Premiering Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT,The Christmas Lotteryfeatures the promise of a multimillion-dollar windfall.
It’s also the online grid’s first-ever Yuletide movie with an LGBTQ couple among its main characters.
And it includes a matriarch who’s battling dementia.
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There’s just one problem.
Can this family heal its rifts and find the ticket in time for Christmas?
(That’s debatable, but reconnection is a whole lotmorefun with stacks of cash under the tree.)
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“They really want to tell an authentic story and something that people can really relate to.
Everybody doesn’t have a picture-perfect Christmas.
It’s the drama of the holidays.
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It’s the family relationships.
And it’s also the real-world challenges that people are facing.”
“There is a fear and an anxiety about how to deal with those family members.
Which brings us to Diedre and her wife, Belinda (Phylicia Morgan).
“I wanted it to reflect the people that I see in my family,” says Burt-Murray.
“Our LGBTQ couple was a couple that I recognized in my family and that I wanted to celebrate.
They’re just an adorable couple that people are gonna fall in love with.
Or what really was that issue?”
It’s something that a lot of people, um, enjoy.
And our characters are no different.”
