[1] In 2009, Crown Media Holdings and Hallmark chairman Donald J.

In 2017, Hallmark revisited the concept, and set a new launch date of October 1, 2017.

[2] The channel's first original programs, the cooking competition series Christmas Cookie Matchup and special Project Christmas Joy, premiered in early December 2019.

[6] TV series airing on Hallmark Family include Matlock, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, and Magnum, P.I.

[7][8] The channel's first original movies were announced on July 26, 2019 as a JL Family Ranch sequel and a Signed, Sealed, Delivered franchise installment slated for 2020.