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We might be getting ready to celebrate the Fourth of July, but for many people, that is the perfect excuse to put on a comfy sweater and curl up with a cup of hot cocoa and enjoy some holiday-themed romance, just not the kind you do with cookouts and fireworks. As the calendar turns from June to July, a number of cable and streaming outlets are hauling out the holly and celebrating Christmas in July.

If getting into the second half of the year means that you are already turning your attention to the year-end holidays, we here at The Streamable will run you through some of the best ways to get into the spirit with the familiar, low-stakes feeling of the very specific brand of holiday rom-coms.

What Holiday Movies Will Hallmark Channel Air During Christmas in July 2023?

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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,...

Nickelodeon’s A Loud House Christmas has drawn solid ratings for the ViacomCBS-owned television network. The Nov. 26 premiere of the original live-action holiday movie, based on Emmy-winning animated series The Loud House, drew a 1.9/383,000 among Kids 2-11, a 2.1/252,000 with Kids 6-11 and drew 881,000 total viewers in Live+Same Day. The 2.1 Kids 6-11 rating made the film the top entertainment telecast on TV year to date in the key kids demo.

Across seven telecasts over the holiday weekend, A Loud House Christmas amassed 3.1 million total viewers (L+Sd)

The movie saw triple-digit year-over-year gains with Kids 2-11 (+171%), Kids 6-11 (+133%) and total viewers (+166%). Among Adults 18-49, A Loud House Christmas is up 300% year-over-year and +100% above prior four-week benchmarks.

In Live+3, A Loud House Christmas is up 26% with Kids 2-11, +24% with Kids 6-11 and +24% with total viewers (1.1M).

The movie also has done well on social, with 7.6M views and 418,000 engagements across...

Nickelodeon has set the live-action cast for A Loud House Christmas, its original live-action holiday TV movie based on the Emmy-winning animated series, The Loud House. Joining previously announced leads Wolfgang Schaeffer and Jahzir Bruno are Brian Stepanek, Muretta Moss (The Glorias), Lexi Dibenedetto (Knight Squad), Dora Dolphin (American Housewife), Sophia Woodward (Lethal Weapon), Catherine Ashmore Bradley (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway), Morgan McGill (Lovecraft Country), Aubin Bradley (Modern Love), Ella Allan (Single Parents), Mia Allan (Single Parents), Lexi Janicek (Ordinary Joe) and Charlotte Ann Tucker. The feature-length movie is set to premiere his November on Nickelodeon.

A Loud House Christmas follows Lincoln Loud (Schaeffer) as he gears up for the ultimate Christmas, until he finds out that most of his sisters have plans to be elsewhere for the big day. Determined to remind his family that they all need to be together,...

Hallmark’s 2020 “Countdown to Christmas” has already begun, with a total of 40 new holiday movies set to air this season across the Hallmark Channel and sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries — some of which started rolling out well before Halloween.

While there are some fan-favorite Hallmark actors and actresses starring in the lineup, like Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Will Kemp, Holly Robinson Peete and Danica McKellar, there are several newcomers leading films, including Aaron Tveit, Krystal Joy Brown, Victoria Clark, Tom McGowan, Alvina August, Janel Parrish, Jeremy Jordan and Marisol Nichols, among many others.

This year’s slate also includes “The Christmas House,” which stars Jonathan Bennett and features a storyline about a gay couple looking to adopt their first child. Hallmark and its competitor Lifetime have been criticized over the years for not including LGBTQ lead characters and related plots in their Christmas movies. Hallmark said it would commit...