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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Lacey Chabert to Develop New Product Line This Christmas with Hallmark, Plus Network Extends Her Multi-Picture Movie Deal and More




Wonderful news today from Hallmark! Lacey Chabert is developing a new product line with the Hallmark store greeting cards brand that will launch this upcoming 2025 Christmas season and will continue in 2026, celebrating all of the various holidays and seasons!

In addition to this news, Lacy Chabert's program, Celebrations with Lacey Chabert, which is available through the streaming platform Hallmark+, will be returning for a second season.

And there's even better news for Lacey's movie fans, Hallmark has extended her multi-picture movie deal with the network!

(Sidenote: I personally love that the press photo Hallmark Media released with this news (seen above) includes Lacey Chabert in the forefront with a headshot picture of Lacey on the wall behind her from her very first Hallmark Christmas movie, Matchmaker Santa! I still love that movie!).


See all of the details in Hallmark's press release below...


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Press Release via Hallmark Cards, Inc. :


Chabert Developing Her First-Ever
Hallmark Product Collection
Debuting Holiday 2025

Celebrations with Lacey Chabert
Renewed for Season 2
on Hallmark+,
with Chabert
Reprising Role as Host
and Executive Producer

Hallmark Media Multi-Year,
Multi-Picture Movie Deal Extended


STUDIO CITY, Calif., Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hallmark and Lacey Chabert are entering the new year with many reasons to celebrate. Audiences and fans worldwide cherish Chabert's warmth, creativity, and heartfelt way of helping people care and connect, both on and off the screen. And new for Holiday 2025, the Queen of Hallmark Christmas movies is partnering with Hallmark to bring an exclusive product collection to Hallmark Gold Crown Stores and Hallmark.com.

This all-new collection of holiday lifestyle products is the ultimate solution for hosting festive celebrations throughout the season, while creating new traditions with family and friends. Available later this year, the new collection features holiday must-haves including greeting cards, gift wrap and unique entertaining essentials—all with Lacey's signature touch and distinctive details inspired by vintage Hallmark designs. Beyond the holiday season, the Lacey Chabert Collection will extend into 2026 with everyday products that help people create joyful memories year-round.

"Our fans resonate deeply with Lacey's unique ability to help us tell meaningful stories at the holidays and throughout the year," said Darren Abbott, Hallmark Chief Brand Officer. "Her warmth and authenticity continuously inspires fans on the entertainment side of our business, and now we're proud to help extend that positive impact through this special product collaboration across our retail footprint."

Coming off a banner year in 2024, Chabert's recent work with the leading entertainment destination spanned such success as starring in her 40th original Hallmark movie (The Christmas Quest) and debuting Celebrations with Lacey Chabert, a new, original unscripted series, which she executive produced, as part of the company's robust foray into unscripted programming on Hallmark+. Chabert will continue her partnership with Hallmark Media through hosting and executive producing a second season of Celebrations with Lacey Chabert, as well extending her multi-picture movie deal, where she will star in, develop, and produce Hallmark film projects into 2025 and beyond.

"I'm incredibly grateful to continue to star in, develop and produce inspiring and rewarding projects like Hallmark's widely adored original movies and the second season of Celebrations with Lacey Chabert," Chabert said. "I am also thrilled to expand my partnership with Hallmark with a new product collection available exclusively at Hallmark Gold Crown Stores. Ever since I was a little girl, I have sincerely loved the universally positive experience of shopping at a Hallmark store, so to be able to work on this collection that will allow other people and their families to create memories of their own has been such a treat and full circle for me."

The renewal of the unscripted series Celebrations with Lacey Chabert is set to premiere later this year on Hallmark+. Returning to the show for Season 2 are Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls, Haul Out the Holly) alongside her talented party planning team Lisa Friedman and Marisa Lainer. In season 2, the series will continue to spotlight deserving community members with surprise celebrations in recognition of their incredible contributions.

