Home by Spring - When Calls the Heart's first Elizabeth Thatcher returns to the Hallmark Channel! #Hearties #SpringFever

Before Erin Krakow stepped into the frontier-era shoes of Elizabeth Thatcher, popular British actress Poppy Drayton portrayed the role in the first "When Calls the Heart" movie. Poppy is now returning to the Hallmark Channel in the Spring Fever movie, "Home by Spring," developed by the well-known country singer Kix Brooks, of the popular duo Brooks and Dunn. (you know... "Boot, Scootin', Boogie"!!!) See "Home by Spring" movie details below!

Poppy Drayton in the original "When Calls the Heart" movie...

image Poppy Drayton - "When Calls the Heart" movie: Hallmark Crown Media

Poppy Drayton in Hallmark Channel's "Home by Spring" ...

image Poppy Drayton - "Home by Spring": Hallmark Crown Media

MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: Home by Spring

Network: Hallmark Channel

Original Air Date: March 31, 2018

image Steven R. McQueen - "Home by Spring": Hallmark Crown Media

image Kix Brooks - "Home by Spring": Hallmark Crown Media

image Mary-Margaret Humes - "Home by Spring": Hallmark Crown Media

on set image via: Instagram

CAST:

Poppy Drayton ... Loretta Johnson
Steven R. McQueen ... Wayne Hendricks
Kix Brooks ... Arthur Wellerson
Mary-Margaret Humes ... Susan Johnson
Scott Bailey ... Paul Perentti
William Shockley ... Burt Cravage
Mia Matthews ... Amy Bennett
Vernee Watson ... Mrs. Wilson
Michael Welch ... Howard Hodgekiss
Scott Bailey ... Paul Perentti
Christopher Mychael Watson ... Turner Metcalf
Katrina Norman ... Michelle Wellerson
Stephanie Honore ... Elizabeth
Jacinte Blankenship ... Gretchen

on set image via: Instagram

on set image via: Instagram

on set image via: Instagram

PLOT:

Storyline via Hallmark: When an ambitious event planner gets an opportunity she can’t refuse, she goes undercover as her boss and returns to her rural hometown. With the help of her family and the man she left behind, she pulls off the perfect spring retreat, but will she discover home is where her heart is?

More via Hallmark: Loretta Johnson moves to Los Angeles from her hometown to pursue her event planning dreams, leaving her boyfriend Wayne behind. When a client mistakes Loretta for her boss, she carries on the charade, and returns to her hometown to host a retreat for her client to impress his fiancé’s father, and ask for blessing to marry his daughter.

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*images via: Hallmark Crown Media Family Networks
Credit: Copyright 2018 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Bonnie Marquette

Hallmark Channel's "Gone Country" with a Country Singer Superstar!

Via a story on the web-site tennessean.com, it has been revealed that country singer, actor, and film producer Kix Brooks, who is half of the great country duo - Brooks and Dunn, (you know "Boot Scootin' Boogie") is in the process of creating a Hallmark Channel movie, currently titled "Gone Country." (Interestingly enough... "Gone Country" is actually the title of a country song by Alan Jackson!)

image via: etsy - "Gone Country" wooden sign

Anyway...

According to the tennessean.com, "Brooks compared it (this new Hallmark movie) to the Reese Witherspoon movie “Sweet Home Alabama” in that "Gone Country" is about a country girl who moved to New York City and lied about her background to succeed. “She has to make her family lie for her and this and that and gets in a big mess,” Brooks said. “It’s another coming of life story. It’s interesting to work with Hallmark because they have their formula and the way they do things. But we have a history of making pretty decent movies for not a lot of money, and they like that.”"

My *Quick* Take:

I love the sound of this movie... country girl leaves the small pond and jumps feet first into the ocean, so to speak. The premise of the story must be - will she sink or swim? Also, will she be true to herself, those she loves, and where she came from? Overall, sounds like an ideal Hallmark movie! It kind of reminds me, a little, of "Autumn Dreams" when Jill Wagner's character - country farm-girl Annie Hancock visits New York City. She's definitely a fish out of water in that one!

I'll be looking forward to hearing more about this movie and who will star as the Country Girl!