When Calls the Heart was just picked up for a 14th season because it is still a top ratings getter.
Because of that, Hallmark Channel ordered the prequel, Hope Valley 1874, and now we know who will be starring in it. Bethany Joy Lenz, Benjamin Ayres, and Jill Hennessy will lead the eight-episode period drama set in 1874, which explores the early days of the settlement that later becomes Hope Valley.
Lenz portrays Rebecca Clarke, who travels from her home city of Chicago to the Western Canadian frontier with her 11-year-old daughter. But when her wagon breaks down, she has no choice but to accept help from local rancher and confirmed bachelor, Tom Moore (Ayres). Despite Rebecca’s best intentions to remain unattached, the future she dreams of for her and her daughter, along with the people she meets in this fledgling town – including the guarded Tom and tenacious pioneer woman Hattie Quinn (Hennessy) – ultimately compel her to put down roots and make a fresh start.
Fear Factor made its debut in 2001, and it was all the buzz until it was cancelled by NBC in 2012. MTV revived the show in 2017, but parted ways with it a year later. Now, after a seven-year hiatus, it will be back on Fox next month.
Today, the network announced the 14 people who will be competing on the show, and two of the contestants were not even born in 2001. Emergency dispatcher Ethan is 20 years old, and Soccer player Dida is a year older.
I would say that would hurt the host, Johnny Knoxville, but we know the 54-year-old is used to and loves pain.
Fear Factor: House of Fear premieres on January 14th.
Fox is adding another doctor to its schedule next month, and it looks like it will be as good for post-Christmas headaches as two aspirins.
The series centers on Dr. Martin Best (Emmy Award-nominee Josh Charles), a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he’s all they’ve got. Although Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he’s really just desperate to be left the hell alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged right smack into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds and fantasies. What the locals don’t know is that Martin’s terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and childhood trauma that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.
