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Update: Per GrokNation, Bialik will be live tweeting during the west coast live (8 PM PT) airing of The Flight Before Christmas at the twitter site. Follow their twitter site on December 5 and join into the grokite conversations!
Also new clips below.
Ryan McPartlin & Mayim Bialik in ‘The Flight Before Christmas’ on Lifetime Dec 5, 2015. Image:
Lifetime will be airing, as part of their Holiday Season films, The Flight Before Christmas (formerly known as Accidental Trip) which stars The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialk and Chuck‘s Ryan McPartlin. Also in the film are Family Matters‘ Reginald VelJohnson and Jo Marie Payton.
The Flight Before Christmas is directed by Peter L. Sullivan and written by Jennifer Notas Shapiro.
Stephanie who is excited to take the next step in her relationship with her boyfriend by moving in with him. Stephanie’s plans are quickly dashed, leaving her crushed when her boyfriend instead says he wants to break up with her.
Heartbroken and not wanting to spend Christmas alone, Stephanie boards a plane and heads to Connecticut to be with family, taking a red-eye on Christmas Eve. On the flight, Stephanie is seated next to Michael(McPartlin), a man planning to propose to his college girlfriend.
Michael and Stephanie don’t quite see eye to eye at first and have a bit of a rocky start, but things turn worse when the pilot announces that a huge, unexpected snowstorm is crossing the country. The flight that the two embarked on is now re-routed to a small town in Montana.
Stephanie manages to book the last available room in the town’s bed and breakfast, leaving Michael without a place to stay. Putting aside their differences, Stephanie offers to share the room with Michael and try their best to get alone.
Don’t miss The Flight Before Christmas and its talented cast, which airs on Lifetime December 5, 2015 at 8 PM ET. See preview below courtesy of LifetimeTV.
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Source: LifetimeTV Exclusive clip for TVLine via emmy4Mayim
Source: Hollywood Today Live preview via
Film Credits for The Flight Before Christmas
Main First Unit Credits:
Executive Producer……………Barry Barnholtz
Executive Producer……………Jeffrey Schenck
Executive Producer……………Zelma Kiwi
Producer………………………….Mayim Bialik
Producer………………………….Tiffany Kuzon
co-Producer……………………..Peter Sullivan
Associate Producer……………Brian Nolan
Line Producer…………………..Christopher Ray
Story by……………………………Jeffrey Schenck & Peter Sullivan
Screenplay by……………………Jennifer Notas Shapiro
Director……………………………Peter Sullivan
Composer…………………………Matthew Janszen
Music Supervisor…………….. Marc Ferrari
Cinematographer………………Stuart Brereton
Editor………………………………Randy Carer
Visual Effects Supervisors… Steven M. Blasini & Bennique Blasini
Production Designer………….Fernando Valdes
Casting Director………………..Dean E. Fronk & Donald Paul Pemrick
Art Directors…………………….Khalif Greene & Degule Sanabria
Costume Designer…………….Darragh Mrorstein
Make-up Department………..Laura Morton, Hannah Schenck & Eric Wilson
Production Managers………..Jess Costa-Rodrigues, Alison Goser, John T. Melick, & John Stecenko
Main Cast:
Mayim Bialik…………………Stephanie Hunt
Gib Gerard…………………….Brian
Ryan McPartlin………………Michael Nolan
Jo Marie Payton……………..Marie
Reginald VelJohnson………Joe
Candace Azzara………………Debbie
Trilby Glover………………….Courtney
Roxana Orgeta………………..Kate
Brian Doyle Murray…………Noel
Rob Mathes…………………….Sean
Many have asked about the music played in The Flight Before Christmas. Some of the music was by a group called Train and the female vocals that you hear toward the latter half of the film are all done by Beverly Staunton.
Other Holiday Films on the Lifetime Slate for this Holiday Season include:
November 28, 2015 9 PM ET – ‘A Gift Wrapped Christmas’ starring Meredith Hagner, Travis Milne and Beverley Mitchell
November 29, 2014 9 PM ET – ‘The Christmas Gift’ starring Michelle Trachtenberg and Rick Fox
December 6, 2015 9 PM ET – ‘Last Chance Christmas’ starring HHilarie Burton, Gabriel Hogan and Tim Matheson
December 12, 2015 8 PM ET – ‘Becoming Santa’ starring Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter along with Laura Bell Bundy, Tony Calero and Jesse Hutch.
December 13, 2015 9 PM ET – ‘Wish Upon A christmas’ starring Larisa Oleynik, Aaron Ashmore and Alan Thicke.