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Q: My grandma was watching Hallmark recently and she's wondering about the name of a certain show and if it will come back on. It was about a school teacher and a Canadian policeman, and it was set in the 19th century.

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

The show your grandma was watching was "When Calls the Heart," an original period drama that's done pretty well for the Hallmark Channel.

The series has been a huge hit for the network on Saturday nights, a tough night for any show. Its success is all the more significant for Hallmark, as it's just the second scripted series the network has produced.

As such, the network has of course locked it down for another season, which it announced back in May.

However, fans will have to wait a while to see it. Though the first-season finale aired back in March, the new season isn't slated to premiere until May 2015.

The series features former "Army Wives" star Erin Krakow as a teacher from a wealthy, big-city family who is forced to move to a mining town in the rural Canadian west. Daniel Lissing stars as an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and her eventual love interest.

It's based on the popular novel of the same name by Janette Oke, which was the first in her "Canadian West" book series. The seventh book in the series, "Where Courage Calls," was published earlier this year.

 

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