{"id":382621,"date":"2026-04-16T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:49:09","slug":"andie-macdowells-the-way-home-ends-with-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382621\/","title":{"rendered":"Andie MacDowell\u2019s The Way Home ends with season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth and final season of the beloved fantasy-drama The Way Home premieres next week \u2013 and longtime fans are not ready to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>The Hallmark series, which airs locally on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/binge.com.au\/?extcamp=ncaeditoriallink-ptr-nca-lnk-awr-acq-var-bge&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BINGE<\/a> with Season 4 debuting on April 21, stars Hollywood favourite Andie MacDowell and follows three generations of Landry women \u2013 Del (MacDowell), her estranged daughter Kat (Chyler Leigh) and granddaughter Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) \u2013 who reunite on a fictional farm in Port Haven, Canada, and discover a magical pond that enables them to time travel.<\/p>\n<p>Through their time travels, the Landry women experience love and loss through all the twists and turns, and its these heartbreaking and heartwarming storylines that have attracted legions of fans from across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not need another exercise in handling grief and loss,\u201d read one comment from a <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheWayHomeHallmark\/comments\/1p2f8nu\/the_way_home_season_4\/?rdt=54550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reddit forum<\/a>. \u201cIt was a healing show for me and a great distraction. I am sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so sad and disappointed,\u201d wrote another, as one described the ending as \u201ca gut punch\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in love with this show and I don\u2019t want it to end!\u201d read yet another comment.<\/p>\n<p>Stream The Way Home on BINGE, available on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hubbl.com.au\/?utm_source=news.com.au&amp;utm_medium=Hubbl-text-links&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=Story-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hubbl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No one is more devastated with the show ending than its leading lady MacDowell. <\/p>\n<p>When production wrapped for the final time back on the family-focused drama back in November, the 67-year-old actress expressed her thoughts in a <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/therealandiemacdowell\/posts\/1428380901983258?ref=embed_post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post<\/a>, speaking out about the show has made a profound impact on her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a wrap #TheWayHome,\u201d she wrote at the time. \u201cSo much gratitude for the beautiful people I worked with and the kindness I received. We had four wonderful seasons! I\u2019m looking forward to watching the fourth season with all of you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to her roles on films such as Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Green Card, MacDowell was already an established star when she took on the role of matriarch Del in the series. yet she never thought she\u2019d still be working on projects she loves in an industry where age matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get so excited when I\u2019m walking onto set,\u201d she told <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/andie-macdowell-says-she-doesnt-take-her-hit-series-the-way-home-for-granted-exclusive-8775968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People<\/a> magazine last year. \u201cIt\u2019s nice at my age and after all this time to have that feeling of joy. I\u2019m very conscious of it, so I try to share it and tell everybody how lucky we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a miracle I made it,\u201d added the star who has learnt to embrace her years and greying hair. \u201cI\u2019m not going to take anything from me, but I had to overcome some really huge hurdles. I could have easily given up. This business is really cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still struggle \u2026 but sometimes it feels like I\u2019m flying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With one week away from the Season 4 premiere, SVP of programming at Hallmark Media Samantha DiPippo has assured fans they will get closure when the series wraps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re grateful to our talented cast led by Andie, Chyler, Evan [Williams] and Sadie, as well as our amazing writers and crew who have worked so hard on this show,\u201d she recentlly told People. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeason 4 will feature the thrilling twists and turns fans expect and, as the Landry family\u2019s journey comes to a satisfying close, viewers will get the answers they\u2019ve waited for.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Way Home Season 4 premieres April 21 on BINGE. Watch The Way Home Seasons 1 to 3 now on BINGE.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/binge\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Binge\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Binge<\/a><a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/foxtel\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Foxtel\" data-tgev-order=\"2\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foxtel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fourth and final season of the beloved fantasy-drama The Way Home premieres next week \u2013 and longtime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12587,198811,198812,198814,179,275,198816,430,172255,156,190026,4636,169623,139657,9499,128938,198820,198821,4223,420,198817,198806,81730,172244,183837,111,139,64,13902,69,69256,198808,198807,198815,198809,198813,198819,13883,198810,198818],"class_list":{"0":"post-382621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andie-macdowell","10":"tag-beloved-drama","11":"tag-beloved-fantasy-drama","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-candid-photos-reveal","15":"tag-celebrities","16":"tag-christine-salazar","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-evan-williams","19":"tag-facebook","20":"tag-final-season","21":"tag-final-time","22":"tag-getty-images-inc","23":"tag-gut-punch","24":"tag-healing-show","25":"tag-heartwarming-storylines","26":"tag-hollywood","27":"tag-inc","28":"tag-longtime-fans","29":"tag-magical-pond","30":"tag-mike-coppola","31":"tag-ncaeditorialbinge","32":"tag-ncaeditorialbingeprogram","33":"tag-new-zealand","34":"tag-newzealand","35":"tag-north-america","36":"tag-northern-america","37":"tag-nz","38":"tag-people-magazine","39":"tag-profound-impact","40":"tag-reddit-forum","41":"tag-series-wraps","42":"tag-talented-cast-led","43":"tag-time-travels","44":"tag-turns-fans","45":"tag-united-states-of-america","46":"tag-way-home","47":"tag-way-home-season"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}