{"id":62284,"date":"2025-08-06T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62284\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:30:09","slug":"hallmark-brings-back-michelle-vicary-as-head-of-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62284\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark Brings Back Michelle Vicary As Head Of Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hallmark\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hallmark\" data-tag=\"hallmark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hallmark<\/a> is bringing back one of its Crown Media trailblazers. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michelle-vicary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michelle-vicary\" data-tag=\"michelle-vicary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Vicary<\/a>, who helped to establish\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hallmark-channel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hallmark Channel<\/a>, Hallmark Movies &amp; Mysteries and Hallmark Drama with fan-friendly programming like When Calls the Heart, is returning to the network to serve as head of programming. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVicary will oversee all production and original programming across Hallmark\u2019s content platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVicary previously served as Crown Media\u2019s lead programming and production executive <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/05\/michelle-vicary-exit-crown-media-family-networks-evp-programming-overhaul-hallmark-channel-parent-1234758672\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before exiting in 2021. <\/a>She had been at the company since its inception by developing popular series like\u00a0When Calls the Heart\u00a0and\u00a0Good Witch. She also led the nine-year run of Emmy-nominated daytime show\u00a0Home &amp; Family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe was also instrumental in bringing actors like Jonathan Bennett, Luke MacFarlane, Kimberley Sustad, Ashley Williams, Erin Cahill and Andrew Walker into Hallmark. She also played a key role in the development of Holly Robinson Peete\u2019s Christmas in Evergreen film franchise, and the network\u2019s first-unscripted series Meet the Peetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hallmark is bringing back one of its Crown Media trailblazers. Michelle Vicary, who helped to establish\u00a0Hallmark Channel, Hallmark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,46109,22427,46110,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-62284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hallmark","10":"tag-hallmark-channel","11":"tag-michelle-vicary","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}