“The Talk” co-host Amanda Kloots will executive produce and star in “Fit for Christmas,” one of three new original holiday movies set to air in December 2022 as part of CBS’ renewed focus on original holiday television movies.
From writer and executive producer Anna White (“Christmas Wonderland”), “Fit For Christmas” tells the tale of Audrey, an enthusiastic Christmas-obsessed fitness instructor at a beloved, financially beleaguered community center in quaint Mistletoe, Mont., who begins a holiday romance with a charming, mysterious businessman, complicating his plans to turn the center into a more financially profitable resort property. The movie will be produced by Brad Krevoy’s Motion Picture Corporation of America.
“Watch out! I’m making a Christmas movie for 2022!” commented Kloots on Twitter following the announcement of her new movie.
Another holiday movie coming to CBS is “When Christmas Was Young,” a Nashville music-themed movie from a script by screenwriter and bestselling novelist Robert Tate Miller (“Hope at Christmas,” Forever Christmas). The story follows a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client, who finds himself falling for a gifted singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a Christmas song she wrote years ago. Tom Mazza, David Calvert-Jones and Karen Glass (Everywhere Studios) will executive produce, together with executive producers Shawn Williamson and Jamie Goehring for Lighthouse Pictures. Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will also executive produce and write the title song for the movie.
In a follow-up to last season’s CBS Original movie “A Christmas Proposal,” as well as “A Kiss Before Christmas,” Mark Amato is writing “Must Love Christmas.” In it, a renowned romance novelist famous for her Christmas-themed books finds herself snowbound in the charming town of Cranberry Falls, where she unexpectedly becomes involved in a love triangle between her childhood crush and a reporter determined to interview her to save his dying magazine. The movie will be produced by Brad Krevoy’s Motion Picture Corporation of America.
In December 2021, CBS aired its first original holiday television movies since 2012 with “Christmas Takes Flight” and the aforementioned “A Christmas Proposal.” The three new CBS Original movies join the network’s holiday programming slate, which includes family favorites like The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS and the annual broadcasts of beloved animated classics like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Frosty the Snowman.”
Additional information about the CBS Original movies will be announced in the coming months.