Worfiedoodles
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Thank you so much for this detailed information! It is really helpful and I'm excited to see what happens. Last night I checked and I do have GAC, so I've set the DVR and will get to peek at their movies in the upcoming weeks.Yes, I saw that news last night. I don't get GAC either in my Spectrum Cable package. I was thinking about maybe just paying for the Frndly TV app during the Christmas season and then cancelling in January. But, Danica's first movie with GAC will be in January. If some of my favorite Hallmark stars all move exclusively over to GAC, that puts a real crimp getting the app for a couple months & cancelling.
However, Danica doing mystery movies might not be part of her exclusivity contract.
To fill everyone else in on the GAC Family channel and Danica McKeller:
Last January, the long time CEO of the Hallmark channels stepped down as CEO. Months ago, he acquired two cable channels and re-branded them as part of GAC Media. One of his goals is to make more Christmas movies and family entertainment showsjust likeerr, similar to what he built up on Hallmark.
He was able to, at least, bring over some of his original ideas with him to GAC. The Home & Family TV show hosted by Cameron Mathison and Debbie Matenopoulos, as well as the rest of the cast, are moving over to the GAC Living channel, after it was cancelled on Hallmark.It may be called something else on GAC and some stuff may change. But, everyone knows it's the same TV show.
The spinoff series of When Calls the Heart, called When Hope Calls is moving to GAC Family. Lori Loughlin & Daniel Lissing will be on it.
The GAC Christmas movies were finally announced, listing all the cross-over stars: Cameron Mathison, Susie Abromeit, Nick Bateman, Rukiya Bernard, Cindy Busby, Sara Canning, Dillon Casey, Torrance Coombs, Trevor Donovan, Brendan Fehr, Jennie Garth, Maggie Lawson, Jen Lilley, Sarah Lind, Daniel Lissing, Jessica Lowndes, Matthew MacCaull, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Page, Merritt Patterson, Christopher Russell, Becca Tobin, Jill Wagner and Dewshane Williams.
Here's the GAC Christmas movie schedule:
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Almost all of them also do, or have done Lifetime movies too. So, it's no biggie for any of them to decide to do yet a third network's Christmas movie, too.
Note, the 4 top Hallmark actresses are missing from that GAC list: Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Alicia Witt, and Danica McKeller.
A few days ago, after Danica's Christmas movie aired on Hallmark, it was finally announced that she signed a deal with GAC Media to star in and executive produce four new films, beginning with The Winter Palace (premiering in January 2022.)
According to Deadline.com: "Under the GAC Media deal, which extends through 2023, she will do rom-coms and holiday films for GAC Media exclusively.
Deadline also mentions, "McKellar recently guest starred on ABC comedy Home Economics and is set as a judge on Fox’s upcoming unscripted competition series Domino Masters, set for early 2022." GAC Media doesn't have any exclusivity for her to do those types of projects. As well, she can still decide to do an episode of the reboot of The Wonder Years for ABC if they want her.
The ability for Danica to be an executive producer of her own movies is probably what sealed the deal with GAC. She gets to have some real creative control and input over her movies now.
However, the fact that mystery movies were not specifically named too, only rom-coms, (as far as we know,) maybe she was able to work out as part of the deal to still be on Crossword Mysteries with HMM?I hope so. I really liked that series.
But, HMM may have already decided to cancel her series on their own. Or Danica decided to leave before they decide to "go in another direction," leaving her without any deal even with GAC.
Both Eric Mabius and Jesse Metcalfe mentioned in separate interviews that their own futures with Hallmark are uncertain. Jesse said on ETonline.com, "Obviously, I have Hallmark to thank for that opportunity but a lot of changes have happened over at Hallmark and everyone's in a bit of a holding pattern waiting to see which direction they go, which TV shows and movies they continue to support and which ones end up on the chopping block." Although, the amount of times they aired his movie, A Country Wedding, in the last several months on both channels, I think Hallmark is indicating to him they want to keep him.
Alicia Witt isn't doing a Christmas movie this year with either company. And it's likely we may not hear anything about Candace or Lacey until they either pen a deal and their Hallmark movies air first. With it now public that Danica has executive producer rights, that may really have to be part of the negotiation packages with GAC for the other two actresses now, too.
As far as other GAC exclusivity contracts, only Cameron Mathison, Susie Abromeit, who will star in four original films and host GAC Family Original Movie Nights, and Trevor Donovan, (no idea what he's doing,) have known exclusivity deals now with GAC Media.
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Every movie is equally wonderful, every actor/actress is equally great. No one should have alternate opinions to that. No one should express those as that would be a downer. "It's another Hallmark Christmas movie. That should be enough," was a big sentiment. (I think most of the threads where people did express their "negative" opinions got deleted.)
(And yes, I watch the same movies over and over sometimes, for no other reason than just because of the actors, too. 
More often, I read people giving their opinions and following up with their reasoning: "I thought the script was weak." "Same old story re-hashed, can't stand another A Christmas Carol ghost story." "It was slow, but I stuck with it, as I love the actors. I'll watch anything they are in. In the end, I was happy watching the movie." "It was way over the top in the beginning, but got better later on. . ." etcetera.
Sometimes, I like an over the top comedy - but have to be in the mood for it, Sometimes the acting just went too much over the top period - or too badly acted to make the movie salvageable, in my opinion. Sometimes, I just don't think a particular pairing of the actor and actress had chemistry, etc., and other people think so too. So it wasn't just me.
. We don't have to be sheeple, all having the same opinion. 
It was very cult-like the way they insisted on only sunshine and roses and unicorn farts. It was like they didn't understand they could read or hear someone having a different opinion and they still get to keep their own. They don't lose it just because someone feels differently.
One of the positives of visiting there. 
Click on the colored text to watch a preview of that movie. 
) but I liked the story, and especially that it wasn't the plot with the horrible boss or corporation out to ruin everything. I put this one on the feel good list. 
