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Month: May 2024

  • A complete list of the stars who will appear at Hallmark’s first ever Christmas convention

    A complete list of the stars who will appear at Hallmark’s first ever Christmas convention

    Fans will get a chance to meet their favorite Hallmark stars at a Christmas convention sponsored by Hallmark Media at its Kansas City, Missouri headquarters. The event, called the Hallmark Christmas Experience, will feature a Christmas market, festive food and drinks, ice skating, light shows, and ticketed events to meet Hallmark stars.
     
    “Creating ways to help people celebrate and connect is at the very core of our brand DNA at Hallmark, especially during the holiday season,” said Lindsey Roy, Hallmark’s senior vice president of brand development. “We are so excited to bring this uniquely Hallmark experience to life, and can’t wait to watch people find joy and make memories together.”
     

    Christmas convention

     
    The Hallmark Christmas Experience will take place at the company’s headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. Though some of the events are free and open to the public, fans can buy tickets for interactive meet-and-greets with Hallmark actors.
     
    For years now, different companies have sponsored Christmas conventions where fans can meet Hallmark stars. This is the first time Hallmark has gotten in on the action itself.
    A panel at RomaDrama Live! in Nashville.

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    Complete list of Hallmark stars

    Hallmark stars who will be at the convention include:
     
    Tyler Hynes
    Andrew Walker
    Lacey Chabert
    Kristoffer Polaha
    Wes Brown
    Paul Campbell
    Victor Webster
    Warren Christie
    Nikki DeLoach
    Kevin McGarry
    Chris McNally
    Erin Krakow
    Jessy Schram
    Benjamin Ayres
    Kimberley Sustad
    John Brotherton
    Erin Cahill
    Brennan Elliott
    Pascale Hutton
    Andie MacDowell
    Niall Matter
    Barbara Niven
    Rachel Boston
    Ashley Williams
    Cindy Busby
    Jonathan Bennett
    B.J. Britt
    Ginna Claire Mason
    Heather Hemmens
    Taylor Cole
    Chyler Leigh
    Viv Leacock
    Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
    Kavan Smith
    Aimee Garcia
    Brooke D’Orsay
     
     
    Be advised that none of the above stars will be there for all four weekends. To find out when your favorite stars will be there, check the event’s website.
     
    Several Hallmark stars have already posted to social media about the event.
     
    “Christmas is coming!” wrote Rachel Boston in an Instagram post. “I’m so excited to be part of the first-ever Hallmark Christmas Experience in Kansas City, the ultimate holiday season tradition….”
     
    Brendan Penny also weighed in.
     
    “I’m excited to be part of the first-ever Hallmark Christmas Experience in Kansas City, the ultimate holiday season tradition,” he wrote on Instagram.
     

    What to expect

     
    The Hallmark Christmas Experience will take place over the course of four weekends:
     
    Friday, Nov. 29 to Sunday, Dec. 1.
    Friday, Dec. 6 to Sunday, Dec. 8
    Friday, Dec. 13 to Sunday, Dec. 15
    Friday, Dec. 20 to Monday, Dec. 23
     
    Some events, including the Christmas market and tree lighting ceremonies, are open to the public and free. Others, including photo ops with Hallmark stars, require tickets. Packages, which are available on the event website, range from $259 to $699.
     
    Hallmark expects the tickets to go fast, though some fans have already said the tickets cost way too much.
     
    “I would love to go but guys made the tickets too expensive,” one fan wrote on Hallmark Channel’s Facebook page. “I love Hallmark movies and the actors. I have a lot of your Christmas Ornaments for my Christmas [tree]! Just wish the ticket prices were cheaper.”
     
    For more information, visit the event’s website here.
     
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  • Four new Hallmark romance movies coming to TV in June

    Four new Hallmark romance movies coming to TV in June

    Four new Hallmark romance movies will premiere on TV in June. The films, which star such Hallmark favorites as Andrew Walker, Bethany Joy Lenz, and Hunter King, will air as part of the network’s Passport to Love lineup.
     
    The movies take place in Malta, Paris, Greece, and Italy.

    Hallmark romance movies

     
    “Coming your way as fast as Brigitte Bardot can say ‘young enough to go ahead and do it,’” wrote Bethany Joy Lenz in an Instagram post promoting her movie Savoring Paris.
     
