Hallmark announces popular Christmas movie will return this season with a sequel

Who cares if it’s only April! Christmas is 34 weeks away, which means Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas is even closer!

And this year already promises to be a good one because the Brenner brothers are back.

On Thursday, Hallmark announced Paul Campbell (Stephan), Tyler Hynes (Taylor) and Andrew Walker (Luke Brenner) would reprise their roles in Three Wiser Men and a Boy, the sequel to the 2022 smash-hit Three Wise Men and a Baby.

Margaret Colin will also return as the mother.

According to Variety, the made-for-TV movie averaged 3.6 million viewers when it debuted in November 2022 and became the most-watched cable TV movie of the year.

The only program that beat it that year was Paramount Network’s Yellowstone.

In the original movie, the Brenner brothers took turns watching a baby who had been dropped off at Luke’s fire station. The sequel will flash forward five years and follow the three men as they attempt to make Luke’s son’s dreams come true.

“In a crazy turn of events, possibly brought on accidentally by the brothers themselves, the director of Luke’s son Thomas’ (Miles Marthaller) school holiday musical steps down,” the official logline reads. “Luke is desperate to make his son’s stage dreams come true, so he enlists the help of his brothers Taylor and Stephan.”

The Brenner boys must also “grapple with their own feelings” about their mother’s relationship with her new boyfriend.

“In true Brenner brother fashion, they are all in for a Christmas they will never forget.”

“Viewers and critics alike fell for the charms of Paul, Tyler and Andrew as the Brenner brothers in Three Wise Men and a Baby,” Hallmark Media vice president of development, Jennifer Kramer, said in a press release. “The one resounding thing we heard from them was that they wanted more.  We are excited to deliver and then some with a story that is filled with more humor and, most importantly, more heart.”

Who else is excited for a Three Wise Men and a Baby sequel? I know I am! Share if you can’t wait!

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