Ashley Williams plays Cupid for small town romances!
On Tuesday, December 17, Hallmark unveiled its newest reality show called Setting up a small town.
Hosted by Williams, 46, the series will “follow different small-town parents with a grown child whose success in every area of their lives saves their love life,” according to the official diary.
Parents of grown children living in big cities will gather their friends, family and neighbors to find three potential matches curated by their hometowns. Then, when visiting home, their son or daughter will go on three different dates in hopes of finding love in their small town instead of returning to the big city.
Ashley Williams on ‘Small Town Setup’.
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“What would you do if your whole family and your hometown set you up to find love?” Williams teases in the trailer. “You’re about to find out.”
Through scenes of each romantic hopeful on a fairytale date and their family members hoping they’ve found “the one,” How I met your mother The alum tells the cameras, “We’re going on a romantic adventure with heart, hope and a big dose of small-town magic.”
“People might actually fall in love,” she says happily. “It’s like a Hallmark movie, but for real!”
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‘Small town arrangement’.
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‘Small town arrangement’.
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This isn’t Hallmark’s first venture into reality TV. In October, the network debuted Searching for Mr. Christmasits first reality competition series with host Jonathan Bennett and head judge Melissa Peterman.
Searching for Mr. Christmaswhose season finale dropped on Dec. 12, Bennett assembled 10 aspiring actors to “compete in a variety of fun challenges, with a Hallmark twist, to be crowned the next Hallmark leading man and take home the title of ‘Mr. Christmas .'”
The winner starred alongside Jessica Lowndes Happy holidayswhich will premiere on December 21 on the Hallmark Channel.
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The cast of ‘Looking for Mr. Christmas’.
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A few days before the finale, Bennett and Peterman gave fans a few clues as to who the network’s usher is Searching for Mr. Christmas the winner could be.
“People really need to step back and look at the contestants and say which one of these do I want to be the next Hallmark leading man? Because they all have so many amazing qualities,” Bennett, 43, teased at the time. “But there is one who has that thing in him, and I think people are starting to understand who that might be.”
“Honestly, I was surprised,” Peterman continued of the winner. “And what I think will be interesting is … there was somebody that everybody could fall in love with. So some people will be like, ‘Oh, shit!’ and some people will be there, but in the end, I think they’ll fall in love with the winner.”
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Arrangement of a small town premieres January 2 on Hallmark+.
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