Great American Family Year 3 review: More growth and progress 🌲

 

(No, I wasn't NOT planning on writing another yearly review of the network, I've just been a bit busy lately!).

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Despite what the haters and trolls wanted, Great American Family is still going, and is doing better then a year ago!

Ratings were up each month, Varity says that it's ratings were up 77% this year while Hallmark's ratings went down. 😂 There were more movies aired this year then last, and also more Christmas movies made as well.

This year, it also merged with Pure Flix and redubbed it Great American Pure Flix. A very good merger, if I may say. They also renamed their sister channel, Great American Living, into Great American Faith and Living.

I've probably said this before and it bears repeating: Having a place to go to where normal people just want a cozy movie to watch is a real blessing, especially in these hard times.

Yeah, it doesn't have the live ratings (as irrelevant as they get every year) like Hallmark, or the flashy looking trailers, but that's okay. Looking ordinary can be a good thing. Not everything needs to try and out-different everything else.

Movies on this network are made with love and respect, not out of pure hate for anyone who isn't white or abnormal like some jerks think. What is there to really hate about this network really? If you ask any pinhead on social media, they would some crap like 'WE'RE NOT REPRESENTED IN THE WAY THAT WE WANT!!' or 'THAT ACTOR IS A RAVING HOMOPHOBE OR A TRANSPHOBE!', or whatever pedestrain excuse you can think of. But in all seriousness, is any movie made by this network really all that bad? 1 might ask if some haters just hate romance in general!

This network existing is a true blessing for anyone who feels like tradition is fading away, alongside many other things. Everyone who works for the network is kind, loving, and all strive to do great things for others. I don't see any kind of hatred in any of that.

This was an amazing year for GAF, and I look forward to continue to report on it in 2024!

My rankings of all their Christmas movies this year:

#1 (tie), Paris Christmas Waltz, My Christmas Hero, A Christmas for the Ages
#4, A Royal Date for Christmas
#5, A Christmas Blessing
#6, 12 Games of Christmas
#7, Our Christmas Wedding
#8, Christmas in Maple Hills
#9, Bringing Christmas Home
#10, Peppermint and Postcards
#11, A Royal Christmas Holiday
#12, Designing Christmas with You
#13, Twas the Text before Christmas
#14, Meet Me under the Mistletoe
#15, The Jingle Bell Jubilee
#16, Christmas keepsake
#17, A Dash of Christmas
#18, Destined 2: Christmas Once More
#19, Christmas on Windmill Way
#20, Journey to Christmas
#21: Santa Maybe