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CBS has announced the cast for its 3 upcoming original Christmas movies for the holiday season this December. It was previously reported that The Talk co-host Amanda Kloots would star in one film and also serve as an executive producer. It is now revealed Paul Greene and Rebecca Budig will join star and executive producer Kloots in Fit For Christmas. Writer Mark Amato’s Must Love Christmas will star Liza Lapira, Nathan Witte, and Neal Bledsoe. And finally, Sheryl Crow will executive produce and write the title song for When Christmas Was Young, which stars Meghan Heffern, Karen David, and Tyler Hilton, from a script by screenwriter and bestselling novelist Robert Tate Miller. Fit For Christmas tells “the tale of Audrey, an enthusiastic Christmas-obsessed fitness instructor at a beloved, financially beleaguered community center in quaint Mistletoe, Mont., who begins a holiday romance with a charming, mysterious businessman, complicating his plans to...

CBS’ original holiday films will star many familiar faces for Christmas enthusiasts. The broadcast network will debut three original festive flicks in December, some starring their own talent. “The Talk” co-host Amanda Kloots and “The Equalizer” star Liza Lapira each lead their own film.

The network brought back original holiday movies in 2021 with “Christmas Takes Flight” and “A Christmas Proposal” — the first time CBS re-entered the space in nine years.

Paul Greene as Griffin, Scott Patey as Carl and Amanda Kloots as Audrey

“Fit for Christmas”

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Amanda Kloots executive produced and stars in “Fit for Christmas” alongside Paul Greene, best known for his many Hallmark holiday movies. The movie tells the story of Audrey, “an enthusiastic Christmas-obsessed fitness instructor at a beloved, financially beleaguered community center in quaint Mistletoe, Mont., who begins a holiday romance with a charming, mysterious businessman, complicating...

After airing two original holiday movies in 2021, CBS is going to once again be getting into the spirit this year. The network has ordered three new original holiday movies that will air in December 2022. Award-winning musician Sheryl Crow will executive produce and write the title song for one, The Talk‘s Amanda Kloots will star in and executive produce another, and holiday film writer and producer Mark Amato will pen the third. Crow will executive produce and write the title song for When Christmas Was Young, from a script by screenwriter and bestselling novelist Robert Tate Miller. The Nashville music-themed movie centers around “a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client, who finds himself falling for a gifted singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a Christmas song she wrote years ago,” CBS teases.

CBS is keeping it festive by ordering three new original holiday movies to air in December.

Sheryl Crow will executive produce and write the title song for When Christmas Was Young, a tune-themed flick fro screenwriter and bestselling novelist Robert Tate Miller planned for the 2022 holidays. Here’s the official logline: “The story follows a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client, who finds himself falling for a gifted singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a Christmas song she wrote years ago.”

Executive producers are Tom Mazza, David Calvert-Jones and Karen Glass (Everywhere Studios), along with Shawn Williamson and Jamie Goehring for Lighthouse Pictures.

Amanda Kloots (The Talk) will headline and exec produce Fit For Christmas from writer and executive producer Anna White (Christmas Wonderland). It follows Audrey,...

After hopping back on the Holiday movie train last year, CBS’ is taking it full steam ahead in 2022. The Eye network is expanding its presence in the lucrative holiday-themed film genre, ordering three new holiday themed projects set to air this December: “When Christmas Was Young,” “Fit For Christmas” and “Must Love Christmas.”

“When Christmas Was Young” is described by CBS as a music-themed film set in Nashville, focusing on a music manager who attempts to secure the rights for a Christmas song that a failed singer-songwriter wrote years ago. The film will be executive produced by Sheryl Crow, who will also write the title song, and the script will be written by Robert Tate Miller. Tom Mazza, David Calvert-Jones and Karen Glass executive produce for Everywhere Studios, while Shawn Williamson and Jamie Goehring executive produce for Lighthouse Pictures.

“Fit For Christmas” will star “The Talk” host Amanda Kloots as Amanda,...

CBS is gearing up for the 2022 holiday season by ordering three new films, including ones from Grammy winner Sheryl Crow and “The Talk” co-host Amanda Kloots.

“Soak Up the Sun” singer Crow will executive produce “When Christmas Was Young,” described as a Nashville-themed movie, with a script from screenwriter and novelist Robert Tate Miller. The film will follow “a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client, who finds himself falling for a gifted singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a Christmas song she wrote years ago,” per the network.

Crow will also write the title song.

Joining Crow as EPs are Tom Mazza, David Calvert-Jones and Karen Glass (Everywhere Studios), with executive producers Shawn Williamson and Jamie Goehring for Lighthouse Pictures.

Kloots of CBS’ “The Talk” will star in and executive produce “Fit for Christmas.

Ryan Paevey (General Hospital) and Scottie Thompson (12 Monkeys) and star in Hope at Christmas, which premieres tonight at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries as part of the network's annual "Miracles of Christmas" programming event.

Recently divorced Sydney (Thompson) and her daughter Rayanne (Erica Tremblay) are seeking a fresh start and begin by visiting Hopewell, the small town in North Carolina where Sydney spent holidays with her grandparents as a young girl. Initially there only to sell the house she inherited, Sydney and Rayanne are embraced by the town in ways that only fate and the magic of Christmas can explain, and Sydney soon finds herself hopelessly smitten by Mac (Paevey), an elementary schoolteacher, fill-in Santa, and the very definition of "a good man."

Watch a sneak peek below.

The cast includes Colleen Winton (Bea), Jan Bos (Mayor Gray) Juliana Wimbles (Diane), Chris Shields (Lou), Dakota Guppy...

Vivica A. Fox, will join Christine Taylor in Farewell Mr. Kringle – a Hallmark Channel original movie, which will air on December 4th.

In the film, Taylor stars as curmudgeon and cynical journalist Ann Wahl who is forced by her editor Zoe (played by Vivica Fox) to travel to a Christmas-themed town to meet a man whose passion for Christmas traditions has transformed the city.

I’m sure you can guess what happens next… just in time for the holidays.

Kevin Connor directs from a script by Robert Tate Miller.