Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,” according to a lawsuit filed against the network this month and obtained by The Associated Press.

A casting director who worked for Hallmark for 9 years has filed an age discrimination lawsuit against company execs for singling out several stars and more.

A former Hallmark casting director has alleged in a new lawsuit that a network executive once advocated for the replacement of "old talent" like 42-year-old Lacey Chabert and Holly Robinson-Peete, 60.