McKellar will also star in the film alongside another actor. Neil Bledsoe, both of whom had previously worked together on the Hallmark Channel original series The Winter Palace. The screenplay was written by Rick Garman, whose filmography is dominated by other holiday TV movies such as It’s Starting to Look Really Like Christmas or more recently A Christmas…Gift.
The premiere of “Christmas on the Move” is part of the network’s Great American Christmas celebration, a holiday programming marathon that runs from October 21 until the end of 2022.
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DATES
Aspiring documentary filmmakers looking for the tools to make their documentary dreams come true will take part in the annual Film Independent Docuseries Intensive, an energetic three-day workshop from September 21-23 for aspiring documentarians to make connections and develop their projects. .
Ten projects and 21 fellows were shortlisted for this year’s event, including such titles as Fruit Bowl: An Oral History of Queer Sex by director Dave Quantick and The Confidant: The Cold War We Were Not Taught in School by co-executor. produced by Melinda Pineconus and Mark Smolowitz.
CNN Original Series is back as a founding sponsor of this year’s event, working in partnership with the nonprofit Film Independent to bring in big names from the documentary film industry as guest speakers and creative consultants. Filmmakers such as Jody Gnomes, Nick Cammilleri and Zachary Ducker are among the few expected mentors.
PROGRAMMING
Disney-branded television has announced this year’s Halloween program for Disney Channel’s Calling All the Monsters and Disney Junior’s Trick or Treats.
Disney Channel Halloween content includes the world premiere of “Under Wraps 2” on September 25, as well as the premiere episodes of “Bunk’d”, “The Villains of Valley View”, “Raven’s Home” and “Big City Greens”. “. Starting September 26, Disney Channel will air Halloween-themed movies every week at 8:00 pm ET, including the Hotel Transylvania and Halloweentown movie series.
Disney Junior will feature new episodes of Mickey Mouse Fun House, Fire Buds, and PJ Masks, among others.
Disney Channel and Disney Junior programming events run from September 25 to October 31.
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Along with signaling the start of horror season, October 1 marks the addition of 27,000 hours of content to streaming service Tubi for its month-long Terror on Tubi festival.
The Halloween celebration returns for the second year in a row with all-new original films: Alone in the Dark, Beast Clash: Bigfoot vs. Yeti, The Last Rose, Lights, Camera, Murder: Scream, and Party to Die For “. The line also includes the original Tubi remake of “Terror Train” as well as classics such as “It” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.
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Starting Thursday, The Roku Channel, an ad-based free streaming service, is offering exclusive access to a three-part special featuring footage from the 2022 Adult Swim Festival. Although the event took place in Philadelphia back in August, music lovers can now enjoy performances from headliners such as Tierra Whack or Run The Jewels followed by backstage interviews.
Coinciding with the premiere of the special, The Roku Channel will also be adding over 120 episodes, selected from over 16 popular Adult Swim series and shorts, to celebrate the release. Viewers can look forward to shows like Vindicators 2, a spin-off of Rick and Morty, and Aquadonk Side Pieces, a spin-off of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
SERIES
The drama series After Eternity returns to Prime Video with a third season, which is confirmed to resume production on September 24.
Continuing the series’ exploration of love, loss and oddity, the upcoming episodes pick up a month after season two ended and will feature returning cast members such as Erin Cherry, Finn Douglas and Mike McGowan. The new season was co-written and created by Kevin Spirtas and the late Michael Slade before he died of cancer.
The episodes will premiere on Prime Video in late December 2022.
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Tastemade has announced that the original series Weekend Refresh will premiere this November on the Tastemade and Tastemade Home streaming channels. The series is hosted by Tia Mowry.
“Weekend Refresh” is aimed at homeowners and renters who create their dream space for as little as $2,000 in 48 hours. Each episode will have life hacks that viewers can follow at home.
Mowry will executive produce alongside Tastemade’s Taye Shuaib and Mike Aho. Showrunners Ali Mansfield and Priya Balachandran serve as executive producer and co-executive producer respectively.
DEVELOPMENTS
Fox and Blockchain Creative Labs announced that voting for episodic elements in Dan Harmon’s “Krapopolis” will open to Krap Chicken NFT holders on Thursday, September 22 at 9:00 AM PT.
Fox is touting Krapopolis as the first network television animated series built on the blockchain, and the first Krapopolis NFT collection includes 10,420 Krapochicks created by the show’s artists.
After the polls, Krap Chicken collectors will be able to watch items of their NFT on TV, as well as access tokenized content, exclusive voting rights on the show, private discord channels, and cast and crew meetings.
Krapopolis will premiere in May 2023 on Fox. The 24-hour voting period for Krap Chicken NFT holders will open online.
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