In Season 2, Chabert and her team will surprise eight new individuals, each chosen for their extraordinary efforts to uplift those around them. These everyday heroes will be treated to fabulous, one-of-a-kind celebrations designed to honor their impact in a deeply meaningful way. As with the first season, the series will offer viewers touching glimpses into the lives of the honorees and their communities.

Celebrations with Lacey Chabert is produced by UNConventional Entertainment, a part of Sony Pictures Television (SPT), and Lacey Chabert Productions. Executive producers of the series include UNConventional's Gena McCarthy, Sony Pictures Television's Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman, along with Jill Garelick-Aron, Hollie Lobosky, and Lacey Chabert.

ABOUT HALLMARK For more than 100 years, family-owned Hallmark Cards, Inc. has been dedicated to creating a more emotionally connected world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and employing more than 20,000 worldwide, the company operates a diversified portfolio of businesses. The Hallmark business designs and sells greeting cards, gifts, ornaments and gift packaging in more than 30 languages with distribution in nearly 100 countries and 100,000 rooftops worldwide, including a network of company-owned and independently-owned Hallmark Gold Crown stores in five countries. Hallmark Media is entertainment's leading destination for feel-good content and operates three cable networks – Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Mystery, and Hallmark Family. Hallmark+, launched in 2024, is our streaming service and membership program delivering the very best of Hallmark all in one place, featuring a blend of all new, exclusive original series, movies, and other feel-good content plus monthly discounts and rewards for shopping at Hallmark retail stores and at Hallmark.com. Crown Center is a real estate development company that manages the 85-acre hotel, office, entertainment and residential campus surrounding Hallmark's headquarters. Crayola® offers a wide range of art materials and creative play toys designed to spark children's creativity around the globe. For more information, visit Hallmark.com.

SOURCE Hallmark Cards, Inc.



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My Quick Take:

I'm sooo excited about this! Lacey Chabert has a wonderful sense of style, which is evident in her HSN clothing line, so I can't wait to see what she designs with Hallmark, especially at Christmastime!

On a personal note, the Hallmark store holds such wonderful memories for me and my family, and I'm sure it does for many of you, as well. I remember we would always shop there before every birthday and pick out party plates, cups, napkins, wrapping paper, and, of course, birthday cards! And each holiday season, I couldn't wait to see all of the Christmas ornaments, wrapping paper, and fun new holiday line of products, whether it be silly dancing snowmen or Santa Claus figurines and Christmas villages! I loved it all! Shopping at our local Hallmark shop was always enjoyable. (Unfortunately, that store is gone now.) There was nothing like walking up to that Christmas window with the ornaments displayed so neatly, each one waiting to be purchased and find its way home. I still love the magic and wonder of it all, and I can't wait to see the new line (online) from Hallmark and Lacey Chabert this Christmas!

And... I'm delighted to know that Lacey has signed a multi-picture deal with Hallmark! I look forward to seeing her upcoming projects with the network. Personally, I would still love to see another All of My Heart movie and Dancing Detective mystery! I guess we will all have to stay tuned!


Blessings on your day!
Net


image via: Hallmark Media


Thursday, April 11, 2024

🎬 GREAT AMERICAN MEDIA SIGNS JILLIAN MURRAY TO MULTI-PICTURE, MULTI-YEAR DEAL - SEE HERE:




There is more exciting news today from Great American Media: Actress Jillian Murray signs a multi-picture, multi-year deal across their various platforms. See all of the details in the press release below.

If you have a favorite movie starring Jillian, please share below in the comment section. I shared mine at the end of this post.



PRESS RELEASE:

GREAT AMERICAN MEDIA
SIGNS JILLIAN MURRAY
TO MULTI-PICTURE,
MULTI-YEAR DEAL

NEW YORK, NY – April 11, 2024 – Great American Media announced it has signed Jillian Murray (An Unlikely Angel, A Brush With Christmas, Christmas Keepsake) to a multi-picture, multi-year deal to star in original movies and content across the company’s vast media portfolio which includes Great American Family, Great American Faith & Living, Great American Pure Flix, Great American Adventures, and digital service Great American Faith & Home. Broader terms of the deal are not disclosed.

