Ian Harding Calls the Idea of Doing a Holiday Rom-Com with “Pretty Little Liars” Costar Lucy Hale 'Amazing' (Exclusive)

The Holidazed actor tells PEOPLE he loves "a good overlap” and would be down to reunited with Hale, as well as costars Troian Bellisario and Shay Mitchell

Earlier this month, Brant Daugherty and Tammin Sursok had a Pretty Little Liars reunion in Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas movie Trivia at St. Nick’s. PLL alum Ian Harding has become a Hallmark mainstay, too, currently starring in Hallmark+’s Holidazed — and he tells PEOPLE his own Pretty Little Liars reunion moment on the network is “bound to happen.”

“I love a good overlap,” Harding says. “I’d love to work with Troian [Bellisario] or Shay [Mitchell] again, and obviously Lucy [Hale]. There's so much of a fan base there. I think it's got to be very specific, but a holiday rom-com with Lucy Hale? That'd be amazing!”

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Since Pretty Little Liars wrapped in 2017, Harding shared the screen again with Torrey DeVitto — who played Spencer’s (Bellisario) big sister Melissa — in seasons 4 and 5 of Chicago Med. “She's become such a good friend of mine,” Harding says. “I was just at her wedding.”

Harding says fans never forget his PLL past, though, as he still gets recognized as high school teacher Ezra Fitz, who has a romance with student Aria Montgomery (Hale).

“I'm grateful that the rabid fan base has grown up a little bit,” he says. “A lot of times it's just the casual glance where somebody recognizes me, or they'll just come up and say like, ‘Hey, I was a big fan of that show.’ And they shake your hand and then you keep walking.”

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Thanks to streaming, Pretty Little Liars has found new fans, too.

“It's still out there,” Harding says of the show. “You get new fans, but they're 12 years old and you're like, ‘We wrapped when you were five, how does that work?’”

Sometimes passersby can’t quite place how they know Harding. “That happens once out of, I'd say, every three times,’” he says. “Somebody will say, ‘Hey, you're that local news anchor,’ or something. Sometimes I roll with it, and sometimes I don't.”

Later this month, Harding will star opposite Lindsay Lohan in Netflix’s Our Little Secret, a holiday film in which two siblings discover their significant others dated when they all spend Christmas together. Harding feels that both Netflix and Hallmark’s holiday programming has “a lot of heart.”

“They're two sides to the same coin and I've been so lucky because I've been able to play in both,” the father of one says. “They both try and stick to the heart of what Christmas movies are, which is about connection and family. There's a romance to it, while also acknowledging there's a certain amount of anxiety that comes from dealing with family, and the only way to really address that is with humor and, in some cases, wine.”

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For Harding, getting to work on both Hallmark and Netflix holiday projects feels like the ultimate Christmas present.

“I feel truly beyond grateful that this is my job, that I am paid to pretend to have Christmas surrounded by beautiful and funny people,” he says. “I hope that I get to keep doing it.”

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New episodes of Holidazed premiere Thursdays on Hallmark+.