Programming highlights for 2004-2005.
NEW SERIES
Building the Dream
(North American Premiere) Oct. 7 at 7pm and 7:30pm ET
How do you maintain a competitive edge when you need your opponent to help out with the drywall? Hosted by Linda Barker, and assisted by architect Angela Brady and builder Kevin Jackson, this British series follows 12 couples as they compete to win a house – after they’ve worked together for three months to build it. Watch the plotting and strategizing unfold as the house goes up and the workforce numbers goes down – one couple at a time. Will the winning couple be the handiest – or the most underhanded?
Designed to Sell
(Canadian Premiere) Oct. 6 at 8pm ET/PT
As the old saying goes: You have to spend money to make money. Nowhere is that more true than in the high-stakes world of real estate. Designed to Sell turns rundown homes into showpieces by giving sellers a $2,000 budget and a team of experts to help transform their house into the hottest property on the block. Find out if the design ideas, home-improvement tips and real estate insider secrets pay off and deliver on the ultimate goal – a successful sale at the highest possible price.
Designer Finals
(Canadian Premiere) Oct. 4 at 9pm ET/PT
Top interior design students face their final test – a real-life makeover requiring a fresh concept, an open mind, a flexible plan and a strong will. In each episode, a student from a top design school is given the real-world opportunity to redo a room in a client’s house. With a minimal budget, a handful of helpers and advice from a mentor, the student creates and executes a bold, new design for a homeowner who provides the space and the inspiration.
Design Inc.
(Broadcast Premiere) Oct. 5 at 8:30pm ET/PT
Sarah Richardson is renovating! After completing five seasons of Room Service, Richardson returns with Design Inc., a new series that reveals the inner workings of a bustling interior design firm, from meetings with clients, suppliers and trades, to the behind-the-scenes creative process. Witness the first client meeting, the point-of-no-return swing of the sledgehammer and the finishing touches, as each episode follows the story of a room that evolves into a stunning new space.
Design U*
(Broadcast Premiere) Winter 2005
Don’t know your Bauhaus from your Baroque? Design U* sets out to test the theory that, with a little guidance, anyone can be an interior decorator and transform their space from gaudy to gorgeous. Nominated by someone who can’t stand the would-be decorator’s questionable sense of style, the decorating novice teams up with a both a design mentor and resident handyman and, after an intensive “boot camp,” undertakes the final challenge of transforming their space.
Hot Property
(Broadcast Premiere) Spring 2005
Imagine being handed the nest egg that makes the dream of owning your own home a reality. Based on the popular U.K. program, this new series takes on the challenges of the Canadian real estate market and offers first-time homebuyers the chance to leave renting behind. After meeting with realtors and touring three homes that meet their lifestyle criteria, the couple must guess the market price for their favourite home – and if their guess is within $1,000, the down payment is theirs.
Kitchen Equipped
(Broadcast Premiere) Oct. 6 at 10pm ET/PT
Co-hosted by Stacy McLennan, an industrial designer, and carpenter Jay Purvis, Kitchen Equipped uncovers the latest in kitchen renovation and design as the duo collaborate on creating several in-studio kitchens over the course of the 36- part series. From decorating and must-have products to renovation stories, appliance analysis and reviewing builds-in-progress, this series shares the recipe for planning, accessorizing and building the perfect kitchen.
Love It or Lose It
(Broadcast Premiere) Winter 2005
You’ve been offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with a professional designer on a new look for your home. Sounds great – but there’s a big catch. In randomly choosing an envelope assigned to one of three designers, you have handed over your home as a blank canvas with what’s in the envelope dictating the style of the redesign – with no regard to your lifestyle, tastes or possessions. It’s a gamble – if you love it, you get to keep everything. But, if you hate it, your space reverts back to basic beige and despite the upheaval, you keep nothing.
Rooms That Rock
(Broadcast Premiere) Winter 2005
A fun new series that puts kids in the driver’s seat of design, Rooms That Rock – RTR – takes over and makes over family spaces. Rolling up in their retrofitted Designmobile, host Sara Cauchon and designers Andrew Pike (Design Rivals) and Cheryl Torrenueva (Superstar Challenge 2003) meet the resident teen or tween and pitch two wildly different designs for the chosen room. While the final decision is left in the kids’ hands, parents get to weigh in and veto one design decision, such as the paint colour, a fabric selection or piece of furniture.
Space for Living
(Broadcast Premiere) Spring 2005
Whether your space is large or small, your budget generous or modest, everyone can personalize their own space and make it work with creative design and clever storage solutions. This innovative new series showcases the IKEA philosophy of comfortable, affordable furnishings with a global perspective. Each episode explores homes around the world, space makeovers, design challenges and solutions.