    Andrew Walker posted photos from Malta, while Hunter King shared photos from Italy.
     

    For Love & Honey

     
    Margaret Clunie stars as a beekeeper who discovers an ancient fresco while rescuing a hive. Andrew Walker plays an archaeologist who believes the fresco might hold an important clue to his research. The two set off on a cross-country joinery together to find out more.
     
    This is Hallmark’s second movie set in Malta. In 2021, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries premiered To Catch a Spy, starring Nathalie Kelley, Colin Donnell, and Patti Murin, which was also set in the Mediterranean country.
     

    Savoring Paris

     
    Bethany Joy Lenz will star in Savoring Paris, a film about a woman who journeys to France and rediscovers her passion for living.
     

    A Greek Recipe for Romance

     
    Danielle C. Ryan plays Abby, who heads to Greece after a nasty breakup. Her vacation becomes a business trip when she decides to help a local man (played by Rafael Kariotakis) open a restaurant.
     

    Two Scoops of Italy

     
    In Two Scoops of Italy, Hunter King plays a chef who travels abroad for inspiration. While visiting a small Italian village, she falls in love with the local cuisine as well as a handsome stranger (played by Michele Rosiello).
     
     
    For Love & Honey will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, June 1 at 8/7c.
     
    Savoring Paris will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, June 8 at 8/7c.
     
    A Greek Recipe for Romance will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, June 1 at 8/7c.
     
    Two Scoops of Italy will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, June 1 at 8/7c.
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  • New Hallmark romance movie features puppies and Stephen Huszar. We are so there.

    New Hallmark romance movie features puppies and Stephen Huszar. We are so there.

    The new Hallmark romance movie Everything Puppies will premiere as part of the Countdown to Summer lineup. The film stars Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes as an aspiring entrepreneur and Chesapeake Shores’s Stephen Huszar as the businessman who helps her get her big break.
     
    “Watch Everything Puppies on May 18th on @hallmarkchannel for a chance to see most adorable dogs and little nugget puppies,” Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes wrote on her Instagram page. “Thank you to @firesidepictures for a wonderful experience and many thanks to the amazing cast and crew!!”
     

    Hallmark romance movie

     
    In the new Hallmark romance movie Everything Puppies, Lamothe-Kipnes plays Scarlett, a hard-working inventor looking to make it big with innovative dog toys and treats. Her latest puppy treat recipe is already all the rage with the dogs on her block, she just needs a distributor to bring her product to the masses. 
     
    After getting rejected from one grocery store after another, she finally finds a taker in Alex (played by Stephen Huszar), who runs a shop called Happy Harvest. Scarlett’s treats are such a hit with customers that they sell out immediately. But when a competitor gets word of her success, he does everything he can to shut her down.

    About the cast

     
    Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes is an actress, director, and producer. She appeared in the TV shows DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Charmed, and Trigger Me. In 2023, she shared the screen with Janel Parrish and Tyler Hynes in the Hallmark Christmas movie Never Been Chris’d.
     

    Stephen Huszar

     
    Stephen Huszar has appeared on the TV shows Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, The Flash, iZombie, and Letterkenny.
     
    He played Jake Killian in the Ruby Herring Mysteries series on Hallmark. In 2021, he joined the cast of the Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores. He has starred in the Hallmark movies Time After Time (2011), Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Bone to Pick (2015), Magical Christmas Ornaments (2017), Return to Christmas Creek (2018), My One & Only (2019), A Homecoming for the Holidays (2019), Time For Us to Come Home for Christmas (2020), Undercover Holiday (2022), Love in Glacier National (2023), A Royal Christmas Crush (2023), and Navigating Christmas (2023).
     
    Everything Puppies will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May 18 at 8/7c.
          

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  • Brendan Penny and Amanda Schull race to catch a killer in new Hallmark mystery movie Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home

    Brendan Penny and Amanda Schull race to catch a killer in new Hallmark mystery movie Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home

    Brendan Penny and Amanda Schull will join forces to catch a killer in the new Hallmark mystery movie Family History Mysteries: Coming Home. 
     
    “I am so looking forward to this airing,” Brendan Penny said in an Instagram post. “Possibly my best movie with the amazing @hallmarkmystery. Make sure to watch!”
     
