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Michelle Vicary is returning to Hallmark, this time as head of programming. In her new role, the longtime exec will oversee all production and original programming across Hallmark’s content platforms.

Vicary was part of Hallmark’s media business since its inception. After serving multiple positions, she exited the company as executive VP of programming in 2021 after 22 years at the company.

During her tenure, she spearheaded some of the most successful series and films for the company, including “When Calls the Heart,” “Good Witch,” and “Chesapeake Shores.”

Vicary expanded the company’s commitment to diverse storytelling, hiring multiple LGBTQ+ actors and greenlighting movies like “Wedding Every Weekend” and “The Christmas House,” the latter of which earned the network its first GLAAD Media Award nomination. One of her main focuses while at the company was to hire actors of all ages and from all beliefs and backgrounds, including Holly Robinson Peete.

Exclusive: Holly Robinson Peete is staying in the Hallmark Family. The actress has signed a multi-picture deal that includes exclusivity on holiday movies with Crown Media Family Networks.

“Since her first movie with Hallmark in 2015, Holly’s intelligence, vulnerability and tireless advocacy work have made her one of our networks’ most beloved talents, on screen and off,” said Lisa Hamilton Daly, Executive Vice President, Programming, Crown Media Family Networks. “We are so happy to continue making movies with Holly and to be her official home for original television movies at Christmas.”

”Hallmark is one of the most unique and warm destinations on television, especially at Christmas, and I am so proud of the projects that we have done together these past years,” continued Robinson Peete. “I am thrilled to continue my work with them to collaborate on creating joyful and heartfelt movies, while highlighting special stories in which viewers can truly see themselves.

As the weather turns cold and America turns to its TVs on chilly nights, the Hallmark Channel has host of holiday offerings, many of which star Danica McKellar or Candice Cameron Burè. The cabler very nearly has at least one new movie each and every day — and sometimes six.

See below for a listing of the channel’s holiday movie premieres through Christmas. And speaking of Christmas, you’ll notice that word that figures prominently in most of Hallmark’s holiday titles.

December 10

Christmas Cookies

The Christmas Cottage

The Christmas Cure

Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy

Christmas List

A Christmas Together With You

Coyote Creek Christmas

A Dickens of a Holiday!

A Kiss Before Christmas

A Shoe Addict’s Christmas

A Very Merry Bridesmaid

Welcome to Christmas

December 11

Christmas at Castle Heart

Christmas CEO

Christmas Under Wraps

Good Morning Christmas!

If Only I Had Christmas

Making Spirits Bright

The Mistletoe Promise

Next Stop,...

Based on more than a million votes by the American public and the deliberations of a panel of celebrity animal lovers and dog experts, Alice, a five-year-old German Shepherd from Nicholasville, Kentucky, has been named the nation’s most heroic canine, besting 360 other competitors across the country and capturing the top title of “American Hero Dog” at the 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards.

Kristin Chenoweth at the 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards

Credit/Copyright: Jordan Strauss/Invision for American Humane/AP Images

The ninth annual Hero Dogs Awards is sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation, Inc. and Zoetis, and will be broadcast nationally as a two-hour special on Hallmark Channel October 21 at 8:00 pm Et/Pt, 7 pm Central.

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Bestselling author Beth Stern and James Denton will return to host the 9th Annual American Humane Hero Dog Awards, a star-studded annual celebration honoring outstanding working dogs from around the country.

The awards gala, sponsored by the Lois Pope Life Foundation and Zoetis, will also feature Trevor Donovan, Danielle Fishel (“Girl Meets World”), Kellie Martin (“Hailey Dean Mysteries”), Debbie Matenopoulos (“Home & Family”), Cameron Mathison (“Home & Family”), Wendi McLendon-Covey (“The Goldbergs”), Brandon McMillan (“Lucky Dog”), Barbara Niven, Roselyn Sanchez, Eric Winter, and Larissa Wohl (“Home & Family”) as presenters. Additional celebrity participants and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.

The 2019 American Humane Hero Dog Awards will take place on Saturday, Oct. 5 at The Beverly Hilton and will be broadcast as a two-hour special nationwide on Monday, Oct. 21 (8 pm Et/7 pm Ct) on Hallmark Channel.

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