Hallmark Channel has greenlit Yuletide telepic "A Carol Christmas," toplining Tori Spelling.
Tom Amundsen ("Full House") will pen the project, to be exec produced by Robert Halmi Jr. and Alpine Prods.' Larry Levinson.
Levinson and the cabler have teamed on the upcoming miniseries "Frankenstein" and the recent originals "Mystery Woman," with Kellie Martin, and "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay," starring Tim Matheson and Sean Young.
Spelling will play the titular Scrooge role of Carol, a tyrannical talkshow host, in an update of the Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol."
Production is slated to begin in Los Angeles this month with the telepic to bow in December.
Spelling appears in the upcoming feature "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," opposite Paul Schneider and Jennifer Westfeldt. She's also playing a recurring character on the WB's mid-season laffer "The Help," with Antonio Sabato Jr.
Thesp is repped by Joan Green Management, UTA and attorney Jamie Mandelbaum. (As reported by VARIETY)
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