Melissa Gilbert is about to visitor star in a two-episode arc on Season 12 of the long-running sequence When Calls the Heart, set to premiere on the Hallmark Channel subsequent 12 months. The information was shared with those that gathered on the present’s annual Hearties Household Reunion fan occasion in Vancouver, Canada.
Gilbert will painting Georgie McGill, who “shares a stunning previous with one particular Hope Valley resident,” per the announcement description. The chance to affix the sequence arose via govt producer Michael Landon Jr., who linked with the veteran actress on the Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Cast Reunion and Festival held earlier this 12 months. The 2 shared the information in a panel dialogue onstage on the Hearties Household Reunion.
“When Calls the Coronary heart has lengthy drawn comparisons to Little Home on the Prairie, for its charming and compelling tales of hope, human connection and frontier survival,” mentioned Kelly Garrett, vp of Hallmark Media programming. “It was solely becoming that the primary folks to listen to this particular information had been the Hearties — devoted followers who’ve celebrated the present 12 months after 12 months and made it so successful. The vitality being right here with them to share this information is electrical and we can not anticipate them to fulfill Georgie subsequent 12 months.”
Gilbert is greatest recognized for portraying Laura Ingalls on NBC’s Emmy-winning family-oriented Little Home on the Prairie. The Emmy-nominated performer additionally served as the previous president of the Display Actors Guild, launched life-style model Fashionable Prairie and is a New York Occasions bestselling writer. Her different credit embody The Miracle Employee (for which she garnered her Emmy nod), Candy Justice (reverse Cicely Tyson) and Secrets and techniques and Lies, an ABC drama that starred Ryan Phillippe, Juliette Lewis and Michael Ealy.
Beloved as Hallmark’s longest-running unique sequence, When Calls the Coronary heart Season 12 will consist of 12 episodes dropping in 2025. Information of the renewal got here amid the present’s launch of Season 11, which adopted Hope Valley residents as they launched into the Nineteen Twenties. The plot revolved round schoolteacher Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow), who started a recent begin — with new romance, new challenges and new type. She and Mountie Nathan Grant (Kevin McGarry) navigated their rising romantic emotions whereas additionally leaning on one another for assist as they confronted parenting obstacles. The solid was rounded out by Chris McNally, Jack Wagner and Pascale Hutton.
Season 11 of the romantic interval drama ranks because the most-watched leisure cable sequence year-to-date amongst households, whole viewers and girls over the age of 18.
