Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2026 rolls into week three with three new original movies: Who’s Coming for Christmas? on Friday, October 30, Adopting St. Nick on Halloween night, Saturday, October 31, and A Danish Christmas on Sunday, November 1. All three premiere at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Hallmark Channel and stream the next day on Hallmark+.
Countdown to Christmas has 34 original movies this year, and you can find every date in our full 2026 Countdown to Christmas schedule. If you missed last weekend, catch up with my reviews of Winter Wonderlanes and Forgotten Holiday.
Friday, October 30: Who’s Coming for Christmas? Rhiannon Fish stars as Julie, who is inspired by her late grandmother to host Christmas Eve dinner in her new home without a guest list. She has faith that all eight seats at her table will be filled by friends and neighbors. Jake Foy plays her neighbor Mark, and Mila Morgan plays his daughter Vanessa. They plan to join her, but when bad weather gets in the way, it will take a little Christmas magic to fill that table.
Saturday, October 31: Adopting St. Nick. If you would rather trade the trick-or-treaters for twinkle lights, Hallmark has you covered on Halloween night. Amy Groening plays Maren, a single mom who runs her late father’s hardware store. She signs her adopted daughter Leah, played by Taylor Blake, up for a Christmas Companions program at a retirement community, and Leah gets paired with Kris, a resident who looks a lot like Santa, played by Randy Apostle. Michael Rady plays Reid, the community’s operations director. When the contractor on the community room backs out, Maren steps in to help finish it, while Reid weighs a job offer that would take him away.
Sunday, November 1: A Danish Christmas. Copenhagen-born Emilie Ullerup, Bree on Chesapeake Shores, stars as Marie, a hotel tech executive in Chicago who heads home to her family’s inn in Copenhagen for Christmas. With her mom thinking about selling the inn, Marie mistakes a guest named Ryan Miller, played by Corey Sevier, for a travel writer. She brings back the inn’s Christmas tour, which has not run since her father died, hoping a great review will save the inn. The mix-up only gets bigger when the real journalist shows up.
Countdown to Christmas keeps going next weekend with Merry Memories starring Lindura and Brendan Morgan on Friday, November 6, Holiday Unplugged starring Nikki DeLoach and Juan Pablo Di Pace on Saturday, November 7, and A Season of Promises starring Brooke D’Orsay, Ali Liebert and James Denton on Sunday, November 8. Mistletoe Murders Season 3 also premieres Thursday, November 5.
Who’s Coming for Christmas?, Adopting St. Nick and A Danish Christmas premiere October 30 through November 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Hallmark Channel, with each one streaming the next day on Hallmark+. For more Hallmark news and reviews, visit our Hallmark Channel hub.
