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While I was at my mother's she was flipping the channels and we caught a bit of a Christmas movie that I've never seen.  I tried googling with my few clues to what the movie might be but couldn't find it.  Help!!  It seems to be about a couple who have split up but get together to find their lost dog.  They have flashbacks to previous Christmas's when they were still a couple.  It was on in the background and I wasn't really following it but it seemed pretty good and I wouldn't mind watching the whole thing.  Does it sound familiar to anyone?

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Thursday is a live show isn't it?  I can't wait to see the reactions to the impeachment.

[Holiday TV Movies & (Non-Rankin Bass) Holiday Specials - General Discussion]

I saw the new Christmas in Evergreen and I liked it, plot holes and all.  I consider a movie good (or good enough for me) if I know I'll watch it again,  Well that and I don't fast forward through it to see how it ends - ok sure I know how they all end but sometimes you want to actually see it without the bother of watching the whole thing ☺️.

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Definitely tuning in for this one!!

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52 minutes ago, blondiec0332 said:

I had no idea about Charlize Theron's child so I doubt Joy did. I thought she  had a son and a daughter.

You know more than I did.  Didn't even know she had kids.  If they were pertinent to the conversation I guess I'd have checked but do we have to know the marital and # of children status of every male guest that comes on a show promoting their latest project?  If not why would we need to know that about a female guest?  Answer: we don't.

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24 minutes ago, leftlane said:

There's no way these women don't google their guests or discuss what they are in the news for during their morning meeting/show briefing.

Maybe they do but Joy is in her 70s it wouldn't surprise me if she didn't bother with that kind of thing.

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17 minutes ago, Koalagirl said:

 I hated to say that because I’m only 3 years younger than him and I have to wonder if that’s what people say when they see me.  

Lol.  There's a great meme going around that applies here, something along the lines of "don't you hate it when you see some old codger come into the room and then they come over to you and say "didn't we go to high school together"?"  

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16 minutes ago, Koalagirl said:

and by how old David Naughton looks.

I hear you!  I mean I'm glad to see actors I remember from "my day" are getting roles  but it's a little disconcerting when they are playing the Dad or the Grandad or the elderly neighbour or whatever!  Even when they are playing the love interest it can still be a shock - on Christmas Connection I kept thinking "why does the hero look so familiar, where do I know him from" - and was gobsmacked to learn he was Tom Everett Scott (the boy - yes dammit BOY - who looked so much like Tom Hanks in the movie That Thing You Do.  He's in his 40s now.  Sigh.  When the hell did that happen??

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12 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

Personally, my opinion of Meghan has absolutely nothing to do with her political affiliation.

Agreed.  I'd find her just as unbearable if she was liberal.  Just because someone shares my political views doesn't mean I have to like them!  And just because we don't doesn't mean I have to hate them!  I'm not even sure how sincere McCain is in her political comments,  she acts more like she thinks she's a brave rule breaker swimming against the stream.  This attitude is tiring when you consider the country is run by a Republican and the Senate is controlled by Republicans.  Yet she manages to act like she's a voice in the wilderness.  Ugh.

[Holiday TV Movies & (Non-Rankin Bass) Holiday Specials - General Discussion]

I'm doing  a little happy dance here - I discovered Call Me Mrs Miracle and Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade on ABC Spark.  PVR'd them both and am all set to watch two of my favourite Christmas movies while wrapping presents.  Yay!

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3 minutes ago, Sarah Heart said:

Yes, all this and more. A boatload of drama, without it, it would be such a blah little show..

Drama I can live with, it's the pouting and the flouncing and the general brattiness that is getting harder and harder to take.  But I guess if ABC figures McCain's behavior is not only acceptable but is bringing in the viewers nothing is going to change.

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16 minutes ago, 27bored said:

Any conservative woman on this show who dares to be at all assertive in her opinions is going to be derided as a bitch,

On this forum I don't see people calling out McCain as a bitch.  They are calling her out on her pouting and talking over others, for the eye rolling and her obvious disdain for the viewing audience.  If she's an example of an assertive, conservative woman then that's pretty sad.

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20 minutes ago, TheGreenKnight said:

Except the three "liberals" (I don't agree that's what they all are) don't agree uniformly with one another.

