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Hallmark Headlines June 2025 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark Homework review podcast. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 2: a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for our monthly Hallmark Headlines episode, where we
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  Speaker 2: dive into all of the news from the network and
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  Speaker 2: network adjacent. This month, we are talking a major announcement
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  Speaker 2: for the Hallmark Christmas Experience, a nineties throwback reunion, the
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  Speaker 2: Christmas in July schedule, and a new book adaptation coming
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  Speaker 2: to Hallmark, and.
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  Speaker 1: More and more, and stay tuned.
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  Speaker 2: The details for the Hallmark Christmas Experience just dropped yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Kansas City event.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I want to talk about a few things about
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  Speaker 2: this event. First of all, it's running November twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: through December twenty First, it is four weekends, just like
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  Speaker 2: they did last time. A lot of things are very similar.
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  Speaker 2: The location is the same, they have the same vibe.
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  Speaker 2: They also dropped all the stars who are attending by weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Curious to see how that adjusts as people's filming schedules
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  Speaker 2: and other things come into play. Were there any surprises
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  Speaker 2: for you in terms of stars that were announced?
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  Speaker 3: A couple. I saw Tyler's their two weekends. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: was kind of surprised that the cast of the Way
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  Speaker 3: Home was not there, considering they were there last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's a especially because there's like a full when
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  Speaker 2: calls the Heart weekend and there were a lot of
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  Speaker 2: missing memes like Ashley Williams isn't there, Alieany's not there.
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  Speaker 3: She was like a hope last year. I know.
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  Speaker 2: Now, do you think that means that perhaps they're on
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  Speaker 2: the cruise?
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, I mean if we could get real sleuthy,
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  Speaker 3: if we wanted to and try to like look at, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: who is a Christmas con because that conflicts with the
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  Speaker 3: Kansas City Yeah right, yes, you can work those things out,
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  Speaker 3: and then you can look at, well, who's going to
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  Speaker 3: be on the cruise, which is not totally indicative because
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  Speaker 3: last year Tyler was on the cruise, but then he
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  Speaker 3: was also at the Kansas City events. Yeah, several times.
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  Speaker 2: So but then I was wondering, you know, last year,
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  Speaker 2: some of them were so burnt out by the end
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  Speaker 2: because like, for example, Ashley, she did the cruise and
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  Speaker 2: she did Weekend four of Kansas City, So maybe some
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  Speaker 2: of them like hit a wall and they were like,
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  Speaker 2: we can only do so much. We cannot do all
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  Speaker 2: of these events. I could absolutely see her being on
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  Speaker 2: the cruise. Could you see the way home being on
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  Speaker 2: the cruise?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, no, not really, because I don't feel
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  Speaker 3: like they're no shade to them. They're not as like
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  Speaker 3: entertaining as Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I love them. I'd be thrilled to
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  Speaker 2: meet them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, same totally.
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  Speaker 2: There are some notable differences in the ticketing experience.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about it.
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  Speaker 2: So, just like last year, they have two ticket packages,
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  Speaker 2: the b Merry Package, which is two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: nine per person, and the Fine Magic Package, which is
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  Speaker 2: six ninety nine per person.
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  Speaker 1: These are right on par with their prices for last year.
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  Speaker 2: However, last year, the Fine Magic Package, the VIP package
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  Speaker 2: included everything. You got to go to every single panel,
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  Speaker 2: you had access to all of the Make and Create
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  Speaker 2: crafting events, you had access to the pop up bar,
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  Speaker 2: you had all of this access. That is not the
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  Speaker 2: case this year. So when it comes to all of
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  Speaker 2: the on stage events, the two packages both include two shows,
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  Speaker 2: A Look behind the Lens show which is like a
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  Speaker 2: Stars on stage and a Reindeer games, everything else, all
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  Speaker 2: of the other panels are add ons.
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  Speaker 3: Let me stop you what kind of what kind of
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  Speaker 3: additional panels?
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  Speaker 2: Sob each weekend has five stars on stage events and
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  Speaker 2: they're different. So, for example, the first weekend is Hallmark Hunks,
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  Speaker 2: Ask Me Anything, the Hallmark Dating Game, a Hallmark improv show,
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  Speaker 2: how we make the movies, which it says stars, executives,
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes, creative. So I could see that being
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  Speaker 2: like writers, directors, producers, all of those involved. They have
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  Speaker 2: it named names, and then they have one called Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: Hometown Histories. Hallmark stars share their stories of unique hometowns.
