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Jodie Sweetin has become a Hallmark Channel star with six movies for the channel under her belt as of June 2023. Starting as a child actor, Sweetin played Stephanie Tanner in the late '80s–early '90s ABC sitcom Full House. As an adult, she is a jack of all trades. Sweetin is now an actress, mother, activist, author, and podcaster. She reprised her role as Stephanie in the sequel series Fuller House, which ran on Netflix from 2016 to 2020. She also branched out into TV movies, mostly performing as a romantic lead.

In 2017, the Hallmark Channel released its first movie starring Jodie Sweetin. She then worked with them every year up to the Covid-19 pandemic, and she picked back up with Hallmark in 2022. With a huge fan base, Hallmark knows how to make movies that their viewers will watch. Not every movie the Hallmark Channel and Sweetin made together shines as brightly as the others.

For many of us, the 2020 version of the holidays is going to be a more homebound one than usual. What better time to build your physical-media collection with DVDs, Blu-rays, and books to help keep the season bright?

Blu-ray debuts

This year saw the first release of several Christmas favorites on Blu-ray, from Paul Feig’s 2019 sleeper hit “Last Christmas” (Universal Home Entertainment) to the first North American hi-def releases of the moving and funny anime classic “Tokyo Godfathers” (Gkids/Shout Factory), a contemporary adaptation of the Christmas-set Western tale “3 Godfathers,” and the all-star WWII drama “A Midnight Clear” (Shout Selects). The latter, a 1992 adaptation of the William Wharton novel from writer-director Keith Gordon, features a cast of up-and-coming actors who would eventually become filmmakers themselves, including Ethan Hawke, Peter Berg, Frank Whaley, and Gary Sinise.

Stone-cold classics

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Madrid — Ahead of next week’s Natpe market in Miami, Beta, one of the biggest independent TV-film powerhouses in Europe, has confirmed a swathe of sales on its U.S. TV movie productions and high-end spin-off series “Gomorrah: The Immortal.”

The sales flag Beta’s diversified production-distribution model, and the continuing appetite for TV movies in the U.S., led by Lifetime and Hallmark channels, as the demand for movies of all type rises in a new streaming platform era.

In banner sales, A & E has acquired a bevy of U.S. TV thrillers for Lifetime, among them “Fatal Friend Request,” starring Sarah Lind (“True Justice”) and Bree Williamson (“Private Eyes”), produced by Cartel, “Purity Falls” by Stargazer, with Krisanna Loken (“Burn Notice2) and Trevor Stines (“Riverdale”) and a trio of Ninth House-productions: “Perfect Party Planner,” toplining Lindsey McKeon (“Supernatural”), “Bridal Nightmare” with Karissa Lee Staples (“S.W.A.T.”) and Mark Hapka...

Dropping Friday on Netflix, Fuller House‘s fourth season tackles a difficult question 30 years in the making: Can a house be too full? In addition to the arrival of Stephanie and Jimmy’s offspring (via surrogate Kimmy), this latest batch of 13 episodes also finds the girls’ extended family members — every last one of ’em — moving back to San Francisco.

“When you add everybody up, we have about 20 people in this family,” Jodie Sweetin tells TVLine. “We’re outgrowing our house!” Fortunately, not everyone will be under the same roof, at least not at the same time. “We still scatter [returning characters] throughout the season,...