This holiday season, Lifetime is hoping to score big time in the Christmas movie competition, with what it’s promoting as the channel’s first-ever Christmas movie sex scene. The movie, titled A Cowboy Christmas Romance, will feature real estate “closer” Lexie (Jana Kramer) knocking boots with her horse-whispering love interest Coby (Adam Senn). A Cowboy Christmas Romance? More like A Reverse Cowgirl Christmas Romance, #amirite?
Even Lifetime Christmas movies have to evolve eventually, it turns out. I mean, not the part where a workaholic city slicker returns to her small hometown where she meets a handsome single dad who teaches her the meaning of Christmas and they fall in love. That hasn’t changed. What has changed is that, for the first time, these love birds are actually going to have sex.
Lifetime’s upcoming A Cowboy Christmas Romance will be the first Lifetime Christmas movie with an actual sex scene, according to the movie’s star Jana Kramer. “When I read it, I was like, ‘Well, this is gonna be interesting,’” said Kramer, who was pregnant during filming, on her Whine Down podcast. “I’m like, ‘How are we gonna do this with the baby belly?’”
Without giving too much away, Kramer went on, “We’re on this—spoiler alert—he lays me down on some hay, and then we, you know…and then, you know, obviously, it’s still Lifetime, it’s still family. But it was pushing limits there too.”
TV Christmas movies are famously chaste, whether they’re produced by Lifetime, Hallmark, Netflix, or elsewhere. At Hallmark, in fact, no sex scenes is a matter of policy. As one scriptwriter told Entertainment Weekly, “Any sexual is too sexual.”
But then, outside of the holiday season, Lifetime has always been a bit more risqué than its cookie-cutter competitor.
So my first question is whether Lifetime adding an actual sex scene instead of an implied one entices you to be more likely to watch that movie over a more chaste one? I get it, the holidays make people horny. No judgment if adding a literal roll in the hay to a Christmas movie hits the spot on any given Saturday night. Do your thang.
My next question is what does “It’s still family” and “pushing limits there too.” mean? My 9-year-old loves watching Hallmark movies with my mom. He’s at that age where something “pushing limits” isn’t going to go over his head. Last week, the Beatles song, “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” came on and my younger son asked, “Do what in the road?” Before I could think of an answer that wasn’t, “Paul wrote a song about seeing monkeys doing it,” my older son responded, “Oh, you know, like, smoochy kiss and stuff.” So yeah, those limits are narrow, the line is fine. Still, there are plenty of other movies and networks to turn on (pun intended) if you want to watch a successful, career-minded woman living in a big city give it all up to move back to her hometown so she can hook up with a local.
A Cowboy Christmas Romance premieres on Lifetime on Saturday, December 9 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. It will be available for streaming on Sunday, December 10.
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That sounds silly, lol! Literally, I bet it’ll end up being unintentionally funny. Cuz what does a sex scene in a Lifetime Original Movie look like anyway? Will a Christmas stalker be nearby? Is there a sassy, no-plot-line-of-her-own Black best friend waiting by her cellphone for all the details? What’s the soundtrack for the scene? Some jazz flute???
In other words, I’ll check it out, lol!
Lol, there is no way it’s a sex scene. They’re kissing for longer than the Hallmark 0.5 seconds, he lays her down on the hay still kissing her, fade to black. I will eat a cowboy hat if as much as a shirt is unbuttoned or a heavy sigh is heard. Horizontal (fully clothed) kissing equals sex scene here. But whatevs, good for them and definitely clever marketing. The story sounds stupidly cute tbh.
I think there is definitely room for spicier content, but with the audience they’ve built, Lifetime should be building a brand category for these. Harlequin novels have all sorts of series that let people know if they are getting closed door or explicit sex. Also people online are getting really weird about sex in movies. It can both be true that there’s a big market for this and that they’ll get a backlash.
If only there was some kind of way to tell people what the level of mature content would be… some kind of a rating system… with different ages built in… hmmmm….
“Even Lifetime Christmas movies have to evolve eventually, it turns out. I mean, not the part where a workaholic city slicker returns to her small hometown where she meets a handsome single dad who teaches her the meaning of Christmas and they fall in love. That hasn’t changed. What has changed is that, for the first time, these love birds are actually going to have sex.”
Right. This sounds like it’s saying that Xmas movies are kind of generic and mediocre, BUT this movie is all that with a sex scene. So watch it for the sex!
I can’t get past the part about the baby bump. Ok, they can hide it with all the hay, but what about the rest of the movie? Do they dress her in baggy coats and sweaters, do they only show her from the shoulders up? If Lifetime really wanted to “evolve” they’d have pregnancy part of the character’s story – Christmas, pregnancy, hay, manger, oh my.
And do the holidays really make people horny? They just make me exhausted and annoyed.
The cowboy’s name is Coby?? And who in their ever loving mind believes cowboys make it through a 2 hour courtship without sex?
Coby sounds pretty apt for a cowboy to me. Or at least, a wannabe cowboy? The names Cody and Colby were pretty popular for a while there, including in Texas where I live. My son had a couple of Codies in his grade at elementary school.
Okay, you made me second guess myself that maybe I had mistyped it, but I just checked and yup, it’s Coby! Cowboy Coby!
