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Deck The Hallmark

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 You did it! You found your new favorite podcast! Congrats! Join Bran, Dan, and friends as they attempt to watch and review made-for-tv movies. Just a bunch of friends…watching made-for-tv movies. What could go wrong? Listen ad-free at bramblejamplus.com Follow us - Instagram: @hallmarkpodcast Twitter: @hallmarkpodcast Facebook: Deck The Hallmark Podcast *Deck the Hallmark is NOT affiliated with Hallmark Media*Bramble Jam Podcast Network Art Daily
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  • Chocolate for Christmas (UPtv - 2026)

    Chocolate for Christmas (UPtv - 2026)
    Nov 15 2026

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    Ryan is back to help us review another UPtv Christmas movie, and it’s a "sweet" one!

    ABOUT CHOCOLATE FOR CHRISTMAS

    When a woman returns home to save her family’s beloved chocolate shop, she finds unexpected love and a renewed appreciation for what matters most. This sweet holiday romance celebrates family, community and the lasting power of tradition.

    AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR CHOCOLATE FOR CHRISTMAS

    November 6, 2026 | UPtv

    CAST & CREW OF CHOCOLATE FOR CHRISTMAS

    Director: Cathy Lynn Yonek

    Writer: Cathy Lynn Yonek

    Cast:

    • Angela Cole as Penny Candy
    • Joel Berg as Benji
    BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS

    The movie kicks off with a song about chocolate for Christmas. We meet Penny Candy Nichols who is talking to her sister Coco on the phone. Coco begs her to come home and help with the chocolate competition and to be together for Christmas. It’s the first Christmas since Mom passed away. When she gets there, a guy named Benji shows up and explains that due to a technicality in their lease, they owe $50,000. If they win the chocolate contest, they could save the store. But there’s a lot to this - they have to help drive up ticket sales for the contest, so Benji (who doesn’t want them to lose the store, he’s just doing what his dad asks him to do) pitches a golden ticket campaign. I’m foggy on how it’ll help, but he insists it will.

    Penny and Benji go on a carriage ride together. The sparks are flying, I guess. He even comes to help her build the chocolate castle for the competition.

    The judge comes to town and Coco gives him a chocolate face mask which he has an allergic reaction to and has to go to the hospital, so their chocolate castle won’t be judged.

    Just as she feels like she’s enjoying being home and falling for Benji, she sees him with another girl. So she goes home to go back to work, where she’s late for a meeting. But it doesn’t take long for her to realize she’s made a mistake. She quits and tells her old boss she’s gonna go home and start a nonprofit.

    She confronts Benji. Turns out he was with his sister. So they’re good.

    And the good news keeps coming. The judge is coming back tomorrow. Turns out it wasn’t the chocolate mask that gave him a reaction, it was his new moisturizer.

    She gets mad when she finds out that Benji called the judge, for some reason, and ends up kind of breaking a chocolate Santa mold. But holding it, she sees an opportunity - chocolate Santa cups. She decides she’s gonna make a ton of them and sell them to everyone in the town. Benji makes her a mirror.

    The judge comes and loves it. They end up winning. Then Benji’s dad tells them their debt is forgiven and also here’s 50k.

    To celebrate, Penny & Benji kiss.

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    48 mins
  • Mistletoe Murders - S03E02 - Don't Fear the Wreather - Part 2

