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The Royal We – Photo: Adam Woodward, Nicola Posener, Simon Shakleton, Jacinta Mulcahy, Mallory Jansen, Charlie Carrick, Michael Howe, Carolyn Backhouse, Rae Lim, Simon Kunz

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Many Hallmark fans can’t get enough of the feel-good network’s royal romances and are ready to be totally spoiled in March 2025. They are set to enjoy three royal weekends in March, starring some of Hallmark’s popular actors and are ensuring that fans will be more than happy to watch and enjoy.

Royal romances on Hallmark Channel in March

As Hallmark Channel releases three royal romances in March, fans will see some of their favorite stars, including Andrew Walker, Mallory Jansen and more. Read on for a brief introduction into each movie. Moreover, each movie can be streamed the next day on Hallmark+.

1. The Royal We Photo: Mallory Jansen, Charlie Carrick

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Photo: Nichole Sakura, William Moseley

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Royal-Is is the second of three March Royal rom-com and stars Nichole Sakura, William Mosely, Francesca Europa and more.

Americans have a soft spot when it comes to royals and Hallmark Channel knows this. In March, A series of royal rom-coms is set to premiere with some of fans’ favorite stars.

The second in line is Royal-ish, where “Love is a walk in the theme park.” Meanwhile, this rom-com stars Nichole Sakura (The Finnish Line) and William Mosely (A Notting Hill Christmas).

Moreover, child actress Francesca Europa plays a young princess. Read on to learn more about this upcoming movie with a royal twist.

Royal-ish – a rom-com on Hallmark Channel Photo: Nichole Sakura

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According to the official synopsis, “Lacey is an amusement park princess who befriends 8-year-old Rose, a real-life princes, and...

Hallmark has released their March schedule. This year, there are three Royal Movies, two movies in the highly anticipated Hearts Around The Table series, and a new Mystery Island. Here are all the details.

Photo: Adam Woodward, Nicola Posener, Simon Shakleton, Jacinta Mulcahy, Mallory Jansen, Charlie Carrick, Michael Howe, Carolyn Backhouse, Rae Lim, Simon Kunz Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy of UFO International Productions Three Royal Movies Kick Off Hallmark March Programming

There are three Royal Movies in March. The first Hallmark March movie is The Royal We starring Mallory Jansen and Charlie Carrick. The premiere is on Saturday, March 1, at 8 p.m., Eastern. In this movie, Princess Bea is the replacement for her older sister. Bea is now in an arranged marriage to a “small kingdom prince.”

Next is The Reluctant Royal. This stars Andrew Walker and Emilie de Ravin. This movie premieres on Saturday, March 8, at 8 p.m.

Photo: Mallory Jansen, Charlie Carrick

Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy of UFO International Productions

Royal fans will soon be treated to a selection of Hallmark royal films, The Royal We is the first movie in the Hallmark series.

The movie stars Mallory Jansen, and star Charlie Carrick in the lead with a bevy of other Hallmark stars. The plot involves a sheltered princess who suddenly becomes the substitute for an arranged marriage. Read on to learn more about the movie and its cast.

The Royal We on Hallmark Channel Photo: Mallory Jansen,

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According to Hallmark’s synopsis, The Royal We is the first of three Hallmark Royal Movies and is a romantic comedy. It tells the story of a sheltered princess, whose older sister elopes with a non-royal. Princess Bea has lived her life away from her royal duties, but must...

Hallmark is unleashing a set of Royal Movies starting with The Royal We. This stars Francesca Quinn, Pi star Mallory Jansen, and Reign star Charlie Carrick. What happens when a sheltered princess suddenly becomes the substitute for an arranged marriage? She is set to marry the guy that was picked out for her sister! Will this be a royal disaster or will they live happily ever after like all princess fairy tales?

This movie is described as a romance and romantic comedy. Therefore, plan on some laughs along with some stately, but romantic moments.

Here are the details.

Photo: Adam Woodward, Nicola Posener, Simon Shakleton, Jacinta Mulcahy, Mallory Jansen, Charlie Carrick, Michael Howe, Carolyn Backhouse, Rae Lim, Simon Kunz Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy of UFO International Productions What Is Hallmark’s The Royal We About?’

