
(Hallmark Channel)
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?
I think Hallmark made right decision Debbie and Cameron both so arrogant.now they need to get some more original movies lose some actors and actresses.
Jill Wagner,Kristoffer Polaha,treat williams,jenny lilly so many more
Change your mind about cancelling Home & Family. Terrific morning show-love to watch to start my day!
Disappointed the show is being cancelled.
Love the show and the cast. I look forward to this daily! Disappointed in hallmark you say family well this isn’t what you stand for!
Please keep producing Home and Family!! Missed it terribly during its shutdown in 2020. Its positivity was the highlight of my morning process! Even watched segments I had recorded over and over during 2020 dreary days just to get a feel good start to my day. I will be saddened to see it end in August. Please reconsider!!
Please bring back Hallmark Home and Family show. I can’t believe after renovating the kitchen etc it is canceled. It’s a wonderful show with a huge following. Big mistake!!
So sad. I really like this show and love everything about it. I will miss the segments of new Hallmark Movies and especially sad about the animal rescue segments – how can this happen
How disappointing after waiting months for H&F to return, that it has been cancelled. If this was such a hugely popular show, why was it eliminated? It was such an uplifting show and each cast member brought kindness and positivity.
When the world around us is violent, demanding, radical, and fake, H&F was a bright spot and offered viewers 1 hour of how TV should be. I think Hallmark will regret this decision and going in a direction of drama-focused movies: we can get that elsewhere.
please bring back the best movie channel on TV . Home and Family and the movies that followed made my day, they were wonderful , I felt excited because finally beautiful movies that made you feel good. Hallmark I agree that it was a mistake to cancel these beautiful shows.
Home and Family should not be cancelled . Many loyal viewers enjoy this and want it daily. It seems with the new heads at Hallmark they are not considering the fans and loyal viewers at all. She is killing this unique brand and changes being made in programming and movies will leave Hallmark dessimated and bankrupt. I hope the people at the very top will go back to what was working before this brand becomes extinct. You had the most loyal viewers in television and they are leaving in droves. It seemed to start when you let Mark Steines go,… Read more »
Think you caved to the times. It was so refreshing. What a shame.
I’m SO disappointed that the show is being canceled! In a time when all we see are disgusting reality shows, graphic violence, sex and swearing on TV, it was great to see a show that allowed it’s hosts to believe in spreading hope and positivity. I will still watch the hallmark movies because I love them. But I hope that the Hallmark Channel will reconsider canceling Home & Family!
I WILL NO LONGER BE WATCHING HALMARK CHANEL! I SPEAK FOR MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
WE ARE PUTTING THE WORD OUT….What a M I S T A K E !
I’ve watched since the show aired. I would tape the show and watch later. I love seeing the segments on the hallnark movie cast. I love the cooking as well but if the show would cover more remodel hone how to ,and decorating it would be better .thank you.
Love the show, Love the hosts and I don’t want it to go away.
I loved the show the Home and Family and the love movies that followed. that in fact was the one of the only channels I watched . Love movies without sex and murder was wonderful, I turned on my favorite channel may 3rd and no movie or Home and family. WOW . very disappointed