Home & Family has a new co-host. Today, the Hallmark Channel announced Debbie Matenopoulos will replace Cristina Ferrare as co-host of the daytime talk show.
Ferrare has hosted the series alongside Mark Steines since 2012.
Read the full details below:
STUDIO CITY, CA, June 21, 2016 – Cristina Ferrare, longtime co-host of Hallmark Channel’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated daily series “Home & Family,” will depart the network’s popular original lifestyle program, it was announced today by Hallmark Channel. The network also announced that current “Home & Family” member Debbie Matenopoulos will immediately join Emmy® Award-winning journalist and series co-host Mark Steines as the series’ new co-host.
“Cristina Ferrare has been instrumental in making ‘Home & Family’ one of daytime’s most popular lifestyle series,” said Michelle Vicary, Executive Vice President, Programming & Publicity, Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
“Cristina’s natural flair and expertise, along with her warmth and grace, set a standard for all of us at ‘Home & Family,’ and we are forever indebted to her.
“It is a great pleasure to promote ‘Home & Family’ regular contributor Debbie Matenopoulos to become Mark’s co-host. Debbie has quickly become an audience favorite among our family of multi-talented lifestyle experts and we look forward to Debbie’s continued unique and exciting contributions going forward.”
What do you think? Do you watch Home & Family? Are you sad to see Cristina leave?
Hallmark is really changing! Unfortunately not for the good. Firing Christina Ferrare really lost a lot of viewers– including me.
You are absolutely correct Polly. Hallmark is caving to Hollywood’s PC pressure to reject wholesome TV.
I think that Debbie is just as bad as she was on the View. I miss Christina terribly.. she had such a fun and warm personality with everyone on the show. It is not the same. I have tried to watch it 2 or 3 times since she left and it is awful..
I am getting so sick of all the TV executives thinking they can read our minds and tell us what we want to watch and “don’t ” want to watch. All the cancellations of the good shows and replacements of the good personalities is just crazy. I have never been that partial to Debbie M. She always seems to be at the stem of an over throw or personnel replacement. I agree with all 42 pages of messages, I too will no longer watch “Home and Family”
What a shock, I’ve watched Christina for years, from the conception, don’t know who pulled her off, but you have made a terrible mistake. No warning is not good, shame on you. By the way, good luck keeping your viewers. I’m gone!!!!
Debbie just is not what Christine was. The show has lost it’s class.
You have lost an audience of 97 families and friends and work associated companies. Cristina was always on her Debbie is a downer put her back!! Cristina and Mark worked together to bring the audience into their hearts. Someone needs to spell out what really led to this by inadequate person responsible for this super idiotic decision. Your sponsors are being called as well. And we continue to talk with other people to not watch any further programming
So happy that unhappy Christina fans keep posting comments. I click on the show a couple of times a week just to see if it’s gotten any better. It has not. They were playing Hungry Hungry Hippo!!! If disjointed, manic and frenetic is the vibe they’re going for, they have succeeded.
I am so sorry that Christina is no longer on Home and Family since she had the original conception of this program. I will no longer be watching. I believe that her personality made the entire show.She is so spontaneous….and added so much entertainment value!!!!
Want be watching your show any longer, bring back Cristina! !!!
I will not be watching your show now that Christina has left. She made this show a great program and a wonderful success! I hate that you removed her and you will lose me as a supporter for your show. I will ask everyone that I know who watches your program to not watch it out of respect to the woman who helped make it a Great Program. Please bring back Christina!
Christina made the show so much more fun to Watch I go on vacation and I come back And Christina is no longer on the show I watch the show every day I don’t like watching it any more. Christina is around my age and I felt much more confident watching that show with her on it then with Debbie as cohost. Christina is why I watch the show!! As a fan of home and family I feel that the network should have said something before hand. I guess when you get older it’s like any other employer they don’t… Read more »
I no longer watch the show as I used to love the way Christina gave the show so much class. She had values that most of us share, she was classy and behaved like a real lady. What a shame that you don’t appreciate your employees.
I to will no longer be or have been watching home n family! I do love Debbie but it will never ever be the same. And I’ve been watching sense Cristina started with Mark 4 yrs. How sad! I would jump out of bed make coffee just to watch Cristina n Mark pulse all the rest. Just can’t n don’t want to ANYMORE!! Can’t you all leave well enough alone!! So So Sad.
I am so sad Christina was let go from Home & Family. She was the reason I watched the show. She was the real deal. She was “old school” and shared our values. Something our world so desperately needs today. To bad the “higher ups” sold out to the enemy. I will no longer be watching the show as well as many of my friends. Now the show is just like any other talk show that accepts the “it’s all good” attitude. Well it’s not!
Yes I am sad Christina is no longer host and I feel that the network should have told us and not just replaced her with Debbie. I do not think the network knows how to be loyal and gracious. I used to watch all the time and now I will be selective.