Countdown to Christmas 2026
The 34 original movies on Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas 2026 preview, in official premiere order. The separately listed Mistletoe Murders season premiere and Christmas Experience special are grouped below. This is not a list for every Hallmark network or streaming service. Times are US Eastern and Central.
Friday, October 16, 2026
’Tis the Season for Setups
Amanda Schull · Victor Webster · Barbara Niven · Verity Marks · John B. Lowe
A planner and a ski instructor try to set up their parents while organizing the resort’s Christmas party.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
Scheduled premiere has passed
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story
Lyndsy Fonseca · Robert Buckley · Marsha Mason · Barbara Alyn Woods · Khary Payton
A reporter profiles a Chicago Bears superfan and grows closer to the fan’s grandson during Christmas in Chicago.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A holiday display expert and an accountant work together to revive their town’s Christmas market.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A restaurateur returns home and revives her grandfather’s winter bowling tournament with help from an old boyfriend.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
Scheduled premiere has passedStreaming next day on Hallmark+, according to Hallmark Channel.
After a crash erases a year of his memory, a couple retraces their romance and reconnects with the holidays.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A Christmas ornament sends a former aspiring designer into an alternate life where she must reconsider what she gave up.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A woman planning her first Christmas Eve dinner invites a neighbor and his daughter, then bad weather changes their plans.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Saturday, October 31, 2026
Adopting St. Nick
Amy Groening · Michael Rady · Taylor Blake · Randy Apostle
A mother helps her daughter save a retirement community’s Christmas Companions program and finds new love.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A hotel executive returns to Copenhagen and tries to create the perfect Danish Christmas for a guest while helping her family inn.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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An accountant helps her nephew make a Christmas scrapbook with his substitute teacher, and begins to embrace a less rigid life.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A family goes screen-free at Christmas while a widow and her former colleague search for missing home videos.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Two estranged sisters team up to help their widowed father find love at Christmas.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Friday, November 13, 2026
My Christmas Cowboy
Amy Acker · Luke Macfarlane · Sara Canning · Isaiah Haegert
A small-town producer and her former college crush reconnect while preparing for the ranch’s Reindeer Roundup.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A man relives Christmas Eve and uses each repeated day to get to know a journalist and work out how to move forward.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Sunday, November 15, 2026
Mistletoe and Mimosas
Tamera Mowry-Housley · Kristoffer Polaha · Jennifer Robertson
A consultant inherits a Christmas-themed bar and competes with a rival club owner to save it through a series of holiday events.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A woman and a teacher pose as a couple to compete in their families’ Christmas football and baking traditions.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A veterinarian takes over a clinic in a town preparing for Christmas and works with the owner’s son to win over its residents.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Sunday, November 22, 2026
Double Booked for the Holidays
Rachael Leigh Cook · Owain Yeoman · Stephen Hagan
Identical twins trade holiday plans in a Welsh bookshop town, where mistaken identities tangle two romances.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A practical visitor helps a local tree-farm owner fix his Christmas tree delivery app before the holiday.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A chef returns to Boston to prepare her family’s Feast of the Seven Fishes and rethinks what kind of work brings her joy.
Hallmark Channel · 6:00 PM Eastern / 5:00 PM Central
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Santa finds a lost childhood wish and sets out to help its now-grown author, whose life is changed by the wish’s return.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A teacher helps revive a town Christmas block party while solving riddles from its late teacher’s Secret Norma tradition.
Hallmark Channel · 6:00 PM Eastern / 5:00 PM Central
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Saturday, November 28, 2026
Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True
Lacey Chabert · Travis Van Winkle · Richard Kind · Christy Carlson Romano · Bryce Durfee · Taegen Burns
Two former first-date rivals meet again while their families spend Christmas at Walt Disney World.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A mysterious menorah takes an auction-house worker through memories during Hanukkah and helps her face her feelings for a friend.
