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Netflix has released the official Virgin River Season 6 trailer and key art. All 10 episodes of the sixth season will be available on the streaming service on December 19, 2024.

Netflix announced in October that the popular series had been renewed for a seventh season consisting of 10 one-hour episodes.

Across its five seasons, the series has appeared in the Global Top 10 TV (English) list for 25 weeks since Netflix’s weekly Top 10 lists started in 2021. Most recently, the fifth season reached the top 10 in 77 countries.

Virgin River is a romance story centered around nurse practitioner Melinda Monroe’s (Alexandra Breckenridge) move to the remote California town of Virgin River. Yearning for a fresh start, Monroe discovered that small-town living isn’t quite as simple as she expected and that she had to learn to heal herself before she could truly make Virgin River her home.

Against the backdrop of Mel and Jack’s romantic spring wedding season,...

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Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel Monroe and Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan in ‘Virgin River’ season 6 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024)

Netflix confirmed the upcoming sixth season of Virgin River won’t be its last. The streamer officially announced the series has been renewed for a 10-episode season seven. The announcement was made ahead of the show’s December 19, 2024 sixth season premiere.

Alexandra Breckenridge stars as Mel, Martin Henderson plays Jack, Tim Matheson is Doc, Annette O’Toole is Hope, and Colin Lawrence plays Preacher. The season six cast also includes Benjamin Hollingsworth as Brady, Zibby Allen as Brie, Sarah Dugdale as Lizzie, Marco Grazzini as Mike, Kai Bradbury as Denny, Kandyse McClure as Kaia, and Mark Ghanime as Cameron.

“Virgin River is a romance story centered around nurse practitioner Melinda Monroe’s (Breckenridge) move to the remote California town of Virgin River,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “Yearning for a fresh start, Monroe...

Grab your tissues. We’re getting the first look at the highly anticipated upcoming wedding for Jack (Martin Henderson) and Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) in Season 6 of Netflix’s Virgin River, and it looks like it will be a tear-jerker.

“From the moment I set eyes on you, I knew you were special,” Jack says in the opening moments of the new teaser, adding, “And as I’ve fallen deeper in love with you, that’s only grown stronger, and I want to spend the rest of my life making you the happiest woman in the world.”

According to the official Season 6 longline, against the backdrop of Mel and Jack’s romantic spring wedding season, this sixth installment promises fresh twists and turns, escalating love triangles, delightful wedding drama, as well as uncovered secrets from Mel’s father’s past which will transport us to the magic and mystique of Virgin River in the 1970s.

Save the date! Today, Netflix released the teaser trailer and teaser art for Virgin River Season 6, alluding to the highly anticipated wedding season of Mel & Jack. All ten episodes of the new season will be released on Thursday, December 19.

Against the backdrop of Mel and Jack’s romantic spring wedding season, this sixth installment promises fresh twists and turns, escalating love triangles, delightful wedding drama, as well as uncovered secrets from Mel’s father’s past, which will transport us to the magic and mystique of Virgin River in the 1970s.

Virgin River Season 6 stars Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, Colin Lawrence, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Zibby Allen, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Kai Bradbury, Kandyse McClure, and Mark Ghanime.

The directors include Martin Wood, Rama Rau, Felipe Rodriguez, Martin Henderson (608), and Monika Mitchell.

The new season was written by Patrick Sean Smith, Jackson Sinder (602), Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith, Ildiko Susany...

Just in time for Christmas — the sixth season of Virgin River is set to premiere Dec. 19. And it’s not one of those half-season drops that Netflix has been doing a lot of lately — all 10 episodes of Season 6 will be available that day.

That is slightly ahead of schedule — Netflix at the start of February unveiled its 2024 original slate, and Virgin River, along with a slew of other fan favorites, like Stranger Things, Ginny & Georgia and Wednesday, were not on the list, pointing to a 2025 return.

However, nothing is set in stone — Virgin River is the second series originally eyed for 2025 that will be back sooner than anticipated. The other is The Lincoln Lawyer, whose third season was delivered early and will debute Oct. 17.

Meanwhile, a series that was on Netflix’s 2024 release list, Season 2 of breakout hit The Night Agent, is yet to get a premiere date.

Season 6 of Virgin River,...

Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel Monroe and Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan in ‘Virgin River’ season 6 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024)

Season six of Netflix’s Virgin River has landed on a December 19, 2024 premiere date. The 10-episode new season takes place shortly after the events of season five’s Christmas episodes. According to Netflix, this upcoming season focuses on Mel and Jack’s wedding.

