Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays Melinda Gordon on Ghost Whisperer, and Neil Patrick Harris, who stars as Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, have been cast as key characters for CBS' new half-hour animated Christmas special entitled YES, VIRGINA, which premieres on Friday, December 11.
In the new show, Hewitt and Harris portray a mother and father to an 8-year-old daughter named Virginia O'Hanlon (Beatrice Miller), who always loved Christmas until a playground bully tells her that Santa Claus doesn't exist. Not sure what to believe, Virginia and her friend Ollie (Kieran Patrick Campbell) explore the streets of New York City to uncover the truth.
During her adventure, Virginia receives some interesting advice from her quirky scientist father and understanding mother. She also encounters a Scraggly Santa (Michael Buscemi), and an over-eager librarian with a shelf full of Christmas books.
This is not the first time Hewitt and Harris ventured into animation. The
Ghost Whisperer star has been cast in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, Groove Squad, Delgo and
The Magic 7, while Harris has recently let his voice in
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and
Justice League: The New Frontier, just to name a few.
Aside from the aforementioned actors,
YES, VIRGINA also features Alfred Molina as
New York Sun editor Francis Church, who feels he has better things to do than respond to a little girl's question.
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist(Image courtesy of CBS)