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Ugh, as if you want to miss this upcoming holiday rom-com.

Alicia Silverstone is decking the halls for A Merry Little Ex-Mas, the latest addition to the Netflix holiday-verse you can add to your annual watch list. From director Steve Carr (Daddy Day Care) and writer Holly Hester (The Royal Treatment), A Merry Little Ex-Mas also stars Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jamil, Pierson Fode, and Melissa Joan Hart, who also produces with Paula Hart for Hartbreak Films.

The film, executive produced by Silverstone, premieres Nov. 12 on Netflix.

Kate (Silverstone) 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 (Hudson), unexpectedly introduces his young and successful new girlfriend into the mix. But, hey, what’s the holiday season without a little mischief?

Can’t wait for A Merry...

Netflix is getting really good at making Hallmark-type films. But the streamer does it a bit differently. We know the Hallmark Channel drill: Boy moves to town, girl is trying to get out of a bad relationship, they meet and girl doesn't like boy, and then they end up falling in love and being happy forever. Netflix Originals normally add a lot more intrigue.

We also get actors we know well in most Netflix movies. This will be the case next year (we hope) when Alicia Silverstone is set to join Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jamil, Pierson Fode, and Melissa Joan Hart in a film called A Merry Little Ex-Mas. The script was written by Holly Hester who also penned The Royal Treatment.

The plot involves a recently separated couple trying to have one more Christmas as a family with their children before the mother starts her life over. The issue...

Alicia Silverstone, Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jamil, Pierson Fode, and Melissa Joan Hart have signed on to star in A Merry Little Ex-Mas, a Netflix holiday rom-com from director Steve Carr (Daddy Day Care).

In the film written by Holly Hester (The Royal Treatment), a recently separated couple 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.

Melissa Joan Hart and Paula Hart will produce for Hartbreak Films, with Silverstone serving as executive producer.

Silverstone is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer. Hudson is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Ziffren Brittenham. Jamil is repped by The Artists Partnership in the UK, UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Fode is repped by Innovative Artists, Zero Gravity Management, and Gang,...

Are you ready for some Lifetime holiday movie goodness?

Scroll down to find out which movies will be a part of It's a Wonderful Lifetime this holiday season.

There are plenty of festive treats on the way.

1. Merry Swissmas November 5 at 8/7c Alex (Jodie Sweetin) has wonderful memories of Christmas with her best friend Beth (Mikaela Lily Davies), until Beth starts dating Alex’s ex, Jesse (David Pinard). Because she has missed the last few Christmases with family due to her demanding job as an architect, Alex is excited to spend the holidays with her mother, Caroline (Jane Wheeler), who is opening an inn in Switzerland. Much to her dismay, she learns that Jesse and Beth are also visiting for the inn’s opening. When Alex meets Liam (Tim Rozon), a single father and the manager of her mother’s inn, Liam attempts to show her all the Christmas traditions...

We’ve come a long way in terms of fairy tales centered on a handsome prince from a far-off land rescuing a beautiful, distressed damsel from a life of destitution. It’s widely welcomed that women can rescue themselves and concurrently complement the male arc. With Netflix delivering progressive modernizations of these fantasies in their stable of holiday-themed titles, they’ve ever-so-slightly refashioned the traditional model of empty-calorie cinematic confections. Yet their off-season offerings have been scarce — until now, with Rick Jacobson’s “The Royal Treatment,” which takes expected genre trappings and infuses them with unexpected delights, creating an enlightened, enchanting and entertaining feature.

Indomitable beauty salon owner Izzy (Laura Marano) has never met a head of hair or a troubled soul she hasn’t been able to touch. A fixture in her Bronx neighborhood, delivering donuts and smiles in equal measure to friends and family, her Italian heart of gold keeps her world turning.

Tori Garrett’s Sit. Stay. Love. follows Annie Blake (Georgia Flood), an aid worker that returns to her family’s hometown of North Haven, Vermont for the first time since her mother’s passing three years prior.

Even surrounded by her loved ones, Annie can’t help but be distracted by her desire to help those in need, and hopes of an impending promotion. When her aunt, Claire, shows Annie a flyer asking locals to foster a dog from the local shelter for the holidays, Annie sets out to lend a hand.

