Business Christmas: A Hallmark Christmas movie podcast

After a lengthy hiatus, Kat and Nicole are back with a new episode of Business Christmas! This week/biennium, we're discussing Champagne Problems, a new Netflix movie starring Minka Kelly. A driven American exec heads to Paris to acquire a champagne brand by Christmas and falls for the heir to the company. We break down the impossibly short acquisition timeline, nonexistent due diligence, and the massive conflict of interest of romancing someone whose family business you're trying to buy...

Big-city businesswoman Hannah is sent to the small town of Cookie Jar (yup) over the holidays to acquire the town's beloved cookie company. Sparks fly as she repeatedly butts heads with the company's CEO, Jake. Will Hannah learn that Christmas is more important than business?

We're back after a lengthy hiatus! This time, we're talking about Christmas in Rome, starring Lacey Chabert and Sam Page. It's the usual Business Christmas tropes, but gender swapped! Angela's a tour guide in Rome who meets busy, culturally incompetent businessman Oliver on the street and agrees to help him understand Italy--and specifically, Christmas in Italy. Join us as we watch him learn that Christmas is, as always, more important than business.

This week we're talking with our friend Brian about the Tia Mowry vehicle A Gingerbread Romance. An ambitious architect pairs up with a handsome baker for a gingerbread house contest. Will they win? (You'll find out.) Will they fall in love? (Obviously.)

Business Christmas fave Candace Cameron Bure is back as Noelle, an HR manager at a department store who dreams of being a professional photographer. Enter Jean Smart as a high-key weirdo who tells Noelle her life is trash and takes her on a journey of what might have been--and possibly still could be, if she makes some key changes to her life. Oh, and the love interest is a hot firefighter.

Market researcher Joy (played by the adorable Danielle Panabaker) heads home over the holidays after her beloved aunt is injured in a fall. She ends up taking over her aunt's annual Christmas Cookie Crawl -- and is reunited with a handsome man from her past.

We invited our friend Jorn to join us to discuss this weird movie where Lori Loughlin inherits a Vermont inn with a Christmas secret. Will she sell it, or give in to holiday magic? Dermot Mulroney, still extremely hot, is also in this movie, because he does Hallmark movies now.

Netflix’s latest offering in the Business Christmas genre features Vanessa Hudgens — and Vanessa Hudgens with an accent. Join us as we discuss The Princess Switch, which is a weird title for a movie that's actually about a duchess. The two Vanessas -- the duchess and a baker -- swap lives for a few days right before Christmas.

In the backdoor pilot for our new podcast-within-a-podcast, The Chabert Report, a single mother (Lacey Chabert) moves back to her hometown with her young daughter. The daughter teams up with her music teacher to write a song for the upcoming Christmas pageant, but an evil PTA mom (Mariah Carey -- no, seriously) threatens to derail everything.

Aspiring journalist Amber goes undercover as a tutor to get the inside scoop on the prince of Aldovia, but ends up learning more than she bargained for.

This week, we watched Window Wonderland, starring Grey’s Anatomy’s Chyler Leigh as Sloan, an aspiring lead window dresser at McGuire’s department store in NYC. Also competing for the role is her colleague Jake (Paul Campbell). As they battle it out for the right to design McGuire’s holiday windows, Sloan and Jake learn more about each other — and maybe even about love.

In our first episode, we discuss the Candace Cameron Bure movie Christmas Under Wraps, in which CCB plays Dr. Lauren Brunell, a hotshot doctor who unexpectedly finds herself running a hospital in small-town Alaska instead of taking on the prestigious Boston fellowship she'd anticipated. Join Lauren as she learns how to stop planning and embrace sweatpant-lined jeans, nighttime picnics, and, most importantly, true love.