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Hallmark Christmas movie season is officially here! Up first is 'Tis the Season for Setups. This episode was recorded during the 2026 Marathon. We apologize for the less-than-stellar audio quality.
ABOUT ’TIS THE SEASON FOR SETUPS
Party planner Lexi clashes with ski instructor Ridge at a holiday resort. Spotting a spark between their parents, they scheme to set them up—but their matchmaking keeps becoming double dates, pulling them closer instead.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR ’TIS THE SEASON FOR SETUPS
October 16, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF ’TIS THE SEASON FOR SETUPS
Director: Jeff Beesley
Writer: Elena Zaretsky
Cast:
Amanda Schull as Lexi
Victor Webster as Ridge
Barbara Niven as June
John B. Lowe as Dan
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Single mom Lexi is hanging out with her mom, June. They get home and Lexi gets straight to work. She’s an event planner and things are serious. Nothing a little dance party with her mom and daughter, Piper, can’t fix. All Piper really wants for Christmas is to hit the slopes, but it’s too expensive. Naturally, June puts in a call to her old pal, Dan. They hatch a deal - they can all come to the ski resort if Lexi plans the resort Christmas party. She doesn’t want to say yes but Piper overhears and you can’t say no to Piper.
When they get there, she meets the ski instructor, Ridge. Ridge immediately clocks her as someone who doesn’t ski and for some reason, she finds that very offensive. But they gotta get over it quick cuz there’s a party to plan but they don’t quite agree on a vision yet. Lexi and Ridge see Dan and June talking and immediately decide they’re going to set them up.
It doesn’t take long for Ridge and Lexi to start opening up to each other and really enjoying each other’s company.
Ridge keeps coming up with excuses for his dad to hang out with June, but naturally that ends up leaving him to hang out with Lexi.
They end up all going to a Christmas escape room together and they win!!!
There’s cross-country skiing, there’s Christmas karaoke, there’s absolutely no Christmas party planning.
One night, they’re up late, hanging out, and THEY END UP KISSINGGGGG!!!! But the night gets crazy when they find out that Dan and June have been dating for a year now!!! So now is it weird that they’ve kissed? I DON’T KNOW!!!
So she takes a step back from being into Ridge and gets back into the reason she’s actually there - party planning.
The party happens and they overhear Dan and June in a huge fight. So they pull their parents aside and have nice heart to hearts.
The next day, Dan proposes and she says yes!!! Will that stop Ridge and Lexi from getting together? No. No it won’t.
She meets him on the slopes and they kiss big ones!