Arriving at the shelter, she learns it’s shut, and that the vet has taken in the animals. The vet, it turns out, is Annie’s old high school debate team nemesis, Dylan (Ezekiel Simat). With his clinic considered unsuitable as a long-term home for the rescued animals, the pair decide to help the shelter owner open his doors once more.

Exclusive: Netflix is adding another royal feature to its cannon. Austin & Ally alum Laura Marano and Mena Massoud, who starred in the Disney live-action Aladdin remake, are set to star in The Royal Treatment romance feature for Netflix. Rick Jacobson is directing the pic from a screenplay by Holly Hester. Marano will produce with Ellen Marano and Vanessa Marano for Calabrian Rhode and Chloe Smith.

The story follows Isabella and Prince Thomas. Isabella runs her own salon and isn’t afraid to speak her mind, while Prince Thomas runs his own country and is about to marry for duty rather than love. When Izzy and her fellow stylists get the opportunity of a lifetime to do the hair for the royal wedding, she and Prince Thomas learn that taking control of their own destiny requires following their hearts.

Executive producers are Steve Berman and Dan Read for Ffi.

Thriller film, “Kidnapped” is close to wrapping up one of the latest movies into production in Australia, following the disruption caused by the coronavirus and stay-at-home restrictions.

Production is now under way in and around Port Douglas in the far North of Australia’s Queensland state, with a shoot that runs Aug. 17 to Sept. 9. The operation is following Covid-safe protocols established at national level and also those devised by the Queensland government.

Written by Shanrah Wakefield and directed by Vic Sarin, the film’s story is told through the eyes of woman living with her family in a tropical paradise. It is idyllic until their four-year-old daughter goes missing. Solving the mystery of her disappearance reveals previously hidden information about the family.

The cast is headed by Claire van der Boom and Todd Lasance.

The film is structured as an unofficial Australia-Canada co-production, involving Brisbane-based Steve Jaggi Company and Canada’s Sepia Films.

Georgia Flood and Ezekiel Simat.

Georgia Flood and Ezekiel Simat are starring in The Dog Days of Christmas, a romantic comedy directed by Don’t Tell’s Tori Garrett, which is now shooting on the Gold Coast.

Produced by the Steve Jaggi Company and scripted by American Holly Hester, the US-set movie revolves around Flood’s Annie Blake, an aid worker who has just finished an international mission and heads home to North Haven, Vermont, to spend the holidays with her family.

When the local animal shelter closes, Annie steps in to save it with the help of Dylan (Simat), the local vet and old school nemesis.

Adhering to strict Covid Safe filming practices and guidelines set by the Queensland government, the production is shooting at Warner Bros. Movie World and the hinterland.

All crew members are wearing personal protective equipment and the nurse on set is taking daily temperature checks,...

The "other" other intern David Letterman allegedly got down with certainly made herself comfy in Dave's office back in the day. As we first reported, Holly Hester -- an intern for Dave 2 decades ago -- says she also had a secret relationship with the late night host when she was a student at Nyu and fell head over heels for him. She says they dated for a year.The pics, taken when Dave was still at NBC,...

David Letterman's scandal has got a Connecticut college panicking for a new program to protect their interns. Quinnipiac University says they will keep a close eye on their internship program.

A rep from the facility told TMZ that they will have a discussion with those in charge of placing their interns at Letterman's "Late Show" in the future. They will "diligently oversee" the internship program to ensure their interns are safe.

The move comes after Letterman admitted to having past sexual relationships with some of his employees. One of the women in question, Holly Hester, admitted to TMZ that she had a relationship with the late night show host during her internship in the show.

The relationship apparently took place in the early '90s.

TMZ has obtained photos of Holly Hester -- the woman who acknowledged she had a relationship with David Letterman in the early 1990s -- back when she worked as an intern for Dave. The pics show Hester with segment producer Frank Gannon (top) and writer Joe Furey (bottom) and were taken in Dave's outer offices back when he was at NBC. Hester said her relationship with Letterman lasted a year and that she was "madly in love with him.

Apparently, David Letterman really did get around. On Thursday, the Late Show host admitted on his show that he'd had relationships with several female staffers, and had become the victim of an extortion plot because of it. It was later revealed that former assistant Stephanie Birkitt was the woman at the center of the plot. And now, TMZ reports, another woman has come forward to claim that she and Letterman had illicit relations. Former intern Holly Hester—who interned on the show in the early '90s—says that she and Letterman had a year-long relationship that was kept a secret from the staff. According to...

