Janel Parrish fronts Forgotten Holiday as Kathryn Liu, an antiques buyer for her father's store. The Hallmark movie premieres on Saturday, October 24, giving viewers a first look at a romance built around a proposal, an accident, and a memory gap.
Hallmark says, "Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas continues Saturday (October 24) with Forgotten Holiday, a new romance starring Janel Parrish and Daniel Lissing." The movie airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Hallmark Channel and becomes available on Hallmark+ on Sunday, October 25.
Kathryn Liu and Rob Ashford
Janel Parrish plays Kathryn Liu, who has been happily dating Rob Ashford for nearly a year when he proposes before Christmas. The setup is blunt: Kathryn panics and leaves without answering, then Rob gets into a car accident that erases his memory of the past year, including the relationship.
That sequence gives the movie its engine. Kathryn then agrees to help trigger Rob's memory by retracing their romance and reintroducing him to the holidays, which turns the story into a second-chance test rather than a simple reunion.
Vancouver and British Columbia
Forgotten Holiday was mostly filmed in Vancouver and British Columbia, with some scenes shot in Martini Town and Fort Langley. Those locations give Hallmark a practical production mix: a main base for most of the filming and a smaller set of scenes that can be used to vary the look of the movie without changing the story's core setup.
For Parrish, the film also extends a career that has already moved from Pretty Little Liars to all three To All the Boys I've Loved Before movies. For Daniel Lissing, the project adds another Hallmark title to a resume that already made him familiar to Hallmark viewers through When Calls the Heart.
October 25 on Hallmark+
The immediate viewing window is the main draw here: one broadcast night on Hallmark Channel, then streaming on Hallmark+ the next day. For viewers following Countdown to Christmas, that schedule makes Forgotten Holiday easy to catch without waiting for a later repeat.
The sharper question inside the plot is whether Kathryn can push past the moment she walked away before Rob's memories fully disappear. Hallmark has set the stakes, and the movie's appeal rests on whether that choice feels earned when the story returns to it.
