Lifetime Christmas Movies 2021: How to Stream 'It's A Wonderful Lifetime' on Sling
Here's how you can watch Lifetime's new bundle of Christmas movies on Sling.
Christmas isn’t just a season, it’s a state of mind. One that, if you’re lucky, retains its magic and sparkle throughout a lifetime. So, it’s fitting that Lifetime devotes such a huge chunk of the year’s TV calendar to the shiniest holiday movies this side of an heirloom ornament.
The 2021 slate of jolly rom-coms caps out at a whopping 35 titles and kicks off Friday, November 12 at 8 pm ET with An Ice Wine Christmas, starring Roselyn Sanchez and Lyriq Bent as potential mates who bond over the annual ice wine harvest.
We say “Bottoms up!” to a match made in a vineyard while we take a wintry wonderland stroll through the ins-and-outs of the “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” schedule.
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Ho, Ho, The Mistletoe
Mistletoe: Romantic or non-consensual? In practice, don’t let the plant do the talking - ask for a smooch first. In theory, what a charming tradition. It’s unclear whether Lifetime favorite Melissa Joan Hart actually locks lips underneath the title greenery in Mistletoe in Montana (12/17 at 8 pm ET), but as the owner of a ranch where city folks come to explore nature and the cowboy way of life, she’s got her eye on a single dad spending the week as a guest. In Maps and Mistletoe (12/13 at 8 pm ET), Humberly Gonzalez portrays a cartographer assigned to design a treasure map of the North Pole with the help of a hunky explorer while Natalie Lisinska is an interior designer tasked with decorating a foreign embassy’s holiday charity ball in Match Made in Mistletoe.
Christmas Goodies
Besides the presents topped with billowy bows, the best part about Christmas is the seemingly endless supply of sweets. While fruitcakes often get a bad wrap, in Baking Spirits Bright (11/21 at 8 pm ET), Rekha Sharma must convince a marketing executive (Dion Johnstone) that her family’s famous holiday treat is worth saving. Another baker down on her luck in The Enchanted Christmas Cake (12/15 at 8 pm ET) must locate her grandmother’s secret recipe while hosting a famous chef and his crew while they tape a Christmas special at her establishment. Grandma’s recipes are a running theme during the holidays. In Hot Chocolate Holiday (12/24 at 8 pm ET), Aubrey Reyonlds discovers that a competing cafe is serving a cup of hot cocoa that tastes freakishly similar to her family’s take on the cozy drink. Will she fall in love with her nemesis before she exposes his theft? Probably.
All The Jingle Ladies
People love Christmas carols almost as much as Christmas movies. Just count all the radio stations that switch over to total holiday programming before Thanksgiving. Country superstar Reba McEntire lends her legendary vocals and charm to Reba McEntire’s Christmas in Tune (11/26 at 8 pm ET) as part of a husband-and-wife musical duo who reunite (both onstage and off) at the behest of their daughter for a holiday charity event. Grammy-winning gospel artist Kirk Franklin brings his original compositions to Kirk Franklin’s A Gospel Christmas (12/4 at 8 pm ET) along with Demetria McKinney as a young pastor taking the lead at a new church with a choir in need of direction right before the town’s annual Winter Jamboree. In My Favorite Christmas Melody (12/5 at 8 pm ET), a flailing singer-songwriter who writes jingles as a day job returns home for the holidays to find the local high school’s arts program on life support and the cute music teacher asking her to save the day.
Familiar Faces
I spy, with my little eye, someone that is famous. Recognizable faces abound in this year’s bunch of feel-good films. Motown legend Smokey Robinson joins ‘90s icon Tia Mowry in Miracle in Motor City (11/28 at 8 pm ET) while Mario Lopez returns to the holiday fold in Holiday in Santa Fe (12/10 at 8pm ET). One Tree Hill hottie Chad Michael Murray plays a model train enthusiast in Toying With the Holidays (12/18 at 8 pm ET) and John Waters muse and former talk show host Ricki Lake shows up in Under the Christmas Tree (12/19 at 8 pm ET) as a town’s celebrated pastry chef.
