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Last year Hallmark debuted a record-breaking 37 original movies during the holiday season, but they’re ready to top themselves in 2019!

Crown Media Family Networks announced that they will be premiering 40 brand new films between their Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries networks later this year to help spread the joy of the season. While Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will debut 16, the remaining 24 will be celebrated during the 10th anniversary of the Countdown to Christmas holiday programming event on Hallmark Channel – including “Holiday for Heroes” and an untitled Blake Shelton project.

There are also plans to premiere a new movie during Hallmark Channel’s Keepsake Christmas, the annual event during July to coincide with Hallmark’s Keepsake Ornament Premiere preview in stores.

So, I’m guessing one of those 24 films will be that movie — and my guess is that it will be the previously announced “The Christmas Song” starring Kristin Chenoweth and Scott Wolf or, perhaps, the tentatively titled “A Family Under The Christmas Tree” starring Merritt Patterson (“The Christmas Cottage”, “Christmas at the Palace”) and Jon Cor (“Love on Safari”).

— Updated 07/14/2019: This movie has officially been named “Picture a Perfect Christmas”! —

Photos: L-R: Paterson and Cor | Crown Media

In the newly announced film, we find an extreme sports photographer (Patterson) heading home for the holidays to tend to her grandmother and ends up lending a helping hand to a neighbor (Cor) who needs assistance watching his nephew.

I’ll keep you posted as more holiday Hallmark movie news becomes available!

Photo: Wolf and Chenoweth in a scene from ‘The Christmas Song.’ | Crown Media

Check out this still from “The Christmas Song” (above) released by Entertainment Weekly today!

Stay merry!