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YATR’s Victoria Rowell and Kristoff St. John Pay It Forward in UPtv’s A BABY FOR CHRISTMAS

In 2013, when UPtv aired Marry Me for Christmas, the network had no idea what it had done.  Ratings for the TV movie soared, delivering the highest ratings in the network’s history.  The producers (Uptv and Swirl Films) followed that project with Marry Us for Christmas in 2014 (starring Victoria Rowell and Kristoff St. John) and continued the trilogy with this year’s A Baby for Christmas, again starring Victoria Rowell and Kristoff St. John.  When I had the privilege to

Life Imitates Art as Josie Bissett Plays Real-Life PAPER ANGEL

Josie Bissett truly brings the Christmas spirit to life – and not just once a year.  I spoke with her the day before she was to leave for Sri Lanka with the Starkey Hearing Foundation (www.starkeyhearingfoundation.org).  Her work with the Foundation, which helps change lives by providing hearing aids to people around the world, marked Bissett’s first mission trip. Another way Bissett (Melrose Place) will be changing lives this Christmas season is by reaching people through the UP Network’s Paper