One of the things I love most about Christmastime TV is the relentless
influx of made-for-TV Christmas movies!
ABC Family, the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime are the biggest purveyors of
these seasonal treats, and the number of new movies seems to grow with each
passing year.
Here are my pitches for next year’s slate of made-for-TV Christmas
movies. Full scripts are available upon
request for all of you television moguls out there! In terms of casting, for the lead female
roles, picture any former member of the original cast of 90210. For the male leads,
picture some unknown Canadian actor who once had a walk-on role on Scrubs.
Executive
Assistant Under the Mistletoe
As a girl, Polly loved Christmas.
That is until both of her parents were killed by a runaway sleigh. Now Polly cares only about her career as an
assistant to domineering Rebecca Van Du Pool.
Polly spends her nights dreaming of replacing Rebecca as New York’s
premiere interior design party perfumer, but spends her days fetching lattes.
When handsome billionaire Geoffrey Jones, heir to his family’s mistletoe
plantation fortune, hires Rebecca to scent his annual Christmas Eve Charity
Drive, Polly finds herself working side by side with Geoff making bundles of mistletoe
for the upcoming gala. But a scheming
Rebecca has also set her sights on their client, resulting in a Christmas party
with more than one couple ending up under the mistletoe!
Guess
Whose Fake Fiancé Isn’t Coming for Dinner?
Erin Chambers’ family never understood her or her decision to leave their
cozy log cabin compound for the Big City.
Dreading her annual trip home for the holidays, Erin has hired handsome out-of-work
actor Bryce McCallister to play the role of her fiancé and deflect her parents’
pesky questions about why she still isn’t married. But when Bryce is stuck in an elevator, at
the last minute Erin recruits Salvation Army bell-ringer Santos Tomas to fill
in for her fake fiancé. Santos soon charms the Chambers Family and Erin finds
herself drawn to the sultry South American.
But what will happen when Bryce finally escapes the elevator and shows
up to woo his ersatz betrothed?!
Substitute
Santa’s Second Cousin
No-nonsense city planner and professional orphan Margo Klausenberg is all
work and no play, though she still secretly yearns for a family to spend the
holidays with. When Santa comes down
with a bad case of shingles (caused by exposure to actual roof shingles), Margo
discovers that she is Kris Kringle's second cousin and needs to fill his boots this
Christmas! Soon Margo’s office has been
invaded by overly-helpful elves who are insisting she take up the family
business, while her handsome co-worker Nick Frost (secretly the son of Jack
Frost) wants to nip her nose.
The
Princess’s Royal Christmas Wedding Ball
After unemployed Anya answers an ad in the paper for a job nannying for three
precocious children, she soon finds herself swept off to the tiny European
kingdom of Translomoravia. As the castle
staff prepares for the annual Christmas Ball, Anya bonds with the widowed
king’s unruly children—and finds herself falling in love with their handsome
older brother, the prince. But a
scheming duchess also has her sights set on the prince, culminating in a royal
Christmas Ball with a matrimonial twist!
A Town
Called Candyland
Arrogant reporter Miles has always wanted to be the country’s top
reporter, but finds himself relegated to human interest puff pieces. A blizzard strands him in the small town of
Candyland, Ohio, known for its annual life-size gingerbread house contest.
Miles finds himself slowly drawn into the townsfolk’s holiday rituals. Local bakery owner and single mom to sixteen
adopted children Sarah Plain also catches his eye. But Miles’ scheming meteorologist girlfriend
isn’t giving him up with a fight, culminating in a gingerbread bake-off that no
one will ever forgot!
The 12
Days and 24 Nights of Karen Christmas
Brittle businesswoman Karen Kristofferson long ago chose her career over
love. On Christmas Eve she’s hit on the
head by an icicle and when she wakes up she’s in alternate reality where she
married her high school sweetheart and must now relive Christmas every day
until she finally understands the true meaning of the holiday before the time
loop loosens the fabric of reality and destroys time and space as we know
it. She also has to sing a solo at the
local alternate reality Christmas pageant.
So there you have it! Look for all
of the above premiering on your TV screens starting early November 2016!
