Hallmark Channel ‘Christmas Connection’ Premiere: Meet The Cast, Watch Trailer

Christmas is only about a week away, which means if you’ve been slacking on your holiday movie binge-watching, now’s the time to kick it up a notch. Luckily, Hallmark Channel continues to be able to help with that with the premiere of its new movie, “Christmas Connection,” starring Brooke Burns and Tom Everett Scott.

This movie match-up is quite perfect as Burns is a Hallmark family all-star, having done “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” for Hallmark Channel in 2008 and many movies for its sister network, including all the ones as part of her own franchise “Gourmet Detective.” Scott, on the other hand, is a Hallmark newbie.

He’s been in many shows, like “Scream, “Reign” and “Z Nation,” as well as some TV movies, including “Sister Cities” and “The Devil’s Teardrop,” but he hadn’t done one for Hallmark Channel, until now. Burns was the perfect choice to help welcome him to the family and give him the lay of the land.

But what about the characters they’re playing in this new Christmas movie, will they be just as good of a match-up?

“Adventurous and effervescent flight attendant Sydney (Burns) travels the world on and off the clock and this Christmas will spend the holidays in tropical Bali,” the synopsis begins. “Those plans get sidetracked, however, when she misses her connecting flight helping Leah (Sophie Neudorf), an unaccompanied minor, get home to Chicago to her dad, the handsome widower and investigative reporter Jonathan (Scott).”

A shortage of outgoing flights leaves Sydney stranded in Chicago, where she lived for a period of time as a child, but Jonathan and Leah offer to have her tag along for festivities until she’s able to get a new flight. Sydney and Jonathan decide to make the most of their time together and strike a deal to help each other out: He’ll help her find out how her parents met in Chicago many years ago and she’ll help him write a sweet romance story to please his editor.

“They start their investigation with a pair of photographs of her mom and dad in a locket she wears around her neck,” the synopsis continues. “As they work to put together the pieces of this puzzle, Sydney begins to spend more and more time with Jonathan, Leah and his family, who immediately welcome her in as one of their own. As they continue on their Christmas road trip to track down leads throughout Chicago as to how her parents met, taking them from a Christmas tree farm to an ice-skating rink, the clues begin to unravel.”

As the two help each other out and partake in Christmas traditions, they begin to realize that the feelings they have for each other might just be stronger than they realized. A wrench is thrown in that, though, when Sydney learns she’s landed her dream job in Rome and has to make a decision: Keep flying away, or for once, stay right where she is with people she’s come to love.

Catch “Christmas Connection” on Hallmark Channel on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. EST.