ALICIA SILVERSTONE, OLIVER HUDSON, MELISSA JOAN HEART IN A MERRY LITTLE EX-MASS, MINKA KELLY, TOM WOZNICZKA IN CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS, CONNOR SWINDELLS IN JINGLE BELL HEIST NETFLIX CHRISTMAS ROMCOM TRAILERS

 NETFLIX CHRISTMAS TRAILERS 

A MERRY LITTLE EX-MASS

A Merry Little Ex-Mass starts November 12th

A couple of new trailers for this year's festive movies over at Netflix, starting with A MERRY LITTLE EX-MASS which arrives November 12th with Alicia Silverstone playing Kate who is recently divorced, and hoping for a picture-perfect family Christmas one last time before she sells her house. Unfortunately, her dreams of a nostalgic holiday break are dashed when her ex-husband, Everett (Oliver Hudson), unexpectedly introduces his young and successful new girlfriend into the mix. But, hey, what’s the holiday season without a little mischief? Pierson Fode and Melissa Joan Hart also star in this holiday comedy movie.

 

  

CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS 

 Arriving a week later, November 19th is Minka Kelly as the lead in another Christmas movie at Netflix. CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS will see her headed to the city of love. In new romantic comedy she plays an ambitious executive who travels to France to secure th acquisition of a world-renowned champagne brand before Christmas. But her plans are upended when she falls into a whirlwind romance with a charming Parisian  who turns out to be the founder’s son. Mon dieu! Tom Wozniczka, Flula Borg and Xavier Samuel will also star. 

 

 JINGLE BELL HEIST WITH CONNOR SWINDELLS

Jingle Bell Heist starts November 26th

Also hitting Netflix ahead of the Holidays, November 26th is romantic festive comedy JINGLE BELL HEIST which stars Olivia Holt as Sophia, a sharp-witted retail worker, alongside Connor Swindells as Nick, a down-on-his-luck repairman. The two are small-time thieves with their eyes on the same Christmas Eve score: robbing London’s most notorious department store. Forced into an uneasy alliance, as secrets surface and feelings for each other deepen, Sophia and Nick put their relationship and the heist in jeopardy.

 

MELISSA JOAN HART, OLIVER HUDSON, ALICIA SILVERSTON TO HAVE A MERRY LITTLE EX-MASS IN NEW NETFLIX HOLIDAY ROMCOM

  A MERRY LITTLE EX-MASS  

MELISSA JOAN HART, OLIVER HUDSON, ALICIA SILVERSTONE FESTIVE NETFLIX MOVIE

While we are enjoying this year's festive movies new ones are already being planned for next year. A MERRY LITTLE EX-MASS holiday romcom from Steve Carr has just cast Oliver Hudson, Melissa Joan Hart, Alicia Silverstone and Pierson Fode. This Netflix movie will follow a recently separated couple that attempts to have one last Christmas with their kids before the wife sells the family home to move and start fresh. But complications arise when the husband brings his amazing new girlfriend into the holiday mix.

NEW HOLIDAY MOVIES: ROYAL QUEENS CHRISTMAS WITH JULIAN MORRIS, MISTLETOE IN MONTANA WITH MELISSA JOAN HART, HOLIDAY FIX UP WITH RYAN MCPARTLIN

 A ROYAL QUEENS CHRISTMAS 

STARRING JULIAN MORRIS

Royal Queens airs this Saturday!

Last week our most favourite (the whole day today is about some of our utterly favourite actors starring in new festive flicks) Julian Morris came officially out of the closet and admitted he has been with his boyfriend for 18 years now (no, sadly, it is not me, alas), but he will still be sharing his love with us as he is starring in A ROYAL QUEENS CHRISTMAS which airs on Hallmark this Saturday, December 11th. Also starring Megan Park, this royally romantic movie drama will see Julian Morris play a prince who finds his way to Queens during Christmas when a local woman enlists his help with a children’s Christmas show.

 

 MISTLETOE IN MONTANA 

WITH MELISSA JOAN HART

Mistletoe in Montanta arrives December 17th

Meanwhile, another of our favourites, Melissa Joan Hart will also visit our small screens during the holidays as she is starring in MISTLETOE IN MONTANA which arrives to Lifetime December 17th! In this festive romantic movie she appears as Merry Cartwright, a Big Sky wrangler who gets roped into an unexpected romance when a dashing single dad (played by NCIS' Duane Henry) and his kids (Hero Hunter and Mallian Butler) book a holiday stay at her dude ranch. The story of the film is inspired by the real life story of one of Melissa's cousins. This is the fifth year that she has been starring in Lifetime's festive movies at the end of the year.

