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Ashlee Simpson is returning to acting!

The 39-year-old Autobiography singer is set to star in QVC+ and Hsn+’s original holiday baking mystery, The Recipe Files, Variety reported.

The new TV movie promises to be filled with cameos from QVC hosts and plenty of plugs for tie-in products and partner brands, and is being directed by Lindsay Hartley. It’s set to launch on QVC+ on November 24.

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The movie also stars Morgan Bradley and Doug Noble, with cameos from QVC hosts David Venable, Ali Carr, Steve Doss and Rachel Boesing, and QVC brands Kitchen Aid, David’s Cookies, Rastelli’s and Temp-tations. It will be part of the Movie Mall experience where viewers can shop exclusive merch inspired by the film and special deals on featured QVC brand products.

“The Recipe Files centers on Isabel, a baker who finds herself seeking adventure in the...

Retail-focused sister streamers QVC+ and Hsn+ are marking their second year of original holiday programming with a new TV movie starring Ashlee Simpson.

Titled “The Recipe Files,” the holiday baking mystery — filled with cameos from QVC hosts and plenty of plugs for tie-in products and partner brands — is directed by Lindsay Hartley and will launch on QVC+ Nov. 24.

That film marks the consumer-product-focused streamer’s second holiday original movie, following last year’s “Holly and the Hot Chocolate,” but is not the only piece of new holiday content set to rollout on QVC+ and Hsn+ this fall and winter, with additional titles including a new series from Curtis Stone; competition “The Ultimate Gift Wrapping Challenge”; food show “Seasoned,” featuring the personal stories of chefs including Carla Hall; curated holiday retail therapy in weekly series “The Edit”; and more.

While QVC+ and Hsn+ are upping their holiday originals count this year,...

The Sundance Film Festival continues to embrace the diversity of great content being made today, with a full roster of special events programming that features established festival favorites like Jill Soloway, Rashida Jones and Gina Prince-Bythewood.

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Making its world premiere at the fest is “I Love Dick,” Soloway’s Amazon comedy featuring Kevin Bacon as the titular Dick, a “charismatic artist” who upends the marriage of Kathryn Hanh and Griffith Dunne. In addition, the Netflix documentary “Hot Girls Wanted” gets a sequel directed by Rashida Jones; “Turned On” explores “the intersection of sex and technology,” per the official release.

Broadcast networks find themselves surprisingly well-represented in the line-up, with the ABC comedy “Downward Dog” (featuring Allison Tolman as a young woman with a special relationship with her dog) as well as the Fox limited series “Shots Fired,...