The Christmas Setup is an American-Canadian romantic comedy television film, directed by Pat Mills and broadcast in 2020.

[1] The first LGBTQ-themed Christmas film ever broadcast by Lifetime,[2] the film stars Ben Lewis as Hugo, an uptight New York City attorney who comes home with his best friend Madelyn (Ellen Wong) to visit his mother Kate (Fran Drescher) for Christmas, and is forced to consider what he really wants in life when he reconnects with his high school crush Patrick (Blake Lee) just as he is offered a promotion to his firm's office in London.

His mother, Kate Spencer, immediately sets up a list of chores and Christmas activities for her sons, Hugo and Aiden, who returns later that week.

At the train station's party, Hugo decides to decline the job and begin a long distance relationship with Patrick.

[6] TVLine listed Fran Drescher as an honourable mention in their Performer of the Week, stating, "The most groundbreaking aspect of Lifetime’s first LGBTQ-themed holiday movie The Christmas Setup was not that it had a gay couple at its center.

In a sea of indistinguishable, cookie-cutter holiday movie matriarchs, Drescher gifted us with a true Christmas miracle: an actual human being".