Here’s the full calendar in chronological order so you can start planning your holiday season:
An Ice Wine Christmas
Airs: 11/12 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Roselyn Sanchez, Lyriq Bent
A Picture Perfect Holiday
Airs: 11/13 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Tatyana Ali, Henderson Wade, Dina Meyer
Dancing Through the Snow
Airs: 11/19 at 8 pm ET
Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Colin Lawrence, Bianca Lawrence
You Make It Feel Like Christmas
Airs: 11/20 at 8pm ET
Stars: Mary Antonini, Michael Xavier, Stephanie Sy
Baking Spirits Bright
Airs: 11/21 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Rekha Sharma, Dion Johnstone, Aadila Dosani
Reba McEntire’s Christmas in Tune
Airs: 11/26 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Reba McEntire, John Schneider, Candice King
Merry Liddle Christmas Baby
Airs: 11/27 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Kelly Rowland, Thomas Cadrot, Bresha Webb
Miracle in Motor City
Airs: 11/28 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Tia Mowry, Mark Taylor, Smokey Robinson
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Airs: 11/29 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Michelle Argyris, Alonzo B. Slater, Asia’h Epperson
Saying Yes to Christmas
Airs: 11/30 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Erika Prevots, Romaine Waite
Match Made in Mistletoe
Airs: 12/1 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Natalie Lisinska, Damon Runyan
A Christmas Village Romance
Airs: 12/2 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Jake Epstein, Jeni Ross, Olivier Renaud
A Christmas Dance Reunion
Airs: 12/3 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman
Kirk Franklin’s A Gospel Christmas
Airs: 12/4 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Demetria McKinney, Chaz Lamar Shepherd, Kirk Franklin
My Favorite Christmas Melody
Airs: 12/5 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Mya, Rainbow Sun Francks
Secretly Santa
Airs: 12/6 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Alicia Dea Josipovic, Travis Nelson
Christmas Movie Magic
Airs: 12/7 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Holly Deveaux, Drew Seeley
Christmas With a Crown
Airs: 12/8 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Marcus Rosner, Lisa Durupt
A Fiance for Christmas
Airs: 12/9 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Marie Osmond, Amanda Payton, Adam Gregory
Holiday in Santa Fe
Airs: 12/10 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Mario Lopez, Emeraude Toubia, Aimee Garcia
The Holiday Fix Up
Airs: 12/11 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Jana Kramer, Ryan McPartlin, Maria Menounos
Blending Christmas
Airs: 12/12 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Haylie Duff, Aaron O’Connell
Maps and Mistletoe
Airs: 12/13 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Humberly Gonzalez, Ronnie Rowe
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Airs: 12/14 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Annie Clark, Dan Jeannotte
The Enchanted Christmas Cake
Airs: 12/15 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Erica Durance, Robin Dunne
Christmas by Chance
Airs: 12/16 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Winny Clarke, Jacob Blair
Mistletoe in Montana
Airs: 12/17 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Duane Henry, Jamey Sheridan
Toying With the Holidays
Airs: 12/18 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Chad Michael Murray, Cindy Busby
Under the Christmas Tree
Airs: 12/19 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Elise Bauman, Tattiawna Jones, Ricki Lake
Candy Cane Candidate
Airs: 12/20 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Jacky Lai, Jake Epstein
The Christmas Ball
Airs: 12/21 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Deidre Mullins, Nick Hendrix, Caroline Langrishe
It Takes a Christmas Village
Airs: 12/22 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Brooke Nevin, Corey Sevier, Alli Chung
Rebuilding a Dream Christmas
Airs: 12/23 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Meggan Kaiser, Zane Stephens, Bryson JonSteele
Hot Chocolate Holiday
Airs: 12/24 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Aubrey Reynolds, Jonny Swenson
Writing Around the Christmas Tree
Airs: 12/25 at 8 pm ET
Stars: Krystal Joy Brown, Curtis Hamilton
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