Candace Cameron Bure has starred in a formidable 4 of Hallmark’s 10 most-watched Christmas TV film premieres. So she is aware of Christmas programming.
The Full Home alum defined in a Selection story printed Wednesday simply why she thinks they’re such a success with viewers.
“The largest factor about Christmas films generally is that individuals make enjoyable of them — and but folks love them,” Bure mentioned. “It is as a result of they’re predictable: You recognize that somebody’s going to fall in love. You recognize it is simply going to be completely happy and heat. And other people run to that, particularly on the holidays.”
So Bure has no plans on quitting them, however she has switched groups. In April, she defined that she was leaving Hallmark for Nice American Household, a brand new community led by Invoice Abbott, a former boss at Hallmark’s dad or mum firm, who left after refusing to air a industrial that includes a same-sex couple. Selection reported, per sources, that Bure was supplied almost twice the $1 million per yr contract that she had been given at Hallmark. At her new firm, she’ll proceed to star in films and TV reveals, however she’ll additionally work as an organization govt answerable for creating a complete slate of Christmas fare. (She stars in Nice American Household’s first such TV film, A Christmas… Current, which premieres Nov. 22.)
“I believe we all know the core viewers and what they love is strictly how Invoice initially constructed the Hallmark Channel,” Bure mentioned. “That was Christmas and people conventional holidays, so that is what the main target goes to be. You have to begin someplace. You may’t do every part without delay.”
Whereas selling Hallmark’s The Christmas Contest in November 2021, Bure instructed Us Weekly that she as soon as felt “an immense quantity of strain” as her vacation movies did effectively within the scores. However she’d provided that up.
“You all the time wish to hit that mark and exceed that mark,” she instructed the journal. “And final yr, I lastly let it go as a result of it is not the explanation why I make these films. I make them as a result of I like them. And I do know that the viewers that watch them actually love them, they usually imply one thing to them. I all the time attempt to make it one of the best that I can, however I let the strain go final yr.”
Followers can count on to see Bure not solely in additional Christmas TV films, however probably teaming up once more together with her former Full Home co-star Lori Loughlin, whom she constantly supported in the course of the fallout from the school admissions scandal. Abbott famous that he is on the lookout for the precise script for her to guide.
