When you’ve been listening to Hallmark’s upcoming films, you might discover that a number of of them appear to be related. The Love on the Danube films, for example, had been a part of Might’s lineup, and this month contains a particular double characteristic set in Barcelona, Spain. I had the chance to talk to the celebrities of these films — Hallmark fan favorites Ashley Williams and Alison Sweeney — and so they broke down why we’re seeing so many of those on-location collection these days.
To Barcelona, With Love will premiere on the 2025 TV schedule on Saturday, June 7, the place followers will get to see Alison Sweeney’s Erica develop a friendship with Ashley Williams’ Anna after assembly underneath skilled circumstances. Every week later we’ll get a second serving to of their Spanish adventures in To Barcelona, Perpetually, and Williams instructed CinemaBlend that’s a results of the community tapping in to what viewers need. She stated:
Hallmark audiences are probably the most loyal, loving followers that I’ve ever identified in my profession. And I feel Hallmark does a extremely good job after they know that the viewers is pleased with one thing, they need to preserve them glad, you recognize? So it is clocking into what our viewers is basically digging, after which ensuring that we preserve giving it to them in spades, I feel, is without doubt one of the superpowers of the community.
Followers of the community do get actually invested within the tales and the characters (and perhaps even selecting up a few of these Hallmark life classes alongside the way in which), and it is smart that audiences would get pleasure from seeing the identical beloved characters in several eventualities. Simply take a look at Alison Sweeney’s Hannah Swensen mysteries!
Talking of the Days of Our Lives alum, she instructed me it’s not simply concerning the characters; these on-location collection additionally permit viewers to expertise elements of the world they may not in any other case have entry to. Sweeney stated:
I feel additionally simply increasing, like, I feel visually, somebody stated it earlier that this film is like your passport to Barcelona, such as you get to be there with us. It feels very a lot, like, immersive for the viewers, and we actually strove to make that occur. So hopefully the viewers will get to essentially get pleasure from these sorts of emotions.
Certainly, To Barcelona, With Love isn’t just arbitrarily set within the Spanish metropolis. The movie pays homage to Barcelona’s traditions, its meals, its language and structure. Alison Sweeney in contrast it to how she experiences a distinct present on TV — The Wonderful Race — saying:
I’ve at all times been a fan of The Wonderful Race for that very same purpose. I simply love sitting at dwelling within the consolation of my PJs and watching individuals journey the world and getting a way of, like, ‘Oh, I by no means knew what that metropolis seemed like.’ So I form of really feel like hopefully we provide those that form of enjoyable, deep look into Barcelona and Spain.
That’s a terrific comparability, and I like that Hallmark seems to be selecting up on how particular that’s and offering extra of those alternatives for followers. In truth, a few these kind of tasks have already been introduced for this vacation season.
Hallmark is making an attempt one thing new this Christmas, with a restricted collection primarily based in Blexford, England, that may star Mae Whitman on the lookout for love in The Twelve Dates of Christmas. We’re additionally getting a sequel to final yr’s Vacation Landing, however as a substitute of the football-inspired romance being set across the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, A Payments Love Story will focus on Buffalo’s NFL crew and movie on location in New York.
Earlier than all that, although, you’ll want to stamp your passports to Spain in To Barcelona, With Love premiering at 8 p.m. ET Saturday, June 7, on Hallmark after which To Barcelona, Perpetually, at 8 p.m. ET Saturday, June 14.