Danica McKellar and Neal Bledsoe to Star in Great American Family’s ‘Christmas at the Drive-In’ (TV News Roundup)
variety.comGreat American Family, actor Danica McKellar is slated to executive produce her debut holiday feature for the channel, “Christmas at the Drive-In,” this holiday season.
McKellar will also co-star in the film alongside fellow actor Neal Bledsoe, both of whom previously worked together in the Hallmark Channel original “The Winter Palace.” The script was written by Rick Garman, whose filmography is largely dominated by other holiday TV movies like “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” or more recently, “A Christmas… Present.” The premiere of “Christmas at the Drive-In” is part of the network’s Great American Christmas celebration, a holiday programming marathon that lasts from Oct.
21 to the end of 2022. Also in today’s news: Aspiring nonfiction filmmakers seeking the tools to make their dream docuseries a reality will be part of the annual Film Independent Docuseries Intensive — a vigorous three-day workshop from Sept.
21-23 for up-and-coming documentarians to make connections and develop their projects. Ten projects and 21 fellows were selected to participate in this year’s event, with titles including “Fruitbowl: An Oral History of Queer Sex” by director Dave Quantic and “Proxy: The Cold War We Weren’t Taught In School” from co-executive producer team Melinda Pinecone and Marc Smolowitz.
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