Christmas may still be months away, but Hallmark movie fans will have a lot to look forward to this holiday season

Christmas may still be nine months away, but Hallmark movie fans will have a lot to look forward to this holiday season!

According to Entertainment Weekly, the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will be releasing 34 new Christmas movies in 2018 — which is a new record of heartwarming films for the two networks.

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While the amount of new holiday movies is only a slight increase from last year, when Hallmark released 33 new films, they’ve come a long way since 2016, when they only debuted 28 originals.

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EW also reported that the Hallmark Channel — which will be releasing 22 of the movies — will start airing the new films Oct. 27, while their sister network won’t kick things off until Nov. 4 during the “Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas” line-up.