‘The Way Home’ Season 3 To Debut On Hallmark Channel As Move To Hallmark+ Is Nixed After Backlash

The Way Home fans have spoken — and Hallmark executives have listened. A couple of weeks after it was announced that the popular Hallmark Channel series starring Andie MacDowell will migrate from the linear cable network to Hallmark+ for its upcoming third season, the decision has been reversed.

Instead of debuting Jan. 2 exclusively on Hallmark+ as previously announced, with a run on Hallmark Channel in fall 2025, Season 3 will premiere Jan. 3 on the cable network and will be available on the subscription streaming service the next day.

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The Way Home, which also stars Chyler Leigh, Evan Williams and Sadie Laflamme-Snow, is the No. 1 most-watched program overall on entertainment cable among homes, viewers and women and persons 18+, per Hallmark.

The company clearly wanted to use one of its flagship titles to boost subscriptions for its new streaming platform. But fans were not impressed, expressing frustration that the platform switch would require them to pay extra in order to continue to watch the show.

MacDowell, Leigh, Williams and Laflamme-Snow return for Season 3, with new cast members Julia Tomasone (Ghostwriter) and Jordan Doww (Ganymede) portraying the teen versions of Del (MacDowell) and Colton (Jefferson Brown), while Devin Cecchetto (The Parker Andersons/Amelia Parker) joins the cast as Teen Evelyn.

Season 3 picks up where season two left off – with Kat (Leigh) and her brother Jacob (Spencer Macpherson), who went missing more than two decades ago at the age of eight and is now an adult, poised to walk into the Landry home to an unsuspecting Del (MacDowell).

The Way Home is a Neshama Entertainment production in association with MarVista Entertainment. Executive producers are Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke, Fernando Szew, Hannah Pillemer, Larry Grimaldi, Ani Kevork, Arnie Zipursky, Marly Reed, Suzanne L. Berger, MacDowell and Leigh. The series is produced by John Calvert. Mitch Geddes and Jessica Runk serve as consulting producers. Michael Hanley is executive story editor.

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