An age discrimination lawsuit filed against Hallmark claims a network executive wanted to replace seasoned actors with "fresh new faces" and instructed a casting director not to cast "old people."

The Hallmark Channel faces a new lawsuit claiming that studio executives practiced age discrimination when casting.

A former Hallmark casting agent filed lawsuit alleging that network executive Lisa Hamilton Daly told staff she wanted to replace ‘old people’ like Lacey Chabert and Holly Robinson Peete

A new age discrimination lawsuit against Hallmark accuses the studio of targeting "old people" like Holly Robinson Peete and Lacey Chabert.

Penny Perry alleges in an age discrimination lawsuit that Hallmark executive VP of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly told her staffers she didn't want to hire "old" people, including network favorites Holly Robinson Peete and Lacey Chabert.

Alongside the comments on the talents' age, Perry claimed she was also pushed out of the company and unceremoniously fired in April after nine years. She is suing Hallmark's executives for wrongful termination, age and disability discrimination and defamation, People Magazine reported.

"Lacey and Holly have a home at Hallmark," the network tells EW in a response to the suit. 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,

According to a new age discrimination lawsuit, Hallmark’s VP of programming, Linda Hamilton Daly, acted a lot like Dennis Quaid’s character in the film and created two perfect candidates for the substance in Lacey Chabert and Holly Robinson Peete.

Hallmark executive VP of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly told her staff she did not want to cast “old people,” saying they did not fit with her image for the channel, a new age discrimination lawsuit filed against the studio claims.