“We’re trying to hit all the milestones of the pre-wedding planning, the bachelor and bachelorette parties, the rehearsal dinner,” said showrunner Patrick Sean Smith.

The premiere date announcement was accompanied by the first batch of photos from season six.

The series stars Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel, Martin Henderson as Jack, Tim Matheson as Doc, Annette O’Toole as Hope, Colin Lawrence as Preacher, Benjamin Hollingsworth as Brady, Zibby Allen as Brie, Sarah Dugdale as Lizzie, Marco Grazzini as Mike, Kai Bradbury as Denny, Kandyse McClure as Kaia, and Mark Ghanime as Cameron.

Today, Netflix announced a premiere date for the anticipated Virgin River Season 6. All ten episodes of the new season will be released globally on Thursday, December 19.

Against the backdrop of Mel and Jack’s romantic spring wedding season, this sixth season promises fresh twists and turns, escalating love triangles, delightful wedding drama, as well as uncovered secrets from Mel’s father’s past, which will transport us to the magic and mystique of Virgin River in the 1970s.

Virgin River Season 6 stars Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, Colin Lawrence, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Zibby Allen, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Kai Bradbury, Kandyse McClure, and Mark Ghanime.

The directors include Martin Wood, Rama Rau, Felipe Rodriguez, Martin Henderson (608), and Monika Mitchell.

The new season was written by Patrick Sean Smith, Jackson Sinder (602), Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith, Ildiko Susany (604), Thomas Ian Griffith (605), Mary Page Keller (605), Tesia Walker (606), and Becky Hartman Edwards (607).

Patrick Sean Smith,...

Exclusive: As Deadline reported exclusively in February, the upcoming sixth season of Netflix’s Virgin River, which focuses on Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack’s (Martin Henderson) nuptials, will also feature Mel’s late mother Sarah and biological father, Everett, in flashbacks. We can now reveal that Jessica Rothe and Callum Kerr have been cast in the roles and offer first-look images of them as Sarah and Everett in Season 6.

The recurring characters are being introduced as Netflix is exploring an expansion of the Virgin River universe with a prequel following Sarah and Everett’s origin story.

Seen in flashbacks mostly set in or around 1972, Sarah (Rothe) is a witty, free spirit from the big city with an ardent passion for activism, and trying to avoid the conventional/traditional life of a young woman in the ’70s. Always up for an adventure,...

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) will produce its eighth fundraising telecast on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. Et to raise money for cancer research and treatments. The one hour special, titled “How It Started, How It’s Going,” will acknowledge how SU2C has impacted cancer research over the past 15 years. Founded in 2008, the program was initiated by a group of women aiming to motivate the entertainment community to raise awareness and funding for cancer research.

Celebrities set to be featured throughout the special include Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Biel, Don Cheadle, Katie Couric, Danai Gurira, Tony Hale, Ken Jeong, Maria Menounos, Julianne Moore, Tig Notaro, Jimmy Smits, Eric Stonestreet and Justin Timberlake. A montage of comedy skits from past editions will also be shown, featuring Jack Black, Ben Falcone, Zach Galifianakis, Brad Garrett, Bill Hader, Jon Hamm, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Melissa McCarthy and Matthew McConaughey. Previous music performances by Brittany Howard,...

Netflix’s trailer for Virgin River season five part one shows Mel choosing to take care of herself instead of work. It also shows a fire raging, relationships being put to the test, and a coming together of Virgin River’s citizens are in store over the upcoming first half of season five.

Season five stars Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, Colin Lawrence, and Benjamin Hollingsworth. Zibby Allen, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Mark Ghanimé, Kai Bradbury, and Kandyse McClure also star.

Additional cast includes Lauren Hammersley, Teryl Rothery, Nicola Cavendish, Gwynyth Walsh, and Christina Jastrzembska. Plus, Stacey Farber, Jenny Cooper, Lucia Walters, Steve Bacic, Libby Osler, and Keith MacKechnie appear in season five. And Barbara Pollard, Trevor Lerner, Ellie Harvie, Darcy Laurie, Sandy Robson, Lexa Doig, Chase Petriw, Emma Oliver, Michelle Addison, Miranda Edwards, and Gabrielle Jacinto are also a part of the huge ensemble.

Season five directors include Monika Mitchell,...

Leif, Freydis, and Harald are on the run in season two of Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla. The lengthy season two trailer reveals there’s a bounty on their heads, yet Prince Harald Sigurdsson remains determined to sit on the throne of Norway.

