It's Festive Friday with a brand new holiday movie!

A family's perfect Christmas reunion is upended when old rivalries, secrets, and romantic mix-ups come to a head.

November 7, 2025 | Starz

• Lil Rel Howery as Richard
• DomiNque Perry as Marissa
• Reagan Gomez-Preston as Kerry
• Terrence Terrell as Michael
• Trell Woodberry as Kyle
• Cecelia Friday as Alicia

Richard and Marissa are hanging out in bed, they're having funnnnnn. They're dating and Marissa is like what are we? Richard is like we're having funnnnnn. That's not enough for Marissa. But after he goes to the restroom, his bag falls and a ring pops out! HE'S GOING TO PROPOSE! She's very happy now and now she wants him to come to family Christmas with her in Texas.

We meet more of her family - there's brother Kyle. He's married to Alicia. Alicia and Kyle aren't doing great. Kyle is just always too tired for the fun times.

And then there's Kerry who lives out in LA. She works in real estate, buying up buildings to build new business centers and what not. She finds out that the next purchase she needs to help push forward is actually her parents' church in Texas. She claims it won't be a problem. She gets a call from someone named "DO NOT ANSWER". Whoever is on the other line is shooting his shot and trying to get back with her which she agrees to.

Richard comes over and breaks up with Marissa. She's heartbroken. But off to Texas she goes to be with her family.

And Marissa is shocked when her sister shows up with her boyfriend....RICHARD!!! That's right.

It's an absolute mess. So she called up her gay best friend to have him come and act like her boyfriend to make Richard mad.

We find out that Marissa & Kerry are actually step sisters - Marissa's mom married Kerry's dad shortly after her dad passed away and Marissa has always been pretty mad about it.

One night, Marissa and Richard are able to talk and he promises that when he was with her, he and Kerry were on a break.

Richard is like next in line in his father's doctor practice thing and Kerry is always like you need to go ahead and make that official but Marissa is always like you do what you wanna do.

Well, one night, everything blows up. It comes out that Richard isn't going to follow in his dad's footsteps and Kerry isn't mad and he's like Marissa always supported me. So now everyone knows. And everyone is fighting. While that's happening, Alicia and Kyle are also fighting because she thinks he's cheating on her with a girl who is texting him. Turns out, it's just his therapist checking up on him because he apparently has yet to tell his wife that he has ED. And now the entire family knows. It's a mess.

Ultimately, Richard scrams, the sisters make up, Kerry quits her job because she doesn't want her family to sell the church that brings them so much joy, Alicia and Kyle make up, and everyone has a merry Christmas.

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Jacks joins us this week to continue our Season 13 viewing of the hit Hallmark Channel show, When Calls the Heart.

A business proposition brings folks together as they help Minnie out of a jam. Nathan's fire investigation puts him in harm's way.

February 15, 2026 | Hallmark Channel

• Erin Krakow as Elizabeth Thornton
• Kevin McGarry as Nathan Grant
• Chris McNally as Lucas Bouchard

Minnie is in the jam business and it might get better. A hotel wants to stock it, but she only has 5 cans. She needs 500 cans by the morning. Rosemary and Elizabeth insist they help her. And they think the town will want to help!

Lucas and Lee are talking about Fernando being the contractor. Lucas insists he's fine with it. More than fine.

Gowan's son Christopher is freaking out. News is out that the boys didn't start the fire and now the electric company is grilling him. Gowan tells him to go look at the birds.

So he heads out with Nathan to find the transformer. Nathan insists he's not the one who was breaking the law.

The town is all together doing their jam thing. While squishing grapes, Hickam tells Fiona he wants to start a family.

Lucas isn't wearing a vest and Edie really likes it. They're walking and talking when they see a loose horse run by. Edie yells for Fernando to come help!

While walking the path, a car comes driving fast at Nathan and Christopher and Nathan pushes them off the path and down a hill. UH OH!

Rosemary is trying to get info out of Elizabeth and while they're talking, they miss one of the buckets of jam to put sugar in. UH OH!

Lucas thinks he's the one that is going to capture the horse but Fernando swoops in and sings to it.

They realize some of the cans are sour. So they have to find the 40 cans that don't have sugar. They're running out of time!

Nathan gets Chris to the infirmary (which is poppin' today, btw) and Nathan has blood on his side as well.

They fix all the jams but did they do it in time? The Rev is gonna drive fast and find out!

Elizabeth comes to check on Nathan. He's gonna be fine and he's gonna find the people responsible for this, cuz he remembers their license plate!

THE JAM MADE IT IN TIME! They decide they're gonna use the money to buy Bill's half of the cafe, something we all remember he owned.

Lucas isn't feeling very manly, so he goes back to his office, puts his vest back on, and tells Edie he's too busy to hang out. She reminds him her and Fernando are through!

The episode ends with bad news - the license plate belongs to a stolen vehicle that was torched! And to make matters worse, Christopher has fled town. He doesn't wanna help anymore. He scared.

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We're back with some more Gilmore Girls! Join us in this journey on social media - @gilmorethemerrierpod.

Episode 10 - Hurt and upset when she finds herself uninvited to her parents' annual Christmas bash, Lorelai is frantic when she hears that her father Richard has collapsed at the party.

Episode 11 - Lorelai tries to break up with Rory's teacher, Max, during parents-teachers meeting, which creates more troubles for her daughter at school.

Episode 10 - December 21, 2000 | The WB

Episode 11 - January 11, 2001 | The WB

• Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
• Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore

It's Christmas time and the prep for the Christmas pageant is in full swing, despite the fact that the baby Jesus is missing an arm. Lorelai and Rory have still not made up. The tension is palpable.

While at work later, Lorelai gets a call from Emily telling her about when the Christmas party is. Lorelai is talking about how she'd be late so Emily tells her not to come at all which is shocking to Lorelai. When Rory goes to leave, she tells her that she's sure Emily didn't mean it and asks her to go but Lorelai isn't budging. After Rory leaves, Lorelai hears a knocking coming from the window in Rory's room. It's Dean. Lorelai and Dean talk about what happened at Miss Patty's and she tells him to knock on the door next time.

While at the party, Richard keeps complaining that it's hot. He goes to turn the air on but doesn't come back to the table.

Lorelai shows up at Luke's, sad that she didn't go to the party because she likes the festive food, so he makes her a Santa burger. But she gets a call - her dad is in the hospital. He collapsed.

Luke shuts the diner down to drive her to the hospital. When she gets there, she finds Emily rushing around, trying to get answers. Lorelai is very uncomfortable seeing her dad in the hospital because things are complicated with her parents.

It turns out that he's going to be fine which is a relief, obviously. The big question now at the hospital is what's going on between Lorelai and Luke. Luke tells Emily it's nothing and she tells him he's stupid. And Emily & Lorelai squash their beef.

With all of that behind us, Lorelai gets back to dating Max Medina. It's going well, they're having fun. But after finding out that Rory is gonna start calling him Max outside of school because she assumes she's going to start seeing him more often because things are going well, Lorelai gets freaked out. She decides it's probably time to break things off because she doesn't want Rory to get attached.

Luckily for her, it's parent day at Chilton. A perfect time for her to break up with Max. She tries but instead, she ends up making out with him. Paris sees this happen and tells EVERYONE! Rory finds out and that leads to an argument. Unfortunately for them, it's time for Friday night dinner and Emily's heard about the kiss too. It's not great.

When Lorelai and Max finally talk about it, Max tells her that he got called into Headmaster Charleston's office and his job is in jeopardy. He thinks it's best that they take a break which Lorelai agrees to but that doesn't stop her from heading back home to cry in her bed as Rory consoles her.

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