Hallmark’s long-running period drama about school teacher Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow) and the town of Hope Vally now in the 1920s, is renewed for season 13 of filming in Langley, BC
Set in the early 1900s, When Calls the Heart follows Elizabeth, a cultured schoolteacher, who leaves her comfortable world in the city for a new life in a frontier town and blossoms as the community becomes her true home.
Season 12 ended on a cliffhanger last night with Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow) and her diabetic son little Jack (Hyland Goodrich) headed out of town to get treatment for him in Cape Fullerton.at a brand-new insulin lab.
Elizabeth’s new love Mountie Nathan Grant (Kevin McGarry) joins them on the journey.
Where you go, I go — Nathan to Elizabeth.
What else happened in season 12?
Love flourished for Elizabeth (Erin Krakow) and Mountie Nathan Grant (Kevin McGarry)as they embraced the joy of new romance. Reporter Rosemary Coulter (Pascale Hutton) and retired Mountie Bill Avery (Jack Wagner) teamed up once again to investigate a train robbery, while Governor Lucas Bouchard (Chris McNally) and Mayor Lee Coulter quite literally found common ground. The community came together to celebrate and support each other through a season of discovering passions, leaps of faith, and a whole lot of dancing.
How popular is When Calls the Heart on American cable?
Outside of Yellowstone and other Taylor Sheridan shows the two biggest scripted series on cable are When Calls the Heart season 11, which averaged 2.77 million viewers in 2024. And The Way Home season 2, which drew just under 2 million viewers in 2024, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
When Calls the Heart Season 13:
Episodes:
Langley filming dates: Summer & Fall 2025
Showrunner: Lindsay Sturman from Supergirl.
Cast: Erin Krakow, Kevin McGarry, Chris McNally, Jack Wagner, Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith, Paul Greene, Andrea Brooks, Martin Cummins.
When Calls the Heart is filmed mainly on the Jamestown set at Macinnes Farms in Langley.
Hope Valley set.
Cast and crew celebrate wrap day on season 12 last November.
Season 13 will premiere in 2026.