Heartland (Canadian TV series)
Heartland is a Canadian family comedy-drama television series which debuted in Canada on CBC Television and originally in the United States on The CW Plus syndication on October 14, 2007. Since 2010, the series airs in first-run on Up TV, but still continues to air in reruns on the latter channel as apart the service's weekend schedule.
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| Based on | Heartland series by Lauren Brooke |
| Developed by | Murray Shostak |
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| Opening theme | "Dreamer" by Jenn Grant |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 17 |
| No. of episodes | 259 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 44 minutes |
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| Release | October 14, 2007 – present |
The series is based on the Heartland book series by Lauren Brooke and follows Amy Fleming and her older sister Louise "Lou" Fleming on their Alberta-based family ranch, 'Heartland', where they live with their widowed grandfather Jack Bartlett, their father Tim Fleming and hired farmhand Ty Borden. While experiencing the highs and lows of life on the ranch, the family bonds and grows closer.
With the airing of its 139th episode on March 29, 2015, Heartland surpassed Street Legal as the longest-running one-hour scripted drama in Canadian television history.
On June 1, 2022, CBC renewed the series for Season 16 which consisted of 15 episodes and premiered on October 2, 2022 in Canada. In May 2023, the series was renewed for a 17th season with an order of 10 episodes that premiered in Canada on October 1, 2023.
In the United States, the series has wide distribution through broadcast syndication on weekends, including as part of the default national schedule for Up TV and The CW Plus and new episodes become available as of 2021, on Up Faith & Family, the network's streaming service months after full seasons finish their runs in Canada and later premiere in the US linearly on the main network and all later seasons are exclusive to Up Faith & family first before they go up to available for syndication on other American networks and streaming services that aren't affiliated with UP tv or its sister networks. Reruns of older episodes air on Hulu, Pluto TV, Crackle, Tubi, BYUtv, Retro TV, COZI TV, and Heartland (which is not named for the series). It was also a part of the schedule on the now-defunct Light TV until it was rebranded as TheGrio TV on January 15, 2021. The show is also available on Netflix and various other streaming platforms in the US.