Amongst our early autumn rituals, my wife Eileen and I buy a pumpkin and cornstalks for the front porch, remove the AC window unit, and hide candy-baited bear-traps in the front yard in anticipation of trick-or-treaters. Oh, and we turn on the Hallmark Channel to see if they've already started showing Christmas and holiday movies.

But wait! Some Hallmark visionary has gone "outside the box with the brand" — that's actual Business Person-Speak — showed some creative initiative, and introduced a campaign of new films under the "Fall Harvest" banner. Outstanding!

But wait again! Research tells me these "Fall Harvest" films actually started in 2016. How did we miss this tidbit of news?! My cheesecloth brain can't remember ... but that's okay. Hallmark will recycle last season's four Fall Harvest films as they weekly introduce this year's six new Fall Harvest films, meaning we have TEN Fall Harvest movies to enjoy.

How, then, do the Hallmark Fall Harvest movies differ from the Hallmark Countdown to Christmas movies? Not much, and that's what's great. You still have two attractive, upwardly mobile but polar opposite young white people, thrust by capricious fate into circumstances requiring them to escape the bustle of the big city for a small town, where they fall in love and realize pastoral living is actually a lot more fulfilling than life in Manhattan. Oh, but instead of falling in love at the snowman-building competition and saving a relative's scented-candle factory, they fall in love at the Jack-o'-Lantern-carving tournament and save a relative's vineyard.

Yes, we're hooked. At the same time, an occasional derivation on the template might be welcome and so, as we still have four as-yet-un-premiered Hallmark Fall Harvest, I'd like to see:

1. The Wu Tang Clan's tour bus breaking down in Falling Leaves, Vermont, and Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspector Deck and the rest save the town's financially troubled Corn Maze.  

2. Hannah, the beloved owner of the Frost Hills florist shop in New York's Hudson River Valley, is horribly disfigured when someone accidentally puts pirhana in the Fall Festival's bobbing-for-apples tub — but Cade, a visiting  and handsome Boston plastic surgeon steps in and offers his services. Whoops! He doesn't do a great job, and Hannah ends up looking like John Madden. Cade marries Michaela, the hottie who owns the scented-candle store featured in a Hallmark Christmas movie from 2013.

3. Kat and Topher work together at a top Manhattan acquisitions firm. Though they loathe each other, they're sent to foreclose on the main employer in Spice Lake, New Hampshire — a family-owned maple syrup farm. Indeed, they do foreclose. They still hate each other, but at least the town is ruined. By Halloween, everyone is dead.