Why Candace Cameron On GAC Household — Why She Left Hallmark, Defined

With Candace Cameron Bure‘s first GAC Household Christmas film set to premiere later this month, Hallmark Channel’s former vacation queen is talking out about her choice to modify networks.

“My coronary heart desires to inform tales which have extra which means and goal and depth behind them,” Bure tells the Wall Road Journal. “I knew that the individuals behind Nice American Household have been Christians that love the Lord and needed to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”

In different phrases, because the WSJ notes in its headline, Bure desires to place Christianity again in Christmas motion pictures.

Talking about Hallmark — the place Bure starred in additional than 20 Christmas motion pictures, and performed the titular detective in practically as many Aurora Teagarden mysteries — the actress says, “It principally is a totally totally different community than once I began due to the change of management.”

That “change of management” got here in January 2020 with the departure of former Crown Media Household Networks Chief Government Officer Invoice Abbott. His exit got here within the wake of Hallmark’s dealing with of a industrial that includes a same-sex wedding ceremony, which was pulled from the channel after which reinstated. Abbott has rebounded as the brand new CEO of GAC Household guardian firm Nice American Media, the place he has lured large names from Hallmark — together with Bure and Danica McKellar — over to his new residence.

Based on Abbott, “non secular or faith-based content material is grossly underserved,” and he sees Bure, who’s now GAC Household’s chief artistic officer, as “the important thing piece of what we’re doing.”

As for what GAC Household is not doing, Bure tells the WSJ to not count on any same-sex {couples} to be featured in its programming. “I believe that Nice American Household will hold conventional marriage on the core,” she says.

Bure’s first GAC Household film, Candace Cameron Bure Presents: A Christmas… Current (pictured above), premieres Sunday, Nov. 27 at 8/7c. Watch the trailer beneath: