Work on next year's Christmas programming has already begun: "It’s Santa’s Workshop here all year long"

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The current season of The Great Christmas Light Fight, which began filming in October, is the last to begin filming the same year that it airs. Production on next year's season of the ABC reality show has already begun. Hallmark Channel, which churned out 38 Christmas movies this year between it and sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, is also already at work on next year's batch of Christmas movies. “Early to mid-2017 we were starting to sift through all of the scripts that come in, of which we receive hundreds, and select those that we want to develop further,” says Michelle Vicary, executive vice president of programming for Hallmark Channel owner Crown Media. “We start to produce them in late 2017, 2018 and continue to make them all year long. You can imagine when you make 38 Christmas movies, we say it’s Santa’s Workshop here all year long. We began development and are also in beginning stages of production on our 2019 slate.”