Hallmark alum Dylan Neal is a fan favourite. To at the present time, viewers nonetheless speak about his “Connoisseur Detective” sequence with Brooke Burns, despite the fact that the latest installment, “Roux the Day,” premiered again in 2020. Neal not too long ago opened up on social media about the way forward for “Connoisseur Detective,” together with a brand new thriller sequence he had pitched to Hallmark.
‘Connoisseur Detective’ Is Not Coming Again
It’s comprehensible that followers would surprise if “Connoisseur Detective” would possibly return. The sequence, written by Neal and his spouse, Becky Southwell, has had its ups and downs over time. It had already been canceled earlier than Hallmark chose to revive it for the fifth installment that premiered in 2020. On the time, Neal wrote on Instagram, “It’s been virtually a yr since Becky and I acquired the order to put in writing a brand new Connoisseur Detective. I do know I instructed you all that we had been cancelled and it was true – we had been executed! Then, like a phoenix from the ashes… properly, right here we’re once more. The script has been executed for months and now we lastly get to start out pre-production.”
Unfortuantely, this time “Connoisseur Detective” gained’t be returning like a phoenix from the ashes once more.
In a long post on June 4 concerning the leisure trade basically, Neal addressed the query about “Connoisseur Detective” and the sequence’ future.
“I haven’t labored at Hallmark in a number of years, I don’t have something within the pipeline and no, I don’t consider there might be any extra Connoisseur Detectives,” he wrote.
A number of days earlier, when he shared a recommendation for a movie that reminded him of the Hallmark Corridor of Fame days, he reiterated the identical information.
One fan wrote, ” I too might have seen you within the lead of Nonnas, particularly out of your work in GD, which to at the present time continues to be my favourite sequence Hallmark ever put out. Any potential probability of one other one??? My gosh would I really like that!”
And Neal replied, “Sorry Rosie, I don’t assume that may ever occur. Glad you loved them.”
A curious fan puzzled if Neal would possibly discover higher alternatives for the kind of work he was serious about at Nice American Household. They wrote, “Are there alternatives for higher work at @greatamericanfamily?”
Neal actually replied, “Sadly Elizabeth, no. Glad your mother loved GD!”
Neal Mentioned He & His Spouse Pitched a New Sequence to Hallmark, However It Didn’t Work Out
Neal additionally talked a few new sequence that he and Southwell pitched to Hallmark, however didn’t work out.
“Nearly two years in the past, Beck and I delivered a brand new European-based homicide thriller franchise that Hallmark had ordered, however sadly that by no means moved ahead over inventive variations,” he wrote. “Nothing uncommon, that occurs on a regular basis in all places. Admittedly, it was a giant inventive swing as we had been attempting one thing somewhat extra daring on an even bigger canvas and it will have value somewhat extra. We simply didn’t need to do the identical outdated factor over there and this was within the Thomas Crown Affair territory however with a extra acceptable Hallmark-sized funds. Nicely perhaps extra within the Hallmark Corridor of Fame kind of funds. “
Neal added that he’s sure Hallmark will efficiently climate these difficult instances for broadcast TV.
“Beck and I are doing our personal factor today and having fun with Europe, however I’ll all the time be rooting for Hallmark and need them properly on this difficult TV setting,” he wrote. “I’m certain they’re in excellent palms and I do know their viewers will proceed to allow them to know the way they’re doing as a result of it’s a powerhouse model that many individuals care about.”
Again in 2021, Deadline reported that Southwell and Neal’s Southwell Neal Leisure had optioned the movie and TV rights for an 18-book sequence referred to as “DI Hillary Greene.” On the time, Neal said this was “not a Hallmark mission” as a result of “it’s somewhat grittier.” It’s not clear the place that mission at the moment stands.
Neal appeared in 4 episodes of Hallmark’s sequence “Experience” in 2023. It was his first Hallmark look since “Christmas She Wrote” and “Roux the Day” in 2020.
