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?
Hate to c it go…miss Mark and christina
Why cancel a show that everyone loves???? It has so much to offer – with recipes, crafts, fashion, pets, interviews with actors from Hallmark movies and shows. This is a clean and wholesome show and has something for everyone. I can’t believe this is a show that people dislike. Please re-think your strategy and re-new this series. It will be missed by many. I’m a big fan of Hallmark and I’m very disappointed with your decision.
Nooo. I look forward to this show every morning.
Please do not cancel Home and Family. I enjoy watching and learning new things. One of the best clean shows a family can watch. One of the few shows you can watch and not be embarrassed by things said and done on other shows.
I’m unhappy Home and Family will be cancelled. It is my favorite show along with all the movies. It’s sad when a clean show goes off the air… most of today’s shows aren’t fit for families. Please reconsider.
This is a great show. I’ve gotten so many ideas from crafts to cooking to fashion. Another great show you want to cancel. Why?????
Please reconsider as this is an uplifting, encouraging, and refreshing show.
I think it a shame that they are cancelling the home and family show. A lot of older
people like watching the show. There is so much garbage on TV. It is refreshing to watch a show that has so many different segments.
I can’t believe you are canceling this show! My wife and I enjoy this show, I guess a show that is clean and uplifting is not good enough anymore. When we need you most you let us down.
I like the show for the most part. Some guests they have on don’t interest me, but that is true for most talk shows. Doesn’t mean I don’t like the show. My question is how will they promote all their movies (especially Christmas movies) they show? I thought H&F was their best way to promote them.
I’m really disappointed that you are cancelling this program. It is a great alternative to all the terrible news we are subjected to on every other morning show. This is uplifting and fun to watch and with all the limits on our lives these days I can’t understand taking this off the air. I will truly miss all they presented on the show.
A very unhappy fan!
I Love Home & Family so much !
I was so sad when they were put on hold during the pandemic.
I am thrilled it is back on now !!!!
I am so sad to hear it is coming to an end !
It has been the most uplifting,
knowledgeable show on tv.
So positive !!!
Great recipes! Great crafts !!!
I love everyone involved !
I will miss my morning bright spot!!!
So sad all the goodness is ending !!!
I sure hope it gets renewed again soon !!
Sharon
From Hollister, CA
Please don’t cancel Home and Family, it is such a wholesome good show.
One of the only acceptable and family friendly shows left. Why cancel this show?? I am starting to wonder about Hallmark, their values and priorities. Up to recently they stood for all that is good and right. Why the change? Because society’s cancel culture is making noise? What about the rest of us? Don’t go down that slippery rope with the rest of the crazies……please.
That is terrible
A show that can be watched without worrying about the content
Very confused