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Sarabeth Pollock

Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story - release date, cast and everything we know about the Hallmark Channel Christmas movie

Lara Krug, Chief Marketing Officer, Kansas City Chiefs; Julie Sherman Wolfe; Tyler Hynes; Hunter King; Ed Begley Jr.; Diedrich Bader and Samantha DiPippo, Senior Vice President of Programming, Hallmark Media attend Hallmark Media’s session during the Summer 2024 Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, CA on July 11, 2024.

Hallmark Channel is going all out for the 15th anniversary of their wildly popular Countdown to Christmas celebration with a very special all-new original movie. Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story teams Hallmark and the Kansas City Chiefs in a holiday partnership for the ages. 

The movie, which is set to begin production in August 2024, will be filmed entirely in Kansas City, home of Hallmark and the Chiefs, and will feature iconic locations like GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. And yes, there will be a Kelce family member involved, too.

Here's everything we know so far about Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story

Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story release date

Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story premieres Saturday, November 30, at 8 pm ET/PT during Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas 2024 celebration. 

Hallmark Channel is included in many cable TV packages, but if you've cut the cord there are a few other options to help you watch. Hallmark Channel now has a partnership with Peacock so you can watch new movies on the streaming platform with a subscription.

You can also access Hallmark Channel via Philo, Sling TV, Frndly TV, Hulu with Live TV, YouTube TV and Fubo

Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story premise

Here's the synopsis of Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story from Hallmark Channel: " In Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, Alana Higman (Hunter King) is sure that her family’s lifelong history as Kansas City Chiefs superfans makes them a frontrunner to win the team’s "Fan of the Year" contest.  Derrick (Tyler Hynes), Director of Fan Engagement, is tasked with evaluating how Alana and her family stack up against the other two finalists.  As the pair spends time together, it’s clear there’s a spark between them but when her grandfather's (Ed Begley Jr.) vintage Chiefs, good luck winter hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate, destiny and even questions her future with Derrick – unless, that is, a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary. "

Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story cast

Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story features Tyler Hynes (Shifting Gears, Three Wise Men and a Baby) as Derrick, Hunter King (Two Scoops of Italy, The Santa Summit) as Alana and Ed Begley Jr. (Young Sheldon, Better Call Saul) as Alana's grandfather. Diedrich Bader (Office Space) also stars. 

Hallmark also announced that supermom Donna Kelce, mother to Chiefs' star Travis Kelce, will also appear in the movie. 

Holiday Touchdown: A Chief's Love Story trailer

It's too early for a trailer for Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, as production is slated to begin in August 2024. But as soon as we have a trailer, we'll have it for you right here. 

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