It's the final episode of season two! Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne returns to the podcast to talk with Alan and Jeanne about Netflix's big 2018 Christmas film, The Princess Switch. Netflix ran the Hallmark formula through their magic algorithms and made a super-charged Christmas movie. Lonely, straight-laced baker Stacy travels to Belgravia to…

Jeanne and Alan go guestless to talk about 2017's hotel renovation/dance recital Christmas combo Enchanted Christmas. Project manager Laura returns to her hometown to fix up The Enchanted Lodge, an abandoned hotel which used to host the big Christmas event in town. Laura's dancer ex is also back in town and he's performing at the Christmas event. W…

Writer Valerie Loftus joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe, a 2018 Hallmark movie starring the Queen of Christmas, Lacey Chabert. It's not really based on Pride & Prejudice at all. Instead it's a heartwarming tale of an investment expert who goes home for Christmas to help her mother organise a charity event in their …

Writer Caroline O'Donoghue joins Jeanne and Alan to talk about 2017's You Can't Fight Christmas, the heartwarming tale of Leslie Major, an interior decorator working in the Chesterton Hotel, a neighbourhood landmark whose new owner wants to take away everything special about it. Can Leslie make the new owner Edmund fall in love with her AND the Che…

Totally Dublin music editor Danny Wilson joins Jeanne and Alan to talk about 2017's Coming Home For Christmas, the heartwarming tale of Lizzie Richfield, a woman who loves Christmas and takes a job as house manager in a big old mansion where everybody's in need of Christmas cheer. Will Lizzie thaw out this frosty old house and make two brothers fig…

Bandwagons host and Love Island expert Fionnuala Jones joins Alan and Jeanne to analyse 2010's Christmas Cupid, the heartwarming tale of a heartless career woman who gets visited by the ghost of her dead client and the ghosts of boyfriends past, present, and future. Will she turn her life around AND pull off the party of the Christmas season AND re…

DJ Claire Beck joins Jeanne and Alan to discuss 2017’s Christmas Festival Of Ice, the heartwarming tale of an aspiring lawyer who loves to sculpt ice on the side. When her town’s ice sculpting festival loses its funding she decides to raise the money herself. Will the mysterious Christmas tree seller become something more along the way? Hell. Yes. …

With Love, Christmas is the heartwarming tale of an advertising person who gets her crush in her office Secret Santa but also has to work with him on the big account AND they're up for the same promotion. Will there be a misunderstanding that threatens her happiness before she gets her happy ending? It's entirely possible. With Love, Christmas was …

The Mistletoe Inn is the heartwarming tale of a jilted writer who goes to a writer's retreat to see if she has what it takes and finds love, acclaim, and herself along the way. It stars Alicia Witt and David Alpay and we liked it a whole lot. The Mistletoe Inn was written by Michael Nourse based on the book by Richard Paul Evans and was directed by…

We're back! Esther O'Moore Donohoe of The 80% Podcast returns to help Alan and Jeanne figure out their feelings towards the 2017 Hallmark Hall Of Fame classic The Christmas Train, the heartwarming tale of a lonely journalist who bumps into the one who got away on a Christmas Train and all the heartwarming characters that populate your typical Chris…

Welcome back to Season Two of Roast Chestnuts! We've got ten more Made-For-TV Christmas movies to dissect between now and Christmas with special guests like Esther O'Moore Donohoe, Erin McGathy, Claire Beck, and loads more. This year we're getting interactive. Grab your Roast Chestnuts Bingo Card [here](https://www.headstuff.org/roast-chestnuts/roa…

Journalist and podcaster Ellen Tannam joins Alan and Jeanne for the last episode of this series of Roast Chestnuts. The gang talk about 2017’s The Perfect Christmas Present, the heartwarming tale of a man who can find the perfect present for anyone and a woman who’s just moved across the country to be with a boyfriend that she’s kind of meh about. …

Happy St. Stephen’s Day! Patrick Freyne of the Irish Times joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about 2003’s Undercover Christmas, the heartwarming tale of a cocktail waitress who agrees to give evidence against her fraudster boyfriend and ends up being taken to an FBI agent’s parents’ house for Christmas to hide out. The waitress and the FBI agent have t…

2FM DJ Conor Behan joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about 2012’s A Bride For Christmas, the heartwarming tale of a man who makes a sociopathic bet that he can get engaged in less than four weeks and a woman who’s left three men at the altar and sworn off marriage forever. Will they get together? *shakes magic 8 ball* All Signs Point To Yes. A Bride Fo…

Eithne Shortall, Sunday Times chief arts writer and author of Love In Row 27, joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about 2013’s Fir Crazy. Fir Crazy is the heartwarming tale of a woman who takes over her family’s Christmas tree lot for one fateful Christmas, steals electricity from a department store, and finds love along the way. Fir Crazy was written by…

No Monster Club’s Bobby Aherne joins Alan and Jeanne to dissect 2005’s Recipe For A Perfect Christmas, the heartwarming tale of a food writer who gets her big break and sets her lonely mother up with a desperate chef in order to stop them both from annoying her. Will she find love along the way? Will there be salsa dancing? Will a man get fired for…

Writer and co-founder of GAFFInteriors.ie Caroline Foran joins Jeanne and Alan to watch Christmas With Holly (2012), the heartwarming story of a man who moves in with his brothers in a last-ditch attempt to get his deceased sister’s traumatised daughter to speak again. It’s also the heartwarming story of a jilted bride who opens a toy shop on an is…

Writer Emer McLysaght joins Jeanne and Alan to watch A Heavenly Christmas (2016), the heartwarming story of a woman who dies and goes to heaven but gets sent back to Earth to make a little girl’s wish come true and falls in love along the way. A Heavenly Christmas was written by Gregg McBride, directed by Paul Shapiro and stars Kristin Davis, Eric …

Writer Roisin Kiberd joins Jeanne and Alan to watch A Wish For Christmas (2016), the heartwarming story of a woman who gets a wish granted by SANTA CLAUS and has 48 hours to use the wish to change her life for the better and maybe fall in love and help others along the way too. We talk about the film, Vancouver, serial killers, actors pretending to…

Esther O’Moore Donohoe of The 80% podcast joins Jeanne and Alan to watch I’ll Be Home For Christmas (2016), the heartwarming story of a single mother trying to accommodate her cranky ex-cop father’s behaviour even though she’s very busy with AN IMPORTANT CASE. Along the way, the Roast Chestnuts gang find out what honey pears are, decide that Sharon…

Welcome to the first episode of Roast Chestnuts, a podcast about made for TV Christmas movies. This week, Jeanne, Alan, and special guest Fuchsia MacAree watch A Princess for Christmas (2011), a heartwarming tale about a woman who brings her orphaned niece and nephew to a fictional European country to spend Christmas with the family they never knew…

Jeanne Sutton and Alan Maguire believe that the true spirit of Christmas lives in Made For TV Christmas Rom-Coms. That’s why they’ve started Roast Chestnuts, a new, limited-run series on the HeadStuff Podcast Network. Every Friday from November 3rd until Christmas they, along with a special guest, will be introducing you to a new Christmas movie, s…