Hallmark Channel sets premiere for Connie Britton reality series filmed in KC
The Hallmark Channel will return to unscripted, reality TV programming in its prime-time lineup with a series about single moms filmed last year in Kansas City.
“The Motherhood,” created and hosted by Connie Britton (“Friday Night Lights,” “Nashville,” “The White Lotus”) will premiere May 5, Hallmark announced this week.
The series was produced by Scout Productions, the creative team behind “Queer Eye,” which has also filmed in Kansas City.
Britton and the film crew were in Kansas City last fall. (Britton celebrated Dia De Los Muertos at Rudy’s Tenampa Taqueria while in town.)
“The show was filmed entirely in Kansas City! We can’t wait to see KC and its inspiring residents on screen,” the KC Film Office announced on social media Tuesday.
Billed as Hallmark’s first lifestyle transformation series — think makeover — “Motherhood” follows Britton and three lifestyle coaches as they help local single moms balance their work lives, parenting and self-care.
The six one-hour episodes will show the women receiving parenting advice and transforming their living spaces and wardrobes. The featured moms have not been identified.
Britton’s team includes DIY and home design specialist Angela Rose, parenting coach Destini Davis and style expert Taryn Hicks.
“This one is a dream come true for me, 7+ years in the making,” Britton, a single mother herself, wrote on Instagram when she first announced the project.
“Thank you to my amazing partners at Scout who never gave up and our awesome new partners at Hallmark who are giving life to the creation of a community of support for single moms, and really anyone who’s ever been a parent or had one!
“Because it takes a village and we are all invited to join.”
Britton’s co-executive producer Michael Williams is very familiar with working in Kansas City and has become partial to the hospitality he has found filming here in recent years.
The Oscar- and Emmy-winning co-founder of Scout Productions is executive producer of “Queer Eye,” which filmed seasons 3 and 4 in the Kansas City area in 2018.
That experience brought Williams back to Kansas City in the summer of 2022 to film the Peacock series, “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.” The reality series was inspired by the popular 2018 book of the same name by Swedish artist and mother of five Margareta Magnusson.
Williams told The Star at the time that the Kansas City Film Office had given “Queer Eye” royal treatment, “from what restaurant should we eat at to ‘I need a city bus tomorrow’ or ‘we need to close this street.’
“In other cities, when there’s a lot of other big projects, you can’t have that hand-holding … and we like to have our hands held. Everyone loved it. Crew members loved it. The cast loved it. Everybody had a great, great, great time.
“So when it came up to ‘Swedish,’ and the typical thing to save money is to shoot it in L.A., we just said absolutely not.”
“The Motherhood” premieres at 7 p.m. May 5 with the first two episodes on the Hallmark Channel, streaming the next day on Hallmark+.
The remaining episodes will air every Monday through June 2, the next day on Hallmark+.
This story was originally published April 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM.
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