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  Speaker 2: Future weekends have something like Hallmark Murder Mystery Live. They
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  Speaker 2: have a Hallmarked Dating Game, they have an All About
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  Speaker 2: the Wardrobe.
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  Speaker 1: So there are five.
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  Speaker 2: Panels each weekend, and they cost ninety nine dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Each in addition to yours six hundred and ninety nine
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  Speaker 3: dollars ticket if you buy the top one.
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  Speaker 2: In addition, yes, and so if you go for the
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  Speaker 2: weekend and you want to go to all five of those,
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  Speaker 2: man's an additional five hundred dollars. I'm guessing nobody's gonna
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  Speaker 2: want to go to all five, because that's.
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  Speaker 3: I think there are people who want to go to
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  Speaker 3: all five. Oh, sure they have the ability to you like,
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  Speaker 3: that's what for me? Yes, the desire is there, but
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  Speaker 3: I would I think, I don't know. I have mixed emotions.
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  Speaker 3: On one hand, this opens it up to people who
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  Speaker 3: maybe just want to come in for the day and
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  Speaker 3: go to one panel and if they're local enough to
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  Speaker 3: drive in and they can do the market and they
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  Speaker 3: can kind of do all of that. But on the
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  Speaker 3: other hand, the value for the VIP ticket is significantly
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  Speaker 3: diminished this year over last year. I here's my honest opinion.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's way too expensive.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of money, especially during the holidays.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: And luckily we got to go last year. We paid
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  Speaker 3: our own way. However, with that said, we did have
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  Speaker 3: a press pass, so we got to go to see
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  Speaker 3: a couple of things that we wouldn't have had access
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  Speaker 3: to correct otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious what is your opinion If somebody asked you, Hey, Megan,
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  Speaker 3: would you pay that much money for this event?
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  Speaker 1: What would you say?
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  Speaker 2: The answer is, I don't know. I mean, if I
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  Speaker 2: was so in on Hallmark. Do I think two panels
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  Speaker 2: is enough? Like the Reindeer games and the stars on stage,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably enough. Like you and I didn't go to
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  Speaker 2: every single panel and still felt like we had a
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  Speaker 2: full experience. I mean, do you need to sit through
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  Speaker 2: seven panels? Probably not?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it could be a fun weekend and I
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  Speaker 2: imagine it will sell well because they have the fandom.
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  Speaker 1: But it's expensive. It's really expensive.
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  Speaker 3: I also think a lot of the questions, maybe from
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  Speaker 3: people who are interested in this eventa is like, what's
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  Speaker 3: the access to the Hallmark stars? Yeah, and based on
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  Speaker 3: our experience, I'm gonna say it's limited.
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  Speaker 1: Very unlimited. It's yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you want guaranteed access, you need to buy the
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  Speaker 2: Fine Magic package, which includes the photo op, meet and greet.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only guaranteed opportunity. I do think the stars
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  Speaker 2: do a good job of they're out at the Christmas lighting,
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  Speaker 2: they'll stick around and take photos those walking through the lobby,
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  Speaker 2: would you know, stop in snap photos? But that's all
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  Speaker 2: very ketch as catch can. There's no guarantee. That's if
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  Speaker 2: you happen to be in the right place at the
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  Speaker 2: right time.
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  Speaker 1: And you can grab a photo.
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  Speaker 2: Great, But you and I didn't run into anyone anywhere
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  Speaker 2: outside of an event during the course of that weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We did, but we didn't bother him, Lady Webster. He
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  Speaker 2: was like dashing into an elevator.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I wouldn't. We saw him outside the hotel
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  Speaker 3: one time too. Oh that's right, that's right, his dog
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  Speaker 3: with him. I think here's taking the dog doctor believe himself. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: but I wasn't going to be like, hey, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean totally because that's not my vibe. But
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  Speaker 3: neither part of me is like I'm glad that they're
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  Speaker 3: doing it again, because I do think it's a fun
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  Speaker 3: event if you were local and it didn't cost you
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  Speaker 3: an arm in a lank to fly there for hotel,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: My one suggestion would be, I understand they want that fine.
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  Speaker 1: Magic package to be like the elite.
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  Speaker 2: I just think, as much as all of these panels
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  Speaker 2: are so fun and all of the other events are
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  Speaker 2: so fun, people want the Hallmark Star access and they
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  Speaker 2: get it somewhere like Christmas Con. Yes, you pay individually
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  Speaker 2: for it, but you get it at Roma drama which
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  Speaker 2: doesn't exist and is having issues.
