'Snow' Job

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Tom Cavanagh and Ashley Williams are teaming up for "Snow," a new movie on ABC Family. "Snow" will premiere in December has part of ABC Family's "25 Days of Christmas" celebration. Production on the original movie will begin next month.

Cavanagh plays Nick Snowden, a young man nervous about taking over his family's North Pole-based Christmas-time toy distribution duties. Things get worse when one of his family's magical reindeer, Buddy, is stolen and taken to a zoo in California. Nick must head South, rescue his reindeer and spread Christmas cheer.

Williams plays a zookeeper with holiday-themed emotional issues.
"'Snow' offers a contemporary twist on the traditional tale of Santa Claus and is a great addition to the holiday classics we air during our popular '25 Days of Christmas' programming event," says ABC Family President Paul Lee.

Both of the telefilm's leads are coming off of truncated NBC shows. Cavanagh played the title character in the network's "Ed," which at least had a graceful send-off this spring, while Williams starred in "Good Morning, Miami," which mostly just vanished.

Rich Burns wrote "Snow" for ABC Family and the project is directed by Alex Zamm ("Inspector Gadget 2").