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Netflix’s next Christmas movie offering of 2024 has arrived, and it might make you melt. Or it might heat you up. Or … both?

“Hot Frosty” is now streaming, following the love story of Kathy and Jack. Their meet cute? Kathy unintentionally brings Jack to life with a magic scarf — because he’s a snowman. Yes, seriously. They spend the movie navigating his secret, all while he attempts to not melt into a literal puddle. Again, seriously.

That said, it’s pretty delightful, and it definitely has a pretty stacked cast. Here are the major players you’ll recognize.

Netflix Kathy (Lacey Chabert)

Kathy is the woman who unwittingly brings Jack the snowman to life, via a magic scarf. She’s played by Lacey Chabert and, odds are, you know her from one of the many Christmas movies she’s done over the years. Then again, you might recognize her more...

Christmas magic has officially arrived on Netflix this year care of Hot Frosty, the streamer's new original holiday romantic comedy starring Lacey Chabert and Dustin Milligan. Not only does the movie have magic in the form of heartwarming holiday cheer and romance, but there's an actual bit of fantasy as a snowman comes to life.

In the small town of Hope Springs, Kathy has been mourning the loss of her husband for two years and has been neglecting a lot of aspects of her life. When she gives a hunky snowman in the town's snowman display her scarf, he inexplicably takes human form. Suddenly, he's naked and galavanting around town before finding his way to Kathy's heart.

But how does Jack manage to keep cold without melting before the Christmas magic wears off? Do he and Kathy end up together? And what happens to Jack at the end of the movie?...

Some people are worth melting for — especially the hot ones.

In the new trailer for Netflix’s holiday rom-com “Hot Frosty,” Christmas movie queen Lacey Chabert stars as a widow named Kathy, who magically brings a sexy snowman (“Schitt’s Creek” alum Dustin Milligan) to life. Through his naïveté, the snowman helps Kathy to laugh, feel and love again, as the two fall for each other just in time for the holidays … and before he melts.

At the end of the trailer, Chabert’s character is seen watching Lindsay Lohan’s 2023 Netflix holiday film “Falling for Christmas.” In a nod to their beloved 2004 flick “Mean Girls,” she quips, “That’s so funny. That looks just like a girl I went to high school with.”

Joe Lo Truglio and Craig Robinson bring some comedic relief as a pair of police officers, while Katy Mixon Greer, Lauren Holly, Chrishell Stause, Sherry Miller, Dan Lett,...

Thumpety, thump, thump, Frosty returns like you’ve never seen him before in the new Netflix original “Hot Frosty.”

Lacey Chabert (“Mean Girls”) and Dustin Milligan (“Schitt’s Creek”) teased their unlikely romance in the first trailer for their Netflix holiday movie Wednesday.

Two years after the loss of her husband, Kathy (Chabert) struggles to enjoy the holiday season. But with the help of a magical scarf, she brings a handsome snowman to life. His innocence and wonder teach her to fall in love again just in time for the holiday season.

The real life Frosty named Jack (Milligan) streaks through the park and steals some clothes before bumping into love interest Kathy. Craig Robinson puts Jack on the hot seat in the sheriff’s office before Katy saves him from melting away.

Chabert is no stranger to the holiday rom-com genre, starring in over 30 Hallmark Channel movies. The Queen of...

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Hallmark+ has released details of the fourth exciting new installment in the ongoing mystery movie series, The Jane Mysteries: Too Much to Lose.

The movie sees Jodie and Stephen playing a high-stakes game show where the winner goes missing. Read on for more details about this exciting movie, set to air on Thursday, September 26 on Hallmark+.

The Jane Mysteries: Too Much to Lose on Hallmark+ Photo: Jodie Sweetin

Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Brain Power Studio

According to the official press release, singer-turned-detective Jane Da Silva (Sweetin) is preparing for the Children’s Hospital Gala Fundraiser alongside her Aunt Sadie (Paris Jefferson). She is approached by a reporter, Margret (Victoria Sawal), seeking help in locating her missing colleague, Irene (Sherry Miller). The seasoned journalist disappeared days after winning big on a popular game show, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions.

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Is Harley heading back to Hollywood? Has the Carter TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Wgn America? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Carter season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?

