Jane Seymour and Joe Lando, who costarred in “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” will reunite in a Lifetime Christmas film.
The Toni Braxton-produced “A Christmas Spark” will reunite the actors for a love film as part of the network’s It’s A Wonderful Lifetime lineup. In the film, Seymour plays a recently widowed woman named Molly, who “has lost her zest for life and given up on ever finding love again.”
Lifetime teases, “But when she decides to visit her daughter for Christmas, she has no idea what holiday magic awaits her.” Molly, a former theatre teacher, unwillingly accepts the position of directing the town’s Christmas pageant and quickly falls for her leading man, Hank (Lando), the town’s most eligible bachelor.
As the odd couple falls in love, Molly “rediscovers her inner free spirit and finds a new lease on life.” And when the pageant’s star loses her voice just before the presentation, Molly will have to step into the spotlight and shine brightly for the first time in her life.
Seymour played the titular Dr Quinn in six seasons of ‘Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman’ and two television films, with Lando’s Byron Sully. The main series aired from 1993 to 1998, with two television features following in 1999 and 2001.
The project is one of three new holiday films announced by the network on Thursday, along with “Kirk Franklin’s The Night Before Christmas,” starring Naturi Naughton and Luke James from “Power,” and “Merry Swissmas,” starring Jodie Sweetin from “Full House” and Tim Rozon from “Schitt’s Creek.”
“Merry Swissmas” premieres on November 5 and begins off Lifetime’s holiday movie season. The whole program will be released later this fall.