The Roku Channel is breaking out their wreaths. The streaming platform announced two new holiday projects to their lineup.
“How to Fall in Love by the Holidays,” led by Teri Hatcher, follows a writer-turned-ceo who must write a column about love in time for the holidays. Things become more complicated, thanks to the handsome photographer working alongside her.
The Reel One Entertainment film is executive produced by Tom Berry, Suzanne Chapman, Breanne Hartley, Louisa Cadywould, Sebastian Battro and Laurence Braun, written by Ansley Gordon and directed by Michael Kennedy. The movie streams on Friday, November 3.
The Holiday Shift
Roku will also debut a five-episode holiday series titled “The Holiday Shift,” from CBS Studios and Fulwell73. The show follows intersecting love stories of employees at a mall working during the holiday rush. Varun Saranga, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Devyn Nekoda, Nadine Bhabha, Brielle Robillard, Michael Delleva, Sarah Levy and Jon Dore star.
Tommy Johnagin,...
“How to Fall in Love by the Holidays,” led by Teri Hatcher, follows a writer-turned-ceo who must write a column about love in time for the holidays. Things become more complicated, thanks to the handsome photographer working alongside her.
The Reel One Entertainment film is executive produced by Tom Berry, Suzanne Chapman, Breanne Hartley, Louisa Cadywould, Sebastian Battro and Laurence Braun, written by Ansley Gordon and directed by Michael Kennedy. The movie streams on Friday, November 3.
The Holiday Shift
Roku will also debut a five-episode holiday series titled “The Holiday Shift,” from CBS Studios and Fulwell73. The show follows intersecting love stories of employees at a mall working during the holiday rush. Varun Saranga, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Devyn Nekoda, Nadine Bhabha, Brielle Robillard, Michael Delleva, Sarah Levy and Jon Dore star.
Tommy Johnagin,...
- 10/12/2023
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
Halloween has come and gone and it’s time to start celebrating the holidays. Ok, well, Lifetime (and some of its competitors) began decking their lineups with new Christmas movies before Oct. 30 — but now it’s really time to start making the season bright.
See below for Lifetime’s full 2020 “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” slate of holiday movies, which includes 30 different original films this year. Two notable projects on the list are “A Christmas Setup,” which marks the cable channel’s first-ever holiday movie to feature a gay couple as the leads, and “A Sugar & Spice Holiday,” Lifetime’s first holiday film led by an Asian cast.
Christmas on Ice
Starring Abigail Klein, Ryan Cooper, Caroline Portu,
Will Lyman, Meara Mahoney Gross
10/23 at 8pm Et/Pt
Courtney Bennett (Abigail Klein), a former US figure skating hopeful, runs the city’s public skating rink but when the Mayor (Will Lyman) announces its closing,...
See below for Lifetime’s full 2020 “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” slate of holiday movies, which includes 30 different original films this year. Two notable projects on the list are “A Christmas Setup,” which marks the cable channel’s first-ever holiday movie to feature a gay couple as the leads, and “A Sugar & Spice Holiday,” Lifetime’s first holiday film led by an Asian cast.
Christmas on Ice
Starring Abigail Klein, Ryan Cooper, Caroline Portu,
Will Lyman, Meara Mahoney Gross
10/23 at 8pm Et/Pt
Courtney Bennett (Abigail Klein), a former US figure skating hopeful, runs the city’s public skating rink but when the Mayor (Will Lyman) announces its closing,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Former Lifetime and Hallmark Channel exec Barbara Fisher has joined indie producer Reel One Entertainment. She joins the company as Evp Scripted Content to oversee its development and production slate.
Prior to joining Reel One, she was Svp Original Programming for cable network Up TV and held similar roles at the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime. In addition to producing for Nat Geo, she spent 15 years at Universal Studios, where she oversaw titles including David Spade’s Just Shoot Me and HBO’s Dream On.
She will be based in Los Angeles and report to Reel One Entertainment CEO Tom Berry, working closely with Evp Business Affairs Breanne Hartley and Evp Distribution Sebastian Battro. Reel One is currently working on an English-language remake of Belgian drama Tygat Chocolat, Irish-Canadian crime series co-production Our Father with ShinAwiL, and an adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novella Second Variety.
“As the company expands...
Prior to joining Reel One, she was Svp Original Programming for cable network Up TV and held similar roles at the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime. In addition to producing for Nat Geo, she spent 15 years at Universal Studios, where she oversaw titles including David Spade’s Just Shoot Me and HBO’s Dream On.
She will be based in Los Angeles and report to Reel One Entertainment CEO Tom Berry, working closely with Evp Business Affairs Breanne Hartley and Evp Distribution Sebastian Battro. Reel One is currently working on an English-language remake of Belgian drama Tygat Chocolat, Irish-Canadian crime series co-production Our Father with ShinAwiL, and an adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novella Second Variety.
“As the company expands...
- 6/24/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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