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A Wgn America Canadian detective drama, which originated on Bravo Canada, Carter stars Jerry O’Connell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier (as Sydney Poitier Heartsong), Kristian Bruun, Varun Saranga, Matt Baram, Brenda Kamino, Denis Akiyama, John Bourgeois, Joanne Boland, and Sherry Miller. The series centers on TV star Harley Carter (O'Connell), who forsakes L.A. for his hometown of Bishop, after a humiliating meltdown. Now he's serving as a consulting police detective and working cases with...

How does Harley Carter handle the culture shock of returning home, during the first season of the Carter TV show on Wgn America? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Carter is cancelled or renewed for season two. However, since this TV series originated in Canada, its Canadian ratings matter more. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we'd like to offer you the chance to rate all of the season one episodes of Carter below.

A Wgn America detective drama from Bravo Canada, Carter stars Jerry O’Connell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier (as Sydney Poitier Heartsong), Kristian Bruun, Varun Saranga, Matt Baram, Brenda Kamino, Denis Akiyama, John Bourgeois, Joanne Boland, and Sherry Miller. The series centers on TV star Harley Carter (O’Connell), who forsakes L.A. for...

It looks like Carter is sticking around. Today, Wgn America announced they've picked up the TV show for a second season.

The Canadian crime drama centers on Harley (Jerry O'Connell), an actor who moves back to his hometown and begins work as a real detective despite only having played one TV. The cast also includes Sydney Poitier Heartsong, Kristian Bruun, Varun Saranga, Matt Baram, Brenda Kamino, Denis Akiyama, John Bourgeois, Joanne Boland, and Sherry Miller.

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Network: Wgn America.

Episodes: Ongoing (hour).

Seasons: Ongoing.

TV show dates: August 7, 2018 — present.

Series status: Has not been cancelled.

Performers include: Jerry O'Connell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier (as Sydney Poitier Heartsong), Kristian Bruun, Varun Saranga, Matt Baram, Brenda Kamino, Denis Akiyama, John Bourgeois, Joanne Boland, and Sherry Miller.

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A comedic Canadian crime drama from creator Garry Campbell, the Carter TV show premiered on Bravo in Canada, prior to its Us debut. The series centers on Harley (O'Connell), a Canadian actor who enjoyed success as the lead of a hit American detective series, Call Carter, until indulging in a big, embarrassing meltdown. Now back in his quiet hometown of Bishop, Harley is putting his acting skills to work...

Are you a fan of Queer as Folk? Recently, the cast reunited and spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the groundbreaking Showtime TV show.Based on the UK series of the same name, the drama follows the lives of a group of young gay men and women living in the Philadelphia area. The Showtime series ran for five seasons before ending in 2005 and starred Gale Harold, Randy Harrison, Hal Sparks, Scott Lowell, Peter Paige, Sharon Gless, Thea Gill, Michelle Clunie, Robert Gant, Jack Wetherall, and Sherry Miller.Read More…...

Before there was Glee's Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), there was My So-Called Life's Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cruz) and Queer as Folk's Justin Taylor (Randy Harrison).

No, the three storylines weren't identical, and neither were the three characters. But however revolutionary the character of Kurt is — and he is [See companion article, Kurt Hummel's Perfect Storm] — Rickie and Justin broke quite a lot of ground for Kurt. Here is a look at how their stories are similar to Kurt's —and how they're not.

My So-Called Life's Rickie Vasquez

My So-Called Lifedebuted in 1994 on ABC, and ran for one critically-acclaimed season before being canceled. It starred 14-year-old Claire Danes as Angela Chase, and 19-year-old Wilson Cruz as her out gayfriend and classmate, Rickie Vasquez.

Like Glee:

My So-Called Life was aimed right at the teenage demographic, just like Glee. And it was set in a high school not very different from McKinley High, in...

Have you ever heard of the author Douglas Coupland? He writes novels with a comical nod to pop culture, though the main plot might be gravely serious. In the case of jPod, it was just another book about that generation of young professionals who graduated in an era when computer science was the hottest destination under the sun. Coupland wrote a few books about this generation (they’re all worth checking out), but only jPod found its way as a television show. Guess what? You probably never heard of it. But you really ought to seek it out.

The series’ single season aired in 2008, ran for 13 episodes and ended with a cliffhanger. Basically, Ethan (David Kopp) can’t keep his work life and his private life separate. It’s not his fault though. His mother Carol (Sherry Miller), has a pot farm in her basement (a damned good one too...

