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Christmas is the gift that keeps on giving for the Hallmark Channel.
Samba TV, an audience data-measuring tech company, released the top 15 holiday movies of 2024, and the feel-good movie Santa Tell Me is Hallmark's most-watched of the entire year.
According to Samba TV, since its premiere on November 9, over 3.45 million households have tuned into the uplifting flick, which claimed the sixth spot among all seasonal hits, just behind National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Elf, Home Alone, Four Christmases and The Holiday.
"Finding out we ranked ahead of brand-new Netflix titles and old holiday favorites like Die Hard, The Santa Clause and The Grinch is mind-blowing, and the best early Christmas present I can imagine," Ryan Landels, who wrote and directed Santa Tell Me, gushed on Instagram.
Starring actors Erin Krakow as Olivia, an interior designer, and Daniel Lissing as Chris, her charming colleague, the film follows Olivia as she discovers an old letter from Santa informing her that she would find true love in a man named Nick on Christmas Eve.
In natural Hallmark fashion, Olivia ends up meeting and juggling romances with not one but three Nicks -- all while falling for her cute coworker with the wrong name.
If you haven't seen the movie magic yet, Santa Tell Me will air again on Christmas night, December 25, at 8/7c on the Hallmark Channel.