A running archive of my Christmas movie viewing history, yearly totals, ratings, network completion per year, favorites, lows, and seasonal watching patterns. My main Christmas movie archive tracks full lineups by year and network; this page tracks what I actually watched each season.
🎄 2025 Season
42 movies watched · 64.62% of 2025 network premieres watched.
Movies watched: 42
2025 network premiere titles watched: 42
2025 network premiere titles available: 65
Overall network completion: 64.62%
Overall average rating: 2.64★
Viewing window: October 31 – December 25
Hallmark: 24/24 watched · 100% completed · Avg. 3.08★
Great American Family: 13/18 watched · 72.22% completed · Avg. 2.38★
Lifetime: 0/13 watched · 0% completed
UPtv: 5/10 watched · 50% completed · Avg. 1.20★
★★★★★ — 3 movies
★★★★☆ — 7 movies
★★★☆☆ — 11 movies
★★☆☆☆ — 14 movies
★☆☆☆☆ — 7 movies
• Dates reflect when I watched each movie during that season.
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
Five-Star Favorites
• Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!
• Christmas Above the Clouds
• A Make or Break Holiday
Other Standouts
• The More the Merrier
• A Grand Ole Opry Christmas
• Single on the 25th
• A Soldier for Christmas
• The Christmas Spark
• A Royal Icing Christmas
This was the year I fully moved my Christmas movie tracking system onto the blog. I started with a chronological release list across networks, then shifted toward prioritizing Hallmark near the end of the season. That pivot is what allowed me to finish every Hallmark premiere, even though I did not complete the other networks or get to the holiday shows on my list.
This season also confirmed a few long-standing patterns: I respond best to grounded stories, strong casts, believable relationships, cozy settings, family dynamics, and emotional realism. Royal Christmas movies remain one of my least favorite recurring subgenres.
🏆 Hallmark Completionist: Finished every 2025 Hallmark premiere.
❄️ Most Watched Network: Hallmark
⭐ Highest Rated Network: Hallmark · 3.08★ average
🎄 2024 Season
47 movies watched · 48.39% of 2024 network premieres watched.
Movies watched: 47
Previous-year releases watched: 2 (2014, 2022)
2024 network premiere titles watched: 45
2024 network premiere titles available: 93
Overall network completion: 48.39%
Overall average rating: 3.04★
Hallmark: 40/48 watched · 83.33% completed · Avg. 3.05★
Great American Family: 4/18 watched · 22.22% completed · Avg. 2.50★
Lifetime: 1/12 watched · 8.33% completed · Avg. 2.00★
UPtv: 0/15 watched · 0% completed
★★★★★ — 2 movies
★★★★☆ — 9 movies
★★★☆☆ — 24 movies
★★☆☆☆ — 12 movies
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
Five-Star Favorites
• Three Wise Men and a Baby
• Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story
Other Standouts
• Twas the Date Before Christmas
• Scouting for Christmas
• Three Wiser Men and a Boy
• Santa Tell Me
• The Christmas Secret
• Christmas With the Singhs
• To Have and To Holiday
• A 90s Christmas
• Hanukkah on the Rocks
Hallmark overwhelmingly carried the season for me this year, especially with cozy small-town settings, relationship-driven stories, and stronger ensemble casts. Compared to later seasons, my ratings also skewed noticeably softer overall.
• Christmas at Plumhill Manor
Unlike later seasons, there were no one-star ratings this year. Even the weakest movies mostly landed in the 2★ range. Christmas at Plumhill Manor was originally rated 1.5★, then rounded up to 2★, making it the worst of the year.
This became my biggest Christmas movie season to date and the year I fully committed to holiday movie watching as an actual seasonal ritual instead of something more casual. I watched 47 movies overall, heavily prioritized Hallmark, and started paying much closer attention to ratings, viewing habits, and network patterns.
This was also the season where I started revisiting a small number of older releases alongside current premieres, including Three Wise Men and a Baby (2022) and The Christmas Secret (2014). Hallmark completely dominated the season for me, while UPtv remained untouched despite its full lineup.
Looking back, this season feels like the point where Christmas movie watching shifted from a yearly habit into something much more structured and intentional, eventually leading to the tracking systems, archives, reviews, and yearly statistics I now keep. I later wrote more about the season in 47 Movies and a Blanket.
🎄 Ritual Unlocked: The year Christmas movie watching became a full seasonal system.
📺 Hallmark Takeover: 40 of 47 movies watched came from Hallmark.
🧣 Softest Rating Year: No one-star movies, which feels suspiciously generous in hindsight.
🏈 Most Surprising Favorite: Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, despite the sports of it all.