The first of three Hallmark Royal Movies is The Royal We. This stars Mallory Jansen and Charlie Carrick.

Exclusive: Teresa Palmer, Miranda Richardson and Danielle Macdonald and a host of other names have joined Nicole Kidman’s light-hearted Australian drama series The Last Anniversary.

The Foxtel drama for Aussie streamer Binge has gone into production in Sydney with Helen Thomson, Susan Prior, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Charlie Garber, Uli Latukefu and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor also attached to appear.

Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel, The Last Anniversary is billed as “a wickedly funny, heartfelt dramedy wrapped in a gripping mystery about family, motherhood and the women who define the generations that come after them.”

Set on the mysterious Scribbly Gum Island, where a young couple disappeared decades before,...

Samantha Maloney’s story begins where most sexual harassment claims in the music industry end: with a non-disclosure agreement. It was February 2018 when Maloney signed the document that would perpetually silence her regarding speaking out about a sexual harassment incident she allegedly experienced while working at Warner Music Group’s flagship record label Warner Records.

Maloney, a former vice president of A&r at the label, was let go from the company in late September 2017 as part of a company restructuring. She signed a separation agreement and was paid severance.

On and off since Prince’s death in 2016, archivist Michael Howe has spent ample time sifting through audio and video tapes, film footage, and other sonic flotsam in the late pop star’s vault. But last year, in the L.A.-area storage space that currently houses Prince’s archives, Howe came across three CD-Rs, each with a title and track sequence written on its cover in Prince’s own hand. He quickly realized he’d stumbled upon something he’d only heard whispers about: a complete, unreleased Prince album.

In 1987, Prince released Sign o’ the Times, a double-album masterpiece which showed his breathtaking range — from aching balladry to brittle funk, lush pop to stomping rock — without sacrificing ankle-breaking danceability. And now, it’s back on the charts.

Sign o’ the Times encompassed 16 songs, but that was just a small chunk of the material that the wildly prolific Prince recorded around that time. As part of an ongoing reissue project, the singer’s estate unveiled a massive reissue of Sign o’ the Times last month that incorporated 45 unreleased studio tracks,...

“I didn’t always give the record companies the best songs,” Prince told Rolling Stone in 2014, and no one knows that better now than former Warner Bros. A&r executive Michael Howe, who has served as full-time archivist for Prince’s estate since 2017. With a mammoth, no-holds-barred deluxe edition of Prince’s 1987 masterpiece Sign O’ The Times out now, Howe explains what it’s like essentially living inside Prince’s massive vault of unreleased material. Each reissue project starts with mounds of analog tape, which have to be digitized before...

Rarriwuy Hick in Wentworth (Photo credit: Xinger Xanger).

In her seven year screen career Wentworth star Rarriwuy Hick has been nominated for several awards and has won one: but what a prize.

The Arnhem Land-raised Hick was named female actor of the year at the 2019 National Dreamtime Awards last month; Rob Collins was declared male actor of the year.

Nova Peris received the lifetime achievement award and Ashleigh Barty had the dual accolades of person of the year and female sportsperson.

The other nominees for female actor were Miranda Tapsell, Ursula Yovich and Madeleine Madden. “Just to be nominated with those girls was awesome,” Rarriwuy tells If. “It was totally unexpected; I am not used to winning.”

Founded three years ago, the awards celebrate the success and achievements of Australia’s First Nations people. Nominations were submitted by the public and the winners chosen by an expert panel.

Arguably Hick...

When audio engineer Peggy McCreary was recording Prince for his 1999 album, she didn’t immediately recognize his genius. “I had no idea who he was when I first started working with him,” she recalls. She had met him around the time he made his third LP, Controversy, and unlike Prince, who was in his early twenties, she had a string of hit albums in her list of credits, including Van Halen’s debut and Elton John’s 21 at 23. She watched Prince jump from instrument to instrument, recording and mixing songs...

Terry Norris and Benedict Hardie in ‘Judy & Punch.’

After portraying a succession of dastardly or less than noble characters in films and TV series, Benedict Hardie welcomed the chance to play someone with at least a few redeeming qualities in Judy & Punch.

