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Q: I love the Hallmark series "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." Please tell me it's going to be back with new episodes. We need more TV like this!

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Technically, I can say "yes" to your question, provided I use a pretty broad definition of "episodes."

Hallmark announced in the fall that the series would return in 2015, but as a series of two-hour movies on its sister network, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, rather than as a weekly TV show.

Hallmark describes the show as "a comedic drama that follows a group of postal workers who transform themselves into an untraditional team of detectives to track down intended recipients of undeliverable mail."

The fact that they're postal "detectives" makes them a good fit for the "mystery" angle of the new network. And the fact that the series actually began as a two-hour pilot movie in 2013 means it's been proven to work in the longer format.

And, of course, Hallmark is better known for its TV movies than its shows, a fact that series creator Martha Williamson is aware of.

"When Bill Abbott and Michelle Vicary asked if I can evolve the 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered' franchise into a series of movies, I was honored to continue the Hallmark tradition of quality family movies," she said in an official release about the change.

Hallmark committed to four movies to start, however we've actually already seen one of them. The show's Christmas special, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas," which aired in November, was the first of the four.

No air date has been announced for the other three, except that they'll air in 2015.

It's not surprising that Hallmark wants to stay in the Martha Williamson business: She was also the creator of another heartwarming drama series, "Touched by an Angel."

 

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