{"id":113816,"date":"2024-07-24T20:58:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/cameron-mathison-praises-great-american-media-after-hallmark-history\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:58:17","slug":"cameron-mathison-praises-great-american-media-after-hallmark-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/cameron-mathison-praises-great-american-media-after-hallmark-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Mathison Praises Great American Media After Hallmark History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/cameron-mathison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cameron Mathison<\/strong><\/a> is \u201cdefinitely all in\u201d on Great American Media after making the move from competitor Hallmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI mean, Hallmark is where I started, and everybody at Great American I knew from Hallmark, most of \u2019em were over at Hallmark,\u201d Mathison, 54, exclusively told <i>Us Weekly <\/i>on Wednesday, July 24, while promoting his Game Show Network program <i>Beat the Bridge. <\/i>\u201cI love working there and [on] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/alison-sweeney-wants-to-stretch-out-new-hannah-swensen-love-triangle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my <i>Murder, She Baked <\/i>series<\/a> with <strong>Allie Sweeney<\/strong> and everybody else. Those are my friends, and I love doing those movies, and they\u2019re still going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cBut from another perspective, the people that are at Great American are the people that I started with at Hallmark. So it\u2019s, like, coming home \u2026 and so, in a sense, it\u2019s not hard at all because it\u2019s very easy [and] I think a lot of the viewers are now watching both [channels].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Former Hallmark CEO <strong>Bill Abbott<\/strong> launched GAM in 2021, enlisting a slew of network favorites such as <strong>Candace Cameron Bure<\/strong> and <strong>Jen Lilley<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/what-is-gac-family-and-which-hallmark-stars-are-making-the-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star in new projects<\/a>. Mathison, for his part, used to host Hallmark\u2019s <i>Home &amp; Family<\/i> talk show in addition to starring in made-for-TV films. In 2021, Mathison began hosting GAM\u2019s <i>Welcome to Great American Christmas <\/i>and appeared in the film <i>A Kindhearted Christmas. <\/i>He kept up his Hallmark tenure, too, often appearing in <i>Hannah Swensen Mysteries <\/i>sequels. He also hosts GAM\u2019s <i>The Good Life With Cameron Mathison.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3669405\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:61.428571428571%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Cameron Mathison.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Us Weekly<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI still got a lot of stuff airing on Hallmark and I\u2019m shooting a lot of stuff on Great American Family,\u201d Mathison told <i>Us.<\/i> \u201cIt\u2019s really good people, and we\u2019re doing good stuff, and it\u2019s hardly even any show, any channel and I\u2019ve done that through my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Mathison is currently focused on his GAM projects, he still keeps in touch with his Hallmark family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey\u2019re very near and dear to my heart,\u201d he gushed on Wednesday. \u201cAnd then, Great American Family is where I\u2019m at now, and we\u2019re doing cool stuff. \u2026 I\u2019ve got three years of Great American Family and that to me is such a gift. It\u2019s just an amazing opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Next up, Mathison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/candace-cameron-bures-great-american-family-movies-a-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will costar with 48-year-old Cameron Bure<\/a> in the network\u2019s <i>Jingle Bells, Wedding Bells.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/great-american-familys-2024-great-american-christmas-lineup\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Great-American-Family-s-2024-Great-American-Christmas-Lineup-Is-Taking-Shape-See-All-the-Movie-606.jpg?crop=1157px%2C745px%2C2764px%2C1559px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Great American Family s 2024 Great American Christmas Lineup Is Taking Shape See All the Movie 606\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Great-American-Family-s-2024-Great-American-Christmas-Lineup-Is-Taking-Shape-See-All-the-Movie-606.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/great-american-familys-2024-great-american-christmas-lineup\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Great American Family\u2019s 2024 \u2018Great American Christmas\u2019 Lineup: A Guide<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\u00a9 Great American Media 2024 Great American Family\u2019s fourth-annual \u201cGreat American Christmas\u201d is shaping up to be a big celebration with Candace Cameron Bure and more stars at the helm. In February, the network announced the first few movies from its 2024 lineup, including Jill Wagner\u2019s Aurora Christmas. Two months later, Great American Family revealed [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019re filming that last two weeks of August, first week of September. It\u2019s a really fun script,\u201d he teased to <i>Us <\/i>of working with \u201cone of the queens of Christmas [movies]\u201d on the new flick. \u201cI love the dynamic. \u2026 Candace and I have been talking about working together for a very long time, and so that\u2019s finally happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In addition to his GAM deal, Mathison also serves as the host of <i>Beat the Bridge<\/i>, a competition show on the Game Show Network. On the show, a team of three people try and earn as much money as they can while climbing over a large, interactive bridge covering the set.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s just so much fun. I feel like it\u2019s been something that\u2019s kind of been brewing for a long time between Game Show Network and myself,\u201d Mathison gushed. \u201cMy first meeting or audition with them was back 6 years ago. We\u2019ve been talking about stuff for a long time and waiting for the right fit and waiting for the timing to work out. My natural enthusiasm and hypeness and energy is a really good fit for this show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Beat the Bridge <\/i>airs on the Game Show Network weeknights at 6 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>With reporting by Christina Garibaldi<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/cameron-mathison-praises-great-american-media-after-hallmark-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Mathison is \u201cdefinitely all in\u201d on Great American Media after making the move from competitor Hallmark. \u201cI mean, Hallmark is where I started, and everybody at Great American I knew from Hallmark, most of \u2019em were over at Hallmark,\u201d Mathison, 54, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, July 24, while promoting his Game Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-113816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}