The Chicken Sisters - Anticipation

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Title: The Chicken Sisters 

Category: Drama

Network: Hallmark+  (new Pay Streaming Service launching September 10, 2024)

Premiere: September 10, 2024

The Chicken Sisters is an 8 episode Family Drama TV Series who's first episode will premiere on September 10, 2024, the launch date of the brand new pay streaming service Hallmark+ before settling at it's normal release schedule of Thursdays, starting September 12, 2024. The Chicken Sisters TV Series is based on a 2020 novel of the same name by KJ Dell'Antonia.

The Chicken Sisters is set in the fictional small town of Merinac, Kansas where a generations-old rift between two rival fried chicken restaurants, both started in 1880s, Chicken Mimi's run by the Moores and Chicken Frannie's run by the Pogociellos, has left the owners' families feuding and fractured, and the restaurant patrons taking sides. When a popular cooking competition reality TV Show "Ultimate Kitchen Clash" is invited to town to make the definitive decision, things get way more complicated, sparks begin to fly, and secrets are revealed.

Lea Thompson, Genevieve Angelson, Schuyler Fisk, and Wendie Malick

Margo Martindale as the Narrator

Wendie Malick as Barbara Moore, owner of Chicken Mimi’s, mother of Amanda and Mae

Genevieve Angelson as Mae Moore, married with young children

Haylie Hansen as (Teenage) Mae Moore

Liam Boland as Frank Pogociello Sr.

Lea Thompson as Nancy Pogociello, owner of Chicken Frannie’s, wife of Frank Pogociello Sr., mother of Frank Pogociello Jr. 

James Kot as Frank Pogociello Jr.

Schuyler Fisk as Amanda Pogociello, wife of Frank Pogociello Jr., mother of two teenage kids, Gus and Frankie

Cassandra Sawtell as Frankie Pogociello, daughter of Amanda and Frank Pogociello Jr.

Jake Foy as Kenneth

Ektor Rivera as Sergio

Rukiya Bernard 

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Wendie Malick as Barbara Moore, owner of Chicken Mimi’s, mother of Amanda and Mae

I am hearing that they may have changed the name of Wendie Malick's character from Barbara Moore in the book to Gus in the TV Series. This is a strange change because there was a character in the book named Gus who was the son of the character, Amanda Pogociello, who might now only have one child, a daughter named Frankie.

This will become clearer once the show is released.

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Lots of name and plot changes from the book:

Margo Martindale as the Narrator

Rukiya Bernard as Sabrina Skye, host of “Kitchen Clash” 

Wendie Malick as Augusta "Gus" Moore, owner of Chicken Mimi’s, mother of Amanda and Mae

Genevieve Angelson as Mae Moore, after a set back in employment situation in New York, comes back to Merinac to help her mother run Chicken Mimi’s in order to win a $100,000 prize on the “Kitchen Clash” cooking competition show 

Haylie Hansen as Teen Mae

Ektor Rivera as Sergio, the chef at Chicken Mimi’s

Blake Stadel as Frank Sr. Hillier, 

Liam Boland as Young Frank Sr.

Lea Thompson as Nancy Hillier, owner of Chicken Frannie’s, wife of Frank Sr. Hillier, mother of Frank Jr. 

James Kot as Frank Jr. Hillier, Amanda’s husband

Riley Bjarnason as Teen Frank Jr.

Kellen Bruce as Young Kid Frank Jr.

Schuyler Fisk as Amanda Moore Hillier

Sidney Quesnelle as Teen Amanda

Cassandra Sawtell as Frankie, Amanda’s daughter

Corina Bizim as Mimi

Matthew James Dowden as Pastor McGregor

Drew Henderson as Sheriff Eddie Lawrence

France Maurice as Frannie

Samer Salem as Jay

Barbara Tyson as Magnolia

Danika Frederick as Ella

Arkie Kandola as Gordo

Andrew J. Hampton as Patrick

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This sounds like it would be right up my viewing alley, but I’m NOT paying for another streaming service. ☹️

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Mimi’s Chicken 

Rukiya Bernard as Sabrina Skye, host of “Ultimate Kitchen Clash”