Posts with tag interior design
Posted Dec 18th 2007 2:01PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Pickups and Renewals
As if there weren't enough remodeling/makeover shows on the air, and obviously there aren't, WE tv has just greenlit the latest. The Hollywood Reporter tells us Ugliest House on the Block involves neighbors and experts giving a four-day makeover to whichever house the neighbors consider to be the biggest eyesore. And, of course, the show promises "green" segments to show how to be more environmentally friendly with home decorating and design.
"Home decorating and design is a genre that has mass appeal for women," said Kim Martin, executive VP and GM at WE. So does the bad-boys-who-treat-women-like-crap genre, but I don't see WE tailoring a show for this segment of the female population. I'd say the all-men-are-evil-and-deserve-to-be-put-down-like-dogs genre, but Lifetime Movie Network seems to have the corner on that market.
Continue reading WE to help fix up the Ugliest House on the Block
Posted Feb 5th 2007 9:02AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, NBC, Cable, OpEd, The Five, Project Runway

I should love
Top Design. I really should. In fact, I'll give you five reasons why
Top Design, the third jewel in the
Project Runway crown, should be my favorite show on television right now. The sad fact, however, is that it's not. The first episode, which debuted after
Top Chef's lackluster finale last week, was an awkward bore. The usually charismatic Todd Oldham was lifeless. Jonathan Adler as the lead adjudicator was corny. The interiors were uninspired. The drama was tedious.
Yet, I hold out hope that the show will acquire the addictive properties of its Bravo predecessors. Here are the five reasons why I'm giving
Top Design a two to three episode reprieve before I nix it from my viewing schedule:
Continue reading The Five: Reasons I should be loving Top Design
Posted Jan 12th 2007 1:30PM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Cable, TCA Press Tour

Although Todd Oldham said, at the TCA panel for Bravo's
Top Design this morning, "Copying is boring, but reinventing is quite interesting" ... which really doesn't explain why we have another reality show about home makeovers, ack! It's invasion of the paintbrush wielding contestants this time, with no end in sight.