In order to survive and rebuild their legacies, they’ll need to reinvent themselves.

The new trailer arrived along with a season two poster featuring series stars Leo Suter as Prince Harald Sigurdsson, Sam Corlett as Leif Eriksson, and Frida Gustavsson as Freydis Eriksdotter. Laura Berlin, David Oakes, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Bradley Freegard, and Hayat Kamille also star.

The eight-episode second season premieres on January 12, 2023.

“The whole concept of Season 2 is that we take these three heroes who are in Scandinavia and blow them out of their comfort zones,” explained series creator/showrunner Jeb Stuart in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum. “Season 2 for Harald and Leif is...

“Vikings: Valhalla” returns with its second season Jan. 12, but Variety has the exclusive first look at the “Vikings” prequel’s Season 2 trailer to tide fans over for another month.

Based on the History Channel series “Vikings” created by Michael Hirst, “Vikings: Valhalla” is set over a thousand years ago in the early 11th century and chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived — the legendary explorer Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his fiery and headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson) and the ambitious Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter).

The second season, which consists of eight episodes running 49 minutes each, finds our heroes shortly after the tragic fall of Kattegat; an event that has shattered their dreams and altered their destinies, per Netflix’s official description. Finding themselves suddenly fugitives in Scandinavia they are forced to test their ambitions and courage in worlds beyond the fjords of Kattegat.

Netflix’s new trailer for Firefly Lane season two part one shows there’s tension between Tully and Kate, but it sort of balances that out by revealing more about their lifelong friendship. Part one of the final season premieres on December 2, 2022, with season two part two arriving in 2023.

Season one of the drama, based on the bestselling novel by Kristin Hannah, debuted in February 2021 and starred Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke as lifelong best friends who stuck by each other’s side through thick and thin. Heigl and Chalke are back as Tully and Kate, respectively, for the second season. They’re joined by returning cast members Ben Lawson as Johnny Ryan, Ali Skovbye as young Tully, Roan Curtis as young Kate, Yael Yurman as Marah, and Beau Garrett as Cloud.

Netflix’s official description:

“What could possibly have ended the tight-knit thirty-year friendship of Tully and Kate, our ‘Firefly Lane Girls Forever?...

Sarah Chalke as Kate and Katherine Heigl as Tully in ‘Firefly Lane’ season 2 (Photo Cr. Diyah Pera/Netflix © 2022)

Netflix’s Firefly Lane season two will arrive in two parts, with the first eight episodes premiering on Friday, December 2, 2022. Netflix hasn’t confirmed the premiere date for the remaining eight episodes of the second – and final – season, other than that they’ll debut in 2023.

Season one of the drama, based on the bestselling novel by Kristin Hannah, premiered in February 2021 and featured Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke as lifelong best friends who stuck by each other’s side through thick and thin. Heigl and Chalke reprise their roles as Tully and Kate for season two. Returning cast members also include Ben Lawson as Johnny Ryan, Ali Skovbye as young Tully, Roan Curtis as young Kate, Yael Yurman as Marah, and Beau Garrett as Cloud.

Joining the series for its final season...

More like “Fifty Shades of Beige,” “Brazen” applies an unconvincing dollop of kink into an equally by-the-numbers suburban mystery, providing a vehicle for producer-star Alyssa Milano as a crime novelist turned sleuth after her sister’s murder. This Netflix adaptation of a 1988 tome by prolific romance scribe Nora Roberts is slick but increasingly silly, its various elements so obvious and formulaic that they induce giggles more than chills by the climax. Still, whether viewers are looking for unintentional laughs or the streaming equivalent of a throwaway beach read, Monika Mitchell’s feature does offer some guilty-pleasure entertainment value.

Introduced reading from her latest “Brazen Virtue” (the actual Roberts novel this is based on) at a public event, Milano’s Grace Miller is a celebrity author with a big fanbase. Having frowned upon some of Kathleen’s (Emilie Ullerup) past life choices, she hasn’t actually seen her younger sibling in five years,...

"Careful, Grace. Reign in your over-active imagination. Or I will do it for you." Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for Brazen, a murder mystery thriller adapted from "Brazen Virtue" by Nora Roberts. Grace, a prominent mystery writer and crime expert, hurries to her family home in Washington, D.C., after her estranged sister summons her. But when her sister is killed and her double life as a webcam performer is revealed, Grace ignores the warnings of the detective and gets involved in the case... Which doesn't sound like a good idea? But "true crime" is popular these days! So why not? Alyssa Milano stars as Grace, along with Sam Page, Malachi Weir, Barry W. Levy, Colleen Wheeler, Lossen Chambers, and Matthew Finlan. This looks like the weekly "crime drama" TV special, not anything worthwhile to watch in theaters. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Monika Mitchell's Brazen,...