    Co-star Amanda Schull said she is excited for viewers to meet her character.
     
    “Introducing Dr. Rachel Hunt!” wrote Amanda Schull in an Instagram post. “Coming to @hallmarkmystery on May 17th!”
     

    New Hallmark mystery

     
    In the new Hallmark mystery, Amanda Schull plays Dr. Rachel Hunt,  a former Army surgeon. After losing her husband in combat she moves back to her small hometown with her teenage twins, Chloe (played by Isla Crera) and Matthew (played by Jett Klyne), to work at a small clinic.
    When one of her patients dies, Dr. Hunt becomes suspicious. Her attempts to involve the authorities are met with resistance by a charming police detective named Jack Quinn (played by Brendan Penny), who is not convinced that a murder took place.
     
    Dr. Hunt puts her background in forensics to work and calls in favors from people in the community to figure out what happened to her patient. She is so successful that Detective Quinn eventually joins forces with her to catch the killer.

    Brendan Penny

     
    Fans were excited to see that Chesapeake Shores star Brendan Penny would be returning to Hallmark. The actor, who played Kevin O’Brien on the series, is a fan favorite.
     
    “He’s my favorite!” wrote one fan on the Hallmark Mystery Facebook page. “Can’t wait…hope it’s great.”
     
    Penny has also appeared in the TV shows Blade: The Series, Smallville, and The Whistler. He starred in the Hallmark movies The Gourmet Detective (2015), ’Tis the Season for Love (2015), Autumn in the Vineyard (2016), A Dash of Love (2017), Summer in the Vineyard (2017), Magical Christmas Ornaments (2017), Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe (2018), Valentine in the Vineyard (2019), Easter Under Wraps (2019), The Secret Ingredient (2020), A Little Christmas Charm (2020), Beverly Hills Wedding (2021), Tie For Them to Come Home For Christmas (2021), In Merry Measure (2022), The Wedding Cottage (2023), and A Season for Family (2023).
    Brendan Penny and Treat Williams on the hit Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores. (Image: Hallmark Media)

    RELATED NEWS: Brendan Penny shares his favorite moments from Chesapeake Shores

    Amanda Schull

     
    Amanda Schull studied ballet at Indiana University Bloomington and danced with the San Francisco Ballet before being cast as an aspiring professional dancer in the 2000 movie Center Stage. She went on to appear in a slew of TV shows, including Pretty Little Liars, Suits, Ghost Whisperer, Hawaii Five-O, Bones, NCIS, One Tree Hill, and Two And a Half Men. She has starred in the movies Love, Once and Always (2018), Romance Retreat (2019), Project Christmas Wish (2020), One Summer (2021), Marry Go Round (2022), and The Blessing Bracelet (2023).
     
    Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home will premiere on Hallmark Mystery (the network formerly known as Hallmark Movies and Mysteries) on Friday, May 17 at 9/8c.
     
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  • Aurora Teagarden star welcomes first child

    Aurora Teagarden star welcomes first child

    Aurora Teagarden star Skyler Samuels has become a mother. The 30-year-old actress made the announcement on Instagram, sharing photos of her baby as part of a campaign for jewelry designer Charles and Colvard.
     
    “To all my fellow mamas out there, Mother’s Day is 3 weeks away. Let’s celebrate the hardest and most rewarding job there is by giving a little sparkle to the mamas in our life…they deserve it,” she wrote.
     

    Aurora Teagarden star

     
    Skyler Samuels got her start playing a young version of Gigi Hollingsworth on the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place. She also appeared on the Nickelodeon series Drake and Josh. 
     
    She went on to appear in The Gates, American Horror Story: Freak Show, The Rookie, and Scream Queens.
     
    In 2023, Hallmark surprised fans by announcing it would produce new movies in its Aurora Teagarden Mysteries franchise with Samuels in the title role. 
     
    Up until then, the films starred Candace Cameron Bure as small-town librarian Aurora “Ro” Teagarden, who uses her knowledge of true crime to solve murders. Hallmark had made 18 movies in the series when Bure announced she was leaving the company to pursue a partnership with the new network Great American Family. Fans assumed that meant the end of the series but Hallmark solved the problem by creating a prequel. In Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New, Skyler Samuels starred as a young Ro Teagarden who had just moved back to her hometown after finishing her college degree.
     
