Forgotten Holiday Cast and Premiere Date
The gist: Forgotten Holiday premieres Saturday, Oct. 24, at 8/7c on Hallmark Channel, with Janel Parrish and Daniel Lissing in the leads. Hallmark's page for the movie says it streams on Hallmark+ the next day, Sunday, Oct. 25.
It's the fifth new movie of Countdown to Christmas 2026 and the Saturday pick of the second weekend, a night after Winter Wonderlanes. The hook is amnesia: a boyfriend loses a year of memories, and his girlfriend has to date him all over again.
Who plays Kathryn and Rob in Forgotten Holiday?
Hallmark's cast page names two actors so far. Supporting roles, including Kathryn's father and Rob's sister, aren't listed there yet.
| Actor | Role | You may know them from |
|---|---|---|
| Janel Parrish | Kathryn Liu | Pretty Little Liars (Mona Vanderwaal); the To All the Boys films (Margot Covey); Hallmark's Sugarplummed, Never Been Chris'd and Coyote Creek Christmas |
| Daniel Lissing | Rob Ashford | When Calls the Heart (Mountie Jack Thornton, 2014 to 2018); ABC's Last Resort (Lt. James King); Hallmark's A December Bride and Christmas in Love |
Parrish is a Hallmark regular by now. Her network bio names six earlier movies for the channel, from Right in Front of Me (2021) to Sugarplummed and Haunted Wedding (both 2024, per Wikipedia). She was born in Hawaii and played Little Cosette in Les Misérables at six, the same bio says.
Lissing is the Australian actor many Hallmark viewers still call Jack. He left When Calls the Heart in 2018. His first two holiday movies for the channel, A December Bride (2016) and Christmas in Love (2018), date from those years, and he has been back since in Santa Tell Me (2024) and Single on the 25th (2025), per his Wikipedia filmography.
No director or writer is named on Hallmark's pages or in TVLine's rundown. We've left those out.
What happens in Forgotten Holiday?
Kathryn buys antiques for her father's store and has been with Rob for almost a year. He proposes just before Christmas. She panics and bolts without answering.
Rob then crashes his car on the way to his sister's house. He wakes up missing the past year, which means no memory of Kathryn and none of the Christmas spirit he was known for. On his doctor's advice, she agrees to walk him back through their relationship, date by date, and reintroduce him to the holidays.
That's the setup in Hallmark's own synopsis, retold here. Hallmark's short blurb calls it a "redate." The catch the network teases is a good one: if his memory returns, so does the proposal she ran from. We'll stop there.
When is Forgotten Holiday on again after the premiere?
| Date | Eastern | Central | Airing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat., Oct. 24 | 8 p.m. | 7 p.m. | Premiere |
| Sun., Oct. 25 | 6 p.m. | 5 p.m. | Encore |
| Fri., Oct. 30 | 10 p.m. | 9 p.m. | Encore |
| Tue., Nov. 3 | 8 p.m. | 7 p.m. | Encore |
| Sun., Nov. 15 | 4 p.m. | 3 p.m. | Encore |
| Fri., Nov. 27 | 12 p.m. | 11 a.m. | Encore |
Those six come from the showtimes list on Hallmark Channel's page for the movie, checked Monday, Oct. 5, at 10:12 a.m. ET. Hallmark writes them as "8/7c," "6/5c" and so on; it marks morning airings with an "a," and none of these has one. The three October airings also appear on Hallmark's day-by-day schedule, which ran through Oct. 31 when we looked. The November ones sit beyond it and can still shift.
Hallmark+ has no live channel. To catch the Saturday broadcast you need Hallmark Channel through cable, satellite or a live TV streaming package; the app gets the movie a day later.
Where was Forgotten Holiday filmed?
Hallmark hasn't said where it was filmed. The movie page, the synopsis and the cast bios don't mention a location, and neither does TVLine. The synopsis doesn't name the town where Kathryn's family store is, either. We'll add the location here once the network or a local outlet confirms it.
FAQ
What's on Hallmark Channel before and after Forgotten Holiday on Oct. 24?
Hallmark's schedule for that Saturday lists a Winter Wonderlanes encore at 6 p.m. ET, Forgotten Holiday at 8, then Mr. & Mrs. Christmas at 10.
What premieres the next night?
What If Christmas, with Lori Loughlin and Tom Cavanagh, on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. ET. Forgotten Holiday's first encore runs right before it at 6, and Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story repeats at 10.
Sources
- Hallmark Channel: Forgotten Holiday (showtimes, streaming note), its synopsis and cast page (roles, actor bios)
- Hallmark Channel: schedule
- TVLine: 2026 Hallmark Christmas movie schedule
- Wikipedia: Janel Parrish and Daniel Lissing (earlier credits)