeks later.
Boy I hear ya! I can count on Hallmark and Lifetime to usually have a few re-airings. But I'm also a person that can wait it out for another showtime so if it's a few weeks later I'm okay with that, BUT I know how hard it is. My mom doesn't have a DVR box and I hear it every year about her trying to cram in watching all the movies. She focuses more on Hallmark but they simply have so many these days it's hard.The problem is: next week is the week before Hallmark's 7 Days of Christmas, (or called something like that,) where there will be a new Hallmark movie every night during Thanksgiving week.
Yes, they will re-air the new movies, but that week is when stuff REALLY starts to pile up on the DVR. So, next week, one has to start watching stuff on the DVR and make room for the 7 new movies.
Add to that, the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend is when ION starts their Christmas season. Since they ONLY air Christmas movies on Sundays, the next time a movie may re-air, (old or new,) could be 3-4 weeks later.
I had really liked spirit of christmas. Jen Lilley is one of my favorite hallmark girls ( i know that movie was not a hallmark movie)! i am so glad that they have so many new movies this year. I forgot to DVR Christmas in Vienna. Cant wait to see it....One Royal Holiday is ok. Has broadway stars...
I just don't know how people are able to fit that all in
I almost put on One Royal Holiday today but opted for A Welcome Home Christmas instead. Did you like having the broadway stars in the movie or was it like "take it or leave it"?
Okay I thought I was mis-hearing that! I totally thought it was her dad too in the very beginning I could have sworn that's how they introduced him but you're right I thought she said the dad passed away. Maybe that was a continuity error
It was cute. They sang a bit and did a nice job. But if it were any other actors would have been the same to me. Still, its nice they did it. I had almost seen both of them live in the past in some capacity but had missed out. MY DH read that since broadway actors were not working and CT opened up for filming thats how they were able to do it. I think I saw Laura Osnes in a movie this week that was actually from last year too.
DD and I are big musical people and LOVE Aaron Tveit. That said, it was cute, but it was a bit slow at first honestly. I felt like they all tried too hard to be....something... at the beginning. It seemed like they were acting for live theater, if that makes any sense. About a third of the way through it got better. And when Aaron smiles...
. The woman who played the Queen was the best though, she made the movie.
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Yeah, we were tracking down all their credits tooChristmas in Vienna is re-airing (so far):
tomorrow, Sun at 6pm.
Also next Thurs at 8pm.
Turns out, it has 4 Broadway stars in it. Since Broadway theatres are shut down now, they had this extra time to film the Hallmark movie up in Canada.
I knew the two leads are Broadway stars. But, when I saw the best friend, the black actress who plays the Mayor, sing a Christmas carol with the female lead, and had NO shyness or lack of confidence in holding her own singing with her, while knowing the lead is a famous Broadway actress, I just got the feeling she is a Broadway actress too. (Me, I'd be intimidated.
So, I Googled, and it turns out she is/was in the Broadway, Motown musical. And the older actress who plays the queen is also a Broadway veteran. She was in Cinderella on Broadway with the female lead, Laura Osnes.
https://www.theatermania.com/new-yo...-one-royal-holiday-gives-broadway-_91596.html
as soon as the Mayor sang, we started digging, she was amazing. She was also in Hamilton.
I actually thought, I cannot continue to watch this movie if she keeps talking in that super high, Smurfy voice like that and over-acting. And I've seen her in a couple other Hallmark movies, and I know that's not her normal voice. If she was going to play some caricature of a person, I can't watch this. But, after about 20 minutes, she settled down.
Every time she laughed I kept saying, thats a live stage laugh, not a tv movie laugh. It was weird. But I really liked it after awhile. But it was certainly not the best one out there.Yes, what the heck was that at the beginning??? I threw shade at Jen Lilley, earlier in the thread, for having a Smurf voice in The Christmas Spirit. But, after 30 seconds, I no longer noticed it.
But, Laura Osnes was practically unwatchable at the beginning of this movie. She was like super Smurfette on steroids.
