HALLMARK sued by Lacey Chabert and Holly Robinson Peete! Age Discrimination!

The fuck?? Alison Sweeney just did her THIRTIETH Hallmark movie, and she's six years older than Lacey!

For Christ's sake!

How long can a woman nearing fifty play the sweet young thing?

Even Hallmark has standards and has to move forward!

She’s playing the sweet middle-aged thing.

Wow this is news.

I don't want to see old people on screen

Old people ruin the holidays with their Werthers and hand-knitted gifts!!

“…this may be my last Christmas with you kids…”

Bad face work^^

[quote] The fuck?? Alison Sweeney just did her THIRTIETH Hallmark movie, and she's six years older than Lacey!

Yeah, I was thinking this too. The lawsuit by Chabert isn't make sense.

Hallmark like Fox News has a captive aging audience. Casting young people won't work because the product is not accessible to the modes of entertainment delivery that young people access, the major streaming services. Hallmark like Fox News has its own streaming service but no one wants to pay for one more streaming service and Netflix already creates products like Hallmark movies that are similar but geared toward younger people.

Twitch?

Women execs are worst than male.

Women execs are worsE than male.

This ugly Karen fat fuck face shouldn’t be employed. Too many donuts.

[quote]How long can a woman nearing fifty play the sweet young thing?

There’s really no limit.

Isn’t Chabert in like half the movies Hallmark makes?

Lacey is 42 and typically plays younger.

Hallmark is just sleazy as other media networks. I remember this story from years ago. It went around for a bit, but Hallmark never really got dragged all that much in the media. They later started doing movies with interracial couples and then finally started including same sex couples a few years ago.

I have female MAGA relatives who loved the Hallmark channel prior to the inclusion of same sex couples. I had a relative who said that she liked that Hallmark promoted "good American values". I laughed at that because most of the movies are filmed in Canada using Canadian film crews.

There are reddit threads on Hallmark movies where people who have worked on the crews describe the film shoots as miserable as fuck because everything is filmed very quickly.

Old hags!

She's never been attractive, but man. The years haven't been kind to Lacey.

If you read the article, you'll see that neither Chabert nor Robinson are suing Hallmark but a 79 year old casting director. To be fair, I happened to recently watch Chabert's most recent Hallmark film where she plays and attorney married to another attorney who are representing a divorcing husband and wife reality star couple. At one point, Chabert and her husband talk about having children and the disonance between the reality that everyone knows that Chabert is perimenopausal and the illusion that she's supposed to be in prime childbearing years was discomfiting.

Lacey isn’t “fugly”, Methuselah.

That’s unfortunate because they both look great for their age. Holly Robinson Pete is 60 yrs old.

This is 60 for this woman.

[quote]There are reddit threads on Hallmark movies where people who have worked on the crews describe the film shoots as miserable as fuck because everything is filmed very quickly.

You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

Almost ALL modestly budgeted Hallmark/Lifetime films are filmed in fifteen shooting days over three weeks, often Mondays through Fridays, which is pretty civilized. I've filmed one and it was a delight, but I understand every production is different, but we had known Hallmark leads and they were great and in fine spirits!

The speed of these shoots (7-8 pages per shooting day) is similar to all network procedurals like Law & Order. Actors are used to it and come prepared. That's the job.

[quote] How long can a woman nearing fifty play the sweet young thing?

You can play a 35-year-old bride when you’re pushing 60. Repeatedly.

R25 Are they talking about Holly Robinson Pete? There is no way that white chica is almost 50.

[quote]At one point, Chabert and her husband talk about having children and the disonance between the reality that everyone knows that Chabert is perimenopausal and the illusion that she's supposed to be in prime childbearing years was discomfiting.

This happens in a lot of a Hallmark movies and was a humorous staple of '80s and '90s network TV movies, too. I question why Hallmark doesn't lean into it more; geriatric pregnancies are common now and the desperation of these characters characters to marry and reproduce makes more sense when it's last call for their fertility.

I've never seen a Hallmark movie, not even the one filmed in my town.

Lacey is the queen of Hallmark and extremely likable in every one of those projects.

Hallmark movies are mashed potatoes, meatloaf and cobbler; pure, predictable comfort and sentiment. It’s very self-aware programming that doesn’t take itself seriously.

In these dark, troubled days, it’s actually a relief to turn on those brainless yet charming confections where there’s always a happy ending and good people have good things happen to them.

If you prefer dystopian, turn on Apple TV+.

[quote] everyone knows that Chabert is perimenopausal and the illusion that she's supposed to be in prime childbearing years was discomfiting.

In an era where Nicole Kidman is playing a mother to elementary schoolers, she ok.