    “Our viewers have been waiting for more adventures with Aurora and her friends — what better way to do that than to take them back to when the young, amateur sleuth was just coming into her own?” said Emily Merlin, development manager of programming at Hallmark Media in a statement to ET Online. “The Aurora Teagarden franchise is a fan favorite and we’re excited to share this new chapter with viewers.”

    Fan favorite

     
     
    “I watched a bunch of the original ones and just really studied Aurora and her world and tried to hone in on her traits and characteristics that really made her her,” Samuels said in an interview with TV Insider. “Then from there, I just reverse-engineered who I imagined she might have been when she was in her early to mid-20s, and that’s really where the fun of inventing the younger Aurora came from.”
     
    She said it was fun to play the character before she had become a skilled detective.
     
    “The one thing that I love watching as an audience member is imperfect people,” Samuels said. “It’s just not interesting if people are too put together or too polished. It’s fun to see people be human and a little rough around the edges. When we meet Aurora as an adult, she’s pretty polished and she’s good at solving her mysteries and crimes. She’s in her stride.”
     
    “I thought it would be really fun to just embrace the version of her where she’s not good at this stuff yet. She’s still definitely figuring it out, and you’re watching her stumble into her superpower of being this gumshoe mystery solver and how that love and obsession develops for her.”
     

    Skyler Samuels

     
    Skyler Samuels is married to Lucas Till. The two have made it clear they do not intend to share the baby’s name and gender.
     
    Samuels is working on two more movies in the Aurora Teagarden franchise with her baby in tow.
     
    “It’s been such a special time and it really, like, marks this new chapter of my life,” Samuels told the website Heavy. “It’s almost hard to remember like, before I was a mom. What did I do before this little person was in my life? It’s so intense and it’s rewarding and challenging … And there’s a lot of tears and a lot of diapers and a lot of joy and it’s just, it’s so intense across the board.”
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  • When Calls the Heart renewed for 12th season

    When Calls the Heart renewed for 12th season

    Hallmark Channel has renewed its hit series When Calls the Heart for a 12th season.
     
    “A dozenth season!!!” wrote Erin Krakow in an Instagram post.
     
    Hearties also reacted with enthusiasm.
     
    “Definitely doing the happy dance, so excited!!” wrote one fan on Facebook.
     
    “So happy!! I look forward to Sunday night each week! This is my favorite TV show and has been since the beginning!” wrote another.
     

    When Calls the Heart

     
    When Calls the Heart premiered on Hallmark Channel in 2014. Based on a series of books by Canadian author Janette Oke, the show starred Erin Krakow as a privileged young woman who moves to a small mining community to teach school. 
     
    The show found an immediate and devoted fan base. Hearties, as they call themselves, even make pilgrimages to the set where the show is filmed for an annual event known as Hearties Family Reunion.
     
    The 11th season premiered on Hallmark Channel in April 2024. Cast members have been sharing photos and videos they made on set while filming.
     
    “Detention!” Krakow wrote in the caption of a video showing cast members Vienna Leacock and Jaeda Lee Miller catching a quick nap on set.
     

    Longest-running original series

     
    With a 12th season in the works, When Calls the Heart is Hallmark Channel’s longest-running original series. Brian Bird, who co-created the show with Michael Landon Jr., recently said that he hopes they can keep the show on the air indefinitely.
     
    “Whether or not the Hallmark Channel wants to keep us around forever doesn’t matter,” he said in an appearance on the When Calls the Heart After Show. “There will be somebody else who wants it because it is so unique. And we will keep making the show as long as those Hearties want to show up and watch the show.”
     
    Actress Erin Krakow, who has starred on the show since the first season and is also an executive producer, has talked about how unique the series is.
     
    “I cannot say enough how grateful I am,” she said during an interview with Southern Living. “There’s an element of risk and chance that comes with taking the leap of being an actor and making that one’s career. And it doesn’t often come with, let’s call it job security. It has been really nice to have this really good job for the past decade. And in addition to getting to play a part that I really care about. I get to work with people on set and off who I really care about. It is such a positive workplace full of people who have become some of my best friends and that’s just on set. But working with our writers, executives at the network, they’re all incredible people who have become dear friends as well. It’s just a really good, positive team, and very collaborative.”
     
