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Hallmark Upgrades Its Streaming Options With New Platform
Hallmark is getting fully into the streaming game. The cable outlet known for its annual bounty of Christmas movies and series like When Calls the Heart is planning to launch a streaming service — titled Hallmark+ — in September. The platform will replace the company’s current streaming option, Hallmark Movies Now, and offer a wider menu of […]
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Hallmark, NFL Team for Kansas City Chiefs-Themed Christmas Movie
The NFL is expanding its media horizons yet again, teaming up with Hallmark to produce a holiday movie that has football as a backdrop. The film, which also counts Skydance Sports among its producers, is called Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story (and no, it’s not not about that Chiefs love story). The movie stars […]
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What Cable TV Would Look Like Without Sports
ESPN ran a promotional campaign in the mid-2000s called “Without Sports” that posited the world would be less interesting and less connected in the absence of athletic competition (and, of course, ESPN’s exhaustive coverage of it). The 2024 version of that campaign might go something like, “Without sports, would anyone be watching cable?” The answer […]
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‘When Calls the Heart’ Actor Mamie Laverock on Life Support After Balcony Fall
Mamie Laverock, a 19-year-old actor with Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart, is on life support after falling from a five-story walkway while under medical care at a Vancouver hospital. According to a GoFundMe page launched by her family, Laverock was rushed on May 11 to a Winnipeg hospital by her mother, Nicole, after what was […]
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Hallmark Expands Into Scripted Podcasting With ‘Crimson Hearts Collide’
Hallmark will launch its first scripted podcast series, Crimson Hearts Collide, starting Aug. 24. The eight-part mystery-romance podcast is produced by AYR Media and will serve as an extension of Hallmark’s Mahogany content line, a Black culture initiative that was originally launched as a card line more than 30 years ago and then resurfaced as […]
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Vince Vaughn Weighs In on Possible ‘Dodgeball’ Sequel: “The Studio Likes It So We’ll See Where It Goes”
Last month, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story star Justin Long got fans buzzing when he revealed that Vince Vaughn had an idea for a sequel to the 2004 comedy that was just waiting for Ben Stiller’s stamp of approval after he was uncertain about doing a follow-up. At Wednesday night’s premiere for his new comedy […]
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Candace Cameron Bure Responds to Backlash Over “Traditional Marriage” Comment, Says There Are Attempts to “Assassinate My Character”
Following backlash over Candace Cameron Bure’s remarks on same-gender couples from an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the actress is addressing the comments. “All of you who know me, know beyond question that I have great love and affection for all people. It absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally […]
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Candace Cameron Bure Says “Traditional Marriage” Will Be the Focus of Great American Family Holiday Movies
Candace Cameron Bure says her new network, Great American Family, does not plan to focus on same-gender relationships in its upcoming movies and projects, as opposed to the Hallmark Channel. “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core,” Bure tells The Wall Street Journal in an interview that published […]
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