When Calls the Coronary heart — a well-oiled machine of a present — remains to be going robust 12 seasons in. As the most recent episodes hit the 2025 TV schedule, the Hallmark Western romance drama remains to be managing to maintain issues recent. That features bringing new faces to Hope Valley, corresponding to Little Home on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert. Now, after becoming a member of the present, Gilbert is opening up about what she’d like to see from her character.
Melissa Gilbert is greatest identified for enjoying Laura Ingalls Wilder on Little Home on the Prairie from 1974 to 1983. Now, on WCTH, she’s enjoying Georgie McGill, a forensic accounting investigator with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as she informed Leisure Weekly. She’ll be seem as a part of a two-episode arc that can see McGill crossing paths with Jack Wagner’s Invoice Avery (and the 2 have a historical past collectively). Whereas it’s unknown if she’ll seem on extra episodes, Gilbert expressed curiosity in returning and additional exploring the dynamics between Georgie and Invoice:
I’d like to see what occurs with Invoice and Georgie going ahead as a result of it’s left as a romantic cliffhanger — will-they, gained’t-they? Are they, aren’t they? I additionally assume it is actually nice to painting the start of a romantic relationship with two folks our age. Simply since you’re over 60 doesn’t suggest you are useless.
It’s intriguing to know that Invoice and Georgie could have some type of historical past collectively, so there may very well be an attention-grabbing backstory there that might present some drama. Curiously, Invoice has seen a handful of romances throughout the present’s run at this level. One other one can be entertaining to see. Or, on the very least, it will be enjoyable to dig deeper into his previous to see what occurred and whether or not the pair are nonetheless carrying a torch for one another. It is encouraging that Gilbert can be eager about diving in to that relationship.
I am curious as to what’s going to play out for Georgie in addition to Invoice over the 2 episodes, which make up a brief arc. Nevertheless, it’s common for a quick storyline to show into one thing extra on a present. In any other case, followers are simply going to have to attend and see what lies forward for the 2 aforementioned characters on the beloved sequence.
In the meantime, that isn’t the one romance in Hope Valley. After the brutally lengthy wait for his or her relationship, Elizabeth and Nathan lastly kissed on the finish of Season 11 and have been having fun with their newfound relationship this season. Extra will certainly be on the way in which for them, nevertheless it wouldn’t be stunning if it got here with extra issues as a result of the slow-burn of their relationship simply wasn’t sufficient.
I will be protecting my eyes on that couple however will now even be doing the identical with Invoice and Melissa Gilbert’s Georgie. With new faces getting into the fray and love blossoming amongst established characters, the Erin Krakow-led sequence is providing up some candy tales. Followers gained’t wish to miss a single second when a brand new episode of When Calls the Coronary heart premieres Saturday, February 8 at 10 p.m. ET on Hallmark Channel.