ASPEN —Parts of Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley would be ideal for filming the upcoming Hallmark television series “When Calls the Heart,” executive producer Brad Krevoy said Tuesday during a brief interview at a downtown hotel.
“When you explore the Aspen-Snowmass-Basalt area, you realize that all of the elements you are looking for in a Western setting exist here,” Krevoy said. “You have a world-class airport and hotels, yet you have all of these great historic and rural locations.”
The pilot for the series — which concerns a young woman at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries who takes a teaching job in a small frontier town — already has been shot and airs Oct. 5 on Hallmark. The network has agreed to pick up 13 episodes for a first season of the series, which will begin airing in January.
Filming of the first few episodes will begin in September, said Krevoy, who is a part-time resident of Aspen. His experience with Aspen includes the renovation of the Isis Theater in the late 1990s; he also co-produced the hit 1994 Jim Carrey-Jeff Daniels slapstick comedy “Dumb and Dumber,” which has a plot partially set in Aspen (although the Aspen scenes actually were shot in Breckenridge).
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