Danica McKellar has loved working with GAC Family ever since she signed an exclusive deal with the network. She joked in a recent interview that working with GAC Family actually feels more like Hallmark to her than Hallmark probably would right now.
She Said the Actors, Producers, & CEO All Give the Network a Hallmark Vibe
In an interview with Us Weekly, McKellar said that so many people from the Hallmark Channel are now working with GAC Family that it really feels like being at Hallmark.
McKellar said, “It was Bill Abbott who I adore and a lot of the executives moved over there honestly. In some ways feels more like Hallmark than probably if I were still Hallmark. So all producers are all the same. All the actors, of course, were the same too.”
Bill Abbott, who launched GAC Family, was previously the CEO of the Hallmark Channel.
McKellar previously told The Wall Street Journal that she was drawn to GAC Family because she had enjoyed working with Abbott at Hallmark, where he had been the person to recruit her.
“So when he was getting ready to launch this new network, I was thrilled that he reached out to me to sign a multi-picture deal as an actress and executive producer,” she shared.
McKellar previously told Heavy in an exclusive interview that she jumped at the chance to help Abbott build a brand new network.
“Bill Abbott is a friend, and he’s such a good person,” she told Heavy. “And I jumped at the opportunity to help him build this new network. … It’s a smaller network right now, and we’re building something together. And that in itself is this great feeling of collaboration and teamwork.”
McKellar told Us Weekly that she was drawn to GAC Family because they offered her a multi-picture deal, which she didn’t have at Hallmark, and she loved the idea of helping develop stories.
“Part of it was because I had the opportunity to do a multi-picture deal, which I hadn’t done at Hallmark.” she said. “…But also really being a producer, really helping to develop these stories from the beginning. And that’s really exciting for me as a storyteller. I love that.”
She said she’s looking forward to having a bigger role in casting choices and script development.
Her Deal with GAC Family Lasts Through 2023
In a press release, GAC Media revealed that McKellar signed a deal to executive produce and star in original movies for both GAC Family and GAC Living. A GAC Media representative confirmed with Heavy that this exclusive deal means McKellar will only make rom-coms and holiday films for GAC Family during the term of her contract. The press release noted that the contract lasts through 2023.
In a press release, Abbott said about the her contract: “Danica is a world-class talent who is among TV’s most beloved and enduring stars. Her combination of creativity and passion is second to none, and I am thrilled to have her join GAC’s close-knit family.”
McKellar told Heavy in an exclusive interview that working on GAC movies brings a strong collaborative spirit.
“That’s something I found doing GAC movies… Even on the movies that I executive produced before, it’s just a different feeling,” she said. “…There was this feeling of freedom.”
I, for one am glad that you are no longer with the Hallmark Family.
So this will be all the WASP and straight network?
Maybe it’s for those who want to get away from the LGBTQ+ evangelists who are always trying to get in front of your face whether you like it or not.
As for the WASP network, are you one of those who call Larry Elder, Candace Owens, and Ben Carson “white supremacists”? Do you also call Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson “nazis” when they’re wearing their yamalkes?
Apparently, tolerance means celebrating having the ugliest insult to throw at someone without the least concern for whether it is dishonest, unjust, irrational, or ludicrous.
It’s amazing. So many of you people fight for the rights of LGBTQ individuals, but then you turn on them when they leave. You say they can’t. They’re born that way. Yet they can become gay and that’s all fine. But how do you rationalize the notion that if they’re born gay, they cannot become ungay, and if they’re born ungay, they can become gay, but cannot revert back to being non-gay?
And if they’re born gay, how can sexual preference be “fluid”? And can it be “fluid” and “dyed in the wool” at the same time?
Where is your fight for liberty when LGBTQ are not allowed to leave? When they’re abused and branded as insincere or as caving to pressure? Where is your respect for their rights in that situation? You take away their right to seek out counseling that might help them come out of the LGBTQ lifestyle if that is what they would choose to do. Yet while you fight to deprive them of that right, you claim to fight for their freedom.
A Christian couple bakes cakes and has personal religious beliefs that participating in a homosexual wedding would be against their religion. Some homosexuals say, “Right on. That’s their right. Find a baker who will celebrate the wedding with everyone else with joy. Most bakers will.” But then there are those who go out on the prowl looking for a Christian to bash, to conscript into service, and having an unjust law and a corrupt judge bought in advance by the ACLU, they launch a malicious lawsuit to destroy that Christian baker’s business and his family.
It is pretty sad that so many actors left Hallmark. It just makes you realize that this network does not deal in the 2022s. I’m sad and I hope they never have a child who is different because it makes wonder if they will accept the child or a sibling. I will never watch your network!
Sad to see Danica leave the Hallmark Channel. She was one of my favorites.