🎄 2023 Season
16 movies watched · 16.66% of 2023 network premieres watched
Movies watched: 16
Previous-year releases watched: 2 (2022)
2023 network premiere titles watched: 14
2023 network premiere titles available: 84
Overall network completion: 16.66%
Overall average rating: 3.69★
Hallmark: 6/42 watched · 14.28% completed · Avg. 3.50★
Great American Family: 6/21 watched · 28.57% completed · Avg. 3.83★
Lifetime: 2/13 watched · 15.38% completed · Avg. 3.50★
UPtv: 0/8 watched · 0% completed
★★★★★ — 2 movies
★★★★☆ — 7 movies
★★★☆☆ — 7 movies
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
Five-Star Favorites
• Bringing Christmas Home
• B&B Merry
Other Standouts
• Destined 2: Christmas Once More
• Twas the Text Before Christmas
• Under the Christmas Sky
• Christmas Plus One
• Mystic Christmas
• A Dash of Christmas
• Flipping for Christmas
No true worst-of-the-season titles emerged this year. Every movie finished at 3★ or higher, making this the most consistently enjoyable season in my archive.
This was still a smaller, more casual Christmas movie season compared to what came later, but the bones of the project were already there: tracking titles, rating movies, comparing networks, and slowly figuring out what kinds of holiday movies worked best for me.
Great American Family had the strongest average this year, helped by Bringing Christmas Home and others. Hallmark still made up a major part of the season, but I had not yet moved into the full completion-focused approach that started taking shape in 2024.
⭐ Highest-Rated Season: 3.69★ average, the strongest seasonal average in my archive.
🎯 Quality Over Quantity: Only 16 movies watched, but every single one landed at 3★ or above.
🏆 Unexpected Winner: Great American Family finished with the highest network average (3.83★).
🧣 The Calm Before the Spreadsheet: The last season before Christmas movie watching became a full-blown tracking project.
🎄 2022 Season
9 movies watched · 7.92% of 2022 network premieres watched
Movies watched: 9
Previous-year releases watched: 0
Streaming/other holiday movies watched: 1 (Netflix)
2022 network premiere titles watched: 8
2022 network premiere titles available: 101
Overall network completion: 7.92%
Overall average rating: 3.00★
Hallmark: 2/40 watched · 5% completed · Avg. 3.50★
Great American Family: 3/18 watched · 16.67% completed · Avg. 2.67★
Lifetime: 2/26 watched · 7.69% completed · Avg. 3.00★
UPtv: 1/17 watched · 5.88% completed · Avg. 2.00★
★★★★☆ — 3 movies
★★★☆☆ — 4 movies
★★☆☆☆ — 1 movie
★☆☆☆☆ — 1 movie
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
Top-Rated Movies
• Christmas With You
• Destined at Christmas
• We Wish You a Married Christmas
This was a smaller Christmas movie season for me compared to later years, with no 5★ favorites in the actual 2022 viewing log. Still, a few movies landed solidly, and the season gave me an early mix of Hallmark, Great American Family, Lifetime, UPtv, and Netflix holiday viewing.
• A Royal Christmas on Ice
• Unperfect Christmas Wish
This season was still more casual than the later years in my Christmas movie tracking. I watched 9 holiday movies overall, including 8 from the main network premiere lineups and one Netflix release, Christmas With You.
The Netflix movie counts toward my total movies watched, rating breakdown, and overall seasonal average, but not toward network completion. Network completion is based only on the 2022 premiere lineups from Hallmark, Great American Family, Lifetime, and UPtv.
Looking back, 2022 feels like an early version of the viewing habits that became much more structured later. I watched a little from each major network, rated everything I tracked, and started building the kind of seasonal record that would eventually turn into a fuller archive.
📺 Network Sampler Pack: I watched something from every major holiday movie network plus Netflix.
🎄 First Streaming Entry: Christmas With You became the season's highest-rated non-network movie.
🧪 Testing the Waters: Before completion percentages, spreadsheets, and archives, there was simply trying a little bit of everything.
🌿 Branching Out: The only season where every major network plus a streaming service made the viewing log.
🎄 2021 Season
1 movie watched · 0% of 2021 network premieres watched
Movies watched: 1
Streaming/other holiday movies watched: 1 (Netflix)
2021 network premiere titles watched: 0
2021 network premiere titles available: 99
Overall network completion: 0%
Overall average rating: 5.00★
Hallmark: 0/41 watched · 0% completed
Great American Family: 0/12 watched · 0% completed
Lifetime: 0/35 watched · 0% completed
UPtv: 0/11 watched · 0% completed
★★★★★ — 1 movie
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
• Love Hard
With only one movie watched this season, there was not much of a favorites list, but Love Hard made the most of its solo appearance with a 5★ rating. It was excellent and made me surprisingly emotional.
This was one of the smallest years in my tracked Christmas movie history. I only logged one holiday movie during the 2021 season, and it was a Netflix release rather than part of the main network premiere lineups.
Because Love Hard was not part of the Hallmark, Great American Family, Lifetime, or UPtv premiere lineups, it counts toward my total movies watched, rating breakdown, and overall seasonal average, but not toward network completion.
⭐ Perfect Average: Every movie watched earned 5★.
🎬 One and Done: Only one holiday movie watched all season.
🎄 Smallest Season on Record: The lightest Christmas viewing year in the archive.
❤️ Quality Over Quantity: One movie, one favorite.