TORONTO -- Charity Shea, Athena Karkanis, Brendan Jay McLaren and Sherry Miller are set as the stars of The Best Years, a teen drama for The N from Toronto-based Blueprint Entertainment now shooting in Toronto.

The ensemble cast for the one-hour drama about first-year students at a Boston university also features Jennifer Miller and Alan Van Sprang.

Noreen Halpern, a Los Angeles-based executive producer with Blueprint Entertainment, said that Toronto-based Aaron Martin created the series for The N, which also airs Canadian series Degrassi: The Next Generation. Martin executive produced and served as head writer on that high school drama.

Scheduled for airing on Showtime in the spring, Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" had its world premiere at the Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. The film screened in a 35mm print Saturday at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. A crowd-pleaser no matter how big the crowd is, "Laughter" is delightfully salty from beginning to end, but younger audiences will be hard to woo.

Set in 1954-55 New York, the movie is a "Front Page"-paced comedy about a group of pioneer TV writers and their famous boss.

Based on his experiences working as a writer on Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows", screenwriter Simon expands and fleshes out his 1993 play in key areas for this Paramount/Showtime production. Richard Benjamin deftly -- if unspectacularly -- calls the shots in another visit to the milieu he had much success with in his 1982 directorial debut, "My Favorite Year".

"Laughter" is surprisingly nimble about shifting emotional moods. The more serious moments -- dealing with the characters' personal and professional problems or the ongoing witch hunt of Sen. Joseph McCarthy -- are welcome respites from the otherwise frantic pace.

Nathan Lane reprises the role of supertalented TV star Max Prince, a role he first performed on Broadway. Lane is unstoppable as the charismatic lead funnyman, who in some ways is drowning and in other ways is surfing through the turbulent waves of change. The entire cast is wonderfully in the spirit, and the production values effortlessly evoke the period. Yet the project is far more than a nostalgic rerun of more hilarious times.

Popping pills, drinking like a fish and smoking big cigars, Prince is the dynamic but frazzled star of a hit weekly show on NBC that reflects his personality and the jokers he employs. While much of the action takes place in the writers' room on the titular 23rd story -- all of the play was set there -- the movie shows us Prince at home, Prince out in public with the writers, Prince at the graveyard with his older brother Harry Richard Portnow), Prince meeting with pompous network executives and so on.

Lest one thinks times have changed, Prince and his crew are fighting for the right to air the "urbane" show they want, without pressure from the network, but business is business. Prince goes on the warpath when the message comes down that ordinary American viewers aren't interested in satires of foreign movies and other inspired routines the show has tried in the past. The story more or less follows the decline of the show, including the intrusion of a network spy/censor, along with Prince's deteriorating physical and mental health. But we spend a good portion of the movie with the writers, who worriedly pass the time by verbally sparring or trying to help the proud, mercurial Prince behind his back.

The real writers Simon worked with included Mel Brooks, Larry Belbart and Mel Tolkin. The film's supporting cast of seven scribes has nary a weak link.

Always late and a wildly imaginative hypochondriac, Ira (Saul Rubinek) is the head writer, whom the others love to hate and bait. The rest of Prince's gag team is Russian emigre Val (Mark Linn-Baker, who also played the role on Broadway), lone female Carol (Peri Gilpin), newcomer Lucas (Mackenzie Astin), bemused Milt (Dan Castellaneta) and aggressive needlers Kenny (Victor Garber) and Brian (Zach Grenier).

Frank Proctor as real-life columnist Walter Winchell, Sherry Miller as Prince's wife and Colin Fox as network head Cal Weeb are nicely given their moments to play off Lane's dominating presence. Indeed, starting with Lane's generous and often superbly executed comedic and dramatic performance in a crowd, "Laughter" is classic material preserved for the ages.

LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR

Showtime Networks and Paramount Television

Director: Richard Benjamin

Screenwriter: Neil Simon

Producer: Jeffrey Lampert

Executive producers: Emanuel Azenberg, Neil Simon

Director of photography: Danny Nowak

Production designer: Franco De Cotiis

Editor: Jacqueline Cambas

Costume designer: Tamara Winston

Music: Joseph Vitarelli

Color/stereo

Cast:

Max Prince: Nathan Lane

Val: Mark Linn-Baker

Kenny: Victor Garber

Ira: Saul Rubinek

Carol: Peri Gilpin

Milt: Dan Castellaneta

Harry: Richard Portnow

Brian: Zach Grenier

Lucas: Mackenzie Astin

Walter Winchell: Frank Proctor

Faye: Sherry Miller

Cal Weeb: Colin Fox

Running time --102 minutes

No MPAA Rating...

