Headed by former Hallmark Channel CEO Bill Abbott, the newly rebranded GAC Family launched its Christmas lineup Saturday, Oct. 30 with new movies every Saturday and three new movies premiering on Thanksgiving weekend. In December, GAC Family will showcase new movies each Saturday and Sunday during the month. Here’s the scoop on their Christmas lineup.
GAC Family Christmas movies schedule 2021
Much Ado About Christmas
Premiered Saturday, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Susie Abromeit, Torrance Coombs Haley (Abromeit) is beloved in her community of Winterstone for acts of kindness ranging from managing The Hope Chest charity to directing the children’s choir. Haley is also the daughter of one of Winterstone’s wealthiest residents Leona Lloyd. Despite Haley’s down-to-earth demeanor, she is financially set as Leona’s only heir— information she fails to share with new love interest Claud (Coombs), an artsy, hopeless romantic. Haley introduces herself to Claud as “Haley Logan,” raised by a single, struggling mom, a small fib that comes back to haunt her when Claud and his team present an ad pitch to Leona that includes a photo of Haley! Secrets are revealed and relationships ruffled. But Christmas is coming, and miracles do happen.
The Great Christmas Switch
Premiered Saturday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Sarah Lind, Dillon Casey, Jon McLaren, Gabriel Darku Kaelynn and Sophia (Lind) are identical twins who have grown up believing the other has the more glamorous life. Kaelynn sometimes feels unappreciated in her non-stop world of kids and to-do lists. Sophia is laid back to the point of paralysis and cannot seem to assemble the basics of life: a healthy work-life balance and evolved relationships. When Sophia tells her twin she’s had to cancel her Christmas vacation to stay in San Diego to work, Kaelynn jumps at the chance to flee the frost of Ohio to take her sister’s place. With her niece and nephew at their dad’s for Christmas, Sophia believes her only job will be to watch holiday movies by the fire. Kaelynn feels confident her demanding day-to-day has prepared her for Sophia’s grinchy boss and flaky friends. Then, reality sets in! With the familiar turned upside down, it will take a Christmas miracle to make it all right again.
Christmas Time Is Here
Premiered Saturday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Rukiya Bernard, Dewshane Williams Nia (Bernard) is a successful small-town real estate agent and has her heart set on closing a big sale on a new resort for her client, Julian Parsons (Williams), in her hometown of Pine Valley just in time for Christmas. There is only one hitch. No matter how many properties Nia shows Julian, he keeps coming back to the one resort that isn’t for sale…the one belonging to Nia’s widower dad, Patrick. Patrick would like to sell the property and retire. It’s Nia who cannot let go of memories of an idyllic time in life when her mom was still alive and very much a part of the resort. Julian realizes Nia’s reluctance to sell the property, but it may not matter. Julian’s impatient boss has come to town intent on getting the deal done before Christmas. At risk of losing his job, Julian comes up with a magical plan for saving Nia’s family’s resort.
A Kindhearted Christmas
Premiered Saturday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Jennie Garth, Cameron Mathison Jamie (Garth) owns a sightseeing tour company in the small town of Cooperville, New York, so knowing where to find fun and interesting things to do is her job. However, navigating the holidays with the same enthusiasm is trickier for Jamie since her husband, Matt, passed. Matt loved Christmas and found unparalleled joy in giving to others. While watching her favorite news program, “Wake Up Upstate,” or more importantly, the show’s handsome TV anchor, Scott (Mathison), Jamie learns about a neighboring high school’s fundraiser and spontaneously gifts the entire amount—anonymously. Jamie’s anonymous gift sparks another and another until the entire town gets into the spirit. News of the generous gift giving draws Jamie’s TV crush to Cooperville seeking to do some serious reporting on the identity of the secret Santa.
My Angel’s Christmas List
Premiered Friday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Jessica Lowndes, Chad Michael Murray Ally (Lowndes) is a workaholic ER doctor struggling for work-life balance with boyfriend, Josh (David Reale). On the night Josh is set to propose, he and Ally have an argument about her working an extra shift on Christmas Eve, which leads to a breakup. Ally is miserable alone until a chance encounter with handsome barista, Gabe (Murray), leads her to fulfill a Christmas bucket list of fun activities she never would have done on her own. Ally’s best friend and fellow ER doctor, Dawn (Samora Smallwood), has never seen Ally so engaged outside of work and is rooting for a Gabe-Ally relationship. Now, the saintly Maureen (Jane Luk) must redirect Gabe’s heartfelt intentions if Josh and Ally have any chance at reconciliation this Christmas.
Royally Wrapped for Christmas
Premiered Saturday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Jen Lilley, Brendan Fehr Lindsay (Lilley) heads up one of the most successful chapters of the Festive Heart Foundation, a philanthropic organization which will celebrate a century of helping underserved children around the world. Founded by the Royal Family of Veronia, Lindsay is summoned to the kingdom as one of the world’s three most successful foundation organizers to plan the Centennial Gala. Before she embarks to Veronia, Lindsay meets the charity’s President, Willard, and Aidan (Fehr), who Lindsay mistakenly believes is the organization’s accountant. Once in Veronia, Lindsay discovers the “accountant” is really Prince Aidan who is to ascend the throne. Committed to the mission to imagine the next 100 years of the charity, Lindsay leans into a family tradition: to give a gift and to keep a gift. Veronia’s Parliament enthusiastically accepts Lindsay’s idea for the charity, vowing to change the world in the kindest way. Now Prince Aidan must decide if the commoner from New York who has helped so many can help him find a happily-ever-after.
