Hallmark Cafe

Hallmark Movies Now streamer bows out to be replaced by the new Hallmark Plus. With some intriguing new original movies and a selection of unscripted offerings, Hallmark viewers will have more choices than ever for content. And we highlight some of the recent Hallmark movies who were awarded Leo Awards in Vancouver, British Columbia earlier this month. Your table is ready!

On this edition of The Hallmark Cafe, we sample wedding cakes and choose a DJ for our own June wedding event. Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith made two movies in The Perfect Bride series that we think are a great marriage of entertainment and insight into love and matrimony. Join us at the head table as we toast the happy couple!

We welcome Eric from the Hallmark Mysteries and More podcast to the Cafe to sample the latest Hallmark Passport to Love movie, "Savoring Paris." Can a movie about love and cheese take place anywhere else but Paris? Bethany Joy Lenz has all summer to find out. Your cafe table awaits, join us!

Apples and honey are on the menu today as we dish up 2022's "The Secrets of Bella Vista" with Rachelle Lefevre and Niall Matter followed by the delicious new "For Love and Honey" starring Andrew Walker and Margaret Clunie. As a side dish, we toss in some history about the origins of apples and bees in North America. It's all courtesy of The Hallmark Cafe, join us at the...

We are so excited about the new Tipline Mysteries movie starring Holland Roden and Chris McNally (which we watched on Hallmark Movies Now, streaming) that we gave it its own show. (don't worry, we tossed in a great tip for dessert) Join us at the (no spoilers as usual!) table for this exceptional movie!

Today in the Cafe we discuss Hallmark's latest mystery starring Amanda Schull and Brendan Penny. It's a doctor and detective meetup. And a first for us, we discuss two recent episodes of the long running Hallmark hit, When Calls the Heart. Join us at the table!

In this episode, we join the guests at a medieval castle who've come for dinner but wind up suspects in a bizarre murder. But Goldy and Tom are on the case so the twists and turns in this installment of Curious Caterer are filled with surprises. For dessert, we make our own short movie with Dianne in the director's chair making her dramatic directorial debut with her original script, Morni...

Our main course finds Viv Leacock and Natasha Burnett joining forces to find the missing half of an antique locket with a colorful past. For dessert, we take a trip to beautiful Niagara Falls where recently jilted Jocelyn Hudon meets handsome tour guide Dan Jeannotte who may or may not be ready to fall so easily in love again. Grab your slicker and join us at the falls on this edition of The Hallm...

We catch up on our reading with Blind Date Book Club starring Erin Krakow and Robert Buckley then we peel back the clues in One Bad Apple, the latest Hannah Swensen Mystery with Alison Sweeney and company. Your table is ready!

We wrap up season two of The Way Home with a lively discussion of the exciting and surprising finale. Season three will have a lot of explaining to do! Join us at the table!

On this episode we head to Paris and the world of fashion with Brooke D'Orsay to solve a stylish murder that has the Paris Police baffled in Crimes of Fashion: Killer Clutch. For dessert, we find out if Tyler Hynes and Katherine Barrell can restore their love and a couple of classic cars at the same time in Shifting Gears. Join us in the Cafe!

The penultimate season two episode of The Way Home is jam packed with events that point toward an exciting season finale. Will Jacob return with Kat to the present? Will Del sell the Landry farm? We talk about it all so join us at the table!

Lose Yourself in our discussion of episode eight of season two as we did deeper into our unfounded theories and observations of the continuing search for The Way Home for all the characters of Port Haven. Your table is ready!

We present, as our main course, a beautiful movie from 2021 that our recent guest Peter Benson directed and for which he won a Leo Award. Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone is a family drama with a timeless message beautifully lensed on Vancouver Island. For dessert, we get caught up with the last entry in the February Jane Austen themed Loveuary event with a new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. T...

Michael and Dianne dig deeper into the meaning of this series and find some interesting surprises. What do you think this series is all about? Join us at the table!

Episode six of The Way Home promotes a lively discussion in The Cafe as we try to decipher even more clues from the past. Join us at the table!

Multi-talented actor and director Peter Benson joins us in The Hallmark Cafe to talk about his career as an actor in and director of some of our favorite Hallmark movies. It's a master class and a seven course meal, so join us for an absolutely delightful time at the table! Come on in, your table is ready!

We're back in the Cafe making our way through season two of The Way Home with episode five, "Long Time Gone." It's Founders Day in Port Haven and the past is present as Kat and Alice each venture back in time still looking for answers deep within the pond. Your table is ready!

The Way Home returns to The Cafe for Episode 4 and we stayed up late to spin some theories (and have our usual fun!). Come on in, your table is ready!

We welcome Executive Producer Veronica Brown and Director Clare Niederpruem to the Cafe to talk about the making of their newest Hallmark movie, "An American in Austen". Grab a coffee, pull up a chair and learn how in the world they made such an incredible movie in just 15 days! Come on in, your table is ready!

Writer Reina Hardy shares her journey creating the original story and script for the Love-u-ary entry, "Paging Mr. Darcy." Reina is an accomplished playwright, teacher and author whose research into Jane Austen turned into a charming story starring Mallory Jansen and Will Kemp. Join us at the table to meet this fascinating woman!

For tonight's feast, we spend some time on the Hallmark Movies Now App immersing ourselves deeper into the world of Jane Austen with the very clever Hallmark original movie, "An American in Austen." For dessert, we recommend the BBC mini-series of "Pride and Prejudice" from 1995. Hallmark is making the six part series available as part of its Loveuary celebration of the bel...

For our main course, we serve up the first 2024 Hallmark Loveuary movie, "Paging Mr. Darcy." Mallory Jansen and Will Kemp light up the screen while trying to make sense of Jane Austen in the 21st Century. For dessert, Jocelyn Hudon and Olivier Renaud take to the silks where they rise above their fears to find love and a new purpose in, "Romance With a Twist." Your table is read...

We're back in The Cafe to talk about episode three of The Way Home which digs deeper into the mystery of what happened to Jacob. Alice stays in the present and gets a job while Kat takes the pond back to 1814 where she comes closer to meeting Jacob face to face. Meanwhile, Del takes a ride on the mysterious black horse and encounters her new handsome neighbor. You're table is set in this e...

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...