Heartland (Canadian TV series)

Heartland
Created by	Lauren Brooke
Starring	Amber Marshall Graham Wardle Michelle Morgan Shaun Johnston Alisha Newton Chris Potter Kerry James Gabriel Hogan Nathaniel Arcand Jessica Steen
Opening theme	"Dreamer" by Jenn Grant
Country of origin	Canada, United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	161 (+1 film) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Heather Conkie Tom Cox Jordy Randall Michael Weinberg, Tina Grewal
Running time	44 minutes
Production company(s)	SEVEN24 Films Dynamo Films
Distributor	Genesis International
Release
Original network	CBC
Original release	October 14, 2007 – present

Heartland is a Canadian and U.S family drama television series which debuted on CBC on October 14, 2007.

The series is based on the Heartland book series by Lauren Brooke, but it changes the setting from Virginia, USA (in the original novels) to the small fictional town of Hudson, Alberta located in the foothills of the Alberta Rockies. Heartland follows sisters Amy and Lou Fleming, their grandfather Jack Bartlett, and Ty Borden, through the highs and lows of life at the ranch.

As of the episode shown on March 29, 2015, Heartland surpassed Street Legal as the longest-running one-hour scripted drama in the history of Canadian television. It celebrates its ten-year anniversary in 2016, and Season 10 began airing October 2, 2016.

Amy Fleming was only 15 when she was involved in a car accident that killed her mother and seriously injured herself. As she was in the hospital she couldn't go to her mother's funeral but her father surprisingly showed up. Amy inherited her mother's gift of being able to intuit the needs of horses and of practicing natural horsemanship. When Amy returned home, she decided to continue her mother's work of healing abused or damaged horses, including Spartan, the horse that her mother died saving. Amy also had to deal with the return of her older sister, Lou, who had been living in New York City. Before Amy's mother died, she agreed to allow Ty Borden to live at Heartland as part of his probation. When Ty arrived, Amy's grandfather accepted his late daughter's wishes, allowing Ty to live in the loft above the barn and work at Heartland as a ranch hand. Amy grows close to Ty and becomes best friends with him, later falling in love, although their relationship was rocky at times and they broke up more than once. Later in the show, while working with a pair of horses, they manage to make amends, with Ty giving Amy a promise ring in season 3. In the last episode of season 5, Ty secretly makes plans to propose to Amy, but after hearing her say how they should never "tie themselves down", backs out of his proposal. However, Amy, while answering Ty's ringing phone, finds the ring in his coat pocket, thus ending the season with a cliffhanger. At the beginning of season 6, she and Ty discuss the ring and marriage, and a few episodes later, Ty finds the perfect moment to propose to Amy, and she accepts. In Season 8, Amy and Ty break up again for a while. Amy and Ty get back together when they rescue a herd of horses penned by ranchers believing the horses to be detrimental to the land required for their cattle. In the end, Ty and Amy are married in Jack's house. Amy is escorted by Tim and Jack, and she rides in on Spartan. She announces to Ty at the end of season 9 that he is to become a father.

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