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DANIELLE PANABAKER AND SHAWN ROBERTS
MIX A PINCH OF ROMANCE WITH A DASH OF DELICIOUS CUISINE IN
'RECIPE FOR LOVE,'
A HALLMARK CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIE WORLD PREMIERE OCTOBER 11
Pascale Hutton and Amos Mitchell Co-Star;
Peter DeLuise Guest Stars
Danielle Panabaker ("The Shunning," "Justified") and Shawn Roberts ("Resident Evil:
Afterlife") learn how to cook from the heart when they star in "Recipe for Love," a Hallmark
Channel Original Movie World Premiere, Saturday, October 11 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8C). Panabaker
and Roberts star alongside Pascale Hutton ("Artic Air," "When Calls The Heart") and Amos
Mitchell ("The Trainer") in the film, which follows the story of an unlikely pair who are forced to
work together in the kitchen and end up combining all the right ingredients for a promising new
relationship. The culinary romance also features guest star Peter DeLuise, who plays himself as
a celebrity judge to a heated cooking competition.
"With a rich history of delicious romantic comedies, we relished the opportunity to
produce 'Recipe For Love' as the network's newest treat," said Michelle Vicary, Executive Vice
President, Programming for Crown Media Family Networks.
Lauren Hennessey (Panabaker) has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at
her job at Food & Entertainment Magazine's test kitchen while she dreams of being able to
finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss offers her a bonus if she agrees to
ghostwrite the cookbook of a difficult celebrity chef, Lauren sees her dream becoming a
reality-as soon as she can tame the notorious bad boy chef in question, Dexter Durant
(Roberts). The edgy host of his own cooking show, Dexter has a reputation of being reckless
and stubborn and immediately clashes with Lauren on the project, preferring to keep his
recipes-and his personal life-private. Despite the warnings of her older sister Nan (Hutton),
Lauren refuses to give up, attempting to conquer each of Dexter's dishes with precision. Slowly
peeling back the layers of Dexter's tough-guy persona, she starts seeing a different, vulnerable
side to this big-shot chef. Suddenly, their dueling culinary styles become the perfect
complement in the kitchen and an attraction between them starts to boil over.
With their unpredictable new romance heating up, Lauren tries to save Dexter's sinking
career by getting him to open himself up to a different kind of cookbook, while simultaneously
shutting down Gio (Mitchell), a scheming young chef coveting Dexter's time slot. As the
cookbook nears completion, Dexter and Gio must face off in a final cook-off, judged by celebrity
Peter DeLuise (as himself), and Lauren and Dexter finally discover the best way to write a
recipe is to cook from the heart.
"Recipe for Love" is a Lighthouse Pictures, Inc. production. Executive Producers are
Shawn Williamson and Craig Anderson. Jamie Goehring is the producer. Ron Oliver directs
from a script by Michael J. Murray.
Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour
basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming
available in high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) to a national audience of 86
million subscribers. Hallmark Channel is the nation's leading destination for quality family
programming with an ambitious slate of TV movies; original scripted series, including Cedar
Cove, When Calls the Heart, and Signed, Sealed, Delivered; specials such as Kitten Bowl; as
well as some of television's most beloved sitcoms and series, including The Golden Girls, The
Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, and Frasier. The channel is also home to Daytime Emmynominated
lifestyle program, Home & Family, a daily two-hour live show shot in a fully
functional house located on the Universal Studios lot. Hallmark Channel's sibling network,
Hallmark Movie Channel, available in HD and SD, focuses on family-friendly movies with a mix
of original films, classic theatrical releases, and presentations from the acclaimed Hallmark Hall
of Fame library.
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