We Want Our HGTV
Addicted to HGTV? Join the club! Here’s a look at some selected programs in the new HGTV programming line up:
HGTV – New Series
HGTV’s Hammered with John and Jimmy DiResta
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Jimmy DiResta can make anything. John DiResta can make anything funny. Together, the duo is the perfect team in Hammered with John and Jimmy DiResta, HGTV’s new weekly series premiering on Saturday, September 16 at
Hidden Potential
Premieres: Sunday, October 1 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Hidden Potential gives home buyers a glimpse at what their home could look like before they buy it. In each episode a home buyer will look at three very different homes that need renovation. As they tour each home, a design expert will use the latest digital imagery techniques to showcase the home's "hidden potential." In the end viewers learn which house the home buyers ultimately chose to turn into a dream home.
Picking Up the Pieces
Premieres: Sunday, October 1 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT
Picking Up the Pieces is an anthology of half-hour programs that tell the emotional and personal stories of people who must cope with the loss of a home due to a natural or man-made disaster. These stories highlight everyone’s worse nightmare, but they also showcase people at their best. Viewers will come to understand that even if a house is destroyed, something far more resilient and irreplaceable will always remain.
24 Hour Design (FINAL TITLE)
Premieres: Friday, October 6 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
24 Hour Design is the before-and-after show that challenges a design team to create a dramatic room makeover in a single day. Each episode finds the team, led by designer Angelo Surmelis, arriving at the house just as the sun is rising. With the help of the homeowners and a budget of $2,000, our intrepid team must transform the room from drab to fab before sundown.
Making of an HGTV Design Star
Premieres: Thursday, November 2 at 11 p.m. ET/PT
Making of an HGTV Design Star is a four-episode limited series that takes viewers behind the scenes with the winner of HGTV Design Star. From the moment the winner of the reality competition is announced, viewers will see what it takes to create the pilot for the winner’s new series and will get a look at how winning the contest literally changes his/her life.
Over Your Head
Premieres: Saturday, November 4 at
It could be fixing a leaky roof. Or setting up a home theater with surround sound. On this good-hearted new series, homeowners take on renovations, only to realize that they’re in way over their heads. From that point, it’s HGTV to the rescue. A team of experts arrives to show everyone, including viewers, how to do the job the right way and what steps should be avoided. In the end, the humbled homeowners still get the satisfaction of having completed the job themselves. Well… sort of. Hosted by Eric Stromer.
Don’t Sweat It
Premieres: Saturday, November 4 @ 11:30 a.m. ET/PT
It's about that thing - you know, that thing you say you'll do but never get around to? High octane hosts rumble into town just long enough to help homeowners kick out those half-day projects everybody puts off. Indoor, outdoor, all around the house - it's a dream come true, someone with a full-tilt energy rush bent on getting that thing you want done - finally done! Hosted by Steve Watson.
Haulin’ House
Premieres: Sunday, November 5 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT
Haulin’ House is an action-packed dramatic series where the home literally hangs in the balance. Each 30-minute episode is the story of one family, couple, or person and their epic quest to save a home by moving it across the street or across town. Once the house is dangling in the air at the end of a crane or blocking the intersection of 10th and Main, homeowners will have no choice but to conquer every obstacle or pay any price to get the job done! There will be bridges and major intersections to cross, tight corners to turn, low tree branches to battle and low-lying utility lines that, if cut, could drive up the cost of the move by as much as $100,000!
HGTV – New Specials
Stress Test
Premieres: Sunday, October 22 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT
Stress Test is a high-octane special that answers important questions about the safety of our homes and the materials we use to build them. For example, how much wind can a house stand before it’s knocked off its foundation? Or are there really such things as “shatterproof” windows? Rather than test these products in a lab, on this show the products are pushed to the limit on real homes. Viewers will gasp as experts smash, crush, flood and blow up a house and almost everything in it—all in the name of determining quality construction.
25 Biggest Decorating Mistakes
Premieres: Tuesday, October 31 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT
With a narrator counting down, this special highlights the biggest mistakes would-be decorators make when they try to make a home a comfortable showcase. Using lots of tape, humor, amateur decorators, experts, mistakes and solutions, this special is a fast-paced, entertaining way to uncover helpful information out of decorating disasters.
Domino Design Bazaar (just added)
Premiere: Saturday, November 11 at 8:00 pm ET/PT
HGTV transports viewers into Domino Magazine's: Domino Design Bazaar. This visually stunning, hour-long special gives viewers a chance to experience more than 100 of Domino Magazine's favorite home design and lifestyle sources under one roof. Viewers will journey through this beautifully adorned event filled with stunning design products, merchandise, and interior designers ready to give their expert advise to HGTV viewers and Domino Magazine readers. Set up like a Moroccan-style bazaar, Domino Design Bazaar is sure to provide inspired design ideas, dazzling displays and products that will be a feast for the eyes.
Gift Show 2006
Premieres: Friday, November 24 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT
Viewers get the hottest ticket of the season for the hottest holiday trends. After this one-hour tour, heads will be spinning with gift and decoration ideas that standout from the ho-hum and are perfect for everyone from the kids to pets!
Gift and Gear 2006
Premieres: Friday, November 24 at
Find that perfect gift when HGTV checks out the newest and hottest gadgets for the holidays.
International Toy Fair 2006 (wt)
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For the BIG kid in everybody, HGTV offers the International Toy Fair 2006. Viewers can play with hosts Tava Smiley and Mark Totty in New York City as they take an hour-long tour through toy land. Among the 1,500 vendors, viewers will see the innovative, must-have high-tech and high-touch toys that will be on every kid's short list for Christmas. It's the ultimate play date when find out about everything from movie and music-downloading robots that record video, to video games that teach babies sign language and an interactive pony so real they’ll want to offer it an apple!
**** Please note: Show titles and dates are subject to change. Photo of the cutest house in Culver City by JCP