In Mirrah Foulkes’ brutal, dark re-interpretation of the puppet play which opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday via Madman Entertainment, he plays Constable Derrick.

The lone cop in the wryly-named inland town of Seaside, Derrick struggles to maintain law and order as Damon Herriman’s narcissistic Punch causes mayhem after his much-abused wife Judy (Mia Wasikowska) vanishes.

“It was such a pleasure to make that film,” he tells If. “The script was like nothing any of us has read. Derrick becomes an emotional touchstone for the audience as an outsider looking at this mad world.

“He’s a quiet, meek and gentle soul who hopes for the...

Prince’s eponymous second album turns 40 this month, and in honor of the anniversary, the Prince estate has released a previously unheard, acoustic demo version of “I Feel For You.” The full version of the song was one of the album’s original tracks, and later became a hit single for Chaka Khan and the title track of her 1984 album.

The demo is available now on streaming services, as well as on a limited-run 7″ single CD, with the original album version of “I Feel For You” as its B-side. The...

“I was always hoping that these recordings were still around because of the feeling that’s in them,” Don Batts, Prince’s personal recording engineer in the early Eighties, tells Rolling Stone. He’s reflecting on a demo cassette he made with the artist released Friday as Piano & a Microphone 1983, 34 minutes of Prince sketching out song ideas by himself. “It’s just him pounding this idea out so he could come back later and fill in the blanks. These were his little grooves.”

Beginning with an airy recital of the “When Doves Cry” B side,...

One Monday in April 2016, Tyka Nelson received a call from her brother, Prince. Tyka worked for Prince in the last four or five years of his life, and he would routinely bounce ideas off her for projects he wanted to get off the ground. That day, he was in search of family information – “more information about Daddy’s side of the family,” Nelson says. “It was the beginnings of his book.”

Three days later, Prince was found dead, in an elevator at his Minnesota compound, from an opioid overdose, including...

Last week, two days before the second anniversary of Prince’s death, his estate released a bounty of new stuff celebrating his work and his relationship with his fans: Not only the previously unreleased — and largely unheard — original version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” and an accompanying video of remarkable rehearsal footage, but also two new websites, one of them a deep dive into his discography including rare photos, videos and loads of information; the other a site where fans can share their remembrances called “Prince2me.”

It was a strong first salvo of “mind blowing” material to come from the new caretakers of the artist’s estate, led by entertainment adviser Troy Carter and his company Atom Factory (Carter is also global head of creator services for Spotify). Prince was fiercely protective of his music and kept a large percentage of it — even some of his most popular videos and...

Two days ahead of the second anniversary of Prince’s death, the artist’s estate, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Records, today released the original version of his iconic song “Nothing Compares 2 U”. The version, which was written and performed entirely by Prince except for some backing vocal and saxophone work, formed the basis for the original officially-released version of the song by The Family. That group, which was masterminded anonymously by Prince, included musicians from several of his projects, including singers Susannah Melvoin (twin sister of the Revolution’s Wendy) and Paul Peterson and saxophonist Eric Leeds, whose work appears on this version. It was recorded in July of 1984 during sessions that also produced material for “Around the World in a Day,” the follow-up to the “Purple Rain” album.

The hit version of the song was released by Sinead O’Connor in 1990 and Prince released a live take in...

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When it came to saving the world, bedding the babes, breaking Q’s gadgets, James Bond was the man, even if his tongue-in cheek adventures are a long way from the very real spy world of John le Carre and Harry Palmer.

Although Eon productions owned the movie rights to the Ian Fleming novels, it hasn’t stopped film-makers from making a couple of unofficial Bond flicks as well as several interesting variations on the character. So here are some of the parodies, pastiches, parallels and strange oddities that make up this alternative world of 007!

Our Man Flint (1966): Hollywood was now getting in on the Bond act with the Matt Helm movie series (1966-69) and TV’s The Man from U. N. C. L. E. (1964-68). But this effort is the ultimate of sixties cool with James Coburn in fine charismatic form as brilliant super-agent Derek Flint. Armed with...