Making some changes. Hallmark announced a prequel Aurora Teagarden film starring Skyler Samuels in the titular role after Candace Cameron Bure‘s departure from the network.“Our viewers have been waiting for more adventures with Aurora and her friends,” Emily Merlin, Development Manager of Programming at Hallmark Media, said in a statement on Thursday, March 9. “What better way to do that than to take them back to when the young, amateur sleuth was just coming into her own?
The Aurora Teagarden franchise is a fan favorite and we’re excited to share this new chapter with viewers.”According to the network, Samuels, 28, will make her debut as a younger version of Aurora in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New.
The upcoming film is set in Aurora’s post-college days when she returns to her home in Lawrenceton.Hallmark teased the film’s plot in a synopsis, which read, “While her mother, Aida, struggles to keep her newfound real estate business, Aurora supports herself by working as a teacher’s assistant in a crime fiction class, and waitresses at the local diner at night, where she shares her love of researching true crime with her friend Sally and police officer Arthur.”The press release continued: “When Sally’s fiancé doesn’t show up at their wedding rehearsal, Maid of Honor Aurora gets Arthur to help her search for him.
When they discover a body, everyone assumes it is Sally’s tardy groom, but when it turns out to be someone else, Sally’s fiancé becomes the main suspect.”The casting shakeup comes nearly a year after Cameron Bure, 46, confirmed she was moving to Great American Family.
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