Mike Holmes is great! I’ve only been watching for a couple of months, but I’ve seen most all of the ones that HGTV is showing. He doesn’t pimp any product, although he clearly loves him some blue spray insulation. I don’t recall ever seeing him be unfair to the previous repair folks. Most all the things he points out are pretty egregious. As for his preachiness, I think he really means what he says, so I don’t have a problem with that.
Income Property with Scott McGillivray is very good. I think he’s from Toronto the same as Mike Holmes. I recently saw a hardwood flooring contractor often featured on Mike’s show doing a floor on Income Property.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised with Income Property. The focus of the show is creating rental property. But, Scott has tackled some big reno issues. It’s a lot more than a new paint and wallpaper show. Recently they fixed a leaky basement by digging outside and waterproofing. Reminded me of Holmes on Homes. They’ve often fixed leaky basements too.
I love Income Property too, it is a combination of various type of shows (design, staging, repairs, improvement, etc.) .The host is pleasant too.
Well, the good news is that Design Star starts tonight as well.
I hope they go back to the old rules of letting viewers call in to vote for the final two - it was so obvious the judges loved Antonio last year that they might as well have just voted him the winner on episode three. Personally I hated Antonio - wonder how the ratings of his show have been? I have never watched an episode of his and don’t even know if it is still on the air.
But back to the OP - yes, Holmes On Homes is really long and boring as far as I am concerned and do hope they burn off those episodes soon and don’t repeat them. I guess every channel has a slow period without new material, but we have been tuning into HGTV far less recently because it.
HGTV is my default “there’s nothing else to watch” channel. I love Mike Holmes! I’m with the others who haven’t noticed any product hawking or over-pickiness.
I like the house-buying/fixing shows more than the design shows – except Curb Appeal: The Block. For some reason I love that show. Otherwise, though, I’m not into the design stuff. But House Hunters, Income Property, and Holmes on Homes are awesome!
For Rent is Canadian, too. I’d love to see a US-based show for renters.
I think Candice Olsen’s “Divine Design” (my favorite designer) is produced in Canada.
I hope “DesignStar” doesn’t show her in a bitchy light, like it did to Genevieve last year. I used to really like Genevieve, but I thought she was really bitchy as a judge last year. It seems a lot of judges think that they can pull off Simon Cowell’s schtick of being brutally honest yet still beloved. Not so.
I agree. It was clear by the end that the entire last season of Design Star was not a contest to find a new designer, but a vehicle to promote their new find. Just looking at Antonio, he filled a different niche on HGTV and would do well to have his own show. HGTV obviously wanted him. They should have just given him his own show and not co-opted Design Star to advertise him. His design flaws at the end were glaring, yet he kept not getting kicked out.
As for Holmes on Homes, I enjoy the show and never noticed it being on to an unusual level. I usually find House Hunters on HGTV, which I also like.
If by pleasant you mean “hey, it’s a new Hammer Hottie!”
Hammer Hottie, of course, being the name originally given to Evan Farmer, the third (and best) host of the late and lamented “While You Were Out” that was a mainstay on TLC until it became the network of people of unusual body or family sizes. Where Evan was a trained architect, Scott McGillivray from “Income Property” is a real estate type guy. And both can build and paint and design with the best of them.
I had a Holmes on Homes question, but rather than start a new thread to ask it, I thought I’d use this thread.
So does he ever name the crap-ass previous builders who fuck the jobs up so royally? Or does he get after them in any way after he does his show? Some of the stuff the idiots ‘r’ us guys do is criminal.
Not that I’ve ever seen; probably for legal reasons. Plus, there have been at least a handful of shows where the homeowner is in the process of pursuing legal action against the original contractor.