🎄 2020 Season
19 movies watched · 24.36% of 2020 network premieres watched
Movies watched: 19
2020 network premiere titles watched: 19
2020 network premiere titles available: 78
Overall network completion: 24.36%
Overall average rating: 3.47★
Hallmark: 19/40 watched · 47.5% completed
Lifetime: 0/33 watched · 0% completed
UPtv: 0/5 watched · 0% completed
★★★★★ — 3 movies
★★★★☆ — 6 movies
★★★☆☆ — 7 movies
★★☆☆☆ — 3 movies
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
• All titles watched this season were Hallmark movies.
Five-Star Favorites
• Holly & Ivy
• Love, Lights, Hanukkah!
• A Nashville Christmas Carol
Other Standouts
• The Angel Tree
• Christmas by Starlight
• Cranberry Christmas
• Five Star Christmas
• Good Morning Christmas!
• Heart of the Holidays
• Chateau Christmas
• Christmas in Vienna
• Christmas Tree Lane
These were my lowest-rated movies of the season, each earning 2★ ratings.
While I had watched Christmas movies casually in prior years, 2020 was the first season where I really started paying closer attention to Hallmark and TV Christmas movies.
It was also the first year I started rating movies more consistently and posting Christmas movie review roundups on the blog, though the feature would later disappear for a few years before returning in 2025.
Looking back, 2020 feels like the beginning of the tracking system that would eventually evolve into the full archive and statistics project.
🌟 First Serious Tracking Year: The season where casual watching started turning into actual ratings and records.
📺 Hallmark Only Era: Every movie watched this season came from Hallmark or Hallmark Mystery.
⭐ Strong Favorites Year: Three 5★ movies made this small season punch above its weight.
📝 Review Roundup Prototype: The first year I started posting Christmas movie review roundups on the blog.
🎄 2019 Season
3 movies watched · 3.8% of 2019 network premieres watched
Movies watched: 3
Streaming/other holiday movies watched: 1 (ABC)
2019 network premiere titles watched: 2
2019 network premiere titles available: 78
Overall network completion: 3.8%
Hallmark: 2/38 watched · 5.26% completed
Lifetime: 0/30 watched · 0% completed
UPtv: 0/10 watched · 0% completed
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
• Ratings were not yet being tracked.
2019 was still a very casual Christmas movie season for me. I watched only a handful of titles and wasn’t formally rating or tracking movies yet.
At this point, Christmas movies were more of a seasonal background comfort watch than a full hobby or archive project.
Looking back now, this season feels more like the beginning of the runway before I started paying closer attention in 2020 and beyond.
🎬 Pre-Tracking Era: The last season before ratings entered the picture.
🎄 Casual Viewer Phase: Christmas movies were still comfort viewing rather than a dedicated hobby.
📺 First Hallmark Footprints: Hallmark accounted for two of the three movies watched.
✈️ Runway Year: The quiet season that came right before Christmas movie watching started taking off.
🎄 2018 Season
4 movies watched · 4.17% of 2018 network premieres watched
Movies watched: 4
Previous-year releases watched: 1 (2016)
2018 network premiere titles watched: 3
2018 network premiere titles available: 72
Overall network completion: 4.17%
Hallmark: 2/37 watched · 5.40% completed
Lifetime: 0/23 watched · 0% completed
UPtv: 1/12 watched · 8.33% completed
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
• Ratings were not yet being tracked.
2018 was still part of the pre-tracking era. I watched only a few holiday movies, and ratings were not yet part of the system.
Hallmark made up most of the season, with one UPtv title mixed in. I also watched one older Hallmark release, A Christmas to Remember, from 2016.
🎄 Early Hallmark Lean: Three of the four movies watched were Hallmark titles.
📺 One UPtv Sighting: A Christmas Switch gave UPtv its only watched title of the season.
🧾 Pre-Ratings Era: Watched titles were tracked, but star ratings had not entered the system yet.
🎄 2017 Season
7 movies watched · 12.76% of 2017 network premieres watched
Movies watched: 7
Streaming/other holiday movies watched: 1 (ION)
2017 network premiere titles watched: 6
2017 network premiere titles available: 47
Overall network completion: 12.76%
Hallmark: 6/34 watched · 17.64% completed
Lifetime: 0/6 watched · 0% completed
UPtv: 0/7 watched · 0% completed
• Titles are listed in chronological order based on when I watched them.
• Ratings were not tracked during this season.
2017 is the first year in my tracked Christmas movie history. The list was still small, ratings were not part of the system yet, and the project was much more casual than it would become later.
Hallmark dominated the season, accounting for 6 of the 7 movies I watched. I also watched one ION title, Runaway Christmas Bride, which makes this first tracked year a tiny preview of the broader network tracking that came later.
🗂️ Archive Origins: The first season in my tracked Christmas movie history.
🎄 Hallmark Heavyweight: 6 of the 7 movies watched came from Hallmark.
🔍 Network Explorer, Prototype Edition: Even in the first year, one non-Hallmark title made the list.
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