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  Speaker 1: Nevertheless, that's what.
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  Speaker 2: They want, and so finding another way to make those happen.
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  Speaker 2: Selling individual tickets to certain people I think would be
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  Speaker 2: a much more popular option. Well, I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: won mister Christopher Polaha has been doing this last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you want a meet and greet with him, like,
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  Speaker 2: he organized his own kind of meetups, which I think
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  Speaker 2: is pretty damn smart, really smart, and now you're not
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  Speaker 2: paying the Hallmark middleman. Yeah, he had several. He had
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  Speaker 2: one in La one in Nashville, several Polaha Chautaqua events,
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  Speaker 2: and people who went said, I think he's really good
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  Speaker 2: at the access and giving people their money's worth and
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  Speaker 2: spending time with them. Do you want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: his next fan event coming up?
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  Speaker 3: Chris Polaha and speaking of Victor Webster are hosting their
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  Speaker 3: own fan cruise And this is not unheard of. Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Walker and was it Chris yep, did this maybe two
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  Speaker 3: years ago as well? This was Oh no, actually it
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  Speaker 3: was in twenty twenty four. It was just at the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the year, whereas the Hallmark Christmas Cruise was
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  Speaker 3: at the end of twenty twenty four. So cruising with
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  Speaker 3: fans on the Royal Caribbean Cruise January fourth through eight,
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  Speaker 3: leaving from Los Angeles, cruising to Catalina and Encinata a max.
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  Speaker 3: Two hundred guests, So you're not on the whole ship
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  Speaker 3: by yourself. You are two hundred people on an already
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  Speaker 3: existing cruise.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Prices start at one thousand dollars for an interior
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  Speaker 3: room and go up from there. Prices are all inclusive
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  Speaker 3: of the cruise and fan events. I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 3: because it's literally in our backyard.
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  Speaker 1: It's tempting, right, It's so tempting. It's so tempting.
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  Speaker 2: The one downside for me is the timing. January fourth
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  Speaker 2: is just tough.
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  Speaker 3: It's an another tough time of year. Yes, especially for us.
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  Speaker 3: We have kids who are home from school during that time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's post holidays.
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  Speaker 2: It is very tempting. I could be talked into that
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  Speaker 2: more than I could be talked into any of the
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  Speaker 2: other upcoming events.
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  Speaker 1: Oh me too.
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  Speaker 2: Me, and you don't to fly anywhere, Just hop on
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  Speaker 2: over to sam Pedro and climb on board that ship.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm curious, I don't know if they've even released
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  Speaker 3: the details, like what kind of not access are you
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  Speaker 3: getting to these two? But what kind of events will
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  Speaker 3: are they putting on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely haven't released a schedule yet, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what they're gonna do, but I'm sure they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna make it a good time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think these are two fun dudes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if they're looking for some sort of like hosts,
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  Speaker 3: we're available, available, come.
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  Speaker 1: A knock in.
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  Speaker 2: And now that you are an established cruiser, you know
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  Speaker 2: you can handle it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I kind of think I like cruising.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty fun, so easy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just don't take that scopolamine anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And man, was I out of my head? Psychosis at Sea?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Psychos at Sea the next Lifetime movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have two award adjacment announcements coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: First up, The Way Home did win a award at
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  Speaker 2: the Canadian Screen Awards. They were the winner of the
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  Speaker 2: Audience Choice Award, which is the only award voted on
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  Speaker 2: by fans. All of the other Canadian Screen Awards are
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  Speaker 2: voted on by their academy of about four thousand people.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is really meaningful because obviously it speaks
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  Speaker 2: a lot to people's love.
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  Speaker 1: For this show. Does this acknowledgment do you think mean anything?
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  Speaker 1: For season four?
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  Speaker 2: We've been pushing, like God, put season one on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Right, drive those viewers. I don't know, what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: I mean?
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  Speaker 3: It's it's nice to see a show get recognized. It's
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  Speaker 3: an audience Choice award. It's similar to like maybe the
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  Speaker 3: People's Choice Award here. Sure, yes, I know there is
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  Speaker 3: some significance, but that I think it mean. I think
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  Speaker 3: it speaks to their ability to activate the fans. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: While critics may not be paying attention to these shows yet,
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  Speaker 2: the fans certainly are. As a reminder, they did hold
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  Speaker 2: a four year consideration Emmy event for The Way Home,
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  Speaker 2: and we recently saw the addition of for Your Consideration
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  Speaker 2: pushes for both Finding Mister Christmas and Holiday Touchdown. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really curious if these Hallmark shows can get Emmy traction.
