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Chris Mann: 🎶“Hello . . . it’s me. I’m in California dreamin’ about going out to eat . . .”🎶

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Here you go. He's also a photographer and "your friend" can even go to Bali with him.

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Hope it's okay to post this here as it features "stars" from Hallmark's Christmas movies. Did anyone happen to catch "Hallmark Channel's Christmas Concert"? I expected it to be bad but I'm only 10 minutes in and it may very well be the most cringe-inducing thing I've ever seen on the Hallmark Channel, which is a feat in and of itself. Case in point: our host Lacey Chabert (this is supposedly her house), Jen Lilley and Nikki DeLoach are seated on a sofa naming famous Christmas carols: Jen: Jingle Bells. Nikki: Oh, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"! Lacey: Ahh! I love that one!! Jen: Yessss! All three beg the Hallmark pianist sitting in the corner: Can we do that? Peter? Peter? Please? And they launch into . . . "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

For me she's by far the least likable female lead on Hallmark TV. I think the only role she could pull off convincingly is the brittle, bitchy, judgmental, wrong-for-him, about-to-be-dumped girlfriend of the male lead. Couldn't stand her on Cedar Cove either and it's frustrating to see her keep getting paired up with actors I like.

I think the show's tried to make it clear that they're not sleeping together. In the last episode, he told Eve that he's sleeping on the sofa downstairs. And in this ep, when he thanks Gemma in the storage unit, telling her she's already done enough, she suggestively says that she "could always do more."

Loved it. Thought Jamie Bell was particularly strong (as always).

While Max, Jess and Darnell argued about what to do with drug-dealing murderer guy, he got out of the trunk, ran into the road and got hit by a car. Police guy told Murphy to stay away from him and his daughter. Murphy's dad got high with Felix and told him the business is going bankrupt so Felix wrote him a check and bought the business. Jess is having PTSD from seeing the drug-dealing murderer get hit by the car. Flashback shows her thanking Tyson for helping Murphy write her the birthday card. The coroner tells Darnell's cop girlfriend that drug-dealing murderer guy shot both Tyson and the drug-dealing florist but he's not the one who strangled Tyson.

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Yes! I love her and Andrew Walker (especially together) but her hair was distractingly bad. Every time she reached up to smooth her hair, I kept expecting her to accidentally dislodge the wig. Can't imagine why she'd need to wear one unless she had to cut her hair really short for another role. Even so, Hallmark should've shelled out for a better wig.

Ugh. Love Tyler Hynes but can't stand Cindy Busby. IMO, she is by far the least likable Hallmark lead. At first, I thought it was just the character she played on Cedar Cove but I haven't found her remotely appealing in any of her Hallmark movies either.

In the first ep, Wolf claims in his press conference that "the fix is in," saying that Maya, the DA's office and the LAPD are going after Sevvy to get payback for Wolf exposing their conspiracy to frame Sevvy eight years ago. Speculation: At this point, I'm convinced that Gabe (aka Kato Kaelin the stepson) knows that Sevvy killed his mom so he's framing Sevvy to avenge her murder. And Maya's going to figure out that Gabe killed Jessica but she's going to let Sevvy go down for it anyway.

He was also in It's Christmas, Eve with LeAnn Rimes, where he sings and [really] plays the piano, which makes him even hotter in a Bradley-Cooper-speaking-French kinda way.

He played Claudia's brother Joshua.

Tyler Hynes first caught my eye on Warehouse 13 so I'm glad to see him popping up on Hallmark so often. IMO, he's a cross between Matthew Perry and Nathan Fillion, but sexier than either of them.

Where's Paul Greene? He's the only reason I occasionally tune in to WCTH these days. I sat at the same table as Lori and her husband at a Women in Hollywood luncheon years ago and she was lovely---very friendly and down-to-earth. Looks like her daughters are withdrawing from USC: https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/14/lori-loughlin-daughters-olivia-isabella-usc-bullying-college-bribery/

I saw Chris Pine in a few plays (Lieutenant of Inishmore, Farragut North, Fat Pig) so I knew he had acting chops, but this was a bit of a slog. It was sort of a cross between L.A. Confidential and Hannibal, except those were compelling and this was anything but.

We saw the Major buying/leasing a fancy NYC condo because she was "relocating to New York," so I don't think she's Zeke's mom [who lives in a brownstone in Queens]. I've been a fan of Matt Long's since his Jack & Bobby days so I hope he sticks around and manages to wrest Michaela out of Jared's one-note, cheating arms.

I've always wanted to stay at the IceHotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, but after spending 30 minutes in IceHotel's IceBar in Stockholm last summer, I'll pass on the hotel stay. Half an hour in 23° was long enough!

