We’re finally getting a “Family Matters” reunion, thanks to Lifetime.
The stars of the former hit show are looking better than ever in a Christmas special premiering this Saturday, Dec. 5, on Lifetime. Reginald Vel Johnson, (Carl Winslow) and his TV wife, Jo Marie Payton (Hariette Winslow), will once again share the screen in Lifetime’s The Flight Before Christmas.
The made for TV film, which stars Mayim Bialik and Ryan McPartlin, follows two holiday travelers who become stranded in Montana when their Christmas Eve red eye flight is diverted.
This is pretty epic news, seeing as this is the first time Vel Johnson and Payton have shared the screen since the second to last season of their hit ’90s sitcom, which ran from 1989 to 1998. As you may recall, Hariette’s character was played by a different actress in the final season of the landmark TGIF show.
The Flight Before Christmas is just one of many holiday flicks coming to a small screen near you. Lifetime recently announced they’ll be premiering new holiday movies each weekend for the next few weeks, including Last Chance Christmas on Dec. 6, about a stable hand whose tasked with finding a replacement reindeer to help with Christmas deliveries after Prancer is injured, and Wish Upon a Christmas on Dec. 13, a story about a business executive who returns home to help save her family’s ornament business.
The Flight Before Christmas premieres Saturday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. Will you be watching?
