Attention Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!

[Patty Duke]

My solution is simple, I don't watch. Life is too short to get upset over the little things. Hallmark has made some nice movies but I feel they pump out so many sometimes they aren't worth my time. There are some Christmas movies I make it a point to see each year.

I never miss....the classic's
The Christmas Gift with John Denver
Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street
It's a Wonderful Life
The Christmas Card
White Christmas
Christmas in Connecticut
Holiday Inn
A Christmas Carol
The Bells of St. Mary's
The Bishops Wife
Charlie Brown Christmas
The Grinch
to name a few....

The best solution is just to watch something else when a channel doesn't air what you like.

[mets82]

You know your right. Also, you like the Bells of St. Mary's? So does my mom. You know what? It's just that Hallmark took off shows that I liked. The Golden Girls, Little House on the Prairie, Matlock, Murder She Wrote.

[tvfan25]

I like the older movies:

Santa Claus: The Movie
Unlikely Angel
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Angel Of Pennsylvania Avenue
The Night They Saved Christmas
One Magic Christmas
It Nearly Wasn't Christmas (wish they had this one on DVD!)
A Muppet Family Christmas (need this on DVD too!!)

[Patty Duke]

Originally Posted by tvfan25

I like the older movies:

Santa Claus: The Movie
Unlikely Angel
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Angel Of Pennsylvania Avenue
The Night They Saved Christmas
One Magic Christmas
It Nearly Wasn't Christmas (wish they had this one on DVD!)
A Muppet Family Christmas (need this on DVD too!!)

Oh I love The Angel Of Pennsylvania Avenue, The Night They Saved Christmas, A Smokey Mountain Christmas and A Holiday to Remember with Connie Sellecca and Randy Travis and the one....can't remember the name but it's a woman who takes her sisters kids and hides in a deserted Mansion during Christmas because they have no money and no place to go, the sister is in rehab....heartwarming movie. I know there are others but I can't think of them all. LOL

[Patty Duke]

Originally Posted by mets82

You know your right. Also, you like the Bells of St. Mary's? So does my mom. You know what? It's just that Hallmark took off shows that I liked. The Golden Girls, Little House on the Prairie, Matlock, Murder She Wrote.

I understand, I miss the shows too. I go to sleep listening to TV at night, it somehow lulls me to sleep. LOL Anyway, I would always put on that channel and set my TV timer to shut off the TV in an hour, Hallmark Movie and Mystery Channel is what I kept it on at night. Now I find I have to look elsewhere for my sleepy time shows.
They'll be back before you know it. Merry Christmas!

P.S. Your mother has good taste in movies. I have been told I have an old soul, I've always loved the old shows and movies but I'm not even close to 40 yet. The new shows hold no interest for me and neither do the new movies. I keep telling my dad that Hollywood has lost all of it's creativity, I guess because all the good ones are gone.

[Crusinforabrusin]

Tell me about it. They start these lame a** Christmas movies in October!!! I'm all for Christmas Movies, but do you really need to play them in October? By the time Christmas comes, I want them to put Cheers, Frasier, Matlock, Columbo,etc. Back on. And what bugs me still, is that they continue to play the Christmas movies, even after Christmas!!!

[Hazel Anyday]

I think it's a Hallmark war of nerves. Just how much Christmas movies can you stand. Personally I gave up in October, like others, I just skip by the channel as quickly as possible. I like old Christmas movies (I mean '40's and maybe '50's movies) but Hallmarks? Nope. Though there is one good Hallmark movie, the James Garner/Julie Andrews one where they get stuck in the snow and James falls out of Julie's small car, that's my favorite scene in the movie. But I have it on DVD so I still don't need Hallmark for that, thank goodness.

[bmasters9]

Originally Posted by Family Matters

And what bugs me still, is that they continue to play the Christmas movies, even after Christmas!!!

Indeed! Hallmark ought to get a clue that, hey, it's not Christmas anymore, so let's go back to the way we were and start again next Christmas season. They won't do that, though, and it is quite the annoyance, them acting like it's Christmas when it really isn't.

[opus]

Orthodox Christmas was Jan.7. Maybe they had that marked on their calendar.

[Crusinforabrusin]

Does anybody know why Diagnosis: Murder is now on in the mornings? I miss the afternoon showings so much!! I'm not home during most days and I end up missing it

[Hawkee]

I've noticed this about Hallmark Channel too and it seems that every year when Hallmark has it's 25 Days Of Christmas movie marathon Hallmark Channel starts this marathon every Halloween to honor the releases of the brand new Hallmark Ornaments each year and I've noticed that every single time Hallmark Channel debuts a brand new holiday movie Hallmark Channel only shows it once or twice a year then never shows it again and if I were Hallmark Channel I would show the holiday movies on weekends and then the weekdays would be the usual programming. Another thing I noticed about Hallmark Channel's holiday movie marathons is that Hallmark Channel is recycling the old Hallmark Channel holiday movies from 2000 to 2012 and they should debut new movies instead during this marathon. For example every time I looked at the listings for Hallmark Channel last year they showed the movies The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year Love At The Thanksgiving Day Parade and A Boyfriend For Christmas and Meet The Santas every day and I think Hallmark Channel should improve these marathons in the future and attract a successful audience to their channel