R20 - Lacey looks good. And I think she dropped a couple pounds recently too.

R29 or Fox News

Hallmark's viewership is middle aged and middle America. So why not show that in the movies?? Also more and more middle aged people are divorced or never married. There is a market for middle aged romance. Just make the stories age appropriate.

R33 Agree

Just curious, R5 , how old are you?

R5 = Dora the Explorer.

I am just now realizing I have always thought Lacey Chabert was Marla Sokoloff… the little loser receptionist from THE PRACTICE.

(She wasn’t really a loser… she just annoyed me!)

R37 They are different people.

I'm 57 and I still play moms with toddlers!

I think the majority of Hallmark films tend to have a plotline of "successful businesswoman (lawyer, chef, bookstore owner), returns to hometown at Christmas to rescue parents' failing diner and meets up with widowed high-school sweetheart who has carried a torch for her for the past 15 years as they rekindle their romance". Doing the math, that seems to imply that most of the heroines of the story are in their early 30s, at a minimum.

I don't think teens and women in their early 20s are their demographic at all. I think unmarried women in their 30s and early 40s ARE their demographic and are looking for validation that love is still possible for them.

I don't agree that having women in their 40s playing a romantic lead is a terrible thing, but they need to be realistic enough to have the leads play someone within 8 years of their real ages, not 20 years younger.

It also seems to me that older women, such as Peete, are usually paired with a male lead in his late 40s to mid 50s as a romantic interest, but those roles are seldom leading roles.

Full disclosure, I scroll at lot on my TV at home, so I see way more snippets of Hallmark than is seemly

I think Lacey still can make fetch happen.

If they want younger stars, then hire Addison Rae or some Gen Z YouTube star instead of shoe-horning Travis Kelce’s mom into a supporting role.

R39 In her Netflix miniseries she has adult children.

[quote] I think unmarried women in their 30s and early 40s ARE their demographic

I think they once said their leading lady is a 34 year old woman. Or can play an 34 year old woman. Old enough to be concerned about finding a long term love, not old enough to be in her hag era.

^^ I dream of the day I can play those roles!

Lacey can play 34.

Lacey has two Christmas films out this year. One for Hallmark and another for Netflix. Not exactly red alert just yet.

Lacey the reigning Queen.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was enacted to prevent age discrimination in the workplace. The ADEA does contain a bona fide occupational qualification exemption, and the ADEA also requires that the age discrimination must be “reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business.”

Dumb bitch looks every bit of 52.

R50 = Jennifer Love Hewitt

Does Hallmark pay better than Lifetime? I would imagine Lifetime pays better - they often attract better actors - yet the Lifetime production values of Christmas movies are worse.

R52 - I think it is more prestigious

R52 that’s cause they specialize in murder and mayhem not Christmas lol.

I miss the days when Lifetime made some decent TV movies that weren't about murder and mayhem.

[QUOTE]Chabert is perimenopausal and the illusion that she's supposed to be in prime childbearing years was discomfiting.

Chamber is 42, not 52. She won't hit perimeter for another six years or so.

^ Chabert

Lacey is going to have to choose between her face and her ass.

Perimeter? Do you mean perimenopause? Quote Google AI: Perimenopause, the transition to menopause, usually begins in a woman's mid- to late 40s, but it can start as early as the mid-30s or as late as the early 50s. On average, women are in perimenopause for about four years.

It's highly variable.

That middle aged land whale has the gall to fire a couple (but not all) Hallmark actresses for being too old when they are still way younger than her and would still look miles better than her even on their worst days.

It's giving female Mike Jeffries "our clothes aren't for fat or ugly people."

R60 is right

[quote] I miss the days when Lifetime made some decent TV movies that weren't about murder and mayhem.

I read an interview with Lucy Liu promoting a Lifetime movie she made 15 years ago. The dress in one scene was Victoria Beckham and the glasses were Moscot.

I can’t imagine them shelling out for that these days.

The first lifetime movie I ever saw Gwenie played the sister to a guy who was into dungeons a dragons and murdered their parents. But the mom survived. I think it was based on a true story. Gwenie’s character was implied to be somewhat in on it.

I’d they want a younger crowd, they don’t need people who great up with Lacey in Mean Girls and Not Another Teen Movie in the early aughts, and go for actresses younger women grew up with in the early 2010s.

But even Nina Dobrev is 35. And Alexis Bledel is 42. And Dianna Agron is 38.

Who are the young ex-name actresses under 34 who are desperate for Hallmark work? Most can at least get into streaming.

R63 That movie was an NBC miniseries. Lifetime just reaired it for many years along with a bunch of other movies that first aired on broadcast networks like ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX.

People under 35 don’t watch hallmark.

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