I work with hospice patients, and Hallmark is one of the more popular channels I see on in homes (the others being Game Show network, Food Network, anything showing old sitcoms, and Fox News.) I’ve even known some families to use their Christmas in July programming to let Grandma/pa think they made it to one more Christmas so that maybe they’d let go.

My grandmother does.

Only people that were an extra in a movie that are from the tiny tourist trapl town it was filmed in.