For years, when considering of vacation motion pictures on TV, Hallmark Channel has been the go-to — principally due to the staff behind it and the celebrities connected. Nonetheless, GAC Media is giving the community a run for its cash.
Former CEO of Crown Media Household Networks (Hallmark Channel’s guardian firm) Invoice Abbott acquired GAC, initially Nice American Nation, in June 2021. Abbott stepped down from Crown Media in January 2020 following the corporate’s dealing with of a industrial that includes a same-sex couple. On the time, a Zola.com advert confirmed two girls exchanging vows and kissing on their marriage ceremony day. After conservative teams slammed the advert as not being “family-friendly,” Hallmark pulled it — and prompted an uproar. Ultimately, Abbott modified his tune and positioned the clip again on the community.
The backlash got here after years of criticism about Hallmark Channel’s lack of range and LGBTQ+ story strains.
“I feel that generalization isn’t honest, both, that we simply have Christmas with white leads,” Abbott informed The Hollywood Reporter in November 2020. “By way of broadening out the demographic, it’s one thing we’re at all times fascinated about, at all times contemplating and we’ll proceed to make the films the place one of the best scripts are delivered to us and what we predict have probably the most potential.”
The corporate was cut up into two manufacturers — GAC Household and GAC Residing, each of which launched in September 2021.
GAC Household’s first authentic sequence shall be season 2 of When Hope Calls, which incorporates former Hallmark mainstay Lori Loughlin’s return to TV. Season 1 aired on Hallmark Channel in 2019.
In October 2021, GAC Household introduced “12 Films of Christmas,” the community’s vacation celebration, which can characteristic an authentic Christmas film every Saturday evening. Following Thanksgiving weekend — which included three nights in a row of authentic vacation motion pictures — new Christmas programming will air every Saturday and Sunday evening all through December as a part of Nice American Christmas, GAC Household’s franchise.
When the lineup was introduced, many followers realized that a few of Hallmark’s staple stars are included — and a few are making the transfer completely over to GAC Household. Scroll down for a full breakdown:
