‘The Way Home’ Season 3 Premiere Date — When It Premieres on Hallmark+ and Hallmark Channel

UPDATE (12/16/2024):

There’s a major update to the Season 3 premiere of The Way Home!

While it was initially announced that the new season would premiere on Hallmark+ first, on January 2, 2025, with the linear premiere on Hallmark Channel not coming until fall 2025, that’s no longer the case.

Hallmark has announced that “due to overwhelming demand,” now, The Way Home Season 3 will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Friday, January 3, 2025, at 9/8c, with episodes streaming the next day on Hallmark+.

Original story (11/25/2024):

The Way Home is moving to streaming for its upcoming third season—but there’s a twist!

The third season of the time-travel drama will premiere on Hallmark+ on January 2, 2025—and then premiere on the Hallmark Channel in fall 2025.

“Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke and Marly Reed’s incredible storytelling continues to amaze us,” Kate Redinger, senior director of programming, Hallmark Media, said in a statement. “Each season brilliantly builds on the one before and this season promises to be the best one yet. With the intriguing new characters they’ve created and riveting storylines, viewers are in for another enthralling season.”

The Way Home stars Andie MacDowell, Chyler Leigh, Evan Williams, and Sadie Laflamme-Snow. The Season 2 finale, which aired in March, ended with Kat (Leigh) being surprised when her brother Jacob (Spencer MacPherson) returned to the present, rather than stay in the past, and with them about to reveal he was alive—and where he’d been—to their mother, Del (MacDowell) was about to be told about how their family can time travel using the pond on their property.

“What’s the conversation going to be once they get in there? Keep in mind he’s wearing clothes from a different era,” executive producer Alex Clarke told TV Insider after the Season 2 finale. “How do you explain that? In the writers’ room, we know what’s going to unfold if and when she gets them into that kitchen. But I think that’s something the viewers will definitely be waiting on as a big reveal next year.”

Added executive producer Heather Conkie, “Huge reveal, whether Del knew something or nothing or something in her past tweaks that she remembers something. But yeah, that’s the big reveal of Season 3 for sure.”

Speaking of that ability of their family’s, a glimpse into the past revealed that Kat’s father Colton (Jefferson Brown) can time travel, too!

The new Season 3 picks up where the finale left off, “with Kat and her brother Jacob, who went missing more than two decades ago at the age of eight and is now an adult, poised to walk into the Landry home to an unsuspecting Del,” Hallmark teases. “Viewers will be introduced to a groovy new era when the pond transports Kat and Alice to 1974 – the year Del and Colton (Brown) first met as teens and their epic love story began. Alice is befriended by a young, spritely Evelyn Goodwin (Cecchetto) but their budding friendship complicates Alice’s relationship with Del, who wants her memories of Colton to remain the way they are. Meanwhile, Kat attempts to close the door on the 1800s after making startling discoveries. In the present day she and Elliot (Williams) navigate a new chapter in their relationship, while he finds himself faced with his own complicated past.” Julia Tomasone and Jordan Doww will play the teen versions of Del and Colton.

What are you hoping to see in The Way Home Season 3? What do you think of the new release schedule? Let us know in the comments section below.

The Way Home, Season 3 Premiere, Thursday, January 2, 2025, Hallmark+