Exclusive: Alyssa Milano has signed with United Talent Agency for representation in all areas.

Milano is an actor, producer, host, activist, entrepreneur, humanitarian and New York Times bestselling author who recently inked a first-look production and writing deal with A+E Studios. Under the pact, she will write and produce projects for A+E Studios for international and domestic television platforms and services. The deal came following A+E Studios’ acquisition of her pilot script Things I’m Seeing Without You, which she adapted from Peter Bognanni’s 2017 YA novel of the same name.

Milano will next be seen in Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s Roku comedy series The Now, opposite Dave Franco and Bill Murray. She will also star in Monika Mitchell’s upcoming Netflix film Brazen, based on the novel Brazen Virtue by bestselling author Nora Roberts. She recently starred as Coralee, the social climbing wife of disgraced lawyer...

Netflix has renewed romantic drama series “Virgin River” for a fourth and fifth season.

“Virgin River” is based on Robyn Carr’s book series of the same name. The show follows Mel Monroe (played by Alexandra Breckenridge), a woman who takes a job as a midwife and nurse practitioner in the remote Northern California town of Virgin River after seeing an ad for the position and hoping to leave her past life behind. There, she meets former Marine and local bartender Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson), and the two fall into a complicated love story. The cast also includes Colin Lawrence, Jenny Cooper, Lauren Hammersley, Annette O’Toole, Tim Matheson, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Grayson Gurnsey, Sarah Dugdale, Zibby Allen and Marco Grazzini, among others.

Season 3, which premiered in July 2021, saw Mel and Jack struggle to give each other what they want. Mel, who had previously lost her husband, tells Jack that she wants...

Your prayers have been answered, “Virgin River” fans: The romance series has scored a two-season pickup, being renewed for both Seasons 4 and 5 at Netflix, the streaming service said Monday.

Starring Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson, “Virgin River” tells the love story of Mel Monroe (Breckenridge), who answers an ad to work as a midwife and nurse practitioner in the remote Northern California town of Virgin River, thinking it will be the perfect place to start fresh and leave her painful memories behind.

Per Netflix, the 10-episode third season of the romance series, which launched in July, “left fans with more questions about the residents of this small town after a funeral, a fire, a divorce, a hurricane and a new romance.”

Looks like with at least two more seasons to go, those fans will be getting answers — hopefully — and lots and lots more loving between Jack (Henderson) and Mel.

“Virgin River” stars Alexandra Breckenridge,...

Netflix dropped the trailer for the third season of its romance series “Virgin River” on Friday, revealing Jack Sheridan’s (Martin Henderson) fate after the Season 2 finale ended with him bleeding out from a gunshot wound on the floor next to Melinda “Mel” Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge).

Luckily, the video shows us almost immediately that Jack is Ok, but he is going to need some downtime to recover from the injury and Mel is the biggest supporter of him staying in bed — for medical reasons and romantic ones.

Yes, these two lovebirds are finally, officially in a real relationship, which means things are about to get complicated in a different way, as the topic of having a baby together comes up between them — and pretty much everyone else in town. Mel might want to, but she’s obviously still traumatized by the death of her family. Jack might not want to...

The popular Netflix romantic drama Virgin River has announced that its third season premiere will arrive in July. The cast announced a return date on Instagram with a video heads-up, revealing that the show will be back on Friday, July 9. In season 3, highlights include a funeral, a fire, a divorce, a hurricane, and a new romance. Appearing in this leg of the show, which will run 10 episodes for the season, are Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Colin Lawrence, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Lauren Hammersley, Grayson Gurnsey, Sarah Dugdale, Zibby Allen, Marco Grazzini, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, and Chase Petriw.

The show directors include Martin Wood, Monika Mitchell, and Gail Harvey. EPs are Sue Tenney, Jocelyn Freid, Roma Roth, Christopher E. Perry, and Robyn Carr, and the series is based on the books by Carr.N

Virgin River ended the run of The Crown in the top spot in Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings,...

Alyssa Milano will star in a feature film adaption of Nora Roberts’ romance thriller Brazen Virtue.

Netflix is behind the project that will see Milano play Grace, a prominent mystery writer and crime expert, who hurries back to her family home in Washington, D.C., after her estranged sister summons her. When her sister is killed and her double life as a webcam performer is revealed, Grace ignores the warnings of a cool-headed detective and gets involved in the case.

