Saw Hometime yesterday afternoon – a rerun, with Robin Hartl – and started meditating on her departure. Found her website – looks like she’s available for personal appearances, if you’ve got any appropriate gigs coming up.
Great, she can help me finish my basement. She can even bring one of those fancy ladders
I saw the ladder infomercial once or twice with Robin and Dean Johnson (from Hometime), then started seeing almost exactly the same infomercial with Richard Karn (from Home Improvement) replacing Dean. Made me wonder if the PBS folks got a little miffed about it (they were in some sense profiting from the “characters” developed on Hometime, and may have violating an exclusivity clause in their contracts) and put their foot down; Dean back to Hometime and Robin jumping ship.
Everything in the OP’s link is a typical press release, so nothing remotely helpful there.
I wasn’t recommending it as a source of information – I was revelling in its cheesiness.