NEW SPECIALS
Holmes for the Holidays
(Broadcast Premiere) Nov. and Dec. 2004
When a young couple bought a small bungalow on a large lot they had visions of transforming it into the home of their dreams. After grossly underestimating the scope of the job, their original contractor abandoned them, leaving them and their four young children to live in the basement of the dank, dirty and dangerous skeleton of their former home – for over seven months. With Christmas just around the corner, and with all their resources drained, general contractor Mike Holmes steps in and shoulders the monumental task of giving this home-reno horror story a happy ending – just in time for the holidays.
Home to Go for the Holidays
(Broadcast Premiere) Nov. and Dec. 2004
The festive season gets hip with Home to Go for the Holidays. In this new onehour special, host Peter Fallico works with singles, roommates and a young couple to help create four contemporary holiday looks. From using non-traditional colours like pink and orange to inspired projects, Fallico offers great ideas for doing up the season in style.
House & Home Holiday Special
(Broadcast Premiere) Nov. and Dec. 2004
Lynda Reeves shares her stylish and picture-perfect approach to holiday preparations in this new one-hour special. From tree to table, creative gift ideas, beautiful wrappings and new recipes for your family feast, Reeves delivers it all with seasonal style.
Real Renos Habitat for Humanity Special
(Broadcast Premiere) Jan. 2005
Kicking off season four of Real Renos, this one-hour special follows master contractor Jim Caruk and his crew on a very different kind of construction project.Working with Habitat for Humanity, an international non-profit agency providing affordable housing for families in need, Caruk and his team help a family to build their first home – in just nine days, from start to finish.
RETURNING SERIES
Antiques Roadshow
Oct. 10 at 10am and 11am ET
Take a peek behind the scenes of this PBS appraisal series. Travelling antique experts unlock the mysteries surrounding family heirlooms, yard sale bargains and trash pile plunder, revealing which treasures are actually worth a fortune.
Buy Me!
Oct. 6 at 8:30pm ET/PT New Episodes Winter 2005
If walls could talk! From the production team behind Debbie Travis’ Facelift, season two of this 13-part series follows the real-life drama of real estate. Each episode chronicles the history of a different home, from former owners and renovations to the real estate agents and parade of prospective buyers until finally someone makes an offer to call this house their home.
Changing Rooms
Oct. 4 at 10pm ET/PT
This original makeover series – a hit that spawned spin offs such as Trading Spaces – features two sets of neighbours swapping houses to transform a room in each other’s homes in the U.K. Anticipation builds as radical transformations unfold on camera with just two days, £500 and the help of a top interior designer.
Debbie Travis’ Facelift
Oct. 10 at 9pm ET/PT
She’s back! Returning for a third season, Debbie Travis renovates and redecorates spaces of unsuspecting homeowners, overhauling everything from bedrooms and basements to garages and kitchens in the most ambitious makeovers yet. Travis conspires with spouses, colleagues and family members, employs hidden cameras, and covertly transforms the room of an absent homeowner.
Designers’ Challenge
Oct. 6 at 10:30pm ET/PT
Chris Harrison (The Bachelor/The Bachelorette) hosts this series that follows three expert designers tackling real-life interior design dilemmas. Each week a different homeowner selects a design from amongst the experts’ three custom plans then works with the winning designer to make their renovation dreams come true.
Design on a Dime
Oct. 4 at 8:30pm ET/PT
This stylish series proves that you can get big design without a big budget. Watch the dramatic makeover unfold as a design team transforms ordinary rooms into spectacular spaces, all on a budget of $1,000.
Design Rivals
Oct. 5 at 8pm ET/PT
The boys are back! After three successful seasons of Designer Guys, Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman are helming the brand-new series Design Rivals . Fast on the heels of a summer launch, Design Rivals returns with new episodes and features Sabados and Hyndman each collaborating separately with their creative team to explore their independent interpretations of the ideal design solution for their clients. Witness the behind-the-scenes rivalries, conflicts and alliances at play as they work together – or at odds – to complete each transformation. While the design duo don’t always see eye-to-eye, their different
perspectives inspire creative solutions to truly draw out expressions of each homeowner’s personality.
Holmes on Homes
Oct. 7 at 8pm ET/PT New Format
Ever been ripped off by a contractor? Paid too much for poor workmanship? Returning for a third season – in a new one-hour format – Holmes on Homes brings construction and renovation expert Mike Holmes to the rescue in this series for anyone who’s been duped during a home renovation. Holmes saves the day in this series that identifies and fixes disastrous home improvement projects.