Monika Mitchell is set to direct, having worked with the streamer on The Knight Before Christmas and the popular series Virgin River. Suzette Couture, Donald ...

Alyssa Milano will star in a feature film adaption of Nora Roberts’ romance thriller Brazen Virtue.

Netflix is behind the project that will see Milano play Grace, a prominent mystery writer and crime expert, who hurries back to her family home in Washington, D.C., after her estranged sister summons her. When her sister is killed and her double life as a webcam performer is revealed, Grace ignores the warnings of a cool-headed detective and gets involved in the case.

Monika Mitchell is set to direct, having worked with the streamer on The Knight Before Christmas and the popular series Virgin River. Suzette Couture, Donald ...

Drama, drama, drama: “Virgin River” has been renewed for a third season, Netflix said on Friday.

That news means we’ll get some payoff on those Season 2 cliffhangers, like Jack (Martin Henderson) being shot, the whole Paige/Michelle’s (Lexa Doig) dead-husband’s-twin-brother thing, a child-sized wrench being thrown in Preacher’s (Colin Lawrence) plans to move to San Francisco and become a fancy chef and Doc (Tim Matheson) getting some mysterious — and seemingly bad — health news from another doc in another town.

Yeah, it’s A Lot.

No premiere date has been set for the upcoming Season 3. The second season debuted on Netflix on Nov. 27.

“Virgin River” follows a recently widowed big-city nurse (Alexandra Breckenridge) who moves to the redwood forests of northern California, where she meets an intriguing man (Henderson).

The series also stars Lauren Hammersley and Annette O’Toole. Joining the cast for Season 3 will be Zibby Allen and Stacey Farber.

Get ready, everyone: Netflix's The Knight Before Christmas might have a sequel on the way. The latest holiday rom-com from Netflix features Vanessa Hudgens as Brooke, a modern-day science teacher who meets Sir Cole (Josh Whitehouse), a medieval knight who has been magically sent to the future. Of course, magic and romance ensue, and as it turns out, there are already ideas in motion for what could come in a sequel.

Director Monika Mitchell revealed her idea for a The Knight Before Christmas sequel to Glamour - and it's probably not quite what you'd think. While the natural progression for a sequel might see more of Cole's adaptation to the modern world, or perhaps cast Brooke back in time for a reversal of the original, Mitchell suggests that a different focus might be ahead:

"Of course I can see a sequel. I think Harry Jarvis is definitely involved because...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Netflix’s “The Knight Before Christmas.”)

Netflix launched its latest original Christmas movie, “The Knight Before Christmas” on Thursday, one of six it has set to roll out this holiday season. This film, starring Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Whitehouse, is connected to those others — and the streaming services season flicks from previous years — with little shout-outs.

Eagle-eyed viewers probably noticed that Sir Cole (Whitehouse) is seen watching “Holiday in the Wild” — one of Netflix’s 2019 offerings, starring Kristin Davis and Rob Lowe — and Brooke’s (Vanessa Hudgens) parents brought her a Christmas ornament from Aldovia — the fictional country where the “A Christmas Prince” franchise takes place — when she was a child.

Hudgens says these Easter eggs are what brings “The Knight Before Christmas” into the Netflix Holiday Movie Universe (we’re dubbing it the Nhwu right now).

Also Read: A Christmas Competition: Inside Netflix-Hallmark...

Netflix has released a new trailer for The Knight Before Christmas. With Halloween in the rearview mirror, we're already in full-blown holiday season mode. Stores are starting to set up Christmas displays. Eager lovers of the holiday are already gearing up to set up the tree and, as it pertains to this specifically, we're going to get a new batch of Christmas movies. This one, in particular, features Vanessa Hudgens and brings with it a medieval spin.

Described as "a cozy holiday romance about learning to let yourself believe in magic again," the trailer kicks off with Vanessa Hudgens ruminating on the idea of finding a knight in shining armor. A fantasy for many people that is only ever that and not something that one can expect in reality. But things change when she, quite literally, finds a knight in shining armor, who is a man displaces from his own time.

