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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

FOUR Well-Known Hallmark & Great American Family Actors Join "Blue Ridge: The Series"




The cast of Blue Ridge: The Series is currently filming season 2, which will include the return of regular cast members: Johnathon Schaech, Sarah Lancaster, Taegen Burns, Tom Proctor, Avianna Mynhier, Greg Perrow, A Martinez, and more.

Plus, this upcoming season of Blue Ridge: The Series will have some special guest stars you are sure to recognize from various TV movies...


Producer, Director, and Writer Gary Wheeler with Sarah Drew and Johnathon Schaech
image via: Gary Wheeler


Sarah Drew

Actress Sarah Drew has starred in the Hallmark movies, Christmas in Vienna, One Summer, Guiding Emily, and Branching Out.

She also starred in the faith-based comedy film, Mom's Night Out, the Lifetime movie, Christmas Pen Pals, the Great American Pure Flix streaming movie, Birthright Outlaw, the Hallmark+ streaming series, Mistetoe Murders, and many more!



Producer, Director, and Writer Gary Wheeler with Eric Close and Johnathon Schaech
image via: Gary Wheeler


Eric Close

Actor Eric Close is well-known for a number of faith-based and TV movies, including INSP's Legal Action, Hallmark's Follow the Stars Home, Christmas in the Air, A Christmas Love Story, Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday, and To Have and To Holiday.

Eric has also starred in the Great American Pure Flix films The Mulligan and Average Joe.


Jesse Hutch with Producer, Director, and Writer Gary Wheeler
image via: Gary Wheeler


Jesse Hutch


Actor Jesse Hutch has starred in many TV rom-coms and Christmas movies for Hallmark, UPtv, Lifetime, and Great American Family.

His acting credits include Let it Snow, Harvest Moon, How to Fall in Love, My Boyfriends' Dogs, and Christmas in Toyland for Hallmark, My Birthday Romance and Love on the Road for UPtv, Becoming Santa and A Very Vintage Christmas for Lifetime, B&B Merry, A Christmas Blessing, Christmas Under the Northern Lights, A Little Women's Christmas, and For the Love of Chocolate for Great American Family and many more.

Jesse is also currently starring in Homestead: The Series.



Kristoffer Polaha with Producer, Director, and Writer Gary Wheeler
image via: Gary Wheeler



Kristoffer Polaha

Kristoffer Polaha is well known for a number of Hallmark movies, most notably are A Biltmore Christmas, Mystery 101, A Dickens of a Holiday, Double Holiday, Small Town Christmas, Pearl in Paradise, Rocky Mountain Christmas, Hearts of Christmas, The Christmas Quest, and more.

He also starred in the faith-based, inspirational films Run the Race and Where Hope Grows.

Kristoffer is currently wearing multiple hats as an actor, producer, and director for the 2025 film Mimics, where he not only stars but also takes the helm behind the camera.




Cast pictures on & off the set of Blue Ridge: The Series...

"Blue Ridge: The Series" cast
image via: Kevin Lawson


"Blue Ridge: The Series" cast & crew
image via: Kristoffer Polaha


A Martinez, Johnathon Schaech, Melissa Ordway Gaston, Kristoffer Polaha, and Jesse Hutch
image via: Melissa Ordway Gaston


Actress Sarah Lancaster, who is an original cast member of Blue Ridge: The Series, is also widely known from her TV movies, Christmas in the Smokies (INSP), Love Finds You in Sugarcreek and Christmas on Holly Lane (UPtv), 'Tis the Season for Love, Along Came a Nanny, and Looking for Mr. Right (Hallmark).

Johnathon Schaech, Sarah Lancaster, and Bruce Boxleitner
image via: Bruce Boxleitner


Actor Bruce Boxleitner (Christmas Under the Northern Lights, Matchmaker Mysteries, Holiday Date, Wedding Bells, Cedar Cove) was one of the guest stars in the first season; he will also be returning for season 2.

The premiere date for season 2 of Blue Ridge: The Series hasn't been revealed yet.

Last year, season 1 began on the streaming service Western Bound, and a few months later, Blue Ridge: The Series made its way to INSP.

As mentioned in an earlier press release, Blue Ridge: The Series season 2 is set to debut on Western Bound, as well.

Stay tuned for further details on "Blue Ridge: The Series."


Blessings on your day!
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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday - a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries *Miracles of Christmas* Movie starring Jen Lilley, Carlo Marks and Eric Close!


MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday

Network: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Original Air Date: December 15, 2019



CAST:

Jen Lilley ... Chloe
Carlo Marks ... Ryan
Eric Close ... Anthony
Rachael Crawford ... Tina
Maria Syrgiannis ... Linda
Rob Stewart ... Lowell
Laura Miyata ... Ashley
Zach Smadu ... Tom
Chris Sandiford ... Raffi
Allison Hossack ... Gloria
Judy Marshak ... Delores
Bill Lake ... Pastor Howard
Ava Weiss ... Emily
Kelly Martin ... Maxine
Derry Robinson ... Santa
Eryk Simon ... Photographer




PLOT:

Storyline via Hallmark: Chloe, still upset with Ryan, who took her dream job in New York years ago, is fuming he’s back in Angel Falls consulting at her publishing company. Going to the bookstore to distract herself, she finds Memories of Christmas, left for her by an “angelic” gentleman. Coincidentally, Ryan just rented his parents’ estate to the author, who Chloe would love to sign. But memories of the author’s late husband loom large, and she wants to leave. Someone “angelic” better intervene to keep Ryan from running again, or Chloe, and Angel Falls, will lose out.



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*images via: Hallmark Crown Media Family Networks
Credit: ©2019 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Shane Mahood

Monday, November 18, 2019

Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Christmas Love Story - a Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas Movie starring Kristin Chenoweth and Scott Wolf! πŸŽ„♫


MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: A Christmas Love Story

Network: Hallmark Channel

Original Air Date: December 7, 2019

*a Hallmark Hall of Fame Production!

*Part of Hallmark Channel's 10th Anniversary of Countdown to Christmas!




CAST:

Kristin Chenoweth ... Katherine Clark
Scott Wolf ... Greg Scanton
Kevin Quinn ... Danny Scanton
Keith Robinson ... Brian
Lacey Caroline ... Mariah
Isabella Taylor Fommelt ... Nora
Keyon Shammare Pickett, Jr. ... Scott
Eric Close ... Shane
Maria Howell ... Carol
Eva Albright ... Emily
Jennifer Aspen ... Julie
Stephen Starkweather ... Pete
Shante DeLoach ... Gwen
Johanna Jowett ... Mariah’s Mom
Lucia Scarano ... Irene
Gordon James ... Wealthy Donor
Catherine Charlton ... Donor’s Wife
J’Nelle Joy York ... Driver
Scarlett Juniper Blum ... Emma
Terrence John Kapur ... Levi
Melina Milagros ... Female Elf
Anthony J. Police ... Cabbie
Maiya Ennis ... Young Girl


PLOT:

Storyline via Hallmark: Youth choir director Katherine discovers one of her student volunteers, Danny, has a golden voice and tries to enlist him for the big Christmas Eve show, despite his widowed father Greg’s resistance. When she shows up one night at Danny’s home to make a final plea for the teen to work with the choir, a snowstorm forces her to spend the night. While she is successful at winning over Greg, a budding romance also develops. However, Danny has a life-changing secret which affects both his father and Katherine and threatens to undermine this new relationship.



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*images via: Hallmark Crown Media Family Networks
Credit: ©2019 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Brian Douglas
In Studio Credit: ©2019 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Michael Larsen

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Legal Action - an INSP Film starring Eric Close, Tanya Clarke, Nick Searcy, Tommy Flanagan, and Kevin Sizemore


MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: Legal Action

Network: INSP

Original Air Date: November 10, 2018

*Legal Action can also be viewed via Amazon Streaming Video.








CAST:

Eric Close ... Casey McKay
Tanya Clarke ... Prudence 'Pru' Chambers
Nick Searcy ... Solomon 'Ex' Clemons
Tommy Flanagan ... Mr. Gates
Kevin Sizemore ... Jay Chambers
Christian James ... Kit Chambers
Gregory Alan Williams ... Ben Wingwright
Mark Ashworth ... Geraldo
Gunner Willis ... Dusty
Jared Simon ... Male juror
Gary Ray Moore ... Frog
Elizabeth Becka ... Juror #2
W.F. Bell ... Goon
Adrienne Johnson ... Juror #4
Brian Lafontaine ... Parker Myers









PLOT:

Storyline via INSP: In Legal Action, Big-city lawyer Casey McKay, (Eric Close – Nashville, Without a Trace) a winner with a long hot streak, receives a mysterious text from his ex-wife, Pru, (Tanya Clarke – A Beautiful Mind, Guiding Light) about her brother, Jay. No stranger to being on the wrong side of the law, Jay is accused of murdering a District Attorney. Casey takes the case, but soon discovers this will be no ordinary legal defense. Teaming up with eccentric ex-marine turned motel owner and P.I. “Ex” Clemens (Nick Searcy – Justified, The Shape of Water), he discovers a web of conspiracy that puts him face-to-face with the town’s most greedy and corrupt land developer, Mr. Gates (Tommy Flanagan – Sons of Anarchy, Braveheart). As Casey begins to unravel the truth, he finds himself fighting for his former brother-in-law’s life, as well as his own.






*Legal Action can also be viewed via Amazon Streaming Video.


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*images via: https://legalactionmovie.com