    Bird said the fan base is a big reason why the show is still going strong.
    “As I’ve said many times over the last decade, you Hearties are the reason for the show,” he said. “I think one of the big reasons that the show is still going strong is all of you.”
     
    Filming will begin on Season 12 in July 2024.
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  • Cindy Busby and Benjamin Hollingsworth find love in the new Hallmark movie A Whitewater Romance

    Cindy Busby and Benjamin Hollingsworth find love in the new Hallmark movie A Whitewater Romance

    Cindy Busby and Virgin River star Benjamin Hollingsworth find love while on a wilderness retreat in the new Hallmark movie A Whitewater Romance.
     
    “Maya (Cindy Busby) is a big city girl with limited outdoors experience. Matt (Benjamin Hollingsworth) loves the outdoors. Can these opposites ever learn to see eye to eye—and open their hearts to each other?” reads a description on Hallmark Channel’s Facebook page.
     

    Hallmark romance movie

     
    In the new movie, Cindy Busby plays Maya Alvaro, a hardworking businesswoman with a heart of gold. Maya is thrilled when she finds out she is being considered for a promotion. Her excitement turns to dread when her boss invites her on an executive wilderness retreat. Maya is definitely not an outdoorsy type but she knows that if she wants this promotion, she needs to go along.
     
    Soon after she arrives at Whitewater Lodge, she meets Matt (played by Benjamin Hollingsworth), who not only is an outdoorsy type but is also in the running for the same promotion. The two are paired up in a series of team-building exercises such as zip-lining, high-wire rope walking, and whitewater rafting. 
     
    According to Hallmark, “As Maya lets her guard down to brave the wild wilderness, what begins as a ferocious competition slowly starts to evolve into something much more.”
     

    Cindy Busby

     
     
    Cindy Busby portrayed Ashley Stanton in the CBC series Heartland. She has also appeared in The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, and The Secret Circle.
     
    From 2014 to 2015 she portrayed Rebecca Jennings on the Hallmark series Cedar Cove. She also appeared in the Hallmark series the Hailey Dean Mysteries alongside Kellie Martin and Viv Leacock.
     
    She has starred in more than 20 romantic comedies, including the Hallmark movies Unleashing Mr. Darcy (2016), Royal Hearts (2018), Marrying Mr. Darcy (2018), Wedding March 5: My Boyfriend’s Back (2019), A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love (2019), Love in the Forecast (2020), Romance in the Air (2020), Follow Me to Daisy Hills (2020), Hearts Down Under (2020), Chasing Waterfalls (2021), Marry Me in Yosemite (2022), Crown Prince of Christmas (2022), Love in Zion National Park: A National Park Romance (2023). and Everything Christmas (2023).
     

    Benjamin Hollingsworth

     
    Benjamin Hollingsworth stars in the hit Netflix series Virgin River. He has also appeared on the TV shows Code Black, Backstrom, Suits, CSI: Miami, and Nancy Drew. Hollingsworth has starred in the Hallmark movies Signed, Sealed, Delivered (2013), Lucky in Love (2014), A Wish Come True (2015), Love Under the Olive Tree (2020), A Splash of Love (2022) Romance in Style (2022), The Santa Summit (2023), and An Easter Bloom (2024).
     
    A Whitewater Romance will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May 11 at 8/7c.
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  • Michael Landon Jr to When Calls the Heart fans: “I wish my dad could see this.”

    Michael Landon Jr to When Calls the Heart fans: “I wish my dad could see this.”

    An emotional Michael Landon Jr. told fans of Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart that he wished his dad could have seen the show and met the fans.
     
    “There’s nothing like this,” Landon said. “You guys are so special.”
     

    When Calls the Heart

     
    Landon, who created the series with Brian Bird, was addressing When Calls the Heart fans at their annual convention in Canada.
     
    Viewers and critics have compared the series to Little House on the Prairie, which Michael Landon Sr. produced and starred in for nine years.
     
    Based on a series of best-selling books by Canadian author Janette Oke, When Calls the Heart follows a privileged young woman who moves to a small coal-mining community to teach school and ends up falling in love with a mountie. The show premiered on Hallmark Channel in 2014 and quickly became one of the network’s most popular series. Season 11 is currently in production in British Columbia.
     
