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Jacky Lai of A Sugar & Spice Holiday on Her Family s Asian-Canadian Christmas Traditions by Robert Kahn
Canadian actress Jacky Lai leads the cast of A Sugar & Spice Holiday, Lifetime s first movie to focus on an Asian American family. And there s a trio of Asian women guiding matters behind the scenes as well: director Jennifer Liao, writer Eirene Donohue and casting director Judy JK Lee. Veteran actor Tzi Ma co-stars.
The movie has sights set on your sweet tooth: It follows Lai s Suzie Young, a rising L.A. architect who returns home for Christmas and is caught up in a baking competition alongside high school pal, Billy (Tony Giroux). Billy is still the same old mischief-maker, but also a generous community volunteer and…well, geez, those dimples.
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Alternative Viewing: This Week’s TV Premieres
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and so much more to talk about. This coming week of new shows brings us to the latest week of regular TV and a number of premieres. I look forward to getting way too many suggestions about good shows to check out!
Optional discussion topic: What series would you want a LEGO set to be produced for?
With parents at their wits ends and kids crawling the walls, this is not exactly the white Christmas we ve been dreaming of. But not to worry. There s still time to get Aunt Clara s teapot in the mail, and television has some treats to awake that Christmas spirit.
Lifetime is elbowing the Hallmark Channel and UpTV, with a whole month of feel-good Christmas movies. Jacky Lai stars in A Sugar & Spice Holiday, arriving Sunday. Lai, a Canadian whose mother is Vietnamese and father Chinese, says she s thrilled to be part of a multicultural project though her family didn t celebrate Christmas until she was 12.