Candace Cameron Bure left the Hallmark Channel for GAC Family back in April, and Hallmark has finally acknowledged it.
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More specifically, Hallmark executive Lisa Hamilton Daly spoke on all the roster changes during a Television Critics Association press conference, as Cameron Bure isn’t the only defection.
“We’ve kept a lot of our talent under options, save for Christmas movies. We’re looking for new talent all the time,” she said, via Variety. “I think there’s a lot of talent out there that we’ve worked with in the past that GAC is now working with.
“I think that we also are constantly trying to evolve the talent pool that we’re working with. We have, I think, retained almost everybody that we’re really excited to have. So that’s where we are.”
Cameron Bure, 46, first came to fame as D.J. Tanner on Full House. But she has also acted in more than two dozen Hallmark films, including the 18-film Aurora Teagarden series for Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.
She will now be staring in romantic comedies and holiday flicks and shows over at GAC Family, which is headed by former Hallmark Channel executive Bill Abbott. Cameron Bure will also help develop and produce some of the movies and series at GAC Family and sister station GAC Living.
Hallmark marches forward
That said, Hallmark Channel will also carry on, minus Cameron Bure, as it always has.
“Our talent, they know each other. They have a great relationship and that’s the secret sauce we have as Hallmark,” CEO Wonya Lucas said at the press conference. “That continues today. We have existing talent that’s been with us a long time, and we have a new talent that we’re bringing in as well. And they all feel part of this Hallmark Channel love and so that that will be consistent; that is consistent in the past; that’s consistent today.”