mikeb

There is a "Hallmark Movies Now" streaming app similar to Netflix or Hulu that is $6/month that is separate from the cable channels. https://www.hmnow.com/ A lot of older movies that used to be shown on the Hallmark Channel or HMM have been moved over to only being shown on the app I guess as a way to get more folks to sign up for the app. It sounds like they are also starting to create some original content just for the app as well.

There is going to convention devoted to Christmas movies in New Jersey in November. Only 5 attendees have been announced so far including Hallmark regulars Lacey Chabert, Alica Witt, and Cameron Mathison. https://thats4entertainment.com/christmascon/

I noticed a poor editing job on the Mystery preview special. Lacey introduced Matchmaker Mysteries as ‘our last movie of the evening’ but they went on to preview a new Darrow and Darrow and a new Chronicle Mysteries, neither of which they mentioned in their intro. It was also interesting that they listed Darrow and Darrow as being simulcast on September 8th on both Hallmark and HMM while all the others are just premiering on HMM. Darrow and Darrow is one of their lower rated mystery movie series so surprised they chose that one to simulcast.

It was at least good to see her and the actor who played the police detective Frank on Garage Sale Mysteries working again. Hopefully Hallmark will continue to find parts for them and the other actors who lost steady jobs due to the Lori Loughlin scandal.

I think the new will would be tied up in court for years. You are right that the only problem with it was the 'typo', which was a deliberate mistake on the part of the lawyer as a payoff to the chef. She did try to cover up and claim it was a typo that could be easily fixed but I could see someone trying to get the entire will thrown out, especially after her involvement in the plot was exposed.

No, you did not miss anything. She just disappeared towards the end.

For the most recent Aurora Teagarden, the motive seems completely implausible. Putting in spoiler in case anyone hasn't seen it yet and doesn't want to be spoiled. Also, there was a opening scene where the members of the Real Murders club are dressed up in 1920's era costumes that was prominently featured in promos that ended up being brief and pointless other than to introduce some of Sally's family members.

Having watched most of the last two new Aurora Teagarden movies, it looks like both Dell cousins are now gone and replaced by Aurora's cousin (who really is young enough to be her nephew). Also thought it was strange that in most recent movie, they brought back Sally's father after a long absence, but no sighting or mention of her mother who had appeared in same older movie with her father.

Yes, there has been a lot of turnover in murder club members. I haven't had chance to watch latest one yet, but Perry seems to have been replaced by his cousin Jason. John, who was the one who wanted to marry Aurora's mother, was written off a while back as having moved out of town to be closer to family (daughter?) after realizing her mother would never accept his marriage proposals. Lemaster, the older black man, disappeared with no explanation. The black woman mayor seems to have joined as a new member. They brought Robin back for one episode (the last one Martin was in) but then he left again. There was one movie after that with no love interest, before introducing the Niall Matter character.

Guessing they anticipated this, but by showing the latest Aurora Teagarden movie on both Hallmark Channel and HMM Channel at the same time, Hallmark Channel got it's lowest rating for new movie this year and HMM got one of it's lowest, since the audience was split (1.34 million on Hallmark Channel and 0.96 million on HMM). The combined total was in range that new non-Christmas movies have been getting on just Hallmark Channel alone, which is much higher than HMM-only new movies.

Even Dolly Parton is joining the club. She is going to be starring with Danica McKellar in Christmas at Dollywood. https://www.etonline.com/dolly-parton-and-danica-mckellar-to-star-in-christmas-at-dollywood-movie-for-hallmark-exclusive

In the interview, she said she had been dyeing her hair different colors for the different projects she was working on and ended up damaging her hair to the point where some of it was falling out, so she wanted to avoid that happening again so just wore a wig.

I saw a commercial for the new Aurora Teagarden movie premiering in August and got first look at wig Candice Cameron Bure mentioned in interview last year that she wore instead of dyeing her hair again. I think it is as bad or worse than the one Jewel wore in her first Fixer Upper Mystery.

From the article I linked above https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/hallmarks-first-two-christmas-movies-of-2019-will-debut-in-july/ar-AACkFFR In recent years Hallmark has made it something of a tradition to debut one new Christmas movie per network during its halfway-to-Christmas events in the past, though last year it did not premiere any new ones.

Two new Christmas movies have been scheduled for July. https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/hallmarks-first-two-christmas-movies-of-2019-will-debut-in-july/ar-AACkFFR One of them is Christmas Camp starring Bobby Campo which I think I remember folks here saying was filmed before last Christmas and were wondering if was going to air last December.

The new Mystery 101 movie being filmed has shown up on the Hallmark movies wikipedia page schedule. It lists a June 23 air date. There is still a gap after that until the next new HMM movie on September 15 caused by the cancellation of the Garage Sale Mysteries.

It looks like Hilarie Burton may be done with Hallmark for the foreseeable future. She made a Christmas movie for Lifetime last year and is currently filming another one for them for this Christmas. Someone on her Instagram asked whether she had plans to make any more Hallmark movies and she responded 'Just @lifetimetv ! They’re awesome to work with.'

The turn-around on these movies is really quick - Rachel posted on instagram that yesterday was Paul's last day of filming and the movie is scheduled to air June 22. She has been posting some fun behind-the-scene videos on instagram where they are pretending to be a cover band of a Foreigner cover band.

I found this page where they have been announcing details about upcoming 2019 Christmas movies. https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas/the-latest-news?et_cid=119252&et_rid=27267004&linkid=https%3a%2f%2fwww.hallmarkchannel.com%2fchristmas%2fthe-latest-news Andrew Walker is going to be starring in one with Jodie Sweetin, which is not a pairing I would have expected (also don't see her as a CEO of a candy cane company).

I don't know when this was filmed but here is an article from March discussing her pregnancy. Also discusses that she and her husband are foster parents to two boys, aged two and 11 months and are in process of adopting the older one. I suspect we won't be seeing any new movies featuring her for awhile. https://people.com/parents/hallmark-channel-jen-lilley-pregnant-expecting-daughter-exclusive/

She was also the murder victim in one of the Aurora Teagarden movies and suspect falsely arrested for murder in one of the Darrow and Darrow movies, so there is some attempt to keep you guessing when she pops up.

Interesting trivia about latest Morning Show Mystery - it was written by Amber Benson, who co-starred as Tara on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Per her IMDB page, it looks like she still acts but also has 8 writing credits.

Found this article https://heavy.com/entertainment/2018/08/where-a-summer-to-remember-filmed-locations/ which includes Many different locations were used for the movie, and some scenes were filmed at waterfalls or even in the jungle. We don’t know where every scene was filmed, but we do know that for at least part of the time, Catherine Bell was at the Malolo Island Resort and some of the resort scenes were filmed at the Likuliku Lagoon Resort.

It will be 40 new Christmas movies between main Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies And Mysteries Channel. Christmas At Graceland was their highest rated 2018 Christmas movie, but only 6th highest all-time. Candice Cameron Bure's 2014 Christmas Under Wraps is highest rated all-time (overall, she has 4 of the top 5).

Details about their upcoming "Countdown to Summer" movies https://deadline.com/2019/04/leah-renee-chris-mcnally-dan-jeannotte-nathan-parsons-among-cast-hallmark-channel-countdown-to-summer-movie-event-1202588907/ I only recognize a couple of the stars, so they appear to be trying to expand beyond usual pool of actors and actresses.