"Who are we to tell him he's not who he says he is?" Netflix has revealed a trailer for the holiday romantic comedy The Knight Before Christmas, which looks more like a Hallmark Channel movie than anything Netflix should be making. It's as cheesy as they come. After a sorceress transports a medieval knight Sir Cole to present-day Ohio during the holiday season, he befriends a clever and kind science teacher who's been disillusioned by love. As they grow closer, so do their feelings for each other. Can their love overcome all the odds? Of course it can, that's how all these movies end. Starring Vanessa Hudgens as the teacher, Josh Whitehouse as the knight, and a cast including Emmanuelle Chriqui, Isabelle Franca, Ella Kenion, Harry Jarvis, and Jean-Michel Le Gal. This looks face-palm terrible with the most predictable of plots. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Monika Mitchell's The Knight Before Christmas,...

In a small, quaint room on the top floor of a sprawling bed and breakfast in Bracebridge, Canada, Vanessa Hudgens curls up in a wicker armchair and releases a deep sigh. She spent the afternoon unpacking and repacking a cardboard box filled to the brim with Christmas ornaments as a picturesque sprinkle of snow fell gently outside the window, and now she finally has a moment to put down the glittery tree toppers and take a breather. No, I'm not casually hanging out with the superstar at home for the holidays - I'm getting a glimpse of what it's like on the set of Netflix's newest holiday rom-com, The Knight Before Christmas.

Previously a staple of networks like Hallmark and Lifetime, holiday-themed romantic comedies have become one of Netflix's most beloved seasonal offerings ever since its breakout hit A Christmas Prince in 2017. Loved for just how unabashedly cheesy it could be,...

From TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for May 2019 including "Titans", "V-Wars", "Locke and Key" and a whole lot more:

Anne With An E Season 3

TV Series

Northwood Anne Trois Inc.

Exec. Prod.: Moira Walley-Beckett, Miranda de Pencier, Tina Grewal

Dir.: Various

Mar 11 – Aug 22/19

Carter Season 2

TV Series

Sony / Amaze Films

Prod.: Victoria Hirst

Dir.: various

Apr 15 – Jul 17/19

Condor Season 2

TV Series

T5 Condor 2 Productions Inc.

Prod.: Andrea Raffaghello

Dir.: Andrew McCarthy

Apr 29 - Aug 28/19

Dare Me Season 1

TV Series

Gep / USA Network (NBC)

Prod.: Dan Kaplow

Dir.: Various

Apr 22 - Aug 6/19

Dog Pack

TV Movie

Disney/ABC Television Group

Prod.: Mary Pantelidis

Dir.: Paul Hoen

May 27 - Jul 12/19

Frankie Drake Mysteries Season 3

TV Series

Shaftesbury

Prod.: Theresa M Ho

Dir.: various

May 7 - Aug 27/19

Titans aka Freebirds Season 2

TV Series

New Media / Warner Bros. Television

Prod.

This summer, Lifetime brings your favorite novels to life over three consecutive weekends in June.

Joining previously announced Book to Screen titles, Pride & Prejudice Atlanta premiering June 1 and Adriana Trigiani's Very Valentine on June 8, the Book to Screen summer movie series continues with three Jane Green titles.

Tempting Fate, starring Alyssa Milano (Insatiable), also marks executive producer Kim Raver’s (Grey’s Anatomy) directorial debut, premieres on Saturday, June 15 at 8Pm Et/Pt.

To Have and To Hold, starring Erika Christensen (Parenthood) debuts on Saturday, June 22 at 8Pm Et/Pt and Family Pictures, starring Justina Machado (One Day at a Time) and Elisabeth Röhm (Law & Order), airs on Saturday, June 29 at 8 Pm Et/Pt.

Lifetime's Book to Screen series will continue later this summer with five V.C. Andrews titles, based on the Casteel Family novels.

Based on Jane Green’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same name,...

Vanessa Hudgens is on board to star in and executive produce a film for Netflix entitled The Knight Before Christmas. The movie is being directed by Monika Mitchell and written by Cara Russell, who have both worked on their fair share of TV movies in this genre. Think Christmas Hallmark movies, but now on Netflix. Deadline gave us this exclusive, along with this synopsis for the film:

The pic follows a gallant English knight who seeks out his true quest after a sorceress inadvertently sends him from the medieval era to present day. While there he soon finds himself falling for a caring high school science teacher who is disillusioned by love. Josh Whitehouse, who stars in MGM’s reboot of Valley Girl and the upcoming HBO Game of Thrones prequel, also stars. Cameras will roll this April in Ontario, Canada.

I’m not really a fan of this type of movie,...

Exclusive: Vanessa Hudgens has boarded Netflix’s The Knight Before Christmas, a feature which the High School Musical and Rent: Live star will also executive produce.