I much prefer Netflix christmas movies to Lifetime. But, you have to embrace the cheese and stupidity. And sometimes they cross a line. We were watching last weekend (I cant remember where it was) about a woman who goes to Norway with a man she just met because she has a figurine carved in his hometown and WHAT DOES IT MEAN. Also something something meteorological Ph.d dissertation so her boss FORCED her to take the free ticket to Norway because of her career. We stopped halfway through bc I just could not with the stupidity.
I would have taken some sex over that damn figurine any day, LOLOL.
OMG, that was My Norwegian Holiday (or was it My Norwegian Christmas?) Where Figurine Girl has the same name as Norwegian Guy’s ex-girlfriend who was going to Norway with him to visit his family and something something he gives FG the extra ticket since it has the same name on it. I watched about half of it because the setup was so creepy and stalkery that I hoped he might be a serial killer – sadly, no.
YES that was it!
and lordy being a serial killer would have been a welcome plot twist, LOL.
I watched a Hallmark Christmas movie called Joyeux Noel recently and the sole reason I watched it was because it was filmed in my dad’s home city of Rouen in France. My relatives who live in the area mentioned it to us, they filmed it in the summer and transformed a street or two into a Christmas market in July lol. My mom who loves Hallmark Christmas movies and who fell in love with my dad in the same city told me it was really bad which I found hilarious because Hallmark movies are not really that great to begin with.
The story was about a woman who works as a copy editor at a newspaper who conveniently finds a “mysterious love letter” in a box she buys in some antique store. Somehow the letter is linked to a town in France where the old saying goes you fall in love at the Christmas market. She ends up going to France to the town to solve the mystery of the love letter and visit the famous Christmas market with her male reporter coworker who is not a fan of Christmas etc. The plot was so thin and my mom was right the movie was pretty bad but I enjoyed all the street scenes since I had walked those same streets several times before in Rouen lol.
My greatest dream is to fall down a magical hole and end up in a Lifetime Christmas Town. Where I work 1 hour a week and earn enough money to live in a 2 million dollar house. And all my problems are solved by the hot lawyer who is trying to ruin Christmas. Then finds Christmas joy in my pie hole.
*sigh* an old lady can dream…
Lololol I love every word of this.
Those damned hot lawyers always up to no good.
I hope your dream comes true! 🤣
Are we NOT TALKING about how Jana Kramer now has a whole BABY with a man she’s been dating since earlier this year and is engaged to him? By my count (admittedly only based on posts on Celebitchy) she’s had at least 3 relationships with “The One” since she and Cheater McCheatsonher finally got their long overdue divorce, which wasn’t that long ago.
Also, why is he wearing a linen suit in winter? I probably have other questions too, but those are the big ones.
This is less of a question and more of a statement. She seems harmless and obviously wants to be in a loving relationship, so I wish her well. I just don’t see how she did the work she clearly needed to do so that she could be in a place to start a healthy relationship. But not my circus, not my monkeys. Doing it in the road or otherwise (see what I did there?? Full circle!! 🙌)
I don’t even know who she is LOL.
I only do from this site, lol. But you’re one up on me, friend!
I’m getting so much flack from the guys this year because I’ve been watching all the Cheeze Whiz holiday specials. And while 99.9% are awful, it’s like having holiday music in the background while I’m doing crap around the house lol. But they’re are those that are simply too awful for background noise. Must. Stop. Movie. Now.
I mean, it’s a weird flex, but go off. 🤣
Don’t you mean “get off”? 😂😂
I don’t watch any of these movies, but friends of mine do. At least this woman finally has a career beyond talking about her disastrous personal life?
I don’t watch TV but Jana Kramer is so pretty and just having fun. That is what the holidays are about after all!! Parties and lighted parades and weekend trips andand great food and getting prezzies! And of course there is some great sex this time of year too – my boyfriends always love how I dress for parties and I love that! Hating on that is just Grinchy haterade!
I’m confused by this because a decade or so LIfetime aired The 12 Men of Christmas with Kristin Chenowith that had a sex scene? On a desk? And then we see them post-coital with her wearing the shirt he was wearing in the previous scene? (Side note: this is a modernized telling of Pride and Prejudice that I highly recommend, plus good acting, great chemistry, and the the Montana scenery… and the 12 Men.)
“A Very Cowboy Christmas” sounds a bit like the most recent holiday TV I watched, where that actress who used to be on “Life Goes On” is a widowed business consultant who visits a Wyoming ranch with her teenage daughter to assess how many acres they need to sell off and falls for the son of the ranch owner who, despite being the best catch in town, is somehow unattached at roughly age 48. Except that one was possibly THE most unsexy Christmas romance I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something. The leads were so wooden and it seemed like the actors must have hated each other. The daughter was cute though.
My newish favorite Christmas movie is on Prime: “Your Christmas or Mine?” It even contains a brief Meghan Markle mention. It’s adorable and genuinely funny.
@QuiteContrary, I just got off of a Zoom with my friend and we were literally just talking about that movie. We both watched it last year and couldn’t remember the name. It came up because she’d just finished the most recent season of Sex Education. It’s a really fun movie, I liked it!
Reminds me of when I was in high school and the Harlequin Romances started getting racier with sex scenes. We started trading them like people trade baseball cards. I’ve kept two of them hidden away in my library for fun. 😁
Can’t escape the guys’ teasing, but I’m owning my obsession with cheesy holiday specials! Okay, most are awful, but they’re like holiday background noise for tackling chores. That said, there’s a limit to the cheese I can handle. This one’s going off!