While the “Welcome to Great American Christmas” special was limited to 2021, many of the former “Home & Family” cast members have continued in a similar format with Great American Family through the channel’s streaming app, Great American Community. As noted on the channel’s website, since its inception in 2022, the platform has featured several “Home & Family” alums, like Cameron Mathison, Debbie Matenopoulos, Larissa Wohl, Kym Douglas, and many others, in shorter inserts.
Of course, for lovers of the “Home & Family” and subsequent “Welcome to Great American Christmas” formats, the much shorter, solo inserts aren’t quite the same. Having said that, it certainly seems as though Great American Family wouldn’t rule out something bigger in the future. As quoted by Heavy, in response to a number of fans asking for a full-on talk show, the channel’s Instagram account has shared that while it was too big a project for a fledgling channel, “Great American Media would love to bring a daytime show of this nature back at some point.”
In the meantime, Matenopoulos says she loves the different format. Speaking to Daily Blast Live, she gushed that she was given the freedom to cover whatever she wanted on her show, “Cheerful Heart & Home.” As such, she explained, “It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done in this business.” Talk about embodying the phrase, when one door closes, another opens!
