Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood

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Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood
Also known asTori & Dean: Inn Love
Genre Reality
Created by
  • Dean McDermott
  • Tori Spelling
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes59
Production
Executive producers
  • Dean McDermott
  • Fenton Bailey
  • Megan McGuinness
  • Randy Barbato
  • Richard Courtney
  • Tori Spelling
Production companies
Original release
Network Oxygen
ReleaseMarch 20, 2007 (2007-03-20) 
January 31, 2012 (2012-01-31)
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Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood is an American reality television series that aired on Oxygen from March 20, 2007, to January 31, 2012. The series was titled Tori & Dean: Inn Love for its first two seasons. In 2013, Spelling released a book which stated that Oxygen cancelled the series stating they were taking the network in a different direction.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Premise

The series follows actress Tori Spelling and her second husband, actor Dean McDermott. The first two seasons follow the couple as they move out of Los Angeles and look for a bed & breakfast to invest Spelling's $800,000 inheritance. Drama ensues as the newlyweds hunt for an affordable inn location, purchase and renovate the inn to match their modern style, manage the inn and attempt to fit in with their new local community of Fallbrook, all while Spelling is eight months pregnant with her son, Liam. The couple named their revamped inn, Chateau La Rue, after Spelling's pug called Mimi La Rue. [1] On April 26, 2007, the Fallbrook Village News reported that Spelling & McDermott did not actually purchase the property, [2] on the August 28, 2007, episode, Tori claimed that they had leased to own.

Season 2 premiered on August 14, 2007, and featured 10 new episodes. The McDermotts leave Chateau La Rue and the bed and breakfast industry. [3]

Season 3 premiered on June 17, 2008, with the new name, Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, [4] and broke ratings records for the Oxygen Network, with an estimated 1.4 million viewers. In addition, the episodes were extended from thirty minutes to one hour. [5] In the third season, Tori and Dean have moved back to Los Angeles and are no longer keeping the inn. Throughout most of this season, Tori is pregnant. She gives birth to her daughter, Stella, at the end of the season.

Season 4 of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood premiered on May 26, 2009, on Oxygen. The show now follows Tori and Dean as they juggle their careers with being parents to their two children. The season premiere became the most-watched opener among Oxygen's core demographic of women 18-49 in the network's nine-year history. [6]

Season 5 of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood premiered on April 5, 2010, with Season 6 premiering on November 29, 2011.

Episodes

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
1 8March 20, 2007 (2007-03-20)May 8, 2007 (2007-05-08)
2 10August 14, 2007 (2007-08-14)October 23, 2007 (2007-10-23)
3 11June 17, 2008 (2008-06-17)August 19, 2008 (2008-08-19)
4 11May 19, 2009 (2009-05-19)August 4, 2009 (2009-08-04)
5 10April 5, 2010 (2010-04-05)June 7, 2010 (2010-06-07)
6 9November 29, 2011 (2011-11-29)January 31, 2012 (2012-01-31)

Season 1 (2007)

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"Dump Everything You Can Dump!"March 20, 2007 (2007-03-20)
2"Too Shaky for the Baby"March 27, 2007 (2007-03-27)
3"B&B or Bust?"April 3, 2007 (2007-04-03)
4"Paint on the Extensions!"April 10, 2007 (2007-04-10)
5"Too Pregnant"April 17, 2007 (2007-04-17)
6"I Love a Party"April 24, 2007 (2007-04-24)
7"What About the Guests?"May 1, 2007 (2007-05-01)
8"Let's Go Have a Baby"May 8, 2007 (2007-05-08)

Season 2 (2007)

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"And Li Li Makes 3"August 14, 2007 (2007-08-14)
2"Scotland Forever"August 21, 2007 (2007-08-21)
3"BBQ or Bust"August 28, 2007 (2007-08-28)
4"Can I Get an Amen?"September 4, 2007 (2007-09-04)
5"Oh, Canada!"September 18, 2007 (2007-09-18)
6"Take Tori Home"September 25, 2007 (2007-09-25)
7"Mama Lola Knows Best"October 2, 2007 (2007-10-02)
8"Hallelujah Humphrey"October 9, 2007 (2007-10-09)
9"Murder at the Chateau La Rue"October 16, 2007 (2007-10-16)
10"Fry Me to the Moon"October 23, 2007 (2007-10-23)

Season 3 (2008)

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"From Here to Maternity"June 17, 2008 (2008-06-17)
2"The Fins and the Furious"June 24, 2008 (2008-06-24)
3"Deep Sea Daddy"July 1, 2008 (2008-07-01)
4"Lights Camera Liam"July 8, 2008 (2008-07-08)
5"Planes, Trains and Contractions"July 15, 2008 (2008-07-15)
6"Reading, Writing and Renovations"July 22, 2008 (2008-07-22)
7"Poop Beverly Hills"July 29, 2008 (2008-07-29)
8"A Stella Is Born"August 5, 2008 (2008-08-05)
9"9021---Home"August 12, 2008 (2008-08-12)
10"McDermotts Gone Wild"August 19, 2008 (2008-08-19)

Season 4 (2009)

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"Look How Far We've Come"May 19, 2009 (2009-05-19)
2"Hollywood Movers and Shakers"May 26, 2009 (2009-05-26)
3"Tori, May I Ride With Danger?"June 2, 2009 (2009-06-02)
4"Faster Than a Speeding Mother"June 9, 2009 (2009-06-09)
5"Lights, Camera, Donna"June 16, 2009 (2009-06-16)
6"Tori Takes Manhattan"June 23, 2009 (2009-06-23)
7"The End of Track Days"June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30)
8"Birthday, Bike Blues"July 7, 2009 (2009-07-07)
9"Got Mommywood?"July 14, 2009 (2009-07-14)
10"How Stella Got Her Gran Back...?"July 28, 2009 (2009-07-28)
11"Stellapalooza"August 4, 2009 (2009-08-04)

Season 5 (2010)

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"RV There Yet?"April 5, 2010 (2010-04-05)
2"Midnight Train to Patsy's"April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12)
3"Hollywood Homeys"April 19, 2010 (2010-04-19)
4"Fright Where We Belong"April 26, 2010 (2010-04-26)
5"Breaking Dad"May 3, 2010 (2010-05-03)
6"Wedding Belle Bruise"May 10, 2010 (2010-05-10)
7"Homespun Heroes"May 17, 2010 (2010-05-17)
8"Me Tarzan, You Change"May 24, 2010 (2010-05-24)
9"Return to the Rue"May 31, 2010 (2010-05-31)
10"Eat, Drink and Remarry"June 7, 2010 (2010-06-07)

Season 6 (2011–2012)

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"Taking invenTORI"November 29, 2011 (2011-11-29)
2"Party 911"December 6, 2011 (2011-12-06)
3"Secrets of the Baby Bump"December 13, 2011 (2011-12-13)
4"Not the Whole sTORI"December 20, 2011 (2011-12-20)
5"Coming Clean"January 3, 2012 (2012-01-03)
6"The Pregnancy Police"January 10, 2012 (2012-01-10)
7"Super Sweet 38"January 17, 2012 (2012-01-17)
8"Brothers and Sisters"January 24, 2012 (2012-01-24)
9"And Baby Makes Five"January 31, 2012 (2012-01-31)

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