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When her on-air partner decides to depart America's favorite morning show, "Rise and Shine's" Veronika Daniels announces that she will be choosing her new co-host from a handful of candidates that includes Charlie Fisher, a local NY newscaster who is the son of a broadcasting legend. However, when Emily Morgan, a human interest reporter for the local Connecticut station, makes an impassioned on-air plea to be considered for the job, the game changes for everyone as video of Emily's declaration goes viral and the network brass decide to put her in the running. Veronika delights in the healthy competition she sees brewing, and encourages the candidates to bring their A game in the segments and stories they do between now and the Christmas Day Telethon, when she will announce her choice. As the competition narrows, and it becomes clear that either Charlie or Emily are going to get the job, they begin to rediscover a spark between them that started long ago.   Writ...

NOTE: This is a remake of RKO PICTURES' HOLIDAY AFFAIR(1949) based on JOHN D. WEAVER's short story CHRISTMAS GIFT Charming seasonal clerk Steve Mason(DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT) gets fired for helping beautiful Jodie Ennis(CYNTHIA GIBB) in return a toy train during the busy Christmas rush. Over lunch Mason discovers that Ennis is a widow of a hero who died saving people except himself, and now she is a single mother, that little by little his heart melts. Mason befriends Jodie and her young son, Timmy(CURTIS BLANCK), and getting on Timmy's good side may complicate her plans to marry the nice guy named Paul Davis(TOM IRWIN) who has been in love with her for two years.- Paraphrased from the Worldwide Web Directed by  Alan Myerson Screenplay by Isobel Lennart and John  D. Weaver  (with some revisions to fit the times by  Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell,  the producers of this 1996 TV movie) As an avid watcher of JAG  for ten years, I wonde...

This is not really a review.  It's a blog entry about how I related to these two Christmas movies that touched my heart. After inheriting a 206 acre Christmas tree farm, a woman's plans to sell it change when she falls in love with the townspeople and meets a charming lawyer named Tucker. Director: Sam Irvin Writers: Daisy MacLean , Robin Archer and Jay Cipriani Casting By  Dean E. Fronk Jeff Johnson Donald Paul Pemrick In 1997 I learned that the Santa's Village at Lake Arrowhead was going to close.  I felt really sad about this.  Years later I wondered if it was still open.  I was directed to the Sky Park, so I guess in a way it's still open, right?  So I did more digging and found out that it did close in March 1998, but some people were kind enough to buy it in 2014, restored it, added more attractions, etc.  It has been fully operational for almost two years now, and I hope and pray I would get to visit it one day...