The pic, directed by Monika Mitchell and written by Cara Russell, follows a gallant English knight who seeks out his true quest after a sorceress inadvertently sends him from the medieval era to present day. While there he soon finds himself falling for a caring high school science teacher who is disillusioned by love. Josh Whitehouse, who stars in MGM’s reboot of Valley Girl and the upcoming HBO Game of Thrones prequel, also stars. Cameras will roll this April in Ontario, Canada.

Also serving as EPs with Hudgens are Brad Krevoy, Amanda Phillips Atkins, Eric Jarboe, Jimmy Townsend, and Lorenzo Nardini. Mark Amato is the consulting producer with David Anselmo producing. The Knight Before Christmas is a Motion Picture Corporation of America production.

As a woman and a feminist, I’d like to offer this observation: There is nothing that can make you hate the word “female” like sitting in the audience of a panel devoted to women who make film or television.

The Winter 2019 Television Critics Association press tour is comprised of dozens of press conferences and panels, some of which took the forms of cooking demonstrations, musical performances, and live table reads. These gimmicks are fine; the TCAs are nothing if not a marathon, and the effort to do something different is appreciated.

However, too often the TCAs treated “women make TV” as its own gimmick, as if assembling a collection of TV producers who share a gender was enough to create a satisfying or insightful presentation.

Consider these four panels over the last 16 days:

NBC’s “Women of Drama” panel, featuring Jennifer Carpenter of “The Enemy Within,” Retta of “Good Girls,...

Lifetime Network kicked off Sunday’s TCA presentation with an announcement from Rob Sharenow, president of programming at A+E Network, saying they have 78% female directors. The industry is averaging 17%.

The network introduced a panel featuring female actors-directors including Kim Raver, Alyssa Milano, Monika Mitchell, Erika Christensen, Janice Cooke, Ginnifer Goodwin, Angela Fairley, Rhonda Baraka, Tiffany Hines, and Claire Scanlon, who discussed the importance of reaching a minimum 50/50 gender equity by 2020.

By working towards equality in Hollywood, the question as to whether male characters will suffer got a chuckle from the panel.

“I think female directors take that into consideration more than maybe a male director would,” Milano, who stars in Jane Green’s Tempting Fate, said. “I know that Kim was very adamant about making sure that all the characters were equally as developed.

The female directors I’ve worked with in the past has given people their equal opportunities.

Actress and activist Alyssa Milano responded to the news that toppled executive CBS Les Moonves had begun to make an attempted comeback in Hollywood with a new company by calling on others in the industry to protect the women around them.

“That’s gonna happen. We can’t expect that not to happen,” Milano told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. “We can’t put all these men on an island and say, ‘Eh, they’ll figure it out. Let them eat themselves.'”

The key, Milano said, is to implement systemic protections for women that won’t allow offenders to go on unaccountable for bad behavior.

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“They’re going to get jobs again,” she said. “So I think it’s our responsibility to figure out what that re-entering into the workplace looks like,...

In 1999 Monika Mitchell wrote, produced and directed a short film that she took to festivals. At the time, she recalled Sunday at a Television Critics Assn. press tour panel, when her name came up in the credits there were so few women helming projects that she overheard an executive say, “Monika’s a funny name for a guy.” In the two decades since that experience, she has crossed mediums between film and television, working most recently on Lifetime’s original movie “Jane Green’s To Have and to Hold,” while the industry around her has made slower advances. Currently there are 17% women directors, while only approximately 15 months after the #MeToo movement went viral men such as Louis C.K. and Les Moonves are getting back to work.

“We can’t put all these men on an island and say, ‘Ah they’ll figure it out, let them eat themselves.’ … I think...

Exclusive: Lifetime has its leads for a pair of movies based on Jane Green novels. The cable net said today that Justina Machado, Elisabeth Röhm and Matt Passmore will star in Family Pictures and Erika Christensen, Antonio Cupo, Andy Favreau and Carmel Amit are set for To Have and to Hold.

Both movies premiere next year, along with another based on Green’s Tempting Fate, which will star Alyssa Milano.

Family Pictures stars Machado (Jane the Virgin) and Sylvie and Röhm (Law & Order) as Maggie, strangers living on opposite coasts, leading very similar lives with husbands that travel for work too much and daughters about to leave the nest. But when their daughters befriend each other on a college tour, they soon discover a shocking secret that threatens to tear both families apart. Passmore’s (Jigsaw) role was not specified.

Manu Boyer is directing from a script by Ilene Rosenzweig.

