If you ask actor Jonathan Bennett (above right) how he's doing these days the answer is simple. "I feel like I'm on top of the world!" he declared when the question when posed during an exclusive interview with MediaVillage. "I have a gay movie at Hallmark Channel coming out this weekend -- like come on!" The film, titled The Holiday Sitter, marks his seventh for Hallmark Media, and personally, his most important as it marks the network's first holiday-themed project that puts an LGBTQ+ storyline at the forefront. Adding to his exuberance is the fact be brought the story to the network. "I did write the story," he stated proudly. "I took it to Hallmark Channel saying, 'I've always loved '80s comedies like Uncle Buck, where an uncle comes home to take care of his niece and nephew and doesn't know what he's doing, so what if Uncle Buck was Gunkel Buck -- and gay?
Jonathan Bennett and George Krissa Make History with "The Holiday Sitter," Hallmark Channel's First LGBTQ+ Rom-Com
