Lifetime Beating Hallmark To The Punch With LGBTQ Holiday Movie
Happy Holidays! I hope you’re all prepared for a good old fashioned quarantined Christmas, because that’s what’s coming our way. But don’t worry: you’ll always have holiday movies to distract you from the end times. Lots and lots of holiday movies. Every year, both Lifetime and Hallmark pump out holiday originals, and this year, Lifetime is beating Hallmark to the punch with its first-ever LGBTQ holiday movie, calledThe Christmas Set Up.
As summer winds down, it’ll soon be time for fall, and then – gasp – the holiday season. That means it’ll soon be time for Lifetime and Hallmark to go to war again, pitting their original holiday-themed movies against each other. Who will survive and what will be left of them? We’ll have to wait until the dust settles to find out. But we now know that Lifetime has beaten Hallmark to have their first LGBTQ holiday film.
PerTHR, that film is calledThe Christmas Set Up, and follows “Hugo, a corporate lawyer in New York who heads home to Milwaukee for the holidays, where his mother arranges for him to run into his secret high school crush, Patrick. As their mutual attraction grows, Hugo is faced with a decision to accept a promotion in London or remain in Milwaukee.”
Here are some other titles Lifetime will be airing this holiday season:
That last title,Christmas Unwrapped, will be executive produced byTiffany Haddish. And it’s worth noting thatA Sugar & Spice Holidayis Lifetime’s first holiday film centered on a Chinese-American family. And that’s not all – perEW, Lifetime has a total of 30 holiday movies this year, and you’ll be able to watch them starting in the fall.
“We are thrilled to continue our legacy of creating a holiday destination that is welcoming to all at Lifetime,” said Amy Winter, head of programming at Lifetime. “With more new movies than any one cable network for streamer, I couldn’t be prouder of the incredible talent joining us in front of, and behind the camera, on these new holiday movies.”
