I watch a lot of Hallmark Channel original Romances and I've noticed that firefighters (for men) and florists (for women) seem to be the most prevalent occupations for characters.
Here are but a few recent examples:
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A Taste of Romance (2012) (TV)
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Widower Gill Callahan retired from the fire department after a tragedy. Helped out by some mates, he starts a diner, offering simple food to their taste. The matching music is too much for the elitist taste of his neighbor, Sara Westbrook, who just started a French restaurant and aspires a refined reputation utterly clashing with the working class neighborhood, leading to a prank war. Gill's daughter Hannah befriends Sara and ends up acting as matchmaker, helped by fate in what seems tragedy. Written by KGF Vissers
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Be My Valentine (2013)
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Natalie Brown is an MBA who decided she would rather be happy and chucked it to run a flower shop. William Baldwin is a widowed firefighter with a pleasant adolescent son -- clearly this is some sort of fantasy. The writers hit all the notes in this stereotypical Hallmark Channel TV St. Valentine's Day movie and the result is pleasant if unmemorable fluff.
TV Movie - Romance - 9 February 2013 (USA)
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Second Chances (2013) (TV)
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A badly injured leg forces hunky fireman Jeff, who lost his father in a fire as a young boy, to rent a ground floor room during his recovery. Thus he moves in with widow jenny, a 911 emergency call center operator, and her fatherless young children, Luke and Elsie, who soon dote him as an ideal substitute father and try matching him with their mother. She recognizes his good influence but fears another breakup would be too hard. Jeff's retired former fire chief 'Buddy' being in the home where the kids read books to earn money ultimately works wonders. Written by KGF Vissers
And as for the lady florists in addition to "Be My Valentine" which is mentioned above we have:
I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)
April 2009
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A florist, who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man, finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
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Flower Girl (2009) (TV)
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Dr. Evan Cooper is the ideal match, on paper and according to her grandmother Rose Durham and friends, including an equally pushy wedding planner, for florist Laurel Haverford, who fears to be the last of her generation to get married. Yet she keeps dragging her heels after meeting cocky Stephen Banks, who is all wrong on paper but makes her heart leap by pure chemistry. Written by KGF Vissers
And I believe Kathleen Quinlan owned a landscaping or flower shop in Perfect Romance (2004)
Last edited by leahmullen; 09/28/13 12:51 PM.