So much this.  No one is picking on McCain because she's the vocal conservative speaking out against a panel of likeminded people all parroting a party line,  They aren't!  McCain is obnoxious, plain and simple, and she'd be just as obnoxious if she were talking from the other side of the political divide.  No one else behaves like she does and it's not because they are all walking in lockstep and patting each other on the backs!  Far from it.

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20 minutes ago, After7Only said:

I agree about the set up of the show, as it has always been that way.  But we've seen conservative panelists like Nicolle and Ana, and even Bitsy at times do a much better job explaining their positions. 

My sister is conservative and we both manage to remain civil the few times we let the conversation veer to politics.  I can't help thinking Meghan does her side no favours by her behavior on The View! It will be interesting to see if she changes in any way after the smackdown and the public reaction to it.  Probably not I suppose.

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32 minutes ago, Black Knight said:

Thanks to One Million Moms's overreactions, they've had the opposite effect than intended.

Reminds me of what happens every time the Catholic Church would get hot and bothered about a movie.  It never seemed to give them the result they wanted, if anything more people would go see it not less. 

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8 minutes ago, absnow54 said:

Hallmark seems to only celebrate the non-religious commercial side of the holiday. 

Even in two of the Debbie Macomber movies with Mrs Miracle who is meant to be an angel you don't really get a Jesus/God feeling.  Magical for sure but if there's a religious aspect to these movies it's extremely understated.   

Offhand I am hardpressed to think of any of these movies that even has someone going to church at Christmas,  It's all Santa and magical snowglobes and small town wonderfulness.

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36 minutes ago, IWantCandy71 said:

Banning something is totally a form of passive aggressive bullying. "I'm going to withhold something from you (my money or sponsorship) to get you to do what I want". That is bullying. 

What would you suggest someone do then if they disagree with a decision a company has made?  Remain passive and allow something to go without comment?  Let's face it that's what most of us actually do do.  We may stop watching a show or a channel or stop purchasing a product but we just do it.  It's only if a company or network or whatever eventually notices a decline in viewership or sales that they might connect the dots.  Letting them know upfront loud and clear where you feel they screwed up isn't bullying.  I'm not even sure I agree that what the million bigoted moms did was bullying.  Just because I don't agree with them doesn't mean they don't have a right to voice their opinion.  

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56 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:

and (on a shallow note) the same stupid hairstyles on every female. 

For me it's the eyelashes!  Noticed it first on the Merry and Bright movie with Jodi  Sweetin and then started noticing it in every movie.  Women with long, totally fake unrealistic eyelashes.  Whoever does the hair and makeup on these movies has zero imagination.

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1 hour ago, In2You said:

They're losing viewers either way. Conservatives are not the only ones watching Hallmark at Christmastime.

Absolutely true. I don't watch Hallmark channel but I do watch Hallmark movies at Christmas because they air on the W channel here.  W as in women's network which is not a channel I associate with conservative "christian" values.   They air these movies because they appeal to many women (and some men too I guess) not because they are catering to the million bigoted moms.

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2 hours ago, snarkylady said:

Mary is getting very close to being an annoying character, both gullible and lying. 

I know she seemed gullible but considering Sheldon has no history of faking illnesses or lying and that "something's going around" I can see where she would err on the side of believing Sheldon.  And I wouldn't have told George either!  Smug bastard.

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7 hours ago, Dani said:

One million moms is calling for a boycott because Hallmark aired a Zola.com commercial featuring a lesbian kiss.

Is this an actual organization?  I want to boycott them.

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2 minutes ago, Driad said:

Also, a high school has a pool? Guess I'm not from Texas.

My high school got a pool.  After I graduated.  I'm not bitter.

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5 hours ago, sistersledge said:

And where did everyone else stay in town?  I can usually suspend disbelief but c'mon. 

Thank you!  I'm a fan of CCB Christmas films for the most part but I only made it into maybe 20 minutes with this one.  And that was definitely one of the things that I noticed and thought "huh?"  

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Just saw the episode with "traffic cop Timmy".  I like it but man Robert is a jerk.  Marie is nothing but nice and supportive to him the entire episode but who does he turn on?  Marie.  I get that Robert has baggage but jeeze louise (to quote Frank) there's a time and a place!

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With the exception of Rilla of Ingleside (because - well obviously!)  I totally agree with that timeline!  Anne of Green Gables to my mind was always meant to be set in the 1890s, it's only when you try and make a timeline make sense that suddenly it's set back in the 1870s which really doesn't work with what actually happens in it and the books that immediately follow it.