Hallmark Channel · 6:00 PM Eastern / 5:00 PM Central
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After a flight cancellation, a traveler rides home by truck with siblings and builds unexpected connections on the road.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A magical snowflake causes a string of mishaps, sending a lawyer and a gift-shop clerk across Chicago to retrieve it before Christmas.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Saturday, December 5, 2026
A Grand Biltmore Christmas
Holland Roden · Niall Matter · Andie MacDowell · James Trevena · Jonathan Frakes · Rachel Boston · Wes Brown
A woman from 1915 and a present-day visitor are brought together by a magical hourglass at Biltmore.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Sunday, December 6, 2026
An Angel in My Stocking
Fiona Gubelmann · Marco Grazzini · Nancy Robertson · Siobhan Williams
Divorced former spouses are stranded together on a Christmas trip, where a mysterious traveler claims to be a guardian angel.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A choir teacher takes a job in Canterbury and challenges the tradition of excluding girls from the cathedral’s Christmas concert.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A woman joins her sister’s Christmas getaway and is paired with a journalist covering the town’s proposal traditions.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A father and daughter’s holiday trip stalls at a campground, where a chance meeting leads them into a close-knit group of campers.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Two guests at a Christmas gala team up to recover a family heirloom and compete in the evening’s contests.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A realtor returning home for Christmas is pulled back toward her former boyfriend by a dog and a mysterious homeowner.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Two longtime friends attend a last-minute Christmas wedding together and reconsider what they want from love.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Series premiere
This is a series season premiere announced as part of the event, not a standalone movie.
Emily Lane and Detective Sam Wilner return to solve three Christmas mysteries as Emily’s past catches up with her.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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Specials
This programming special is listed separately from the 34 original movie premieres.
Saturday, December 5, 2026
The Hallmark Christmas Experience: A Hometown Holiday
Jonathan Bennett · Melissa Peterman
Hosts Jonathan Bennett and Melissa Peterman preview what is coming to Hallmark in 2027 from the Christmas Experience.
Hallmark Channel · 10:00 PM Eastern / 9:00 PM Central
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Already premiered in 2026
These four Christmas in July entries premiered in July. Christmas Under Construction is the Hallmark title for Renovation Romance (2024), so its 2026 date is a Hallmark airing rather than a new production. The group is listed separately from the Countdown to Christmas announcements because this page does not claim to cover the full Christmas slate.
Chelsea travels to New Hampshire to film her show Renovation Romance, putting her career and relationship under pressure. Hallmark aired it as Christmas Under Construction on July 4, 2026.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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An artist fights to save her town's Christmas market while falling for the architect tied to its redevelopment.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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A hotel manager assessing a ski lodge faces a choice between duty and the lodge's charming owner.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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An interior designer and her former high-school crush reunite to revive a holiday charity fundraiser.
Hallmark Channel · 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central
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About this guide and related collections
Use the dates below to plan your viewing. Most premieres start at 8 p.m. Eastern / 7 p.m. Central, but Thanksgiving weekend also has earlier films. The Mistletoe Murders season premiere, Christmas Experience special and Christmas in July airings have their own sections. Sources checked September 26, 2026.
We matched the titles, dates and cast in Hallmark's official Countdown to Christmas preview to its announcement of 34 original movies. Series and specials appear separately. This guide covers Hallmark Channel's announced Countdown lineup, rather than every holiday release across Hallmark networks and streaming services.
Frequently asked questions
How many Countdown to Christmas movies are announced for 2026?
Hallmark Channel has announced 34 original movies for Countdown to Christmas 2026. Its preview also lists the Mistletoe Murders season-three premiere and a Christmas Experience special; those are separate from the movie count.
When does Countdown to Christmas 2026 start and finish?
The announced movie lineup begins October 16 with ’Tis the Season for Setups and ends December 20 with Save the Date for Christmas. Dates and times below follow Hallmark’s US schedule checked September 26, 2026.
What time do the movies premiere?
Most start at 8 p.m. Eastern / 7 p.m. Central. Thanksgiving weekend has additional 6 p.m. Eastern / 5 p.m. Central movie premieres, so check the individual listing.
Is The Nights Before Christmas still awaiting a date?
Hallmark now lists The Nights Before Christmas for November 14 at 8 p.m. Eastern / 7 p.m. Central.
Does this include Christmas in July and other Hallmark programming?
The four Christmas in July airings are listed separately below, along with the series premiere and special. The 34-film count applies to Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas event. It does not count every holiday release across Hallmark networks or streaming services.