A woman who interned for David Letterman in the early 90's says she was one of Letterman's top 10 -- on the staff.Holly Hester tells TMZ the internship was her first job in TV. At the time she was a student at Nyu. Hester says during a hiatus, Dave called her up and asked her to the movies. It began a series of secret dates, with no one on the staff having any idea. She says,...

Annie Potts has been tapped to star in ABC's comedy pilot Red and Blue, Vanessa L. Williams will topline UPN's drama pilot South Beach and Greg Germann has signed on to star in the Sci Fi Channel pilot Eureka. In other pilot-casting news, Liz Vassey will play one of the leads in UPN's comedy 20 Things to Do Before You're 30; Tami Roman, Richard T. Jones and Brad Rowe have landed roles in UPN's comedy Talk Show Diaries; Alan Dale has joined the cast of the WB Network comedy Bow; Erin Hershey Presley has been added to the cast of ABC's untitled Holly Hester comedy; and Stephanie Lemelin has been added to the cast of Fox's comedy Dirtbags. Red and Blue, from Touchstone TV and Shady Acres, centers on a conservative grandfather and a liberal father who disagree about how to raise the next generation. Potts will play the grandmother.

Gregory Harrison has been tapped to star opposite Susie Essman in CBS' untitled Essman comedy pilot, JoBeth Williams has come on board CBS' comedy pilot Stroller Wars, Eugene Byrd has joined Brenda Blethyn in ABC's untitled Holly Hester comedy pilot, and veteran Robert Culp has been cast in NBC's comedy pilot Early Bird. In other pilot casting news, Marla Sokoloff has joined the WB Network's untitled McCall/Peters comedy, Christian Kane is set to co-star in CBS' drama American Crime, Jason Wiles has joined CBS' drama Commuters, and Leigh-Allyn Baker has come on board ABC's untitled Chris Kattan comedy. The untitled Susie Essman project, from 20th TV, Watson Pond and Paramount Network TV, centers on an urban woman (Essman) who becomes a newlywed and stepmom in suburbia. Harrison will play her new husband, who owns a construction company.

Brenda Blethyn has been tapped to star in ABC's untitled Holly Hester comedy pilot, Frasier alum Jane Leeves is set to topline the WB Network's comedy pilot Best Laid Plans, lifting the contingency off the project, while Justin Theroux will play the lead in NBC's comedy pilot Confessions of a Dog, also lifting the project's contingency. In other pilot casting news, Donal Logue is set to star in NBC's The Dennis, Mariel Hemingway has joined the WB's The Prince, Bonnie Somerville has come aboard Fox's Kitchen Confidential, Alyson Hannigan has been cast in CBS' How I Met Your Mother, Diedrich Bader will lead the ensemble of Fox's untitled Oakley-Weinstein project, Michael McKean is set to co-star in NBC's Blue Skies, and Maggie Lawson has joined ABC's Crumbs. The Holly Hester project, from NBC Universal TV Studio, Touchstone TV and Conaco Prods., centers on a middle-aged woman (Blethyn) who leaves her picture-perfect family life for a divorce and a job.

Brenda Blethyn has been tapped to star in NBC's untitled Holly Hester comedy pilot, Frasier alum Jane Leeves is set to topline the WB Network's comedy pilot Best Laid Plans, lifting the contingency off the project, while Justin Theroux will play the lead in NBC's comedy pilot Confessions of a Dog, also lifting the project's contingency. In other pilot casting news, Donal Logue is set to star in NBC's The Dennis, Mariel Hemingway has joined the WB's The Prince, Bonnie Somerville has come aboard Fox's Kitchen Confidential, Alyson Hannigan has been cast in CBS' How I Met Your Mother, Diedrich Bader will lead the ensemble of Fox's untitled Oakley-Weinstein project, Michael McKean is set to co-star in NBC's Blue Skies, and Maggie Lawson has joined ABC's Crumbs. The Holly Hester project, from NBC Universal TV Studio, Touchstone TV and Conaco Prods., centers on a middle-aged woman (Blethyn) who leaves her picture-perfect family life for a divorce and a job.