In the upcoming Hallmark Channel/Chiefs collaboration “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,” Derrick and Alana’s relationship depends on whether “a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary.” (John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The Hallmark card-esque love story of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and musical artist Taylor Swift has now inspired an actual, honest-to-goodness Hallmark Channel original movie.
Hallmark announced Tuesday that filming will begin in Kansas City next month for “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,” which will air during the channel’s 15th annual “Countdown to Christmas” later this year. The Chiefs and Hallmark, which is based in Kansas City, have collaborated for years, but this is the first time they’ve teamed up for a project of this type.
The movie isn’t based on Taylor and Travis, but let’s be serious: who would have thought of a Chiefs-based romance movie before they became the world’s most high-profile couple?
Starring Hallmark Channel mainstays Tyler Hynes and Hunter King, as well as longtime character actor Ed Begley Jr., the plot is typical heartwarming Hallmark fare, but with a sports twist. From the Hallmark Channel website:
In Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, Alana Higman (King) is sure that her family’s lifelong history as Kansas City Chiefs superfans makes them a frontrunner to win the team’s “Fan of the Year” contest. Derrick (Hynes), Director of Fan Engagement, is tasked with evaluating how Alana and her family stack up against the other two finalists. As the pair spends time together, it’s clear there’s a spark between them but when her grandfather’s (Begley Jr.) vintage Chiefs, good luck winter hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate, destiny and even questions her future with Derrick – unless, that is, a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary.
Since the movie is being filmed entirely in Kansas City and the…
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Publish date : 2024-06-25 19:10:26
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