Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,” according to a lawsuit filed against the network this

"Lacey and Holly have a home at Hallmark," the network tells EW in a response to the suit. A former Hallmark casting director has alleged in a new lawsuit that a network executive once advocated for the replacement of "old talent" like 42-year-old Lacey Chabert and Holly Robinson-Peete,