    During a September panel discussion at the Hearties Family Reunion, Landon was asked if Little House on the Prairie had inspired When Calls the Heart.
     
    “Absolutely,” he said. “Little House was by far my favorite of my father’s work. It wasn’t just about the series, it was about what the series did to people. It did bring families together. It was a special time.”

    Michael Landon Jr.

     
    Michael Landon Jr. only appeared in one episode of Little House on the Prairie, which ran from 1974 to 1983 on NBC. 
     
    In past interviews, the producer said he went through a turbulent period in his late teens.
     
    “I was lost big time,” he told Fox News. “My parents separated and divorced when I was 16. My world came crashing down. I was floundering. I was completely lost and bitter and everything that was built up in terms of my life and what I thought my life was, the perception of family and togetherness came crashing down. So I was very bitter, turned to drugs and alcohol, and started throwing my life away.”
     
    He eventually began going to church with his mother and, at the age of 19, became a born-again Christian. He got into show business, working as a film loader, assistant cameraman, Steadicam operator, director of photography, apprentice film editor, production assistant, and actor.
     
    In 2005, Landon and Brian Bird formed their own production company, Believe Pictures. He produced the movies The Last Sin Eater, Saving Sarah Cain, and Love Comes Softly, which was also based on a Janette Oke novel.
     

    “Pointing to God”

     
    In an interview, Landon said he tries to make sure his work is “always pointing to God.”
     
    “I started pursuing this way before The Passion of the Christ before there was a market for these types of films,” he told Christian Answers. “I started working on the Love Comes Softly film in the 1990s. It took ten years to get that done because everybody thought it was too soft. But you know, I’ve always been somewhat outspoken in my faith. Each film has something of a soul, and I think people can smell a fake.”
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  • Three new Hallmark movies coming to TV in May

    Three new Hallmark movies coming to TV in May

    Three new Hallmark movies are coming to TV in May, including films starring Brendan Penny, Cindy Busby, Benjamin Hollingsworth, and Stephen Huszar. 
     
    “I am so looking forward to this airing,” Brendan Penny said in an Instagram post promoting his new movie, Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home. “Possibly my best movie with the amazing @hallmarkmystery. Make sure to watch!”
     

    New Hallmark movies

     
    First up in May will A Whitewater Romance, starring Cindy Busby and Ben Hollingsworth. In the movie, Cindy Busby plays Maya, who is sent on an executive business retreat by her employer. She is paired up with a handsome stranger (played by Ben Hollingsworth) and sparks fly. 
     

    Brendan Penny mystery

     
    Brendan Penny will headline the new movie Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home. In the mystery, actress Amanda Schull plays Dr. Rachel Hunt,  a former Army surgeon. After losing her husband in combat she moves back to her small hometown with her teenage twins, Chloe (played by Isla Crera) and Matthew (played by Jett Klyne), to work at a small clinic.
     
    When one of her patients dies, Dr. Hunt becomes suspicious. Her attempts to involve the authorities are met with resistance by charming police detective Jack Quinn (Brendan Penny), who is not convinced that a murder took place.
     
    Dr. Hunt puts her background in forensics to work and calls in favors from people in the community to figure out what happened to her patient. She is so successful that Detective Quinn joins forces with her to catch the killer.
     

    Stephen Huszar

     
    Chesapeake Shores actor Stephen Huszar will co-star with Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes in the new Hallmark romance Everything Puppies. Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes plays an entrepreneur trying to market dog toys and treats. She gets help from a wealthy — and handsome — client, played by Stephen Huszar.
     

    Countdown to Summer

     
    Hallmark has been promoting these new films and two others as part of its Countdown to Summer lineup. Also airing will be A Lifelong Love, starring Andrea Brooks and Patch May, and Big Sky River: The Bridal Path, starring Kavan Smith and Emmanuelle Vaugier.
     
    A Lifelong Love will air on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May 4 at 8/7c.
     
    A Whitewater Romance will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May 11 at 8/7c.
     
    Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home will premiere on Hallmark Mystery (the network formerly known as Hallmark Movies and Mysteries) on Friday, May 17 at 9/8c.
     
    Everything Puppies will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May 18 at 8/7c.
     
    Big Sky River: The Bridal Path will air on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May 25 at 8/7c.
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