Scheduled for airing on Showtime in the spring, Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" had its world premiere at the Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. The film screened in a 35mm print Saturday at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. A crowd-pleaser no matter how big the crowd is, "Laughter" is delightfully salty from beginning to end, but younger audiences will be hard to woo.

Set in 1954-55 New York, the movie is a "Front Page"-paced comedy about a group of pioneer TV writers and their famous boss.

Based on his experiences working as a writer on Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows", screenwriter Simon expands and fleshes out his 1993 play in key areas for this Paramount/Showtime production. Richard Benjamin deftly -- if unspectacularly -- calls the shots in another visit to the milieu he had much success with in his 1982 directorial debut, "My Favorite Year".

"Laughter" is surprisingly nimble about shifting emotional moods. The more serious moments -- dealing with the characters' personal and professional problems or the ongoing witch hunt of Sen. Joseph McCarthy -- are welcome respites from the otherwise frantic pace.

Nathan Lane reprises the role of supertalented TV star Max Prince, a role he first performed on Broadway. Lane is unstoppable as the charismatic lead funnyman, who in some ways is drowning and in other ways is surfing through the turbulent waves of change. The entire cast is wonderfully in the spirit, and the production values effortlessly evoke the period. Yet the project is far more than a nostalgic rerun of more hilarious times.

Popping pills, drinking like a fish and smoking big cigars, Prince is the dynamic but frazzled star of a hit weekly show on NBC that reflects his personality and the jokers he employs. While much of the action takes place in the writers' room on the titular 23rd story -- all of the play was set there -- the movie shows us Prince at home, Prince out in public with the writers, Prince at the graveyard with his older brother Harry Richard Portnow), Prince meeting with pompous network executives and so on.

Lest one thinks times have changed, Prince and his crew are fighting for the right to air the "urbane" show they want, without pressure from the network, but business is business. Prince goes on the warpath when the message comes down that ordinary American viewers aren't interested in satires of foreign movies and other inspired routines the show has tried in the past. The story more or less follows the decline of the show, including the intrusion of a network spy/censor, along with Prince's deteriorating physical and mental health. But we spend a good portion of the movie with the writers, who worriedly pass the time by verbally sparring or trying to help the proud, mercurial Prince behind his back.

The real writers Simon worked with included Mel Brooks, Larry Belbart and Mel Tolkin. The film's supporting cast of seven scribes has nary a weak link.

Always late and a wildly imaginative hypochondriac, Ira (Saul Rubinek) is the head writer, whom the others love to hate and bait. The rest of Prince's gag team is Russian emigre Val (Mark Linn-Baker, who also played the role on Broadway), lone female Carol (Peri Gilpin), newcomer Lucas (Mackenzie Astin), bemused Milt (Dan Castellaneta) and aggressive needlers Kenny (Victor Garber) and Brian (Zach Grenier).

Frank Proctor as real-life columnist Walter Winchell, Sherry Miller as Prince's wife and Colin Fox as network head Cal Weeb are nicely given their moments to play off Lane's dominating presence. Indeed, starting with Lane's generous and often superbly executed comedic and dramatic performance in a crowd, "Laughter" is classic material preserved for the ages.

LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR

Showtime Networks and Paramount Television

Director: Richard Benjamin

Screenwriter: Neil Simon

Producer: Jeffrey Lampert

Executive producers: Emanuel Azenberg, Neil Simon

Director of photography: Danny Nowak

Production designer: Franco De Cotiis

Editor: Jacqueline Cambas

Costume designer: Tamara Winston

Music: Joseph Vitarelli

Color/stereo

Cast:

Max Prince: Nathan Lane

Val: Mark Linn-Baker

Kenny: Victor Garber

Ira: Saul Rubinek

Carol: Peri Gilpin

Milt: Dan Castellaneta

Harry: Richard Portnow

Brian: Zach Grenier

Lucas: Mackenzie Astin

Walter Winchell: Frank Proctor

Faye: Sherry Miller

Cal Weeb: Colin Fox

Running time --102 minutes

No MPAA Rating...