As Jane Seymour Returns to Hallmark, She’s Hoping to Reboot Her Hit TV Series

Hallmark fans were thrilled when the network announced in March 2025 that legendary actress Jane Seymour was filming a new holiday series in Ireland, with a working title of “The Twelve Dates of Christmas.”

When the series, which also stars “Parenthood” alum Mae Whitman and two-time Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell, premieres during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas programming in late 2025, it will mark Seymour’s first new project with Hallmark since she co-starred with Lacey Chabert in 2014’s “A Royal Christmas.”

But she certainly hasn’t been missing from Hallmark. Reruns of Seymour’s hit 90s series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” air regularly on Hallmark Family and are available to stream on Hallmark+. On June 14, 2025, the actress told Swooon she’d love to revisit the show with her fprmer co-star, Joe Lando. Could Hallmark be the right home for a reboot?

Jane Seymour Says It’s ‘Astounding’ No Network Has Brought Back Old Show

The period romance series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” aired on CBS from 1993 to 1997, with Seymour as Dr. Michaela Quinn, a.k.a. Dr. Mike, and Joe Lando as her romantic interest, Byron Sully. The setting was 1860 in Colorado Springs.

In the nearly 30 years since the show went off the air, Seymour and Lando have remained close friends. So close, in fact, that in January, she welcomed him and his family into her house for several weeks, per Variety, after his home burned to the ground in the Los Angeles wildfires. According to Los Angeles Magazine, she took in Lando, six other members of his family, including his wife, two German Shepherds, and two pet birds.

Telling Swooon they would both love to work together again, Seymour said it could be on “literally anything,” but that no networks have picked up on the idea of a “Dr. Quinn” reboot yet. She noted that she’d jump at the chance “if somebody wanted to, but we haven’t found anyone that wants to, which I find astounding since they brought every show that’s ever been made back.”

“Somebody has to put Joe and I together in something,” she continued, noting that her posts often go viral when she features him in them. ”I mean, even looking it up, apparently we don’t have to really do anything terribly interesting. It’s like seeing us together.”

The duo did film a Christmas movie called “A Christmas Spark” for Lifetime “a few years ago” she said, but added that “Joe and I are actively looking for something to do just because we love working together, but also because we know the fan base would really be hungry for it.”

Jane Seymour Says She Has Script Ready to Go for a Reboot

In December 2023, Seymour told The Messenger blog — according to Deadline — that despite the popularity of shows like “Yellowstone,” no networks had wanted to pick up her new idea for a reboot of “Dr. Quinn.”

“We’ve actually got one written, and we’ve got the whole series planned out,” Seymour said. “We just took it to one of the networks, and they said that they weren’t interested in Westerns.”

“I think it’s really crazy,” she continued. “There seems to be a lot of very successful Westerns, so I didn’t get that at all.”

Hallmark did try a modern-day, Western-infused production with “RIDE” in 2023, but it lasted only one season despite its star-studded cast including Nancy Travis and Marcus Rosner.