  THE HOLIDAY FIX UP  

STARRING RYAN MCPARTLIN

Holiday Fix Up arrives December 11th

And yet another of our absolute favourites, lethally gorgeous Ryan McPartlin is the star of THE HOLIDAY FIX UP which will air on Lifetime December 11th. When Sam (Jana Kramer), the designer behind a popular home renovation show, returns to her hometown during the holidays to help renovate the Bell Harbor Inn, she gets paired with Coop (Ryan McPartlin) as her lead contractor. The only problem – he’s the guy who broke her heart and she’s the one who got away. Sparks fly as they work closely to get the renovations done in time for the inn’s annual Christmas Eve Harborfest. Will they be able to fix the mistakes of their past to build a future together? Maria Menounos also stars.

NEW 2019 TV COMEDIES: BEN LAWSON TO LEAD NANA SITCOM WITH KATEY SAGAL AT ABC! NO GOOD NICK NETFLIX SITCOM POSTER WITH MELISSA JOAN HART, SEAN ASTIN

BEN LAWSON TO LEAD 

NANA SITCOM PILOT AT ABC

Australian hunk Lawson is the new Nana lead

Comedy updates for you today, starting with a cast change in one of the upcoming new multi camera sitcom pilots: I've informed you that ABC has ordered NANA hybrid TV comedy pilot and that it will be led by Katey Sagal and Josh Cooke, but now the male lead has been given to Ben Lawson instead Cooke because they decided to change the lead character after the first table reads.

NANA
The pilot for possible new sitcom centres on Alex (Ben Lawson), a fire chief in Indianapolis and an obsessive dad, who after the death of his wife, is forced to invite his brash and bawdy mother-in-law, Nana (Katey Sagal),  into his home to help raise the two grand daughters she barely knows. Sagal recently had a very successful sitcom gig in delightful Superior Donuts next to comedy legend Judd Hirsch.

'NO GOOD NICK' SITCOM

GETS 1ST POSTER WITH MELISSA JOAN HART AND SEAN ASTIN

Netflix has, meanwhile, issued first poster (sadly, no trailer yet) for their new multicam sitcom NO GOOD NICK which got April 15th date for the premiere

No Good Nick starts in a month!

of its 20 episode first season!

Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Astin star as Liz and Ed, a hyper competitive career mom and lovable but dorky “fun dad,” who unwittingly welcome 13 year old Nick — short for Nicole (Siena Agudong) — into their family of four before realizing she is a street smart con artist with a secret agenda: She has infiltrated the family with the intention to get revenge on them for unknowingly ruining her life. But as Nick gets to know the family, she will find compassion for them and will struggle with whether or not she can ultimately go through with the plan. Kalama Epstein and Lauren Lindsey Donzis will play their kids in Netflix' second multicam ever after The Ranch.

RAYMOND E. FEIST'S EPIC FANTASY SERIES 'RIFTWAR SAGA' TO BECOME TV SERIES! MELISSA JOAN HEART, SEAN ASTIN TO LEAD 'NO GOOD NICK' NETFLIX SITCOM

  'NO GOOD NICK' SITCOM

 AT NETFLIX TO BE TOPLINED BY MELISSA JOAN HART,SEAN ASTIN

After scoring success with Fuller House, Netflix is preparing another family multicam sitcom to be lead by Melissa and Joey's Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Astin! Twenty episode comedy NO GOOD NICK will see them play Liz and Ed, a hyper competitive career mom and lovable but dorky “fun dad,”

Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Astin will lead the new multicam sitcom

respectively, who unwittingly welcome 13 year old Nick (to be played by Siena Agudong) into their family of four before realizing she is a street-smart con artist with a secret agenda. Kalama Epstein and Lauren Lindsey Donzis will play their kids.

  'THE RIFTWAR SAGA'

TO BE TURNED INTO TV SERIES

Saga has been translated into more than 35 languages

BCDF Pictures has bought the rights on Raymond E. Feist’s epic fantasy series THE RIFTWAR SAGA and Kurt Johnstad (who wrote both 300 movies) has been hired to adapt the first novel Magician Aprentice as TV series. The saga, set in Midkemia, which has 32 novels sold in more than 20 million copies, sees the peace of the Kingdom of the Isles destroyed when mysterious invaders from another world swarm the land. A young magician’s destiny leads him through a rift in the fabric of space and time to master the powers of a strange new magic, while his warrior friend inherits a legacy of savage power from an ancient civilization.