When Calls The Heart, the staple of Hallmark's schedule, is getting an expanded universe. Hallmark+ has ordered a prequel series – Hope Valley: 1874. It comes after the original series was renewed for Season 14 with Lori Loughlin returning. Hope Valley: 1874, which starts production…

Ahead of Season 13’s Jan. 4 premiere, Hallmark Channel has renewed When Calls the Heart for a 14th season. Production will begin next year for a 2027 return. Additionally, original cast member Lori Loughlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm, On Call) is set to reprise her role of Abigail Stanton and will…

The Hallmark Channel is wrapping up its time-travel family drama The Way Home with a fourth and final season. The fantasy series created by Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke, and Marly Reed will premiere Season 4 in the spring, with production expected to wrap later this month after Hallmark…

Hallmark's upcoming 16th annual Countdown to Christmas programming will begin Oct. 17 this year with 24/7 holiday programming through the end of the year on the Hallmark Channel Among the 2025 selection of projects are Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story, which will feature Bills Head Coach…

Hallmark is bringing back one of its Crown Media trailblazers. Michelle Vicary, who helped to establish Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama with fan-friendly programming like When Calls the Heart, is returning to the network to serve as head of programming. Vicary…

Yesterday, Hallmark Channel surprised viewers with a 30-second spot teasing a reteam from Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker, who are set to appear in the holiday movie She’s Making a List, marking the pair’s first reunion since 2018’s My Secret Valentine and the performers’ first Christmas-themed…

Cult classic Gilmore Girls is coming to the Hallmark Channel. Beginning August 25, the series will air all seven seasons in sequential order, starting with the pilot. It will air on weekdays from 2-6 pm and on weekends from 8-10 am, in addition to special occasion marathons, as part of the…

Here’s something for Hallmark fans to cluck about: the channel has set the return date for The Chicken Sisters. The series about a restaurant rivalry is set to return at 8 p.m. ET Aug. 10 to the channel. It will stream the next day on Hallmark+. The adaptation of KJ Dell'Antonia's novel of the…

The Hallmark Channel has renewed The Chicken Sisters for a second season. Production begins today in Vancouver on the series that stars Schuyler Fisk (Amanda), Genevieve Angelson (Mae), Lea Thompson (Nancy) and Wendie Malick (Gus). The series about a restaurant rivalry is an adaptation of KJ…

Hallmark Channel’s first-ever transformational series The Motherhood has a start date. The series that’s hosted by Connie Britton (The White Lotus) will launch May 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with two first episodes. The rest will air every Monday through June 2, and the next day on Hallmark+. The Mo…

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Hamilton Daly, who joined Crown Media Family Networks in 2021 to lead programming and development across Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama, is out. Her position as EVP Programming was eliminated. “Hallmark is aligning its consumer-facing touch…

John Reardon, an actor from the Hallmark Channel and the star of the Canadian police procedural drama Hudson & Rex, has revealed he was diagnosed with tonsil cancer. Reardon shared two photos in a social media post, including one in which the actor is seen in a hospital with his eyes…