Hallmark Channel wants to give its fans a reason to look forward to Mondays. On July 31, 2025, the cable network announced that starting this fall, Monday nights will become the time to catch its new lineup of unscripted shows.
After a successful run with its four-episode unscripted docuseries “Christmas at Sea” airing on Monday nights in July, Hallmark will adopt a similar strategy starting on September 15, according to Variety, beginning with the season two premiere of “Celebrations With Lacey Chabert.”
Hallmark’s slate of new unscripted series — dubbed “Reality TV With Heart” — can settle in and get comfortable on Monday nights, with each episode available to stream on Hallmark+ the following day.
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HallmarkIn Chabert’s reality show, which debuted exclusively on Hallmark+ in 2024, she works with event planners to surprise deserving community members with a big event in their honor. “Celebrations With Lacey Chabert” will return — this time on Hallmark Channel — for an eight-episode second season, highlighting people connected to multiple charities, Variety reported.
Chabert’s show will be followed by her Hallmark buddy Jonathan Bennett’s “Finding Mr. Christmas,” Hallmark’s first-ever reality competition, which generated huge buzz during its first season on Hallmark+. Lead judge Melissa Peterman returns, and a different Hallmark guest judge will appear each week as they whittle down the competition to find a new Hallmark hunk.
As the holidays get closer, Tamera Mowry-Housley’s new unscripted show — “Baked With Love: Holiday” — will begin airing on Mondays, too, Variety reported. “Baked With Love: Holiday” features 10 pairs of bakers competing for $50,000 in Cotswolds, England. The judges include Irish-born chef Anna Haugh, who’s run some of the top restaurants in London and France, and New York Times cooking expert Vaughn Vreeland.
David Steanou, head of Hallmark’s unscripted programming, told Variety of the new lineup, “We’re in the business of joy and heart. Our shows make people feel good. They offer possibility, transformation, and happiness, and that’s something people could use a little more and why they come to Hallmark.”
Hallmark Channel Announced Its ‘Reality TV With Heart’ Programming in April 2025
EntertainmentNow/HallmarkHallmark Channel announced in April its decision to leap back into producing and airing unscripted shows, after having run Holly Robinson Peete’s family docuseries “Meet the Peetes” for two seasons in 2018 and 2019. The channel kicked off its “Reality TV with Heart” by launching actress Connie Britton’s new unscripted series, “The Motherhood,” on May 5.
For Christmas in July, Hallmark Channel aired its four-part docuseries “Christmas at Sea” on Monday nights, which followed superfans and their favorite stars aboard one of the Hallmark Christmas Cruises. In a press release on July 30, the network said it was “the #2 most-watched entertainment cable program in its time period on Mondays (8pm-9pm) among Women 18+.”
In its April announcement, Hallmark Channel said it would also be producing other original unscripted shows including more “friendly competition series” and a series focused on “community building, home and lifestyle enhancement.” Each show, Hallmark said, will align with “the company’s brand principles of joy, hope, warmth, connection, family and most definitely…love.”
Among the shows it mentioned were in the works was “Armed to Build” with longtime Hallmark star Nikki DeLoach helping communities “honor, celebrate, and give back to their first responders and veterans,” and another show hosted by Bennett called “Murder Mystery House,” which will let Hallmark Mystery fans join in on an investigation.
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Hallmark Channel Announces New Monday Night Reality Show Lineup