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  Speaker 2: The landscape is so oversaturated that I think it's very hard.
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  Speaker 2: But I would lose my mind if we saw these
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark shows get Emmy nominations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you should just on my face. When you said
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  Speaker 3: Holiday Touchdown, I was like, what, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think honestly that FUNI is likely to get the nominated.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't that good.
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  Speaker 2: I could see Finding Mister Christmas. I'm getting the reality
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  Speaker 2: show or reality host nomination. I think it would fit
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  Speaker 2: right in.
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  Speaker 3: I loved Finding Mister Christmas. I do think it does
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  Speaker 3: have a space in the reality genre.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of.
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  Speaker 3: Awards, Yeah, absolutely, I think it was great the way Home.
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  Speaker 3: I think also the writing is so spectacular on that show,
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  Speaker 3: and the acting and the directing. I think that could
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  Speaker 3: definitely get an Emmy nomination as well.
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  Speaker 2: Emmy nominations come out July nineteenth, so we shall see.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh what happens there?
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  Speaker 3: This is a Hallmark adjacent news headline, but regially Cook
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  Speaker 3: and Freddie Prince Junior re nite for an upcoming homework
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  Speaker 3: Christmas movie. If you don't know, these two were in
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  Speaker 3: The Origin and All She's All That from? Oh my gosh?
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  Speaker 3: Was it late nineties or early two thousands?
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  Speaker 1: I think the nineties.
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  Speaker 3: They will be co starring in a movie called The
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  Speaker 3: Christmas Affair, which follows superstar sportscasters Natalie and Gabe, who
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  Speaker 3: form an unlikely alliance after their spouses are caught cheating
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  Speaker 3: weeks before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: This does not sound like a Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 2: Does this sound like it's ripped from the headlines based
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  Speaker 2: on those two GMA hosts. Oh that's right, that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: And didn't their spouses then have a brief romance as well?
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  Speaker 1: Yes they did. That's weird.
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  Speaker 3: A home Oh wait, this is not a Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 3: because the note says a home for this movie has
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  Speaker 3: not been yet announced.
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  Speaker 2: However, Fox Entertainment Studios producing the show, has produced a
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  Speaker 2: number of Hallmark projects, and it's behind both The Chicken
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  Speaker 2: Sisters and The Way Home, so it is not a
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  Speaker 2: reach to think that this could land on Hallmark, especially
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  Speaker 2: given that Racheli Cook has been a leading Hallmark lady
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  Speaker 2: in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think they would really want this maybe to
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  Speaker 3: be like a theatrical release though No, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: there's an audience for it in a theatrical situation.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I don't think that's I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: the direction at all. I think it's Hallmark, or it's Prime,
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  Speaker 2: or it's maybe Netflix. Yeah, I'd love to say Freddy
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  Speaker 2: Print's junior over on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. He's all salt and pepper now.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I'm fine, Look he's got to be older than me, right,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's got to be.
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  Speaker 1: Is he How old is Freddy Print?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe one or two years older than me?
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  Speaker 1: He's forty nine.
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  Speaker 3: I think he would be a welcome addition to Homewark.
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  Speaker 3: Totally would love it. I would love it. I would
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  Speaker 3: love it.
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  Speaker 2: Some big news just recently came out about a book
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  Speaker 2: series adaptation coming to Hallmark. The Providence Falls Series will
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  Speaker 2: be hitting Hallmark in a three part I assume it's
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  Speaker 2: a three movie.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Do that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's a three parts special event. The Providence Falls series
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  Speaker 2: was written by Jude Devereaux and Tara Sheets. It has
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  Speaker 2: been picked up by Joanna Garcia Swisher's production company. She
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  Speaker 2: has a lifestyle brand called The Happy Place, and she
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: did expand into a production company. She discovered it while
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  Speaker 2: on location filming. As luck would have it, Is that
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  Speaker 2: the right movie?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah? From years ago?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she became familiar with the books and wanted to
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  Speaker 2: produce it. It stars Evan Roderick, known by Wendy as
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  Speaker 2: Baby Tyler Tyler Hines Ye, also Katie Stevens and Lachlan
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  Speaker 2: quornbi who do we know Katie Stevens from.
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  Speaker 3: I'm So Excited? Katie Stevens is from the bold type.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so thrilled to see her in this.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: It's set to air August second on the Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 2: and stream the next day on Hallmark Plus.
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  Speaker 3: It is wait, August second, have they already made this?
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  Speaker 2: It must have this deadline? Article says set to premiere
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  Speaker 2: August second. That is so wild to me that they
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  Speaker 2: have been working on this and then you don't hear
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  Speaker 2: anything about it, and then they're like, oh, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be on August second. This is a time travel
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: trilogy into it Set in eighteen forty four Ireland, a
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: rogue and a thief falls in love with the woman
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: promised to another man. Their plan to escape to America fails,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and their forbidden love sets off events that ripple through time.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Now that that line ripple through time made me think,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: what happened to Ripple?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Where the frick is Ripple?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And I googled it yesterday. I got no information. Where's Ripple?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Y'all?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: It's been done, done and then done. That's a show
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: that was set to come to Hallmark Plus. I think
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: it's safe to say it's not coming to Hallmark Plus.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: So I understand that they need to find a home
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: for it on the network, but part of me wonders
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: if it's going to be twenty twenty six before they
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: drop it, given the packed schedule that they've got to have.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder if that's going to come along the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: lines of like When The Way Home and When Calls
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: the Heart and all that kind of comes out early
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: in the year when they back to back to back
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: weekends on that kind of stuff.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe are we going to get The Way Home
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: and When Calls the Heart both airing at the same
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: time again next year?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Lots of questions.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I hope they don't do that, do you, just because
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I don't. I didn't love their Friday Night. I think
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: The Way Home? Is it suited for us Sunday Night?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: For sure?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I totally agree with you there, totally agree with you there.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Hallmark recently announced their Christmas in July schedule, and I
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: gotta say, ball humbug.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: No.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: So here's what is going to happen Sundays. They are
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: going to be releasing two episodes of Holidays. The Holidays
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: was an eight episode series mini series that aired on
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Hallmark Plus last year. It's big family drama and a
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: little bit of my jinks anyway, back to back episodes
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: on Sundays Mondays. Starting July seventh, Hallmark's Christmas at C
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: docu series will premiere in four parts. This is the
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: film crew that they had on sale number two of
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: the Hallmark Christmas Cruise last year. We were not on
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: that sale. I am curious to watch this. Are you
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: curious to watch this?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I am curious to watch this.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I do wonder if we need four parts. Four parts
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: feels excessive.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I'm curious are these half hour shows? Are these hour shows?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: The cruise was four days? Was it not? Yes?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: What I'm curious to see is the difference between the
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: two cruises, because Cruise number one was kind of a
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: mess in.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: A way a test balloon correct.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: And so I want to see how they righted the ship.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't really matter because they're only going to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: present the story that they want to present, so.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: We're not you know there.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I do think that they did make some adjustments from
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Cruise number one to Cruise number two based on some feedback.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: But also this is a Homewark produced reality series, so
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: we are going to see what they want us to see.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: This is not like you and I vlogging the entire week,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: the highs and lows.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: What is also funny too, is that they're gonna put
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: this docuseries out and anybody who was like maybe on
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: the fence about going to the cruise, well you're still
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: sol because there are no tickets available for this upcoming
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: cruise this year. Yeah right, what I mean? So, I'm like,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: what's the point of the docuseries? What's the end game here?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You feel like it should be to cell tickets.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I just think it's I think it was originally because
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: they were putting reality programming on homar Plus, and then
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: now that they're not doing that, they're like, well we
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: made it, I might as well drop it. I just
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: think they're leaning into reality, and I think this was
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: a fairly easy way to produce four episodes of television.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Cheaply, yeah, affordably.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: The talent was already there, they just needed a production team.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting that there wasn't a lot of work
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: that went into it, but they weren't casting a movie,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: they weren't scouting sets.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: They were there. They just needed to capture the content.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So I know, I saw during the cruise that the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: stars were doing a lot more interactive things like they
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: caught them like stuffing stockings on.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was not happening in our career.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, So a lot of things were done for
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the camera, produced for the camera.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Reality TV is highly produced.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Finally, there are no new movies on Hallmark. They
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: will be re airing Unwrapping Christmas, which is a four
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: part movie collection which previously aired on Hallmark. Plus those
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: will air on Saturday nights. We will not be reviewing them.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: No. You know, my husband has been in a Hallmark
