Yuletide Movie Season 2023 Arrives at UPtv

In the case of UPtv39s annual quotMost Uplifting Christmas Everquot undertaking this year39s offering launched on November 5 with We39re Scrooged the first of eight madeforTV film premieres Eightyfive holiday features will run over a 45day stretch on UPtv with more than 200 films displayed on UP Faith ampamp Family the channel39s subscription videoondemand service that viewers can watch via smart TV sets or devices as well as multichannel bundlesAnother attraction on UPtv39s quotMost Upliftingquot schedule A Christmas Homecoming a new hourlong musical special featuring the Gaither family This special will also appear on Gaither also managed by UP EntertainmentquotThere are so many great holiday movies out there and what we try to look for when we acquire or make a movie are stories that strike your heart just a little bit deeper in the overall storylinequot explains Crissie Miller UPtv39s Senior Director of Content Strategy and Planning quotMultigenerational stories are great for us We love a romanceamp8230who doesn39t love one We try to find stories that are a little bit different and draw people into experiencing a holiday movie in a way that maybe they didn39t think they would like beforequotIn We39re Scrooged a pair of exhigh school sweethearts reunited at a highschool reunion are visited by the ghosts from A Christmas Carol Another firstrun feature takes place in an Amish community with the survival of a local bakery business at stake The most offbeat original in this bunch Dial S for Santa yes the title is a play on the Alfred Hitchcockdirected classic Dial M For Murder where viewers will be invited to play detective and determine who39s behind a string of Main Street store robberiesquotIt39s a whodunit and you39re trying to figure it out with our characters from the getgoquot adds Miller quotIt39s a fun script and very different for usquotAd sales for UPtv39s Christmas movie blitz are on track to meet or exceed expectations and at least one sponsoronline real estate marketplace Zillow receives a cameo bit during a scene in the original movie Country Hearts Christmas running on November 19 quotIt doesn39t feel too over the top or out of placequot Miller saysChristmas madeformovie making is a 12month affair with Miller and her inhouse development team and outside production partners She is already reviewing story ideas for next year with formal meetings starting this holiday season to ensure that films can be produced on location when there is still plenty of snow on the ground then they go into postproduction by April or May quotWe have established a wonderful stable and growing list of collaborators people we39ve worked with for years and people we strike deals with for the first time who bring us these amazing storiesquot continues Miller quotOur partners know what strikes a chord with our audience and know what we like to put into the process They make my life easierquotUnusual talent selections also differentiate UPtv39s holiday originals from content elsewhere Country Hearts Christmas a sequel to a movie offered by the channel earlier this fall costars popular pro wrestler Chris Jericho A Christmas Letter premieres on Christmas Eve features Whose Line Is It Anyway regular Colin Mochrie whose improv teamups with fellow Whose Line regular Ryan Stiles often provoke classic hilarity on many episodesquotThat was a fun happy accidentquot recalls Miller quotI love to see actors try something different where they surprise you This side we39ll see of Colin and Chris is specialquotquotChoose Your Joyquot UP Faith and Family39s presentation will showcase 35 movies for the first time including some of the originals that premiered on UPtv last year For 2024 and beyond Miller wants to create more new holiday films that play on both services as well as original Spanishlanguage movies for the FAST channel Cine RomanticoMiller and her programming team are already in action on their first big holiday movie blitz of 2024 timed with Easter Sunday She39s also looking ahead to the return of UP Faith ampamp Family39s Snowed In For Summer midyear eventquotMaybe one day we39ll have an opportunity to do a Thanksgiving moviequot she muses quotI39m personally a big fan of food day as we call it in our housequotClick the social buttons to share this story with colleagues and friendsThe opinions expressed here are the author39s views and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillageorgMyersBizNet

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