{"id":1988333,"date":"2025-08-30T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1988333"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:02:12","slug":"hallmarks-new-movie-has-an-unexpected-southern-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hallmarks-new-movie-has-an-unexpected-southern-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark&#8217;s New Movie Has An Unexpected Southern Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the summer winds to an unofficial close this Labor Day weekend, Hallmark is celebrating the end of the season with one final flick in their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/taylor-cole-interview-hallmark-double-scoop-filmed-in-birmingham-11796000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Summer Nights line up;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Summer Nights line up<\/a>. <em>Catch of the Day<\/em> tells the story of Sophie (Emilie Ullerup), a chef on the rise in New York City who loses her dad and has to return home to Montauk to help her sister with the family restaurant. She runs into her high school crush, Cam (Michael Rady) who is also back home running his family&#8217;s small business, and well, of course a romantic connection begins to take bloom.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>\u00a92025 Hallmark Media\/Courtney Julien<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While this movie may be set on Long Island, it has a very unique Southern connection.\u00a0Katie Lee Biegel is a fixture on our TV screens, normally seen on Saturday mornings over on the Food Network as a co-host of <em>The Kitchen<\/em>. But it turns out she\u2019s been flexing her muscles in other areas of entertainment lately. <em>Catch of the Day<\/em> will mark her screenwriting debut.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"\u00a92025 Hallmark Media\/Courtney Julien\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/lux6auHSKX5sA1f2wByXsg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/southern_living_806\/d51b132fcdf6051766bed3a51353f405\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>\u00a92025 Hallmark Media\/Courtney Julien<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI wrote a novel back in 2011.That became a Hallmark movie in 2022 called <em>Groundswell<\/em>. It starred Lacey Chabert, and shortly after the movie aired, I was trying to think of ideas because I enjoyed that process so much. While I didn\u2019t write the movie, I did get to be involved. I produced it\u00a0 and I had a small role in it playing myself. I got the itch for it. I want to do this again,\u201d Biegel told <em>Southern Living<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An idea did come to her, after reading an article in the New York Times about the town she now calls home. The West Virginia native lives in Montauk with her husband and daughter. She told us, \u201cwhen I first moved out here, [Montauk] was a commercial fishing town. In the summertime people would go on vacation there but it was very chill. Very calm. And now it\u2019s turned into this very cool kid place with a lot of clubs. A lot of those people that made the town so special, their businesses are being pushed out. So the article was about millennials that are moving home to take over their family businesses so that they could prevent that from happening [and] so that they wouldn\u2019t sell out to developers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, \u201cit got me thinking about those small businesses and about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/tiny-towns-11714387\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:small towns all over America;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">small towns all over America<\/a>. Especially <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/adorable-small-towns-for-summer-getaway-8668945\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:small vacation towns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">small vacation towns<\/a> where that typically happens. And I thought about restaurant businesses\u2026\u00a0 I\u2019m so passionate about where we live. I love the east end of Long Island. I love the small town feel and it\u2019s really important to me that that survives. Because the more that can\u2019t afford to live here and the more that people can\u2019t afford to keep their businesses then we lose that specialness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That is where her spark of a storyline came from but she knew she couldn\u2019t just sit down and write a screenplay immediately. Biegel took a screenwriting course at NYU to learn the basics and continued to research on her own. When the idea for her story began to get traction, Hallmark paired her with one of their veteran writers, Andrea Canning (whose name you might recognize as she also has a day job in TV as an anchor on <em>Dateline<\/em>). \u201c I think we came up with a great script,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Kitchen<\/em> host does also have an on-screen role in <em>Catch of the Day<\/em>, but this time she\u2019s playing a character, and not herself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"\u00a92025 Hallmark Media\/Courtney Julien\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/IarfZJE6ZNj5XH75Cqb_wA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY4NjtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/southern_living_806\/beeb9af6b90a734d8a97cbbefbf66453\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>\u00a92025 Hallmark Media\/Courtney Julien<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But since the main character is a chef, Biegel also was very hands on when it came to the food. \u201cAll the way from writing those bits to try and make it as authentic as possible. I talked to my friends who worked in those fancy New York City restaurant kitchens to try and get things the right way. I researched the ingredients that would be used in those kitchens and then when it came time to film the movie, we went through different food stylists and culinary producers so we could get the right look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sophie makes several recipes in the movie that are actually from Biegel\u2019s cookbooks. \u201cThe Cioppino, the spaghetti with clams, those are my recipes,\u201d she divulged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Catch of the Day<\/em> premieres on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, August 30, at 8pm\/7 central.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Congratulations, Katie Lee!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/hallmark-catch-of-the-day-katie-lee-biegel-interview-11800607\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Southern Living;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Southern Living<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the summer winds to an unofficial close this Labor Day weekend, Hallmark is celebrating the end of the season with one final flick in their Summer Nights line up. 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