It's Festive Friday and Alonso is here to help review another Christmas movie we missed from 2024, The Holiday Exchange.

Wilde must cope with vacationing as a bachelor, so he decides to swap houses on an LGBTQ app with Oliver. In their efforts to escape their woes they end up meeting two locals who set romance on fire from LA to the charming town of Brilfax.

October 1, 2024 | VOD

• Taylor Frey as Wilde Williams
• Rick Cosnett as Oliver Whitlock
• Samer Salem as Julius Nasser
• Daniel Garcia as Henry Whitlock

Wilde wakes up in his Christmas pajamas, clearly sad because he’s newly single. Despite his ex trying to win him back, he just can’t do it. He decides he needs a change—so he hops on Mister B&B to find a place. He stumbles upon Oliver’s listing for a charming cottage in Brilfax. Conveniently, Oliver happens to be reading a very specific book: Single, Gay, and Holidating Yourself in LA. And where is Wilde from? LA. So, naturally, they decide to house-swap.

Wilde goes out to a bar and bonds with locals while trashing his ex. Meanwhile, Oliver attends a signing for the very book he’s been reading, just so he can tell the author, Julius, that it’s all wrong. Julius is initially taken aback by his critiques, but the sparks begin to fly.

Back in Brilfax, Wilde can’t resist calling his ex—and it does not go well. After a bath, he’s surprised when Oliver’s cousin, Henry, shows up out of nowhere during a snowstorm. They have some awkward banter, and Oliver agrees to let Henry stay. The next day, Wilde learns Henry is also an actor, just like his ex. So obviously, it won’t work. Spoiler alert: it does. They start hanging out, and after a fun night together, they walk in the snow and share a kiss.

Meanwhile, in LA, Oliver and Julius begin to spend more time together after Julius’ manager nudges him to reconnect. Things are going great.

But of course, each couple hits an “all is lost” moment. Wilde sees Henry talking to his manager—who also happens to be his ex—and it feels a little too familiar. And Julius finds out Oliver is a divorce attorney (which he failed to mention) and gets furious.

Luckily, it all works out. Wilde and Henry reconcile, and Wilde says he’s willing to move to LA to be with him. Oliver resigns from being a divorce attorney to pursue a nonprofit passion project, which makes Julius thrilled.

The couples reunite in LA for New Year’s Eve and have a great time—despite Wilde’s parents crashing the party.

September is here and Brian joins the guys to preview the movies Hallmark Channel will be releasing this month!

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The Groomsmen trilogy follows three best friends from different backgrounds and cultures as they come together to celebrate their wedding days.

September 6, 13 & 20, 2025 | Hallmark Channel

• Jonathan Bennett as Danny
• Tyler Hynes as Jackson
• BJ Britt as Pete

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Mystery Island success raises plans of expansion, and the Island team meets their Mystery Mountain counterparts for a friendly murder game, but the fun ends with a murder in plain sight.

September 14, 2025 | Hallmark Channel

• Elizabeth Henstridge as Emilia
• Charlie Weber as Jason

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A single mom agrees to be the partner of a bird enthusiast during a birding tournament but misunderstands the assignment and tells everyone she's his new girlfriend instead of just his teammate.

September 27, 2025 | Hallmark Channel

• Rachel Boston as Celeste
• Andrew Walker as John

Jack's joins the boys to chat about The Chicken Sisters Season 2, Episode 4: Let Your Hair Down, Y'all

It's Mae's bachelorette party, and Amanda commits to giving her notoriously over-planning sister a night full of carefree fun and making memories.

August 31, 2025 | Hallmark Channel

• Schuyler Fisk as Amanda
• Genevieve Angelson as Mae
• Lea Thompson as Nancy
• Wendie Malick as Gus
• Margo Martindale as Narrator
• Rukiya Bernard as Sabrina
• Caitlin Howden as Shawna

The episode kicks off with lots of strawberries. Making a good strawberry preserve takes time, ya see?

Gus is out and about dealing with the railroad arm, giving Nancy even more fuel for her fire to get that sucker fixed.

Amanda tells Sergio she has a new nickname for him—Biscuit—because he’s good at getting people out of jams. The sparks are flying.

Jag from Jag pays for all the wine for Mae’s bachelorette party, and she is overjoyed.

Nancy is still trying to get signatures for the railroad arm, but people aren’t nearly as eager to fix it as she thought they’d be.

Frank Jr. is trying to convince his boss to let him make good chicken to sell. The boss loves the chicken but not the idea.

Then the Fish arrives. She came to try the chicken after seeing it on Chicken Clash. She asks to give her compliments to the chef, and—plot twist—it turns out she’s Sergio’s ex-wife! In this show, her name is Nikita, and she asks Sergio to come be the head chef at a new restaurant she’s starting.

Jay visits Gus for help writing his vows. He wants to know more about what she was like as a kid.

Mae welcomes all her friends to her fancy bachelorette party. Her friends just want to drink the wine they like, but Mae’s not having it—this is her fancy party. When she overhears her friends and sisters joking about it, she kicks everyone out.

Sergio meets up with Nikita to hear more about her ideas.

Meanwhile, Amanda gathers the girls to throw Mae a “make-good” bachelorette party—doing something Mae will definitely hate: a scavenger hunt.

Frank Jr. does the math and realizes it’ll only cost two cents more to make good chicken. His boss is shocked it’s so little. Maybe there’s something there. What Frank’s keeping secret is that it’s the same recipe the Chicken Sisters use.

Amanda, Mae, and their friends have a great night out—until Amanda sees Sergio and Nikita kissing across the street. What she doesn’t hear is him saying no to both the restaurant and to Nikita.

Amanda and Mae share a heart-to-heart.

Gus is cleaning when Clayton comes in, and the two end up slow dancing.

Sergio deletes “Do Not Answer” from his phone just as Amanda texts him to say she’s not going to get in the way of him and Nikita.