{"id":67234,"date":"2024-03-01T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=67234"},"modified":"2024-03-01T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T23:19:12","slug":"christmas-bells-are-ringing-for-jill-wagner-jesse-hutch-lauren-holly-and-bruce-boxleitner-starring-in-aurora-christmas-part-of-great-american-christmas-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/01\/christmas-bells-are-ringing-for-jill-wagner-jesse-hutch-lauren-holly-and-bruce-boxleitner-starring-in-aurora-christmas-part-of-great-american-christmas-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bells Are Ringing for Jill Wagner, Jesse Hutch, Lauren Holly, and Bruce Boxleitner Starring in, &#8220;Aurora Christmas,&#8221; Part of Great American Christmas 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67235\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aurora-Christmas.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aurora-Christmas.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aurora-Christmas-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>Great American Family, the leader in quality, original faith-based, family-friendly programming, and one of the primary producers of original Christmas movies, announces a new star-studded film for this season&#8217;s highly-popular Great American Christmas which returns in October. &#8220;<em><strong>Aurora Christmas<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; (wt) starring Jill Wagner, Jesse Hutch, Lauren Holly, and Bruce Boxleitner will join the robust roster of Great American Christmas talent, which in Year Four of the franchise, will include movies with Mario Lopez, Candace Cameron Bure, Cameron Mathison, and Danica McKellar, with many more stars to be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;<em>Aurora Christmas<\/em>,&#8221; (wt) Erin (Wagner) joins her dad Doug (Boxleitner) for a Christmas in the family&#8217;s former hometown of Aurora on a mission that is part business &#8211; selling the family home &#8211; and major bucket list item for Erin to see the Aurora Borealis light up the Northern sky. 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