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The Christmas Quest is airing tonight at 8 p.m. Et!

The Hallmark Channel original TV movie marks Lacey Chabert‘s 15th Hallmark Christmas movie to date.

Lacey and Hallmark favorite Kristoffer Polaha star together for the first time in a Hallmark movie in The Christmas Quest.

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Here’s a plot summary: “Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Iceland, The Christmas Quest follows archeologist Stefanie (Chabert) as she embarks on a mission to track down the legendary Treasure of the Yule Lads—a quest that was her late mother’s lifelong dream. Each of the 13 Yule Lads, Iceland’s Father Christmas figures, hold clues to the treasure’s location, compelling Stefanie to team up with her exhusband, Chase (Polaha), an expert in ancient Norse languages, for the adventure. As the two traverse Iceland’s diverse regions, immersing themselves in local Christmas traditions, they race against...

The first season sold widely around the world.

Iceland’s Glassriver is gearing up to shoot the second season of its hit series Black Sands, from showrunner Baldvin Z.

The partners again on board for the second season are Iceland’s Channel 2, All3Media, which handles international rights, Belgium’s Lunanime and Vrt, and Finland’s Yle.

The first season sold well – including to Viaplay with rights in several European territories and the US (where the show launched on July 20), Alibi for the UK, Disney+ for the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Canal+ for Poland, Sbs in Australia, Axn Mystery Channel in Japan,...

"The sun comes up. The sun goes down. We're born, we die... Who am I to question the nature of things?" Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for an intriguing sci-fi series from Iceland titled Katla, co-created by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. One year after the violent eruption of the subglacial volcano Katla, the peace and tranquility in the small town of Vik is dramatically disturbed. Out of nowhere, people that disappeared a year ago are now re-appearing covered in ash, seemingly unharmed. How is this possible? Are they really the same people? Only the volcano knows... The cast includes Guðrún Ýr Eyfjörð , Íris Tanja Flygenring, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Aliette Opheim, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Sólveig Arnarsdóttir, and Birgitta Birgisdóttir. It looks like a very peculiar and fascinating series filled with awe-inspiring shots of Iceland, taking us deeper into the epic grandeur of volcanoes than ever before. And I like the sci-fi angle...

Films about addiction can be tough to endure depending on how authentically harrowing the experience is drawn. They can only end in one of two ways: death or sobriety. The former can be literal or figurative depending on how deep the drug of choice has its claws fastened and the latter can often be shown as a victory rather than a small step in a series of steps that will go on forever. A character’s journey is therefore always repetitive since reaching bottom before the climax only tips his/her hand too soon. But we should get to know these people and learn to care about their plight instead. We need to conjure sympathy for them or else the impending danger is little more than means to an end.

Suffice it to say, seeing that Baldvin Zophoníasson’s two-plus hour Let Me Fall was just such a film had me worried.