“It is a joy to welcome Jillian Murray to the Great American family,” said Bill Abbott, President & CEO, Great American Media. “Every film Jillian stars in does very well, and she has quickly become a viewer favorite and rising star,” Abbott concluded.

Murray is represented by CESD, Vault Entertainment and Meyer & Downs.

ABOUT GREAT AMERICAN MEDIA:

Great American Media is home to a family-friendly portfolio of brands including Great American Family, Great American Pure Flix and Great American Faith & Living. As the flagship linear TV network, Great American Family features original Christmas movies, rom-coms and classic series that celebrate faith, family and country. Great American Pure Flix is a leading faith and family streaming service that inspires, uplifts and entertains with content that you can confidently stream with the entire family. Great American Faith & Living features lifestyle programming that celebrates family-friendly traditions every day and every season. Great American Media is also home to FAST (free ad-supporting streaming TV) channel Great American Adventures, which offers scripted and unscripted content highlighting themes including cooking and DIY, and Great American Community, a free direct-to-consumer streaming app featuring short-form original series hosted by well-known lifestyle experts. Great American Media was established in June 2021 by Bill Abbott and a group of US-based family offices.


*************End of Press Release*************


This is certainly wonderful news for Jillian and Great American Media! I'm so thrilled for them both.

Jillian Murray shared this lovely response on social media: "Thrilled for this next chapter in my career. I’m so excited to develop projects I’m passionate about and bring fantastic scripts to life with incredibly talented writers, directors, and actors. I’m extremely grateful to have a network that believes in me and my creative vision. I’ve been eager to push for more rom-coms since it’s what I grew up watching so getting a chance to work in that genre feels very close to my heart and I look forward to finding timeless stories to share with everyone. And anyone that knows me understands how much I adore Christmas movies so I’m exuberant to continue making those as well."

My personal favorite movie starring Jillian Murray is Prescription for Love with Trevor Donovan. It is such a fun one, and I look forward to watching it every time it replays on Great American Family.

Please share your favorite movie starring Jillian Murray in comments below.


Happy movie-watching!
Net🎬


Monday, January 10, 2022

Jen Lilley Signs Movie Deal with GAC Media!




Exciting news from GAC Media! Jen Lilley has signed a new deal (via Deadline news) with GAC Family for FOUR all new original premieres over the next TWO years!

Jen Lilley is well known to movie fans for her work on the Hallmark Channel in Eat, Play, Love, Mingle All The Way, Harvest Love, Winter Love Story, USS Christmas and more! She recently starred in GAC Family's Royally Wrapped for Christmas and Hallmark Channel's Where Your Heart Belongs.

Also mentioned at Deadline, is that "Jen Lilley joins other fellow Hallmark Channel veterans Danica McKellar and Trevor Donovan, who have both signed multi-picture deals with GAC Family." Wouldn't it be wonderful if Jen and Trevor worked together again? They had such great chemistry in USS Christmas!

On a personal note, Jen Lilley shared in an Instagram post on October 29th, 2021, that she and her husband, Jason, and their three children, are expecting a new baby into their family. In late November, they announced with a gender reveal, the new addition is going to be a baby girl! The couple currently have two sons and one daughter.

Jen Lilley is going to be extra busy with her family and creating new movies, plus her work with her organization, Christmas Is Not Cancelled, which gives back to those in need, especially children, with Toys for Tots and school supplies. It's obvious that Jen Lilley is a woman of deep faith who has a heart of gold and loves giving to others.

I'm personally delighted to hear this news; I can't wait to see what characters and stories Jen brings to GAC Family, where their tagline is... "stories well told".


Please share your thoughts in comments below!

Blessings on your day! Net