As the Grand Ole Opry continues to celebrate its 100th anniversary, the esteemed Nashville institution will get a little help from the Hallmark Channel in marking the centennial.

A Grand Ole Opry Christmas, an original Hallmark movie starting network stars Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha, will begin filming this month in Nashville and will air during the channel’s 16th annual Countdown to Christmas programming. The movie will include familiar Opry faces, including Brad Paisley, who will write original music for the movie. Paisley will also write and perform the theme for the Countdown to Christmas 2025 campaign.

The movie, whose specific air date has not been announced, involves a little time traveling: DeLoach will play the daughter of a late country music icon who gave up her own dreams of being a country songwriter following a tragic accident 30 years ago. After she agrees to represent her father at an Opry celebration, she is transported back to 1995 and reunited with an artist manager played by Polaha, as well as with her father before his untimely death.

“Our goal in this milestone year is to put the Opry, its artists and the rich songwriting traditions that have made country music a global sensation in front of more people than ever before,” said Colin Reed, executive chairman of Ryman Hospitality Properties, the Opry’s parent company, in a statement. “Our partnership with Hallmark brings these elements to life this holiday season through a creative and uplifting take on a uniquely Nashville story.” 

“This is the perfect time for us to partner with this beloved, iconic American institution and create Christmas magic together,” added Darren Abbott, Hallmark’s chief brand officer. “Nikki and Kris are fan favorites, and we know they will beautifully bring to life this emotional and heartfelt story that is sure to become an instant classic.” 

Paisley also weighed in, adding, “The Hallmark Channel to me is a major part of finding the joy and the spirit of the holidays. We turn it on and leave it on in our house like Christmas tree lights or decorations, it’s a major part of the atmosphere for us.  I loved the challenge of creating that same magic with this music by letting it take you to the same place that these movies and this world Hallmark has built.  Can’t wait for you to hear what all we’ve done.  Also, knowing the Opry is the setting for one of these movies is very inspiring.” 

A special line of Hallmark and Opry co-branded merchandise, including greeting cards, apparel, accessories, jewelry and gifts, will also be created to tie in with movie and will be available online at Hallmark.com and Shop.Opry.com, as well as in their physical stores.

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After rewatching Glee in its entirety, Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz are sharing what it was like to see their late costars, Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera, on screen again.

While guesting on a recent episode of How Rude, Tanneritos! hosted by Full House stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, McHale and Ushkowitz — who played Artie and Tina on Glee, respectively — agreed that rewatching Ryan Murphy’s musical dramedy series for their own And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast was unexpectedly “healing and therapeutic” when it came to revisiting their friends’ performances. Monteith died from an overdose in 2013 in the middle of filming for season 4, while Rivera died seven years afterward in an accidental drowning.

“I just appreciate their talent more in addition to loving the humans that they were,” Ushkowitz said of the pair. “For Cory, especially, we had to mourn all of that in the show, while we were filming it, and move on without him in the show.”

“Some moments it’s hard, especially with the storylines or the songs they’re singing,” added McHale. “It really is a gift that we get to watch this, and we got so many moments of how great they are as people [that] shine through.”

The actor also explained that he and Ushkowitz had previously decided to rewatch Glee years ago on a different podcast called Showmance, but they scrapped the project after Rivera died at the age of 33 while on a boating trip with then-4-year-old son Josey. Shortly afterward, authorities concluded that the vocalist, who played Santana Lopez on Glee, likely used her last moments to get Josey safely back on their boat after taking a swim before she disappeared beneath the water.

Even before that happened, however, McHale said it was difficult to take in Monteith’s scenes as lovable jock-turned-show-choir-geek Finn Hudson. “It was hard for me to even watch Cory,” he recalled. “Up to that point, I couldn’t really listen to the songs he was singing on, but watching it really helped [us] get through it.”

“When Naya passed away, we were like, ‘We can’t do this anymore,’” McHale added. “We just ended the show.”

When it came time to revisit the idea of a Glee rewatch podcast, McHale noted that he and Ushkowitz decided that they wanted And That’s What You REALLY Missed — which premiered in September 2022 — to be a “celebration” of their friends’ lives and talents. The actress also noted that going back through the episodes allowed her to give their cast and crew more “grace” when it came to how “off the rails” the show’s plot went almost immediately after losing Monteith, to whom they paid tribute in a season 4 episode titled “The Quarterback.”

Listen to McHale and Ushkowitz’s full How Rude, Tanneritos! episode below.