My guest this week has made over three dozen made for television movies, She also headlined Hallmark’s Aurora Teagarden series. Before that, as a child star, she was part of the long-running TGIF family series, Full House, as well as its streaming sequel, Fuller House.
Of course I’m talking about Candace Cameron Bure. In 2022, she broke away from Hallmark and joined the Great American Family network. There she is not just one of its busiest stars, she is also a very hands-on Chief Content Officer, making sure these films touch on issues of faith and belief as well as on romance.
Many of these films are shot in Canada, including two premiering this month on Super Channel Heart & Home. “A Christmas Less Traveled” (Dec. 17) pairs her with Edmonton-born Eric Johnson (above), while another Canadian, Cameron Mathison, stars with Cameron Bure in “Home Sweet Christmas” (Dec. 23).
Cameron Bure gets to pick her leading men. Johnson, she says, had never really done a Christmas movie before and she felt it was time. She has known Mathison for years and felt that the Sarnia-Ont.- native, who grew up in Montreal, was perfect for “Home Sweet Christmas.” She’s a lawyer working for a developer buying up log cabin-ish lodges in ski resort country. He’s living in a Airstream trailer. The two used to play together as kids. Together they now have to decide the fate of the woodsy estate.
Both films include the requisite “meet cute” scene. In “CHristmas Less Traveled,” Johnson’s character, who needs a warmer sweater throughout the movie, slips on the ice and she slips on top of him. In “Home Sweet Christmas,” the two are climbing a rope ladder from opposite directions in an old treehouse they used to visit as kids. Both are soon at the end of their rope.
Cameron Bure is now very familiar with many Canadian towns and villages. Unlike a lot of these Christmas movies, these two were not shot in summer months with shaved ice and cotton batten snow used to dress outdoor locations. These were both shot early in 2024 when there was still plenty of snow on the ground in and around Langley and other parts of B.C.
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If all that isn’t Canadian enough, the California native is also married to a hockey player: former Canadiens and Flames sniper Valerie Bure. Hear her on all this and more this week on Brioux.tv: the podcast.
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