Earlier this month, we reported that production on season nine of the Home & Family morning program would resume on March 29th. Now, it’s been revealed that the Hallmark Channel lifestyle series will end this year and won’t have a 10th season.
The series began in 1996 as The Home and Family Show on The Family Channel (a predecessor to Fox Family Channel, ABC Family, and the current Freeform channel) and was hosted by Cristina Ferrare, Michael Burger, and Chuck Woolery. The latter left in 1996 and the series ran until 1998.
The show was rebooted in 2012 on Hallmark Channel. Mark Steines and Paige Davis co-hosted the new version but Davis left after six weeks and was replaced by Ferrare, a host of the original iteration. In 2016, Ferrare was dropped and replaced by Debbie Matenopoulos. Then, Steines was replaced by Cameron Mathison in 2018.
In addition to celebrity interviews, Home & Family episodes typically include lifestyle and craft segments. Contributors have included Kym Douglas, Orly Shani, Ken Wingard, Shirley Bovshow, Lawrence Zarian, Paige Hemmis, Ali Fedotowsky, Larissa Wohl, Maria Provenzano, and Tamera Mowry-Housley.
Prior to the pandemic, the Hallmark series aired for two hours on weekdays. Due to COVID-19, production shut down in March 2020 but resumed in September. Filming ceased again in December and production is expected to resume next week. Episodes will begin airing on April 5th with a one-hour, three-day-a-week schedule. The series finale will air on August 4th.
A statement about the Home & Family cancellation was released by Hallmark, per Variety.
The ninth and current season of Home & Family will be the series’ last. For nearly a decade, the show has anchored our daytime lineup, featuring countless hours of cooking, lifestyle, DIY, health, entertaining, and decorating segments. We want to thank the heart and soul of the show, our incredibly talented cast and crew — led by co-hosts Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison — for their creativity, hard work, and dedication. Our audience can look forward to more of the topical segments they know and love when the show returns on Monday, April 5 with a new one-hour, three-day-a-week format. The program’s final episode airs Wednesday, August 4th.
What do you think? Do you like the Home & Family TV series? Are you sorry to hear that the show’s been cancelled and won’t have a 10th season?
Very very sorry. It’s really the only television I watch. I record and watch every episode. It just helps fulfills something missing in my life and I am sad at the news.
I agree that it is an error to discontinue this series, as it offers a wonderful variety of internet focused segments but mostly..provides wholesome,family oriented presentations…something sorely needed in today’s world…it is a disappointment that Hallmark has chosen to abandon this contribution to values and Lifestyle…their image will surely show the change in their other enterprises…
I am so saddened that there will not be a season 10 – I LOVE Home & Family! Seriously, I haven’t been watching Hallmark (except of course for When Calls the Heart) but that’s only because H&F would always show us what was coming up and I could set my DVR to watch them but since they haven’t been on I didn’t know what to watch – Please reconsider and keep H&F! If it shows up on a streaming format I will not opt in for that – I spend way too much money on TV now – seriously can’t… Read more »
Deeply saddened for the cancellation of Home & Family!! This is the only morning show I watched!! This is a terrible & awful decision!! Ratings definitely will go down for Hallmark.
I am so disappointed. I loved this show and the cast
I have looked forward to seeing this show everyday. Why would Hallmark cancel it. It has had so many great episodes for everyone to enjoy. Big, big mistake HALLMARK. Please rethink your decision.
We need home and family. No other show like it and it is a great show. Don’t cancel one of the better shows on television. Wholesome, recipes, crafts, laughter, actors and you feel at home. We need this show! Nothing else like it on tv.
Why would you cancel such a great show. I look forward to watching it everyday. It is fresh and provides great ideas. What are going to replace with it reruns of the good witch??? Not to say good witch isn’t good. Leave it on and keep providing employment to the staff cast and crew. I thought Hallmark had their stuff together, must come down to the high and mighty dollar.
Please don’t cancel the Home & Family..it is so different from all the other morning shows..a refreshment..so sad to see it cancelled!!
I like the one hour idea and hope it continues
I prefer the one hour format as well.
Hate that you have cancelled home and family
Please DO NOT CANCEL HOME AND FAMILY. This is a great clean refreshing show. I look forward to watching everyday. My tv package does not have any shows like this. At one time
Lifetime, Discovery and HGTV
and A&E had so many similar shows and now Home And Family is all that’s left. Please reconsider.
Agreed. After waiting so long for the show to return, only to find out it has been shortened to one hour, 3 days a week and CANCELLED is very depressing. Please reconsider.
It is tragic that this show is ending. It was unique in the entertainment world because it was fresh honest and non-political.
I agree. Not anything like it on any other channel. Hallmark, you are making a huge mistake !
H&F is to be commended for being non-political. How refreshing!
So very sad this show has been canceled! Big mistake for Hallmark!!!
Very disappointed. Loved this program. Main reason I had this subscription. The cast was great and informative. It was wholesome and entertaining. Why would you cancel such a good show