    Mistletoe Murders - S03E02 - Don't Fear the Wreather - Part 2
    Nov 14 2026
    Alonso joins us to continue our journey through Season 3 of Mistletoe Murders! ABOUT: MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 2Emily and Sam work to clear the wreathmaker's name, while Emily struggles to stay emotionally detached in the present as she reflects on past mistakes and future obligations.AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 2November 12, 2026 | Hallmark ChannelCAST & CREW OF: MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 2Sarah Drew as EmilyPeter Mooney as SamBRAN’S MISTLETOE MURDERS – DON'T FEAR THE WREATHER - PART 2 SYNOPSISAs you recall, Helen was arrested for breaking into Albert’s house. Turns out it was just a misunderstanding. Albert’s wife asked her to come feed the fish. Just a big misunderstanding, so she’s released. Unfortunately for Sam, that punk son-in-law Wes is holding a press conference calling out Helen for being a murderer. Sam is like Helen isn’t a suspect in any case. Wes is REAL MAD!Emily is blown away by how hard Brooke is going on her Chairman campaign. She decides to kinda lean into her own campaign - it is bringing customers into the store, after all.Emily bumps into Ruth who reiterates her suspicions of Helen. Hearing her causes Emily to reconsider how sure she is that Helen is innocent.Mayor Famous Ray brings Sam a complaint he found that Albert filed a couple years back about how bright his Christmas lights are. He thinks Albert did it!Turns out that Helen actually doesn’t stand to gain any financial benefit from her husband’s death. She had absolutely no motive. After talking to Helen, Emily notices something suspicious with one of the lawn reindeer...it has a hidden camera in its nose!We get a little flashback showing how things ended between Emily and Aaron back in the day. He told her he loved her which threw her off and gave him time to leave before she sounded the alarm.We get the footage...it was Albert that took the ladder down! When Sam brings him in for questioning, he says it was just a joke. He thought it’d be funny to see him freak out and have to call for help. He does offer something helpful - he saw Ruth’s car parked down the street. Why would she leave and then park down the street? Awfully suspicious.While talking about the case, things get real steamy between Emily & Sam. He pulls her close. He tells her how lost he was without her around. She says home isn’t a place, it’s a person. OH BOYYYYYY.Sam finds out some interesting information - Richard was working to add Helen to the will without Ruth’s knowledge. He suspects that Ruth found out about that and that’s what the argument was about the night he died. Luckily for her, he never made it to the lawyer’s office to sign those papers so she gets all of her dad’s estate.He brings Ruth in for questioning. She says that she pulled over because she was upset and didn’t feel well enough to drive. Sam says what was the argument about? She says he said that if it came down to it, he would choose Helen over her. Sam asks if she was on the roof at all that night. She says absolutely not.Emily gives a very nice speech at the Christmas Chairman debate about how the town deserves a Chairman who can bring Christmas spirit to the town all day. She brings up Helen. She says the town needs to come around Helen and encourage her instead of condemning her and judging her. Fletcher’s Grove isn’t about Christmas markets, it’s about the people who show kindness to its people. That’s Christmas spirit.Afterwards, Emily tells Sam she has an idea on how they can get the killer - whether it’s Ruth or Albert - to confess but he’s not gonna like it.Emily is on a stakeout at the house seeing if anyone shows up to cover up any evidence on the roof. She hears movement. She goes up and...it’s Wes. She tells him her theory and he’s like no no it’s not what it looks like but then proceeds to try to push her off the roof. So clearly he did it. She’s holding on to the edge when the lights turn on which blinds him, giving her time to pull herself up and wrap him up in Christmas lights. Sam shows up and arrests him.Emily wins Chairman but she says she’s going to pass and to give it to Brooke.That night, she gets a text to meet up at the checkpoint. She shows up and it’s the leader of the shadow ops. She wants to check on Emily and make sure she’s going to get back on the road and keep searching for Aaron after the holidays. Emily is not thrilled by this check-in. Watch the show on Youtube - www.deckthehallmark.com/youtubeInterested in advertising on the show? Email bran@deckthehallmark.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    38 mins
  • A Dog's Perfect Christmas (Netflix - 2026)

    A Dog's Perfect Christmas (Netflix - 2026)
    Nov 13 2026
    Deck the Hallmark is presented by Kringle.com. Use promo code "DTHNOV26" for 10% off your order!Head to https://cozyearth.com and use my code HALLMARK for 35% off home and sleepwear through December 3rd.---Deck the Netflix with a furry holiday tale! Jacks and Alonso join us for the review.ABOUT A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMASA sage basset hound narrates how his family faces turmoil when Mrs. Goss falls into an induced coma, and a new Corgi pup helps unite the scattered household during their mother’s absence.AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMASNovember 4, 2026 | NetflixCAST & CREW OF A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMASDirector: Cathryn MichonWriters: W. Bruce Cameron, Cathryn MichonCast:Dennis Quaid as SanderBrooke Lena Johnson as ElloKathleen Rose Perkins as JulianaMilo Ventimiglia as HunterEthan Loomis as SeanBRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSISLet’s start at the beginning. A cute Basset Hound named Winstead is given to a family for Christmas. His favorite words are “Merry Christmas” because it means people are happy. Hunter and Juliana gave the dog to their daughter, Ello. We get to see his family over the years and now Winstead is older. Hunter’s dad, Sander, moves in after his wife passed away. One day while everyone is gone (except for Winstead), he can tell that Sander isn’t doing well. So he asks him to take a walk. They end up at the Christmas market where Winstead gets into some pie and Sander meets a woman named Claire. But it doesn’t cheer him up. Sander is real sad despite Winstead doing everything that he can to cheer him up.Hunter goes in for a big meeting with his boss to pitch something crazy called open concept offices. If this helps the branch thrive, he gets promoted. If not, he’s fired.He tells his wife he has good news but she’s not thrilled at the possibility of him being gone even more and blurts out I’M NOT HAPPY IN THE MARRIAGE! He’s like wait, do you want a divorce? She’s like no! But the twins are the worst thing to ever happen to me! She needs him to help. She’s suffocating!At school, Ello wins a scholarship and she’s not pleased because the popular girls hate her for it so she fakes sick. But when she gets home, her mom ends up throwing up. She ends up having to go to the hospital. The doctor is like chances are it’s just a bad UTI but she has to stay and run some tests.It’s Thanksgiving but that doesn’t mean that Hunter isn’t going into the office. So it’s left for Ello to figure out Thanksgiving on her own. But after a bit of a shouting match with Grandpa Sander where he realizes that he’s not the only one sad about losing his wife, he decides to pitch in and help. While at the store, he bumps into Claire and begs her to come make Thanksgiving dinner. No luck.The dinner is a bit of a disaster but Sander and Ello talk more and begin to understand each other a bit and they all get into a food fight together.The next day, Sander takes Winstead to get some coffee. While Sander is inside, Winstead sees someone drop a puppy off on the side of the road. While walking home, that same puppy comes running up to Ello. With no tag, she decides to take her home. When Hunter shows up, he’s like WTF, we cannot keep this dog. But when he asks her to hang out with his boss’s son, she says yes, so naturally that means they’re gonna keep the pup. Luckily for Ello, he’s a cute new boy.After finding out that Claire is also a widow, Ello ends up giving Sander a makeover.Juliana doesn’t seem to be getting better in the hospital. In fact, she’s getting worse. It’s a kidney infection and they’re worried about sepsis.Ello and cute boy Sean go skating together. Turns out they’re both phenomenal.Back at home, Ello and Sander work together to decorate the house for Christmas to surprise her mom when she finally comes home.The next day, Sander sees Claire and they bond over their mutual love of Joni Mitchell.The family gets bad news. Juliana is in organ failure. It’s not looking good. Ello is really sad and Sander is there to help her.One day after school, Ello gets a FaceTime from Hunter. It’s good news! Juliana is awake! She still can’t talk or move but it’s hopefully temporary.Later, she starts moving and whatnot and Hunter puts her ring back on her finger.Claire starts hanging out with Sander more and we’re all here for it. They end up kissing!!!!Everything is looking great. Ello is hanging out with Sean after the parade and they have a real sweet gift exchange and they kisssssss thanks to a little nudge from Winstead. They go to have a little skate sesh and kiss some more. It’s real romantic.Hunter gets a call. He got the VP promotion but he tells his boss he has a counteroffer for her.The bad news is Mom won’t be home for Christmas Eve but they’re gonna let the entire family come see her. They let them use all the Christmas decorations from the gala. Hunter tells Juliana that he got the promotion and he negotiated a consulting job ...
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    51 mins
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