
WHEN HOPE CALLS Season 2 Finally Gets Release Date
By Movieguide® Contributor
It’s official! WHEN HOPE CALLS is returning for a second season starting April 6, with early access available to those who subscribe to Great American Pure Flix.
After running for one season on Hallmark’s former streamer Hallmark Movies Now in 2019, the WHEN CALLS THE HEART spinoff WHEN HOPE CALLS was given new life by Great American Family (GAF) for a two-part Christmas special in 2021. Last fall, however, fans of the show received amazing news when GAF announced a full second season was in the works.
This second season is sooner than one might think, with the first episode releasing on April 6. Those who subscribe to Great American Pure Flix can watch the season even earlier. The first episode will be available on the streamer on April 3.
While it is exciting that a new season is coming, it will be different from season one as only four cast members are returning. Morgan Kohan (Lillian), Ryan-James Hatanaka (Constable Gabe Kinslow), Hanneke Talbot (Maggie Parsons) and Neil Crone (Ronnie Stewart) will return, being joined by Trevor Donovan, Nike Bateman, Wendy Crewson, Christopher Russell and Cindy Busby.
The logline says that WHEN HOPE CALLS centers “on the town’s orphanage and its residents who meet tremendous challenges while creating a hopeful, faith-filled community on the cusp of change in the frontier town.”
And while the new season will “pay homage to the romance” between Lillian and Gabriel, “new characters are introduced that are seminal to the orphanage and children, the sprawling farms and ranch lands, and to the town of Brookfield.”
The second season promises family fun along with romantic interests that develop across the episodes.
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“There’s gonna be a little bit of family-oriented fun, there’s gonna be a lot of heart, and let me tell you, there’s gonna be some romance,” said Russell. “Some people are gonna fall in love, they might even kiss, I don’t know.”
“I don’t know if any of you were aware that Cindy [Busby] and I have worked together before,” Russell added. “We’ve done four movies together. And then when — I’ll just tell my side of it – when I was offered the role of the new Mountie in town, I think I was accidentally BCC’d on an email chain and shouldn’t have been. And I saw that Cindy Busby was also going to be a part of the show. And that was it. I was like, ‘You’d better get me on that.’”
While fans eagerly await season two of WHEN HOPE CALLS, they can keep up with that world through season 12 of WHEN CALLS THE HEART which is currently releasing new episodes.
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