Producer Andrew Gernhard from Synthetic Pictures International joins us to to talk Hallmark, film incentives, AI, and recreating Connecticut in Buffalo, New York. We also chat about some of your favorite movies he has produced. Join us at the table for this edition of The Hallmark Cafe!
We're back on dry land from our weeks in The Way Home pond to spend some royal time with two new movies that take the royal theme and have some fun with it. Join us at the table where we promise not to serve either frozen eel or beet root juice!
Join us in The Hallmark Cafe as we head for "The Finnish Line" via dog sled in this fast paced adventure starring Kim Matula and Beau Mirchoff. Shot on location in Finland and featuring an international cast, the race is on to see who wins the championship on a wild ride to the top of the world. For dessert, we meet the new Mrs. Miracle played by the amazing Rachel Boston in a role she seemingly was born to play. Can she help heal a family at odds with each other at Christmas time? Join us in The Cafe to find out!
Joel S. Rice and Michael Barbuto from Muse Entertainment join us in the cafe for more conversation about the movies they create for Hallmark. We go behind the scenes on Catch Me if You Claus and True Justice: Family Ties and learn more about how these movies were brought to life for Hallmark. We also go back to the beginning to hear the story of how Signed, Sealed and Delivered came to be. Pull up a chair and join us at the table!
We finish up our take on season one of Mistletoe Murders with "Death of a Humbug" and sail right into "A Newport Christmas" without taking a breath. We also share our views on Hallmark's continuing experiment with unscripted content. Join us at the table as Countdown to Christmas 2025 continues!
"Merry Christmas Ted Cooper" is our main course this week but we give you our take on the rest of weekend two of the 2025 Countdown to Christmas. The table is set for variety on this edition of The Hallmark Cafe!
Countdown to Christmas 2025 is off and running with "A Royal Montana Christmas" and "A Christmas Angel Match." Hear which one squeaked by and which one captured our hearts. But first, we start things off with a reminder of why we love "Mistletoe Mysteries" so much. Your table is ready!
All the 2025 Hallmark Countdown to Christmas offerings served up in one spoken batch just in time for the season. Enjoy!
The last of our fall movie offerings feature Andrew Walker and Rachel Boston falling in love naturally in, "Adventures of Love and Birding." Meanwhile, Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown return for the third time, this time in the hilarious, "Haul Out The Halloween." They've hauled out Christmas in two previous outings but this time there's a big surprise for us, it made the menu! Pull up a chair and join us in The Hallmark Cafe!
We encore a portion of last years interview we did with director Ron Oliver as he was wrapping up production on his three movie event, "The Groomsmen." He shares some behind the scenes stories and talks about how the series came about. We also dish up our take on the Long Island love story, "Catch of the Day" starring Emile Ullerup and Michael Rady. Pull up a beach chair and join us in the cafe!.. .
We're back with our impressions of the "Providence Falls" three-part series and our surprising reaction to the latest Mystery Island movie. Join us at the table if you dare!
We're back from a bit of a break to talk about our new Hallmark Plus favorite, "Private Eyes." This Canadian series spans five seasons and mixes suspense with romance and comedy. Plus, it has a cool theme song and a sexy sports car to boot. We also share our thoughts on the recent unscripted series, "Christmas at Sea." Is this type of series the future of Hallmark? Will reality beat out fiction? Join us at the table to hear our take.
We enjoy some Hallmark vacation time with a trip to Italy for "Villa Amore" featuring Eloise Mumford and Kevin McGarry and continue our travels with "To Barcelona, With Love" and "To Barcelona, Forever" starring Alison Sweeney and Ashley Williams. We've got a place for you at the table on this duty-free edition of The Hallmark Cafe!
In this encore episode, we revisit the final two movies from the Love on the Danube series as reviewed by us when they debuted on Hallmark Plus in 2024. There's room at the Captain's table for you on this edition of The Hallmark Cafe!
This time in The Cafe, we revisit the first of the three "Love on the Danube" movies originally shown on Hallmark Plus but now recently making their debut on The Hallmark Channel. The first movie stars Nazneen Contractor and Wes Brown in, "Love Song." We then switch gears and countries for yet another mystery series debuting on Hallmark Plus, this time set in England. "The Coroner" pairs a cop and a coroner who solve mysteries in the classic British style but with a modern twist. Your travel is booked and your table is ready on this edition of The Hallmark Cafe!
The Postables of the Signed, Sealed, Delivered dead letter office return in, "To The Moon and Back," this time to find the writer of a letter forced to go into hiding to protect her family. And we travel over to England to Stratford Upon Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare and a new detective series called "Shakespeare and Hathaway" that mystery viewers can now find on Hallmark Plus. Your table is dressed for mystery and adventure on this edition of The Hallmark Cafe!
Put on your best walking shoes and head over to Spain with us to walk the Camino de Santiago with Erin Cahill and Erik Valdez in, "Journey to You." For dessert, we finish up our look at the four movie series, Hearts Around the Table with "Kiki's Fourth Ingredient." It's a food truck full of adventure on this edition of The Hallmark Cafe!
On this edition of The Hallmark Cafe, versatile actor Steve Bacic joins us to talk about playing Detective Cook in the new Aurora Teagarden series. We then highlight both "Home is Where the Heart is" on Hallmark Plus and the continuing four part movie series "Hearts Around the Table" on the Hallmark Channel. As always, your table is ready!
On this edition of The Hallmark Cafe, we sample the first installment of the four part series, "Hearts Around The Table." Ashley Newbrough and Steve Lund star with solid support from Mindy Cohn in "Jenna's First Love." For dessert, we head to Georgia where Luke McFarlane steps out of the movies and into the homes of folks looking for some real life house renovations in "Home is Where the Heart is." There's always an extra table waiting for you in The HallmarkCafe!
The season three finale of The Way Home provides many answers but poses future questions for fans to ponder while awaiting the recently announced season four. Aptly titled after the Gordon Lightfoot song, If You Could Read My Mind, we have fun seeing what we got right and what we got wrong about season three. Join us at the table see how you did!