GLAAD Awards: Hallmark Channel with Three Nominations! It is award season, and today, the 37th Annual GLAAD award nominations were announced, and Hallmark Channel and Hallmark+ got a total of three nominations. Two in Outstanding Film – Streaming or TV, and one for Outstanding Reality Competition Program.
The Christmas Baby and A Keller Christmas Vacation have been nominated for Outstanding Film – Streaming or TV, while Finding Mr. Christmas is up for Outstanding Reality Competition Program. All three first aired on Hallmark Channel and the next day on Hallmark+.
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community and the issues that affect their lives. The 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (for work in 2025) will be held in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Tickets for the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards will be available starting Thursday, January 15, 2026. Click here to see the full list of GLAAD Award nominees.
The Christmas Baby first aired on December 21st during Countdown to Christmas 2025. The movie starred Ali Liebert, Katherine Barrell, and Barbara Niven (Hannah Swensen Mysteries).
When a baby boy shows up on their doorstep days before Christmas with a note written specially for them, Erin (Liebert) and Kelly (Barrell) must learn how to navigate their new relationship and career dynamics while unexpectedly caring for a newborn. As the couple spends more time with the baby as a temporary solution until he can be placed permanently or they can find his mother, they begin to realize that they want to adopt him themselves and go about navigating the complicated world of fostering to adopt, all while their business is booming at the busiest time of the year, Christmas.
A Keller Christmas Vacation premiered on November 9th, 2025. Starring Jonathan Bennett, Brandon Routh, and Eden Sher.
Christmas this year is going to be a little different for the Keller family, as parents, Anne and Ben, buy their three adult children – oldest son, Cal (Routh), middle son, Dylan (Bennett) and daughter, Emory (Sher) – a river cruise down the Danube River from Germany, through Salzburg, to Vienna touring beautiful European Christmas Markets and towns along the way. The one problem? The very different siblings, who are each going through their own personal life challenges, have naturally gone in separate directions over the years and the idea of spending 10 days cooped up on a river cruise together makes each Keller child cringe for their own reasons
Finding Mr. Christmas is hosted by Jonathan Bennett, who is also the co-creator and executive producer.
Ten aspiring actors compete in a variety of entertaining challenges, with a Hallmark twist, to be crowned Hallmark’s next leading man and take home the title of “Mr. Christmas” in Hallmark’s first reality competition series, Finding Mr. Christmas. Hosted by Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls, The Holiday Sitter) and Melissa Peterman (Happy’s Place, Reba) and joined by special guest judges throughout the series, these “hunky” men will be put to the test to see who has the most talent, heart, authenticity, and charisma to be the next Hallmark superstar. At the finale, the winner receives a role in a Countdown to Christmas Hallmark Channel movie premiering as part of the 2025 Countdown to Christmas programming event.
Jonathan Bennet went to his Instagram account to share the news of his two nominations: “We did it!!! Not 1 but 2 nominations for my projects with @hallmarkchannel is INCREDIBLE! Getting to share LGBTQ stories with a broad audience on Hallmark Channel is one of the biggest honors and responsibilities of my life. I’m feeling so grateful. Thank you!”
