Lori Loughlin is GAC Household’s latest star.
The Hallmark competitor introduced Thursday that Loughlin will star in her first romantic comedy for the community, titled Fall Into Winter. The TV-movie will air in January 2023 (actual date TBD) as a part of GAC’s winter programming slate.
“Lori is a genre-defining star that I’ve had the consideration to name a detailed buddy and collaborator for greater than 15 years,” Nice American Media CEO Invoice Abbott mentioned in a press release. “We have now a shared imaginative and prescient for creating significant and memorable films that resonate with our passionate followers, and I stay up for welcoming her again to Nice American Household to anchor our 2023 winter programming slate.”
In a earlier interview with Selection, Abbott referred to Loughlin — who was implicated within the notorious 2019 faculty admissions scandal, leading to a two-month jail sentence, a $150,000 positive and 100 hours of mandated group service — as “America’s sweetheart, no matter no matter occurred. On the finish of the day, she represents all that’s optimistic about leisure, and has had a stellar profession,” he mentioned. “Not solely on display screen, but additionally the best way she’s performed herself personally, when it comes to being somebody who has a monitor file of doing the appropriate factor on this planet at massive, other than no matter occurred. I don’t know the main points. She’s beloved and for good cause.”
Fall Into Winter marks Loughlin’s first TV-movie since 2018. Within the rom-com, Loughlin’s Keely is “aghast when her brother sells his half of their family-owned, upscale sweet store to his finest buddy from highschool (and her nemesis, Brooks), forcing a sudden urgency to seek out connection and customary floor,” in response to the official logline. “Keely has been damage earlier than; change is her new nemesis. Brooks’ previous is a mirror of Keely’s. He, too, has a fortress round his coronary heart. Destiny brings the pair collectively. Would possibly it additionally supply new beginnings?”
Abbott — who beforehand ran Hallmark Channel and left following the community’s mishandling of a business that includes a same-sex marriage ceremony — has helped facilitate Loughlin’s comeback, which started with a job in 2021’s When Hope Calls Christmas particular. He’s additionally in enterprise with fellow Full Home vet Candace Cameron Bure, who departed her longtime house at Hallmark earlier this 12 months for an unique pact with GAC. The community has already introduced two tasks with Bure, together with starring car A Christmas… Current and the Andrea Barber-led Christmas on Sweet Cane Lane.
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