Family Home Overhaul is a Canadian home renovation reality series, which premiered September 27, 2020 on HGTV Canada. [1] Described by some critics as a Canadian version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , [1] the series features various HGTV designers working with deserving families who have been nominated by their communities to renovate their homes. [2]
The series is hosted by Cheryl Hickey, with participating designers Scott McGillivray, Tiffany Pratt, Sebastian Clovis, Kortney Wilson, Dave Wilson, Brian McCourt, Mia Parres, Kate Campbell, Dave Coleman, Sarah Keenleyside, Joey Fletcher, Dave Kenney, Samantha Pynn and Tommy Smythe.
The show was originally slated to premiere in April 2020, but was delayed to September because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. [1] Hickey characterized the show's rescheduled premiere date as "exactly the right time", highlighting the show's celebration of community as a necessary and valuable message in 2020. [2]
While You Were Out is an American reality series that aired episodes on the cable channel TLC. The format of the show is similar to TLC's Trading Spaces. While You Were Out adds a suspenseful gimmick by keeping the entire redecoration a secret from the homeowner.
Genevieve Gorder is an American television host and interior designer. She most recently hosted Bravo's Best Room Wins. Previously, she hosted Stay Here on Netflix, Genevieve's Renovation, "White House Christmas," and Dear Genevieve on HGTV and judged HGTV's Design Star. She currently resides in Manhattan with her daughter, Bebelle.
Michael James Holmes is a Canadian builder/contractor, businessman, investor, television host, and philanthropist. In his first television series, Holmes on Homes, he rescues homeowners from renovations gone wrong. He usually discovers more serious problems, such as dangerous wiring, asbestos, mold, inadequate insulation, structural damage and more, concealed behind pristine surfaces. He and his team promise to "Make It Right," even if it means stripping a house down to its bones. He has continued in several successive TV series.
HGTV Star, named HGTV Design Star for the first seven seasons, is an American reality competition show that premiered on July 23, 2006, on the cable television network HGTV. Clive Pearse served as host for Seasons 1-4, then judge Vern Yip served as host for Season 5, replacing Clive Pearse. HGTV'D host Tanika Ray served as host for Season 6 and Design Star Season 1 winner David Bromstad join the show as a mentor. Bromstad later return not only as mentor but as host, replacing Tanika Ray, for the remainder of the show including Design Star:All Stars, even though Tanika Ray announce as host for Season 7. Vern Yip, Genevieve Gorder, and Sabrina Soto currently serve as the show's three judges. Candice Olson served as a judge for seasons 4 and 5; starting with season 6, a third rotating judge was brought in to fill the spot left by Olson. Previous judges include Cynthia Rowley, a designer of fashion and home accessories; and Martha McCully, Executive Editor of InStyle magazine.
Kortney Wilson is a Canadian actress, country music singer, real estate professional, designer, and television presenter, best known as cohost with her former husband Dave Wilson of home renovation programming for HGTV Canada.
Bryan Baeumler is a Canadian television host on several HGTV/HGTV Canada shows. A former handyman and businessman, he translated those careers into a series of TV shows about home renovations in Canada and expanding to hotel renovations in the Bahamas. He has won a Gemini Award for his hosting and has published a book on home renovations.
Scott McGillivray is a Canadian entrepreneur, investor, television host, author and educator.
The Wilsons are Canadian husband and wife Dave and Kortney Wilson, who were country musicians and television personalities in Nashville, Tennessee. They are now TV presenters on the HGTV program Masters of Flip, having given up their music careers. They operate a business that flips houses, the basis for the television program. The Wilsons announced they were separating after 18 years of marriage on December 19, 2019.
Love It or List It is a home design TV show on HGTV, W Network, and OWN Canada. It is also the original show in the Love it or List It franchise.
Property Brothers is a Canadian reality television series now produced by Scott Brothers Entertainment, and is the original show in the Property Brothers franchise. The series features twin brothers Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott.
Home to Win is a Canadian home renovation reality television series, which premiered April 24, 2016 on HGTV Canada. The series features contractors and designers from all of the network's original productions collaborating on the renovation and design of a single "dream house", which will be awarded to a registered viewer at the end of the series. The series is also dubbed into the French language, and aired on the Canadian channel CASA as Maison à Gagner.
Masters of Flip is a Canadian home renovation reality television series, which premiered in 2015 on W. The series centres on Dave and Kortney Wilson, a then married Canadian couple who moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue careers in country music and then turned to renovating and flipping houses after their musical careers faltered.
The Property Brothers franchise is a Canadian media franchise that stars Canadian twins Jonathan and Drew Scott and centers around the selling, purchasing, and renovation of real estate property. The shows also often guest star their older brother J.D. Their first program is Property Brothers—initially produced by Cineflix Media—and has aired on the W Network and HGTV Canada in its country of origin, on HGTV in the US, and on other networks in over 150 countries. The success of this show led to spin-off series, several web series, a how-to book, a radio show, and an app. Strategy magazine named the Property Brothers its 2013 Brand of the Year.
Home Town is an American television series starring husband and wife team, Ben and Erin Napier, that premiered on January 24, 2016 on HGTV. The married couple restores Southern homes in Laurel, Mississippi. The fifth season of Home Town began airing on January 3, 2021.
Island of Bryan is an HGTV Canada reality television series of renovation, home life, and business activities, premiering in Spring 2019. The show is similar to House of Bryan and Bryan Inc., two previous shows starring builder Bryan Baeumler, his wife Sarah, and their children; along with Bryan's apprentice Adam. The Baeumler family is renovating and restoring a tropical island beachfront resort, to operate as their own, that the Baeumler couple has bought by leveraging everything they have, and their financial safety net.
Bryan Inc. is a HGTV Canada home building, home renovation, business reality television, and homelife reality TV show. It focuses on the Baeumler family, and the construction business established by Bryan Baeumler, with his wife Sarah joining the business as a designer, to start on building new homes and buying older homes to flip and rebuild into premium properties to sell. Bryan Inc. is a follow-up to the HGTV Canada show House of Bryan, which followed the Baeumlers as they built various houses that they themselves would live in.
Making it Home with Kortney and Kenny, formerly Making it Home with Kortney and Dave, is a Canadian reality television show, which premiered in 2020 on the Canadian and American versions of HGTV. Originally starring Dave and Kortney Wilson, formerly of the series Masters of Flip, the series features the duo helping homeowners in the Greater Toronto Area to perform renovations on their homes.
Samantha Pynn is a Canadian interior designer, best known as a host of programming for HGTV Canada.