Hi, I'm Bran and I love Hallmark Christmas movies. Hey, I'm Panda and I like

Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Christmas movies.

And hi, this is Michelle Degree and I am the Executive Vice President of

Programming and Publicity and I too love Hallmark Christmas movie.

And this is the Deck the Hallmark Podcast.

Wow, this is something that we've wanted to do all season.

What a big day. And the fact that this is so much fun because it's kind of like a

little bonus episode where at the home stretch of the movies.

That's right.

And we're going to get to talk to Michelle about the movies. So Michelle, thank you so

much for joining us.

Oh, it's my pleasure. I have a great time doing this and I love to talk about it as well.

So I'm super excited to be here.

So I kind of want to start as the guy who loves them. I've enjoyed watching this phenomenon

over the last few years especially. And so I want to know if you could maybe take me

back a few years ago. Whenever you guys the network decided we really want to run with

it. Run with Christmas. What was it? Maybe that helped make that decision that you guys

really want to just go for it with Christmas. You've been doing it for a while but it's

really evolved the last few years. So can you talk about that a little bit?

Yep. I will tell you that we have been making Christmas movies for a really long time,

nearly 20 years on the network. And we continue to see success each year that we would do

them and we would add to our slate. In addition to the fact that we decided that all of the

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