It’s not just Lifetime and the Hallmark Channel that offer holiday programming filled with Christmas movies and specials.

UPtv is celebrating the “Most Uplifting Christmas Ever” with a schedule of over 500 hours of holiday cheer including 12 premiere movies.

In a press release, an UPtv executive is quoted as saying “Christmas is the time of year when families really come together. When people go out of their way to be kinder and to feel the joy that the season can bring.” The holiday spirit at UPtv runs right up to Christmas Eve.

UPtv’s “A Novel Christmas” finds children’s book author Chloe Anderson (Brigitte Kingsley) heading to the cozy town of Noelville to spend time with her sister’s family and help care for her recently widowed father.

Chloe did not expect the instant connection with the local bookstore owner and single dad, Ethan (Landy Cannon). Will the small town’s charms be enough to rekindle a grieving family’s Christmas spirit along with Chloe’s dreams of writing her first novel, let alone a chance at love?

“North by North Pole: A Dial S Mystery” may sound like an Alfred Hitchcock title, but here Santa Claus is back to help a new couple solve a mystery and find romance. Zoey (Abby Ross) has one Christmas wish — to produce the perfect Christmas Festival for her hometown of Willow Creek.

The wish becomes more difficult when Dalton (Joey Scarpellino), the sponsor’s handsome but aggravating son, becomes her partner and his modern ideas clash with Joey’s more traditional vision.

However, when suspicious things start happening, Zoey and Dalton realize someone is trying to stop the festival. They must team up to save it and soon find that they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Lifetime always delivers holiday programs. In “How to Fall in Love by Christmas,” Teri Hatcher’s Nora, beloved writer-turned-CEO of her lifestyle brand, must secure a partnership with Take to Heart to save her company.

The only way to appease the partners is for Nora to write a column on falling in love by Christmas with the help of the charming and handsome photographer (Dan Payne) who has been assigned to the piece.

Lifetime’s “The Holiday Junkie,” stars Jennifer Love Hewitt (also serving as the director) as Andie, who runs a company with her mother Mimi that is a decorating and planning service for all holiday needs.

But after Mimi passes, Andie is forced to face her first Christmas without her mother and carry the torch for The Holiday Junkie company all on her own. Despite the challenges, Andie may also find some love at Christmas along the way.

Positioned as a key element of the network’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday movie slate, “The Holiday Junkie” is a family affair with Hewitt’s husband Brian Hallisay co-starring and their children also appearing in the film.

Tia Mowry stars in Lifetime’s “A Very Merry Beauty Salon” as Sienna, the owner of the bustling Divine Beauty Salon preparing for Atlanta’s Tinsel Ball, where she will be honored for her charitable work.

The annual event takes a glamorous turn with the arrival of Lawrence (RonReaco Lee), a charismatic CEO whose family’s wine brand is now co-sponsoring the Ball.

Sparks fly between them, but Sienna’s mother Georgia (Donna Biscoe) who is head of the Ball’s committee, worries his involvement may ruin the event’s traditions.

Romance blooms when Sienna and Lawrence are paired as dance partners, setting the stage for a steamy romance that challenges Sienna’s thoughts on love and family and makes this year’s Tinsel Ball the most memorable.

The Hallmark Channel reliably delivers a slate of holiday movies so extensive that hardly a dozen columns could cover them all. At Kansas City Chiefs home games singer Taylor Swift is often a presence all too often on TV broadcasts to cheer on her boyfriend Travis Kelce.

While neither one of them appears in “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,” Hunter King’s Alana Higman is sure that her family’s lifelong history 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 Alana and Derrick spend time together, it’s clear there’s a spark between them.

But when Alana’s grandfather’s Chiefs lucky hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate and destiny, even questioning her future with Derrick, unless a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary.

Ashley Williams’ Avery stars in Hallmark’s “Jingle Bell Run” as an adventurous teacher whose sister secretly signs her up for The Great Holiday Dash, a Christmas-themed reality competition show where she’s paired with former hockey player Wes (Andrew Walker).

Despite clashing at first, Avery and Wes’ skill help them excel as they travel from city to city and compete in festive feats that have a local flavor. It’s not long before a real connection between these opposites begin to blossom.

Tim Riley writes film and television reviews for Lake County News.