Heartland is a Canadian family comedy-drama television series which debuted in Canada on CBC Television and originally in the United States on The CW Plus syndication on October 14, 2007. But since 2010, the show's been airing on Up TV in first-run broadcast, and still continues to be broadcast as apart of the service's weekend schedule. The series is based on the Heartland book series by Lauren Brooke and follows Amy Fleming and her older sister Louise "Lou" Fleming on their Alberta-based family ranch, 'Heartland', where they live with their widowed grandfather Jack Bartlett, their father Tim Fleming and hired farmhand Ty Borden. While experiencing the highs and lows of life on the ranch, the family bonds and grows closer. With the airing of its 139th episode on March 29, 2015, Heartland surpassed Street Legal as the longest-running one-hour scripted drama in Canadian television history. On June 1, 2022, CBC renewed the series for Season 16 which consisted of 15 episodes and premiered on October 2, 2022 in Canada. In May 2023, the series was renewed for a 17th season with an unspecified number of episodes that premiered in Canada on October 1, 2023. In the United States, the series has wide distribution through broadcast syndication on weekends, including as part of the defau... ()