Mark Steines has been tapped as host of Nat Geo Wild’s Animal ER Live, a four-week, live event series from Live PD creators Big Fish Entertainment, an MGM Company. Animal ER Live airs Saturday and Sunday nights at 9 PM ET/PT, for four weeks premiering Saturday, March 30. Based out of a studio in New York City, Steines…

After failing to get Mark Steines' retaliation and wrongful-termination lawsuit tossed, Hallmark Channel's owner is now aiming to have the former Home & Family co-host's high-profile attorney Lisa Bloom pushed out of the case. “This motion arises because Defendants retained The Bloom Firm, and that representation…

Crown Media got their family values handed to them today by a federal judge who unequivocally rejected the Hallmark Channel owner's desire to toss ex-Home & Family co-host Mark Steines' retaliation and wrongful termination lawsuit. “Defendants' motion to dismiss is denied, and Defendants' motion to strike is denied,&#8221…

The blast radius from allegations of sexual harassment by Home and Family creator Woody Fraser just legally expanded for Hallmark Channel owner Crown Media Family Networks in a wrongful-termination and harassment suit from a former chef on the homespun show. Longtime food stylist and chef Shanti Hinojos asserts in an…

UPDATED with Crown Media Family Networks statement: Mark Steines has filed a lawsuit against Hallmark Channel owner Crown Media, four months after he was abruptly removed as co-host of the network’s flagship series Home and Family. His four-claim suit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that his exit…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment Tonight correspondent/actor Cameron Mathison will be the new co-host alongside Debbie Matenopoulos on Hallmark Channel’s daily lifestyle series Home & Family. He will replace long-time co-host Mark Steines who was abruptly let go at the end of May after five and a half years. The announcement…

It’s been a week since Hallmark Channel unceremoniously divorced Mark Steines from its Home & Family, and today the former co-host finally broke his social media silence. But there was no earth-shaking revelation or tart-tongued rebuke. Instead, the lifestyle show’s original male face simply thanked fans for their…

Just like that, Mark Steines, who had been co-host on Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family since the show’s October 2012 launch, was gone after five and a half years. There was no mention of his departure on Steines’ last episode, which aired Thursday, with the Crown Media Family Networks posting a brief statement on its…

UPDATED: It’s still unclear what prompted the abrupt exit of Mark Steines as co-host of Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family lifestyle show, but now the sole host Debbie Matenopoulos addressed his departure at the end of today’s show in a statement which has left more questions than answers. Fighting back tears…

Longtime Home & Family co-host Cristina Ferrare is exiting the Hallmark Channel’s morning show. She’s being replaced by Debbie Matenopoulos, former co-host of The View and Home and Family‘s resident lifestyle expert, who will join co-host Mark Steines. The network made the announcement Tuesday. "Cristina Ferrare has…

KTLA Los Angeles has found its new Rose Parade hosts. Leeza Gibbons and Mark Steines will take over for Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards, beginning in 2017. Gibbons and Steines will host KTLA’s 70th broadcast of the parade on January 2, 2017. (The Rose Parade airs on the 2nd in years when the 1st falls on Sunday). As…