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: movie kick lately and he did watch all four on Lately. Yeah,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: but he like goes in phases. He's been watching a lot.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: He did watch all four Unwrapping Christmas movies. I would
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: say I saw like seventy five eighty percent of them.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I do not want to do four reviews of those.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. I'm surprised we didn't get Finding Mister Christmas.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I know it was pure speculation, but they said that
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Finding Mister Christmas Season one and Missiletoe Murders Season one
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: will air on Hallmark. I assume in advance of season
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: two coming out sometime during the countdown to Christmas. Season
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: so we're running out of time, folks.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe in October they can't put it under the theme
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: of Christmas in July, maybe they'll, you know, in October
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: when they switch over to Yes Countdown to Christmas. Sure,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: maybe one of those days will be slated, maybe a
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Friday or a Sunday.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe, But that's too late because they have to those seasons.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: They need to run a full season. They don't have
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: enough time to I.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Don't know what they're doing over there.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: It stresses me out. I would like to see those
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: shows drop on Hallmark. I'm very worried about the crush
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: of content they're planning to put out during the Countdown
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to Christmas season.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I actually, you know, my hot take is I don't
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: think they have the movie slate that they it's interesting.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: So you think I could billing it out with some
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: of these series, I do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I don't actually hate that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I don't hate it either from a review standpoint, as
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: a fan of Hallmark and a viewer who has come
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: to expect three movies a weekend is going to be
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: sorely disappointed.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Well, I understand what you're saying. But then if they're like, well,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Sundays are going to be for Missiletone murders, and Thursdays
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: are going to be for finding Mister Christmas. And now
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you have four day a week
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: of Hallmark content dropping.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but if a percentage of those people have already
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: seen that content.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the new stuff, those season.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Two new stuff.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yea ye, yeah yeah yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: And there's there's the Christmas series that's coming, the Twelve
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Dates of Christmas starring May Whitman. I'm reading that book
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: right now. There's some other stuff coming.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see, we shall see. But that's Christmas in July.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Kind of underwhelming, honestly, particularly given that it's so many
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: re airs. We will be produced dropping our encore episodes
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: of Holidays. If you miss those and you're watching that
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: series in this run.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I gotta tell you here's another hot take. I'm really
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: glad they're not doing now Holidays too. Yeah.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I agree, And I'm not sure I needed it, Like
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: they wrapped.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: All those stories up.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, unless we get a Holidays movie.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not interested in movie. There.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: All right, we have some rapid fire quick news to
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: run through. Some announcements. Thanks to Hallmark Enthusiast twenty four
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to seven on Instagram, we learn that a Christmas will
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: be directed by Jeff Beasley. The Snow Must Go On
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: is in production. This movie is about a musical theater
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: want to be whose career is barely hanging on on
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: life support, who gets persuaded into running his niece's Christmas show.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Is it gonna be Jordan Litz?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, what I'd love it If it's Jordan Ltz.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: If you guys don't know who we're talking about, best
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: jaw line and the bizz star in.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what movie?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Was it called Carol for Two?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: It was called Carol for two?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Hey, put me on Jeopardy baby.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: This is the second Jeff Beasley movie that we know
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: of this holiday season, as according to Hallmark Enthusiast twenty
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: four to seven, he just wrapped a Magical New York Christmas.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: You know we love his movies, so that's very exciting.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Next up, Robert Buckley, not Junior Will Starr in and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: produced Merry Christmas Ted Cooper, where a weatherman returns to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: his hometown for the holidays and reconnects with his high
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: school crush. Finally, Nickie Delouche and Warren Christy are starring
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: in a fall football movie called Turf, directed by McLean
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Nelson of haul Out the Hall of Fame. It was
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: filmed in Utah.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: You know what is so interesting? Aren't you seeing the
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: same directors working on multiple movies this holiday season?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yes? But we also yes, yes, but we don't have
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a ton of information.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: I know, and Nick the loogen warrants Christie again, they
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: were just in.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: That Christmas movie last year. Yeah, I like Live Together.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Where's a fan?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Where's our curious caterer? Movies? Folks? What's happening?
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: So many questions, sophew answers?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Also, can I just say I saw a commercial for
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the upcoming Hannah Swinson A Pie to Die For, which
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: directed by Crystal Low. Looking forward to that, really looking
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: forward to that. The movie is airing on Hallmark Channel, right,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: but the commercial says special event.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Because it's airing on Hallmark Channel?
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Is it because it's a mystery?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe something is really going on with mysteries over there.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: It's a mystery. It's a mystery.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: That's all the headlines we have for you this month.
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