Andrea Barber. Photo Courtesy of Great American Media
“Full House” alumna Andrea Baber will join Candace Cameron Bure in her new holiday film for Great American Family.
Great American Family announced that production begins September 19 on the network’s original Christmas movie, “Candace Cameron Bure Presents: Christmas on Candy Cane Lane,” starring Andrea Barber (“Full House” and “Fuller House”) and Dan Payne (“Virgin River”), which premieres on the network this holiday season.
It was developed as part of her Candy Rock Entertainment venture. “Christmas on Candy Cane Lane” is Bure’s second Christmas project with Great American Media for the 2022 season and the first produced under the banner Candace Cameron Bure Presents.
The new film will be part of Great American Christmas, the network’s holiday programming franchise which returns on October 21 with a new slate of original holiday movie premieres every Saturday and Sunday and Christmas movies all day and all night through the end of 2022.
“Candace is a one-of-a-kind talent who helped elevate this genre to new heights through her deep understanding of the audience and her smart approach to creating content,” Bill Abbott, the President and CEO of Great American Media, remarked.
“We’re incredibly proud to be launching the Candace Cameron Bure Presents franchise together with Candace and the Candy Rock Entertainment team, and we look forward to inspiring and entertaining fans with her unique brand of heartwarming, family-friendly movies beginning with Christmas on Candy Cane Lane,” Abbott elaborated.
Candace Cameron Bure stated, “It brings me great joy to bring you the incredibly talented and funny Andrea Barber. Having a 30-year bestie friendship both on and off camera has allowed me to find the perfect project to introduce the Christmas genre audience to her brilliant comedic skills, her heartwarming authenticity, and vulnerability that is a rare gem today.”
“Just as I have, audiences will fall in love with Andrea’s warmth and relatability, and chuckle along with her all the way down Candy Cane Lane,” Bure added.
In “Candace Cameron Bure Presents: Christmas on Candy Cane Lane,” Ivy Donaldson (Andrea Barber) is going through a transition in her life.
Separated from her husband, Rob (Dan Payne), and putting on a brave face for her daughter, Ivy also struggles with the long shadow cast by her late mother, Muriel, the darling of Icicle Falls; head of the Candy Cane Lane Lights Extravaganza, owner of The Christmas Haus, and a former TV star known adoringly as the “Christmas Maven.”
The shoes seem too big to fill. When obstacles reach a crescendo for Ivy, a series of comical and mysterious events bring neighbors of Icicle Falls, including Ivy’s entire family, together in a masterstroke of perfection only the “Christmas Maven” herself could appreciate.
Christie Will Wolf directs “Christmas on Candy Cane Lane,” an original screenplay written by Teena Booth. It is based on the novel by Sheila Roberts.