Mystery (project) solved. Lifetime has set The Christmas Contract movie with One Tree Hill alums Hilarie Burton, Robert Buckley, Danneel Ackles, Antwon Tanner set to star, and a musical appearance from Tyler Hilton. Lifetime has acquired the film from Active Entertainment with debut set as part of the network’s annual It’s A Wonderful Lifetime holiday lineup later this year.

The former One Tree Hill cast members generated social media buzz earlier this week when they posted Instagram photos of themselves on the set of what Tanner called a “new project” with the hashtag #christmas2018. Filming on the movie began earlier this month in Louisiana. The Instagram and other social media posts were later deleted.

Jordan Ladd (Cabin Fever), Cheryl Ladd (Charlie’s Angels), Bruce Boxleitner (Tron), Jason London (Dazed and Confused), Hunter Burke (Claws), Teri Wyble (The Walking Dead), and Ritchie Montgomery (Baskets) also star.

In The Christmas Contract,...

From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for May 2018, including "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina", "Project Blue Book", "Van Helsing" and a whole lot more:

Feature Film

Airborne

Local Production Company: Siberian Productions Ltd.

Producer: Michael Bederman

June 18/18 - Jul 27/18

Red Snow

Local Production Company: Zhoh Daatsik Pictures Inc.

Director: Marie Clements

Producer: Lael McCall, Michelle Morris, Jonathan Tamuz

Mar 20/18 - May 28/18

The Art Of Racing In The Rain

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions

Director: Simon Curtis

Producer: Patrick Dempsey, Neal H. Moritz, Tania Landau, Joannie Burnstein

Apr 30/18 - Jul 23/18

Untitled Ali Wong/Randall Park Project

Local Production Company: Anaheim Productions

Director: Nahnatchka Khan

Exec. Producer(s): Ali Wong, Randall Park, Nathan Kahane, Erin Westerman, Ali Wong, Randall Park, Brendan Fergusen

May 29/18 - Jul 21/18

TV Pilot

Search And Destroy

Local Production Company: Bell Red Road Productions

Director: Carrie Brownstein

Producer: Ron French

May 07/18 - May 16/18

TV...

From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for November 2017 including "Siren", "The Exorcist", "Purple Harvest" and a whole lot more:

Features:

A Dogs Way HOMELocal Production Company: Singularity Productions

Director: Charles Martin Smith

Producer: Gavin Polone

Oct 16/17 - Dec 15/17

Noelle

Local Production Company: True Meaning Productions

Director: Marc Lawrence

Producer: Heather Meehan

Oct 23/17 - Jan 19/18

Purple Harvest

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions

Director: Drew Goddard

Jan 29/18 - Apr 06/18

Skyscraper

Local Production Company: Main Mast Production - Can, Inc

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurter, J. J. Perry

Aug 14/17 - Nov 17/17

Two/One

Local Production Company: Khai Productions

Director: Juan Cabral

Producer: Dave Valleau

Nov 15/17 - Dec 03/17

TV Pilots:

Deadly Class

Local Production Company: Pico Productions (BC) Limited

Director: Lee Toland Krieger

Producer: John Lenic

Nov 15/17 - Dec 05/17

TV Series:

A Series Of Unfortunate Events ~ Season 2

Local Production Company: Olaf II Productions Inc

Director: Loni Peristere, Jonathan Teplitzky

Apr...

Thanks to VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for March 2017, including "Ollie" (aka "The Predator"), "Arrow", "Supergirl" and a whole lot more:  

Game Over, Man

Feature

Local Production Company: Lumberjackson Productions Inc.

Director: Kyle Newcheck

Producer: Seth Rogan, Scott Rudin

Mar 30/17 - May 12/17

Hardpowder

Feature

Local Production Company: Hardpowder Canada Inc

Director: Hans Petter Moland

Exec. Producer(s): Ameet Shukla, Michael Dreyer

Mar 20/17 - May 24/17

Light Of My Life

Feature

Local Production Company: Light of My Life Film Inc.

Director: Casey Affleck

Producer: Geoffrey Quan

Feb 08/17 - Mar 30/17

Meditation Park

Feature

Local Production Company: Meditation Park Film Ltd.

Director: Mina Shum

Producer: Stephen Hegyes, Raymond Massey

Feb 27/17 - Mar 23/17

Ollie (aka "The Predator")

Feature

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.

Director: Shane Black

Exec. Producer(s): John Davis, Bill Bannerman

Sep 30/16 - May 15/17

Doomsday

TV Pilot

Local Production Company: Pico Productions Ltd

Director: Joachim Ronning

Exec.