Weirdly, the script was penned by Nick Schenk, who is probably best known for writing multiple latter-day Clint Eastwood movies, including Cry Macho, The Mule, and Gran Torino – so hopefully old man Ralphie isn’t a racist cranky-pants with a score to settle. We’re also getting something called Holiday Harmony, and A Hollywood Christmas about a filmmaker who clashes with a “handsome network executive.” Then there’s A Christmas Mystery, which is reportedly about “a group of intrepid kids” who have to investigate the case of Santa’s missing jingle bells, which we assure you is not a euphemism.
Look, we all like watching TV around the holidays, but it is kind of a bummer that HBO Max keeps cancelling highly-anticipated projects like Batgirl, and also straight-up deleting old shows, but is clearly making a play to compete with the Hallmark Channel and Netflix, who routinely churn out cloyingly sentimental, bargain basement holiday content. In retrospect, maybe Batgirl wouldn’t have been shelved if Barbara Gordon had been played by Candace Cameron Bure.
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