Christmas Is You
Premiered Sunday, Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. Starring Becca Tobin, Matthew MacCaull Emma (Tobin) is given an ultimatum by her boss at Old Town Records: go home for the holidays and convince former boyfriend and national recording star Tyler Thorn to sign with Old Town or find another job. While Emma is an organized assistant, her real dream is to be a singer. After quitting his label, Tyler is headed home for Christmas for the first time in years. When Emma and Tyler arrive in their hometown, they are immediately immersed in an all-hands-on-deck effort to save the annual Christmas Carol Celebration where they first sang together as kids in the choir. Turns out, a trip down Memory Lane may hit all the right notes for love.
Jingle Bell Princess
Premiered Sunday, Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Merritt Patterson, Trevor Donovan Mechanical issues temporarily ground Princess Amelia’s (Patterson) royal jet in the small town of Tucker, Maine. With the crew distracted attending to the repair, Amelia deplanes to walk through a magical Christmas tree lot on the airport’s perimeter. She finds herself chatting away with jovial owner, Harley. After she realizes how much time has passed, Amelia rushes back to the runway only to find the royal jet has departed believing she was onboard. When a massive snowstorm moves in, grounding all air traffic in and out of Tucker, Amelia is devastated she may miss Christmas in her father’s kingdom. What looks like a royal catastrophe turns into an unforgettable holiday as Amelia is taken in by airline employee, Annie Cutler, and her son, Sam (Donovan). He’s a commoner and she’s a royal, but their mutual attraction may cause this uncommon romance to take flight.
A Lot Like Christmas
Premiered Sunday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Maggie Lawson, Christopher Russell Jessica (Lawson) owns the most popular Christmas tree lot in the picturesque New England town of Hudson Springs. But when big-city marketing executive, Clay Moore (Russell) moves a big box chain store into the area and starts selling trees, Jessica finds her business in jeopardy. As their professional competition escalates, Jessica and Clay run into another complication—they start falling for each other.
A Christmas Miracle for Daisy
Premiered Saturday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Jill Wagner, Nick Bateman Whitney (Wagner) owns Marietta Designs, an interior design firm which she runs with her friend, Andi (Tegan Moss). She’s designing Santa’s float for the town’s annual Christmas parade when a potential job opportunity comes her way: the full redesign of a landmark home by Christmas Eve. Despite the challenge, Whitney and Andi sign onto the job—only to discover the home’s new owner is Whitney’s ex-boyfriend, Connor (Bateman), who has moved to town from Los Angeles with his bright-eyed, young daughter, Daisy (Rubi Tupper). Connor had no intention of becoming a family man, but when his goddaughter is orphaned, he adopts her and commits to becoming a devoted single dad. More than anything, Daisy wishes for a mom to complete her picture-perfect family, and no prospect is as perfect as Whitney. Tall order, but Christmas is a time for miracles.
A Christmas Star
Premiered Sunday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Sarah Canning, Daniel Lissing Astronomer Madeline Baggett (Canning) searches for life beyond Earth, and when she believes she has found it, she convinces her boss to allow her to travel to a small hamlet in upstate New York where she hopes to capture a once-in-a-lifetime event. With refractors, telescopes and a small film crew in tow, Madeline arrives and sets up in Summit Ridge where she meets widowed national park ranger Ryan Sparks (Lissing) and his young daughter, Celeste. With Ryan’s help, Madeline begins to chart the celestial event which brings the pair closer to finding love under the stars.
When Hope Calls: A Country Christmas
Premieres Saturday, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Morgan Kohan, Ryan-James Hatanaka. Guest starring Lori Loughlin, Daniel Lissing, Carter Ryan A national magazine lists Brookfield as a potential to be named America’s No. 1 Country Christmas Town which reunites the magazine’s photojournalist with Maggie (Hanneke Talbot) who was once a travel writer. The town is purposely trying to show the essence of Christmas for the writer, but behind the scenes, residents aren’t really living the spirit of the season. In the middle of the fuss, a stagecoach arrives and out steps Abigail Stanton (Loughlin) and her son Cody (Ryan) who have brought a troubled boy to Lillian’s (Kohan) orphanage. Mountie Winslow (Hatanaka) does his best to help the boy but to no avail. When all hope for a joyous Christmas seems lost, a secret Santa comes to fulfill Christmas wishes, and Abigail has a profound conversation with a dear friend from the past.
Joy for Christmas
Premieres Sunday, Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. ET Starring Cindy Busby, Sam Page When her family firm’s annual Christmas toy drive is in jeopardy, Holly (Busby) must convince pro athlete Jack Kane (Page) to be the public face of the campaign to help save it. As Noelle helps Jack rediscover the meaning of Christmas, Holly reconnects with her own family traditions. While Jack and Holly go through challenges of making Christmas dreams for others come true, they discover kindred spirits in each other and the potential for the gift of romance this holiday season. Next, The 30 Best Hallmark Christmas Movies of All Time
