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Everyone knows how easy it is to find out how many shopping days there are until Christmas, but what about the other holidays?  How many days do you have to plan the ultimate Fourth of July BBQ?  Are you running behind on creating an award-winning Halloween costume?  Is it time to get your order in for Valentine’s Day flowers?  Hallmark Channel, the premier television destination for family entertainment, announces the launch of “Hallmark Channel Holiday Countdown,” a year-round programming initiative which reminds us that there’s always a reason to celebrate.
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HALLOWEEN ON ICE
(Friday, October 30 at 8/7c)
Halloween is coming early this year with a twist (and a triple axle), making for an unforgettable event! This thrilling spectacle, combining Halloween haunts with some of the world’s most accomplished and decorated skaters, features musical legend Chip Davis with his band, Mannheim Steamroller, and performances from skaters such as Olympic medalists Nancy Kerrigan (pictured), Todd Elderedge and Elvis Stojko; eight-time British Champion Steven Cousins; three-time Israeli National Champion Tamar Katz and more. The event is one of several Disson Skating specials that will air throughout the year on Hallmark Channel. A special, one-night-only event, “Halloween on Ice” airs on Hallmark Channel Friday, October 30 (8/7c).

THE GOOD WITCH and THE GOOD WITCH’S GARDEN
(Saturday, October 31 at 7/6c and 9/8c)
It’s no trick: Hallmark Channel’s ‘Countdown to Halloween’ concludes with the treat of a Halloween double feature of Catherine Bell in “The Good Witch” and “The Good Witch’s Garden,” Saturday, October 31 (7pm/6c and 9pm/8c). Bell stars in the films – two of the network’s highest-rated ever – as the mysterious Cassie Nightingale, an alluring woman whose eccentric and charming ways have an entire town under her spell. “Good Witch” fans can’t get enough of these highly rated Original Movies, and will be thrilled to hear that a third installment is on the horizon!

Patrick Swayze, the charismatic leading man indelibly linked to his iconic roles in “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” who passed away this week from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57, will be honored on Hallmark Movie Channel HD with multiple encore performances of his 2004 Hallmark Channel miniseries, “King Solomon’s Mines,” Saturday, September 19 (6 p.m.-10 p.m. ET/PT) and Sunday, September 20 (2 p.m.-6 p.m. ET/PT).
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It’s only after speaking with Rena Sofer for 15 minutes or so that it all begins to make sense.  You begin to realize that her fairly stunning body of work to date is only partly due to the fact she’s so beautiful and talented.  The rest is about sheer guts and determination, borne of a strong work ethic instilled by her Orthodox rabbi father and one fateful dressing-down from a director while working her first job.
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The true story of a devious killer and the average woman who did what the police couldn’t do. Ally Sheedy, Sean Patrick Flanery, Nia Peeples and Rock Legend Meat Loaf Aday star in ‘Citizen Jane,’ a Hallmark Channel Original Movie premiering September 12.

A terrible crime is made all the more unfathomable when the least likely suspect is accused, and a woman must put aside her grief to aid the police before the chance at justice is lost forever. These are the circumstances in which one extraordinary woman finds herself entwined in “Citizen Jane,” a Hallmark Channel Original Movie premiering Saturday, September 12 (9/8c) which tells the true story of the lone woman who refused to let a killer escape, even at the risk of her own life. Ally Sheedy – she of the iconic ‘Brat Pack’ films – Sean Patrick Flanery (“The Dead Zone”), Nia Peeples (“The Young and the Restless”) and world-renowned musician Meat Loaf Aday bring the harrowing true-crime tale to life. The film encores on Saturday, September 12 (11pm/10c), Sunday, September 13 (1am/12c) and (9pm/8c), Friday, September 18 (9pm/8c) and Saturday, September 19 (3pm/2c).

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