TLC's "While You Were Out"

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Anyone catch today’s preview of The Learning Channel’s new show “While You Were Out?” It’s a somewhat similar premise to “Trading Spaces” in that someone gets their spouse out of the house for the weekend, and they have 2 days and $1500 to redo a room and surprise them.

It pretty much eats, sucks and blows. A major disappointment. They’re tearing it up on the Trading Spaces message board. (One woman even said “This show was so boring I actually turned it off to cook and clean!” ROFL!) They played these stupid quiz games with the homeowner so they could win cheap-ass bird feeders and garbage like that.

Discovery is debuting THEIR new home makeover show called either “Suprise by Design” or “Design by Surprise,” which I understand is very interesting and well done. (It ran Friday at noon, but I missed it…it will rerun Monday at noon again.) Any opinions from the field on either?

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The people on that show just don’t have the personalities that the TS people do. Although I did like the carpenter and his accent. :slight_smile:

It’s a decent premise. They have more money and a staff of helpers and could pull off some cool stuff but unless they do something about the carboard cutout host, it’s just not very interesting to watch.