It’s a puzzle Hallmark followers can’t appear to resolve: What occurred to all the community’s thriller collection? For years, Hallmark Films & Mysteries has been house to an extended checklist of thriller franchises, together with the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Matchmake Mysteries, and Image Excellent Mysteries. However a wave of cancellations left viewers questioning in the event that they’d ever see extra crime-focused motion pictures on the channel. Whereas there’s no phrase but on the way forward for in-limbo fan-favorite collection like Thriller 101, a brand new thriller film is coming to Hallmark within the very close to future.
‘Francesca Quinn, P.I.’ premieres September 25
Mallory Jansen, Dylan Bruce, and Paul Essiembre in ‘Francesca Quinn, P.I.’ | ©2022 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Steve Ackerman
It’s been months since a new mystery movie aired on Hallmark. (The final, Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate, premiered again in April 2022.) That’s why the premiere of Francesca Quinn, P.I., is so thrilling for viewers who love Hallmark’s tackle the style, which regularly combines a whodunit with a splash of romance.
The film stars Mallory Jansen as Francesca “Frankie” Quinn, a non-public investigator in St. Benedict, Minnesota. She finds herself caught in the midst of a sophisticated case when her fiancé Carl Wiseman (Derek Kun) is murdered. The detective assigned to analyze the crime is none apart from Wyn Rousseau (Dylan Bruce), who simply occurs to be her ex-boyfriend. Their cut up was what led Frankie to stop her job as a forensics investigator on the police division and strike out on her personal.
At first, Frankie tries to hold again and let Wyn unravel the thriller of who killed Carl. However after every week passes and the police appear no nearer to discovering the killer, Carl’s sister turns to Frankie for assist. Frankie groups up together with her former boyfriend to unmask the sinister killer accountable for Carl’s dying.
Francesca Quinn, P.I. premieres Sunday, September 25 at 9 p.m. ET on Hallmark Films & Mysteries. To this point, there’s no phrase on whether or not it’s a standalone film or the primary entry in a brand new collection.
What about different Hallmark mysteries? These collection have been canceled
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Whereas the premiere of a brand new thriller film is thrilling, the information isn’t good for followers of collection resembling Aurora Teagarden. That long-running Candace Cameron Bure franchise was canceled earlier this yr after its star moved from Hallmark to Great American Family.
Different thriller collection confirmed to not return embody Matchmaker Mysteries with Danica McKellar (who has additionally moved from Hallmark to Nice American Household) and Hailey Dean Mysteries with Kellie Martin. Image Excellent Mysteries with Alexa and Carlos PenaVega and Storage Sale Mysteries with Lori Loughlin have additionally been canceled.
Kristoffer Polaha says ‘Thriller 101’ is on ‘a really lengthy hiatus’
Whereas a lot of Hallmark’s thriller collection have been canceled, the way forward for a number of franchises continues to be up within the air. Followers are nonetheless ready to seek out out if there will probably be future installments of Martha’s Winery Mysteries, Chronicle Mysteries, Thriller 101, Morning Present Mysteries, Hannah Swensen Mysteries, and Crossword Mysteries. All final aired new motion pictures in 2021.
In June, Thriller 101 star Kristoffer Polaha shared an replace on that franchise whereas selling his new Lifetime movie with Angie Harmon, Buried in Barstow. Followers have been hoping for one more film after the final installment, Thriller 101: Lethal Historical past, ended on a cliffhanger.
“Thriller 101 is, for all intents and functions, on a really lengthy hiatus,” he instructed Metacritic. “We’ll discover out about the way forward for Thriller 101. That’s to not say it’s canceled, however I’ve no dates as to after we’re going to do No. 8.”
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