At long last, the trilogy of “Cherry Lane” movies — a three-part follow-up to Hallmark’s innovative 2023 movie “Christmas on Cherry Lane” — will premiere on Hallmark Channel in a movie marathon on October 26, 2025.
The original movie told the stories of three couples’ lives during different decades and kept viewers guessing about how they were connected or related. Hallmark’s Erin Cahill and John Brotherton played an expectant couple in 1973, Catherine Bell and James Denton were a newly engaged couple in 1999, while Jonathan Bennett and Vincent Rodriguez III portrayed a married couple in 2023, asked to take in a foster child on Christmas. In the end, it was revealed they all lived in the house at 7 Cherry Lane, among other twists.
In 2024, each duo appeared in their own movie, like mini sequels of their previous stories, along with other pairs of Hallmark stars portraying duos who lived in the house at other times. The movies streamed exclusively on Hallmark+, but are now making their Hallmark Channel debuts.
Erin Cahill Says She Was ‘Walking on Air’ Playing an 80s Mom
HallmarkBefore the three sequel movies premiered, Cahill — who stars in the final movie, “Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane” — gushed to EntertainmentNow about how prolific Hallmark screenwriter Rick Garman connected all of the storylines across the decades.
“He did the most brilliant job of weaving all three sequels together, so that’s nine storylines,” Chaill marveled. “The way he wove all three sequels into the original is absolutely incredible. And there are these little easter eggs in every movie, and these little pieces that tie from one story to the other.”
In her storyline with Brotherton, whom she also gushed about (“I freaking adore him personally, I think he’s made of magic”), Cahill got to go back to the 80s, and delighted in the throwback makeovers.
Noting that Brotherton fought to have a moustache, Cahill said that when she got to the hair and makeup chair, “I was like, ‘Guys, I have really curly natural hair — what if we just lean into that?’ And then the makeup artist, she was like, ‘What if we try for blue eyeshadow?’ Then at the fitting, it was all rented clothes, 80s stuff.”
“Red’s my favorite color, and there was this one red, 80s rented blouse and these gray 80s pants,” she continued. “That was my favorite outfit and I got all of it approved, everything I wished for! So I
went into day one walking on air. I got the wardrobe I wanted, I got the hair I wanted, the makeup I wanted, and it feels so 80s and so much fun!”
Benjamin Ayres Loved Reuniting With Erica Durance for ‘Happy Holidays From Cherry Lane’
Hallmark star Benjamin Ayres wasn’t in the original “Christmas on Cherry Lane,” but got to be part of the first of the sequels, “Happy Holidays on Cherry Lane” and reunite with Erica Durance, his co-star in 2022’s “Color My World With Love.” They play a couple living in the home in the early 60s.
“It was awesome for us to get to be together,” Ayres told EntertainmentNOW. “It’s the same producers that did ‘Color My World,’ so when they reached out, they were like, ‘You know, we would love it if it was the two of you.’ I think that was really smart, you know, just a beautiful way to bring us back together.”
Ayres noted that for the original movie, “They actually shot at a house, but it’s hard to shoot inside a house with the walls and the lighting. But for these three, they actually built a full set this time that they could change for each time period.”
Benjamin Hollingsworth Based His Character on a ‘Dennis the Menace’ Character
Meanwhile, Benjamin Hollingsworth appears as one half of a duo in 1966, opposite the “absolutely terrific” Chelsea Hobbs in what he told EntertainmentNow was “a different kind of role for me.”
He continued, “I loved every aspect of it: he’s clean-shaven with a comb-over hair part, high-waisted pants, and little bifocals that he wears. He’s very shut down and not very charismatic. But I slowly get to, like, open him up throughout the movie.”
Hollingworth said he based his character on Mr. Wilson — the grumpy, elderly neighbor in the “Dennis the Menace” comic and movies — saying it was “a lot of fun to play a fairly young guy who’s like a crusty old man, getting to stretch my range a little bit.”
About Each ‘Cherry Lane’ Movie Premiering on Hallmark Channel
HallmarkSEASON’S GREETINGS FROM CHERRY LANE — October 26 at 4 p.m. Eastern time: The first of the “Cherry Lane” trio of movies features Corey Cott as doctore Charlie, in 1951, who wants to make the holiday special for his worried wife Joan, played by Annabelle Borke, “before he is shipped out to serve in Korea.” Fast forward to 2003, and you’ll meet Shannon Kook’s character Luke and Sarah Dugdale playing Sarah, “a newly married couple who are always in agreement about everything,” until they realize — while hosting their parents for Christmas Eve how little they have in common. Bennett and Rodriguez III reprise their roles as Mike and Zian in 2024, as they each try to secretly arrange special Christmas surprises for each other.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM CHERRY LANE — October 26 at 6 p.m. Eastern time: Ayres plays writer Eli and Durance plays his hairdresser wife, Penny, in the early 60s as as they try to help their son “create a Christmas-themed time capsule, but Eli’s irascible father (Serge Houde) makes it difficult to get the job done,” per Hallmark’s logline. Bell and Denton take us back to 1998, when widowed Regina unexpectedly falls for a contractor named Nelson who gets stuck at her house due to a blizzard. And Hallmark fan favorite Julie Gonzalo shows up in 2015 as Jessie, who “has to help her sister put on a Christmas Eve wedding that is being officiated by Jessie’s high school sweetheart, who broke her heart years before,” played by Ryan Rottman.
DECK THE HALLS FROM CHERRY LANE — October 26 at 8 p.m. Eastern time: The last movie in the trilogy features Hollingsworth as bachelor David in 1966, planning for a quiet Christmas until his neighbor Stephanie, played by Dobbs, “arrives with news that she won a contest to have a Christmas Eve TV special broadcast live from her house, except that she provided his address. Cahill and Brotherton appear in 1981, as they learn it will be their last Christmas on Cherry Lane “after John receives a job offer in Michigan and Lizzie finds out she’s pregnant.” Meanwhile, Brooke D’Orsay and Sam Page play best friends in the year 2000, who “find unexpected feelings developing as they try to find out who is behind a series of Christmas-themed random acts of kindness.”
The original “Christmas on Cherry Lane” and all three premiering on Hallmark Channel can also be streamed via Hallmark+.
I watched Every Movie. It was FANTASTIC. Loved every segment if it. It was nice to see back in the 80’s again. Thank You for showing this.
I so loved the series, but I do have a question. Am I to assume Charlie died in Korea? Since he and Joan didn’t have any children. Am I correct to assume that Eli is Joan’s son and she then married Walter and had Eli?