Home to Go
Oct. 4 at 8pm ET/PT
Great ideas are on the move. Peter Fallico (This Small Space) hosts this series about portable and affordable home improvements. Now in its fourth season, Home to Go offers innovative design solutions for people in temporary accommodation who do not want to leave behind great renovations when they move.
Hot Property
Oct. 8 at 8:30pm ET/PT
Hot Property gives first-time homebuyers the ultimate opportunity – the chance to win their home. In season two of this innovative series from the U.K., prospective buyers are shown three homes for sale. They’ll pick their favourite and use their skill and judgment to guess the selling price. If their estimate is correct, within £500 of the selling price, their house hunting will be over – they’ll win the property.
House & Home
Weekdays at 9:30pm ET/PT beginning Oct. 4
Returning for a seventh season, this series hosted by Lynda Reeves brings the pages of Canada’s leading decorating magazine, Canadian House & Home, to life in an inspiring and motivating way. House & Home is fast-paced and informative with fresh ideas for home design and entertaining with style.
House Hunters
Oct. 6 at 9pm ET/PT
Could this house be your home sweet home? Host Suzanne Whang follows individuals, couples and families as they learn what to look for when buying a new home as well as the factors to consider when deciding if a house is the right fit. House Hunters explores the emotional experience of finding a new home as each episode follows a prospective buyer and real estate agent through the home-buying process, from start to finish.
Landscapers’ Challenge
Weekdays at 7:30am ET beginning Oct. 4
In each episode of Landscapers’ Challenge, three professional landscapers face off and “take it outside” to win the opportunity to tackle an outdoor design project. The camera follows the landscape designer as he or she installs the winning plan and captures the owner’s reaction to the final result.
Mission Organization
Oct. 7 at 10pm ET/PT
Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to redesign your living spaces, one room at a time, and bring order to chaos. Catch inspiring “before” and “after” transformations as experts work with homeowners to organize even the most cluttered bedrooms, kitchens and other living spaces.
neat
Oct. 5 at 9pm ET/PT New Episodes Winter 2005
We all have it – a junk drawer, a messy closet, an ever-growing pile of mail – a little corner of chaos that could easily grow out of control. Professional organizer and life coach Hellen Buttigieg comes to the rescue with the new series neat. Host Buttigieg and her team not only demonstrate simple ways to organize the home, but also help participants to address the emotional issues involved in accumulating clutter. From new parents unwilling to accept the enormous shift in their lifestyle, to empty nesters fearful of downsizing, Buttigieg has organizing solutions for everyone.
One Garden, Two Looks
Oct. 4 at 7am ET New Episodes Spring 2005
Based on the popular HGTV series, one House, Two Looks, this series presents dazzling garden makeovers by two garden designers. Denis Flanagan and Charlie Dobbin each create very different outdoor designs as they redevelop similar properties.
Outer Spaces
Oct. 9 at 10:30am ET
Host Susie Coelho and the Outer Spaces team invade backyards in this series where husbands, wives, parents, neighbours and friends plot to perform surprise outdoor makeovers.
Real Renos
Oct. 7 at 9pm ET/PT New Episodes Winter 2005
Hit the road and go behind the scenes of real-life renovations with contractor Jim Caruk and his team. Real Renos tracks construction projects and follows the deadlines, homeowner tensions, and other dramas that unfold as detailed renovations take shape.
Selling Houses
Oct. 8 at 5:30pm ET New Episodes Winter 2005
In this series from the U.K., property expert Andrew Winter steps in to advise homeowners, who are preparing to move, on how to get the best possible price for their homes – and the secrets to a quick sale.
Designer Superstar Challenge
New Format Winter 2005
Do your friends think that you should be the next Debbie Travis or Sarah Richardson? Are you a Design Rival at heart? HGTV and The Home Depot searched all summer for people with an instinct and know-how for great design – and a flair for the camera, of course! The second Superstar Challenge, returning as a series and with a new name, highlights the cross-Canada search for HGTV’s newest designer, capturing pre-audition anxiety, post-performance critiques and the tension of making the cut – or not. The series concludes with a
special finale episode that finds the winner facing the ultimate test of designing and executing a dramatic home makeover. Will the winner discover their star power in the process?
Trash to Treasure
Oct. 8 at 8pm ET/PT
Twenty hours. Six people. Two teams. one mission: To buy trash, turn it into treasure, and sell it for as much as possible. The name of the game is Trash to Treasure and the team that makes the most money wins in each episode of this 13-part series. Returning for a second season, this three-stage competition follows two teams – each armed with $400 – with six hours to hit garage sales, consignment shops, flea markets, second hand stores and content sales, and spend all their money. In stage two, each team has eight hours to clean, fix,
paint, polish and refurbish their finds. And finally, in stage three, the two teams set up competing tables at a local flea market with only six hours to sell all their wares.
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