WSJ - This Season’s Guilty Pleasure: Binge-Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies (requires a subscription so I've included the text below) This Season’s Guilty Pleasure: Binge-Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies Super fans keep track with spreadsheets, stay up all night to watch; ‘Romance at Reindeer Lodge’ By Katherine Bindley Nov. 29, 2018 1:04 p.m. ET Every weekend around this time of year, the living-room TV in Tim Gates’s Pittsburgh home is tuned to the Hallmark Channel. His wife and teenage daughter watch the network’s original Christmas movies all day long. Mr. Gates usually sits down and teases them about the movies, which feature predictable plotlines and tropes. “Next thing I know, I’m sucked in for a half-hour, 45 minutes,” he says. A few weeks ago, after the Steelers game ended, he watched “Romance at Reindeer Lodge”—by himself. “Nobody else was around,” says Mr. Gates, 45 years old, a regional vice president of a staffing firm. Then, while traveling for work, he fell asleep in his hotel room to “Switched for Christmas.” Mr. Gates isn’t ashamed to admit it: He is starting to like them. Seasoned fans go a few steps further. They find Hallmark Christmas movies to be amazing, best watched in bulk and worth staying up all night for. Some say a steady routine of Hallmark Christmas movies is part of self-care, a bit like meditation. Crown Media Family Networks, a subsidiary of the greeting-card maker, is the company behind more than 150 original Christmas movies that have run on its Hallmark-branded channels over the past decade. There are 22 new ones airing on the main Hallmark channel this year—they started Oct. 27—and another 15 new ones on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. Together with past years’ movies, they run practically round-the-clock, 10 to 12 a day. Some fans have found the best way to keep track of what they’ve watched is with a spreadsheet. “I am often asked, when will Hallmark hit a ceiling on how many Christmas movies it produces every year?” said Michelle Vicary, the company’s executive vice president, programming and publicity, in an email. “So far, we are not there. There are viewers who tell us that Hallmark holiday on TV is something they wait for all year long.” Devoted watchers acknowledge that similar events unfold in each movie: Inclement weather tends to strand people in idyllic towns with names like Evergreen. There tends to be a scene where the characters bake Christmas cookies. The town’s Christmas festival tends to be a do-or-die event that stresses out the planners. In the end, the two leads fall in love while relishing in the spirit of Christmas—at least the more secular parts. And it always snows, even when the stories are set in North Carolina or Tennessee. Repetitive? More like reliable, says Camille Culbreath, 26, a flight attendant from Boston who watched five Hallmark Christmas movies one recent Saturday. “I sat on my couch. I made breakfast, and then I made lunch, and the next thing I know it’s dinner time,” she says. Ms. Culbreath started out much like Mr. Gates, making fun of her mom’s love of Hallmark movies, until about five years ago, when she “just got invested,” she says. She realized she actually likes cheesy, romantic stories about a big-city girl who goes to the country and finds a fiancé. “I was, like, wait, that’s me,” she says. “I’m a big-city girl. I want to go to the country. I want to find an innkeeper to call my husband and we celebrate Christmas.” Ms. Culbreath, who is biracial, says she notices the lack of diversity in Hallmark movies. “I always joke there’s one black person in the whole movie,” she says. “Either there’s one black lady or black guy who is in it who has a big role, or there’s one or two in the background that you don’t really pay attention to.” The network recognized the need for more diversity and inclusion in its original movies and has created new partnerships to do so, company officials say. One result is “Christmas Everlasting,” which debuted last Saturday night and starred Tatyana Ali (“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”), Dennis Haysbert (“24”) and singer Patti LaBelle. Aly McGuire and her roommate, Rachel Rompala, both 19, say they discovered their shared love for Hallmark Christmas movies one night during their freshman year at Iowa State University. “I don’t think we stopped until 3:30 or 4 a.m., and we basically tried to do that as much as possible,” says Ms. McGuire. This year, the pair made a spreadsheet to document the movies they had watched and to rate them. There are 11 different categories that affect the movies’ ratings, including: Does the movie make you want to cry, or throw up, or both? Several categories are reserved for evaluating male leads. “We rate them based on their Christmas spirit, can he pull off a sweater, and his romanticness,” says Ms. Rompala. “We haven’t made a spreadsheet for the women yet.” Their favorite so far has been “A Gift to Remember.” Former “The Young and the Restless” regular Peter Porte stars as a man who loses his memory after a collision with a bookstore worker—with whom he later falls in love. “We rated that one off the charts,” says Ms. McGuire. “Our scale is 1 to 10, and I rated it a 16 out of 10, and Rachel rated it a 15 out of 10.” Adriana Allegri, 52, a freelance writer from Chandler, Ariz., says she has been watching Hallmark Christmas movies for about 10 years, but things have really accelerated in the last two years. She has been waking up five mornings a week at 3 a.m. and watching Hallmark movies for two hours while she exercises. She has many saved on her DVR. The movies take her back to a simpler time, and help her decompress when the news feels like too much. “It’s definitely escapist,” she says. “I can’t say that they’re high drama or they’re fantastic pieces of film.” What happens after New Year’s Day when the Christmas movies no longer air regularly? Hallmark has plenty of other original films. “Once Christmas is over, there’s going to be the Valentine’s ones, so that’ll be great,” she says. “I tend to do them year round.” Appeared in the November 30, 2018, print edition as 'What Yule Watch: More Hallmark Christmas Movies.'

If you like Wes Brown, Deception is well worth watching. He plays the lead character's love interest and their chemistry is palpable.

NPR: Does The Hallmark Channel Have Basic Cable's Most Efficiently Defined Brand? ETA: From October 2012 but NPR re-ran it today and it's still relevant.