Brendan takes a job as janitor for Finney, who runs a jazz nightclub in the Northern English city of Newcastle. But Finney is being pressured to sell his club, and Brendan soon provides non-janitorial services to Finney. Soon his rival's American boss Cosmo comes to town, while Brendan begins to fall in love with Kate, an escort working for Cosmo.

Roseanne plays a widowed real-estate agent who lives with her teenage son Johnny Galecki. Mother and son have moved to an upstate California town where high school football reigns supreme. When Galecki joins the junior-varsity team, Roseanne, organizes a "mothers vs. sons" football game.

A Chinese immigrant get caught up in an international crime ring of human smuggling while attempting to make a better life for her family.

After her life in New York unexpectedly falls apart, powerhouse stockbroker Sam Wallace returns to her small town for the holidays and reconnects with her high school sweetheart who helps reignite her humanitarian spirit just in time to help their community on Christmas.

Kelly Leone, producer at Wake Up Milwaukee, a local morning television talk show, has focused this year on changing what were the declining fortunes of the show - her efforts having paid off - at the expense of spending time with friends. This time has also been at the expense of her longer term goal of a news producer life in a bigger market, like Chicago. As such, on New Year's Eve, she, under pressure from her best friends AJ, Lisa and Jackson, makes the new years resolution to say yes to partake in any social event asked of her, no matter the event, this resolution well outside her comfort zone in generally only doing things in which she is comfortable in a high probability of success. The end date of this resolution is her thirtieth birthday in one month's time. Much to her chagrin, her production team, looking for an extended new years story for the show, decides to follow her on her one month progression on this resolution. This resolution coincides with Kelly meeting Tom Malone, a marketing director at the regional office of Imperium National Bank, the two who have an immediate mutual attraction. While Tom too had at one point set his sights on a a bigger market career like Chicago, he has decided to stay in Milwaukee in his unofficial commitment to making life better for his family, most specifically his single mother sister Sheila, and the company. As Kelly and Tom look to be on the path to a committed relationship, an item comes into view that may threaten their relationship where Tom may have to choose between Kelly and his job at the bank, including the welfare of bank customers.

Surgeon Angie prepares to spend another Christmas alone on call for the hospital. However she nods off on the commuter train home and when she wakes up she's in her home town ten years earlier. After she's recovered from the shock, she realizes that she now can make some different choices in life and that the right actions might give her the ticket back to the future. But should she accept the proposal from the handsome sports commentator Tyler this time? Can she save her parents failed marriage? And what about her friend Ben? And if she manages to come back, what will her life look like?

It's the Christmas season. Vanessa Hall is a New York based social worker working for a non-profit foster child placement service, she doing so to pay it forward in being brought up in the foster care system herself. She never knew her father, and her single mother passed away when Vanessa was nine, before Vanessa could ask her anything about her father. In taking an ancestry test, Vanessa not only learns her ethnic makeup, but that there is a positive paternal test in the company's system, her biological father being Richard Hendricks, who lives an hour's drive away in Barrington, CT complete with wife Pauline and three teen to adolescent aged children, Caitlin, Aidan and Emilia. Discussing it on both sides and the two eventually meeting, Vanessa accepts Richard's offer for her to come spend a few days with him and his family in Barrington to get to know them before she meets the extended family who will descend on the house on Christmas Eve. The only other person who has been invited for that extended stay at the same time is family friend, New York corporate lawyer Kris who would be able to give Vanessa a lift. Much like Vanessa, Kris is no longer with any biological family after his parents - his father Richard's best friend - passed away when Kris was in college, he having since spent such time with the Hendricks in they being his surrogate family. Getting over some initial jitters and apprehensions on both sides, Vanessa and the Hendricks end up making an emotional connection as family. That connection is threatened by the different experiences Vanessa and Richard had with Vanessa's mother, those unanswered questions which may in turn threaten the burgeoning romantic connection between Vanessa and Kris.

13-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker's life is turned upside-down when his mother is killed in a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Confused in the rubble of the tragedy, he steals a priceless piece of art known as The Goldfinch.

Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan decorates a spectacular Manhattan Penthouse for Christmas and brings moody writer Lucas Blade some joy for the holidays.

A prince finds his way to Queens during Christmas when a local woman enlists his help with a children's Christmas show.