Both Hallmark and Lifetime are making progress with filming Christmas and non-Christmas movies in various parts of Canada, although I think that Lifetime has made a bit more progress in plowing through their 2020 Christmas slate than Hallmark has with their own slate because Lifetime already had at least a few things finished pre-pandemic. And you can bet that both Hallmark and Lifetime will acquire/buy movies to add to their collections -- in fact, one of the movies that was announced last week as a Lifetime movie (though it was incorrectly said to be a Hallmark movie early in the year) is something that was acquired and filmed quite a while back.
What I am finding is that although there is often an element of secrecy when these movies are filmed, and we will sometimes not hear much about them, that realllly seems to the case even more so this year. For example, Keshia Knight Pulliam has been filming a Lifetime Christmas movie for a couple of weeks, and it has flown largely under the radar because the cast and crew are not really posting much in the way of photos.
I am seeing that some of the movies that have not been officially 'claimed' by Hallmark, Lifetime or other networks have casts and/or crews who are freely sharing photos and Instagram Stories. That includes Wind Song aka Kite Festival of Love (with Jessica Lowndes and Christopher Russell) -- a movie that I am certain Hallmark will acquire and air at some point, but it appears to not officially be theirs quite yet. The photos from the shoot are bountiful, and no one involved with the production is admitting that it's a Hallmark movie. That seems to be the key -- if they don't flat out say it's for Hallmark, they post photos with no issues. But the people working on the actual confirmed Hallmark movies are being asked to take photos down. Case in point...
...The mysterious case of Hallmark's Wedding Every Weekend -- which is supposed to be premiering next month, and is already shown in a promo for the Summer Nights event. That one started out with Paul Campbell and Kimberley Sustad freely posting photos from the set. And then, a couple of weeks later, the photos they posted from the set completely vanished from Instagram.
Edited to Add: One of the actors in Beverly Hills Wedding just removed a photo from his Instagram page as well. That photo was posted only a couple of days ago, and now it's gone.
So, for right now, the official, confirmed Hallmark movies that have been filmed and wrapped in just the last month are:
Christmas Tree Lane aka Christmas Music Store (with Alicia Witt and Andrew Walker; filmed in Utah) -- the first Hallmark Christmas movie to be shot under the new COVID-19 guidelines, and it doesn't sound like it was a fun experience because of all the new procedures
Wedding Every Weekend (with Paul Campbell and Kimberley Sustad) - filmed in Canada
Currently filming for Hallmark, and/or just about to wrap up production are:
Beverly Hills Wedding (with Brooke D'Orsay and Brendan Penny; filming in Canada -- this one was originally supposed to star Andrew Walker when it was supposed to shoot earlier this year, but I guess the timing did not work out for him to do the movie when it was rescheduled)
Chateau Christmas (with Merritt Patterson and Luke Macfarlane; filming in Canada)
A Royal Holiday (with Laura Osnes, Aaron Tveit, Krystal Joy Brown and Victoria Clark; this one is filming in Connecticut)
On the 12th Date of Christmas aka Twelve Days to Love (with Tyler Hynes and Mallory Jansen; filming in Canada)
Deliver by Christmas (with Alvina August and Eion Bailey; yep -- filming in Canada again)
Neverbrides (a Fall Harvest movie with Chaley Rose and Nathan Witte; yep -- Canada again!)
Jingle Bell Bride (with Julie Gonzalo and Ronnie Rowe; in Canada)
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries #14: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (with Candace Cameron Bure and Niall Matter; in Canada)
Confirmed Hallmark movies supposedly starting production this week are:
Holly & Ivy (with Janel Parrish, Jeremy Jordan and Marisol Nichols -- filming in Utah)
A Christmas Tree Grows in Brooklyn (with Rochelle Aytes and Mark Taylor; in Canada)
Confirmed Hallmark movies filming soon/in the near future are:
When Calls the Heart Christmas 2020 (in Canada)
Cranberry Christmas (with Nikki DeLoach and Benjamin Ayres; in Canada)
The Christmas Bow aka The Christmas Concert (with Lucia Micarelli and Michael Rady; filming in Utah)
If I Only Had Christmas (with Candace Cameron Bure; in Canada)
If nothing else happens to halt or delay productions, Hallmark should be able to knock out a bunch of movie shoots in September and October, as they do every year (including whatever Kristoffer Polaha is filming in October).
So you can see that Canada allowing productions to take place is very important to Hallmark's filming progress (and Lifetime's too), although there was a Christmas movie Hallmark was supposed to film in West Virginia earlier this year, and I don't know if it was ever rescheduled after being halted.
Some actors are already in Canada and can start filming more quickly (such as Paul Campbell). Others are traveling from California or other states and have to do the 14-day quarantines before filming (including Luke Macfarlane, Chaley Rose, Candace Cameron Bure and Marilu Henner, Nikki DeLoach, director Ron Oliver, some members of the When Calls the Heart cast, etc.)
The titles I mentioned above are the things that are officially confirmed to be Hallmark, and that have actual filming dates. Other announced Hallmark movies do not have specific filming dates yet (that I have seen). And of course there are plenty of other titles floating around that may or may not end up being for Hallmark, or that do not have filming dates yet, but I'm focusing on just the officially confirmed Hallmark movies and where they are in various stages of production progress at this moment.
Edited July 21, 2020 by TVFan17ncG1vNJzZmien6fCrr%2BNqamipZWptq6x0WeaqKVfqbyxtcJoaWluYWp6qa3LpaSaqptiurDCyJ6qZqudlrmtedOorqdloqTGorjTsmSmmZeesKK4y7JknJ2cmq%2BzrdOipaBlopq4qrrDpZydZZykw6Z5xp6lnqqRoXqltdKcrKyrmaS7cLzAoJxoaWFofA%3D%3D