We can`t take any more of 2017, so we`ve turned to the Hallmark Channel in desperation
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Consider the Hallmark Channel in December. No, but really. `I cannot stop watching the Hallmark Channel,` says Mac Cohn, proprietor of a sports website in Ohio. `Usually to unwind I would watch football, but even watching football has become a political thing. The Hallmark Channel has none of that.` Hallmark, which often seemed to exist just so you had something to fold laundry to, is now deep into its biggest annual event - `Countdown to Christmas,` a series of several dozen fresh-from-the-oven seasonal made-for-TV movies. And it is an event. `The Christmas Train` - with a plot that is vaguely `Murder on the Orient Express,` if one replaces `murder` with `festive spirit` - reached 4.9...