Best-bets for Oct. 20: Christmas time AND baseball season?
1) “Checkin’ It Twice,” 8 p.m., Hallmark. The surge of new Christmas movies speeds up; the Hallmark channels have 40 in the next 66 days. There are 20 new ones on Great American Family (including one at 8 p.m. today), nine on UpTV, more on Lifetime and beyond. This one stars Kim Matula (Hope in “The Bold and the Beautiful”). Kevin McGarry (shown here, who is Nathan the Mountie in “When Calls the Heart”) is a newly traded hockey player who rents a cottage owned by her hockey-mad family. Read more…