Meanwhile, Mike reconnects with Andi (Ayora), his high school sweetheart. As Brandon and his husband Jake (Harder) make the trip home, they are anxiously awaiting a call about the adoption of their first child. It is their hope that bringing the family together to recreate the Christmas house will help them find resolution and make a memorable holiday for the entire family and community. Working through some difficult decisions, Mitchell family matriarch Phylis (Lawrence) and patriarch Bill (Williams), have summoned their two grown sons-TV star Mike Wade (Buckley) and Brandon Wade (Bennett)-home for the holidays. In case you were in an egg nog-induced fog and forgot, the official synopsis is as follows: Buckle up, this sleigh is taking off,” Bennett captioned the jolly photo.Ī post shared by Jonathan Bennett NewNowNext previously reported, The Christmas House premiered last November on the Hallmark Channel. “The same family, same love, but twice the hilarity. It sounds like the Mitchell brothers (Buckley and Bennett) are in a heated competition “to see who can create the best Christmas house.”īennett also shared the news on his Instagram with a pic of him reuniting with his Christmas House castmates. While Hallmark did not offer any images or footage from the festive sequel, it did share the synopsis. The new film, tentatively titled The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls, reunites the original’s cast: Robert Buckley, Jonathan Bennett, Ana Ayora, Treat Williams, Sharon Lawrence, and Brad Harder, who play the Mitchell family. One title we are particularly excited to stuff in our stocking with is a sequel to The Christmas House, Hallmark’s first original holiday movie featuring a same-sex couple. The Christmas-obsessed cable net has unwrapped a first look at the 41 original holiday movies airing this year on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

Halloween is still more than a month away, but Hallmark Channel is already loading up the sleigh with its annual slate of holiday movies.

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