The hit family drama series “The Chicken Sisters” is set to make its network premiere on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, March 30, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET. The show, which was previously available only on Hallmark’s streaming platform, Hallmark+, will now air Season 1 episodes weekly on Sundays. Even if you don’t have traditional cable, you can still watch the latest episodes of “The Chicken Sisters” live and on-demand using various streaming platforms.
Tune in on Sunday, March 30, at 9 p.m. ET to watch the network premiere live as it airs. According to the series’ official synopsis from Hallmark, “Sisters Amanda and Mae are reunited when reality show ‘Kitchen Clash’ comes to their town, and the competition between their two feuding restaurants heats up.”
The series features an ensemble cast, including Schuyler Fisk as Amanda Moore-Hillier, Genevieve Angelson as Mae Moore, Lea Thompson as Nancy Hillier, Wendie Malick as Augusta ‘Gus’ Moore, Margo Martindale as the narrator, Ektor Rivera as Sergio, James Kot as Frank Hillier Jr., Cassandra Sawtell as Frankie Hillier, Rukiya Bernard as Sabrina Skye, Samer Salem as Jay, and Caitlin Howden as Shawna. There are eight episodes in “The Chicken Sisters” Season 1.
New episodes will air weekly on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on the Hallmark Channel. The episode titles are “Family is Family,” “We’re on the Same Team, Y’all,” “Desperado,” “Friends in Low Places,” “Not the Hydrangeas, Y’all!,” “I Choose to Be Happy, Y’all!,” “I Fall to Pieces,” and “Gaslighter.”
Don’t miss the network premiere of “The Chicken Sisters” on the Hallmark Channel. Whether you have traditional cable or prefer streaming, you have numerous ways to catch the show as it airs live.
Tune in on Sunday, March 30, at 9 p.m. ET to join Amanda and Mae in their culinary adventures. The show centers around the small town’s two chicken shops, Mimi’s and Frannie’s, and the complicated history between the families that own them. The town is divided into two camps; you are either Team Mimi’s or Team Frannie’s, with no crossing enemy lines.
Mimi’s is owned by the somewhat prickly Augusta, or Gus Moore, played by Wendie Malick. Gus has soldiered on in keeping her shop open despite her daughter Mae (Genevieve Angelson) leaving for a new, more glamorous life as a television host. Her other daughter Amanda (Schuyler Fisk), while still in Merinac, has defected to the other side.
When Amanda married Frank Jr., son of Frannie’s owner Nancy Hillier (Lea Thompson), it was seen as choosing the other side.
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Gus then banned Amanda from Mimi’s.
Amanda works alongside her mother-in-law Nancy, whom she finds to be a more natural mother figure. Together, they run Frannie’s. Business for both shops has been tough, and Amanda feels unsettled until she gets a wild idea.
She writes into a TV food competition show, and much to her surprise, the show reaches out. Soon, a television crew descends upon her tiny town to pit her against her own mother in the ultimate fried chicken showdown. As we meet Mae, things aren’t going well for her either.
When she gets word of this TV show featuring her family business, she sets off to return to the town (and the Southern drawl) she left behind years ago. Of Mae’s return to Merinac, Angelson said, “I think that my character in particular tells a distinct story because she has sort of a shameful relationship to her past. So much of her identity is founded upon being a New Yorker now.
Over the course of the season, you’ll see how she rewrites her relationship with the South.”
Fisk shared, “I feel like people can really identify with the idea that people you love the most, you can hurt the most. Those relationships are really complicated and complex. It’s been fun to uncover those backstories and find where this all came from.”
Will Gus and her daughters find a way back to each other?
Will these two feuding families find peace? Which chicken shop will be crowned the best in Merinac? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
“The Chicken Sisters” will now air on Hallmark Channel on Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET.
