“The Way Home” is traveling again — this time from Hallmark Channel to the streamer, Hallmark+, Variety can exclusively announce. Season 3 will debut on January 2, 2025.
The season will then make its linear premiere on Hallmark Channel in fall 2025.
Season 3 debuts where Season 2 left off, with Kat (Chyler Leigh) and her brother Jacob (Spencer Macpherson) set to walk home into the Landry home to an unsuspecting Del (Andie MacDowell). There will also be a new era this season as Kat and Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) will transport to 1974, the year Del and Colton (Jefferson Brown) first met as teens. Meanwhile, Alice will meet a young girl, Evelyn Goodwin, but their friendship could complicate the present.
Julia Tomasone and Jordan Doww join the cast as the teen versions of Del and Colton, respectively, with Devin Cecchetto will play Evelyn.
In present day, Elliot (Evan Williams) and Kat navigate their new relationship while also trying to face their complicated pasts — including Kat’s connection to the 1800s. (At the end of Season 2, Kat shared a kiss with both Elliot in the present day and Thomas (Kris Holden-Reid), the man who shot her at the beginning of the season, in 1814.
“Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke and Marly Reed’s incredible storytelling continues to amaze us,” says Kate Redinger, senior director of programming, Hallmark Media. “Each season brilliantly builds on the one before and this season promises to be the best one yet. With the intriguing new characters they’ve created and riveting storylines, viewers are in for another enthralling season.”
In May, co-showrunner Heather Conkie admitted that things are very complicated with Kat’s two love interests living in very different times.
“We know that Kat can’t leave her daughter and stay in the past, because that would be the ultimate sacrifice. At the same time, it’s wonderful to keep Elliot’s love story with Kat and the Thomas slow burn,” she said. “They really didn’t like each other at all and we watched it go step by step by step until they were actually kissing for the first time in episode 10.”
Watch an exclusive sneak peek of Season 3 below:
