{"id":804717,"date":"2026-08-06T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:08:12","slug":"bears-ben-johnson-cole-kmet-colston-loveland-to-appear-in-hallmark-channel-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804717\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; Ben Johnson, Cole Kmet, Colston Loveland to appear in Hallmark Channel movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Johnson made his acting debut over the summer when he filmed a brief appearance in a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bears<\/a>-themed <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/hallmark-holiday-touchdown-bears-love-story-christkindlmarket\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hallmark Channel<\/a> movie. <\/p>\n<p>Two of Johnson\u2019s players appear in \u201cHoliday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story,\u201d which will premiere Oct. 17 on the Hallmark Channel. Tight ends Colston Loveland and Cole Kmet have a small role in the movie, too.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who had never acted before, joked Thursday morning that he and Kmet \u201ctook a lot of acting classes this offseason \u2014 so we were ready for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loveland was fine, he deadpanned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did not need them,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was natural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get ready to see some familiar faces in Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story premiering Saturday October 17 on Hallmark Channel, streaming next day on Hallmark Plus! \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UvJvhIo6op\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UvJvhIo6op<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChicagoBears\/status\/2085064130327715894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get ready to see some familiar faces in Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story premiering Saturday October 17 on Hallmark Channel, streaming next day on Hallmark Plus! \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UvJvhIo6op\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UvJvhIo6op<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChicagoBears\/status\/2085064130327715894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two Pro Football Hall of Famers \u2014 Dan Hampton and Mike Singletary \u2014 and beloved former Bears cornerback Charles Tillman will be in the TV movie. Connie Payton, Walter\u2019s widow, has a part, too, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, crews filmed the Christmas-themed movie at a reconstructed Christkindlmarket.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears are the third NFL team to participate in a Hallmark movie, joining the Bills and Chiefs. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson made his acting debut over the summer when he filmed a brief appearance in a Bears-themed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":["post-804717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}