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Like Nate and Jeremiah by Design (on TLC) and Nate and Jeremiah: Save My House (HGTV) before it, the latest TV offering from the designer couple Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent truly gives us the best of both worlds. It is AD-worthy design (both men are on the AD100 list) packaged into our favorite comforting television formula, which is a rare and beautiful thing. Season two premieres in February.
One important aspect of home renovation, at least for couple Erin and Ben Napier, is to ensure that even new buildings and structures honor the past. In their series Home Town, now in its seventh season, the Napiers use found materials and old textiles from their hometown of Laurel, Mississippi, to reimagine aging houses as more modern spaces.
Double trouble: Brothers Jonathan Scott, a contractor, and Drew Scott, a real estate expert, join forces to help families find the right home for them and then transform it into their dream home in this classic HGTV series.
Since their marriage ended, both Tarek and Christina have continued their careers in design (and in the tabloids). Now, Christina stars in two of her own spinoffs. Christina on the Coast follows the mother of three (she is now married to Josh Hall, who also appears on the show) as she runs her design business in Southern California, while Christina in the Country chronicles her design projects in Tennessee, where she has a second home.
The tiny house trend is here to stay, and on Tiny House Nation, host John Weisbarth and expert Zack Giffin help folks do some major downsizing and rethink their relationships to space and possessions. In each episode, the two-man team gets to know families looking to go small, assess their needs, and builds them a custom mini home.
Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak Hawk are a mother-daughter duo who flip houses in Indianapolis, having decided to open a home rehab business together in 2008. Each episode a different member of their team is highlighted. The duo often incorporate green spaces and art from local artists as an added touch. In 2022, Hawk began starring in her own spin-off, which focuses on just one 1800s Victorian home.
Palm Springs, California, is the location of choice in Desert Flippers, which sees Wisconsin natives Eric and Lindsey Bennett bringing their Midwestern sensibilities to the sun-drenched town. The couple specifically seek out dilapidated houses that they can gut and renovate, all while combating natural elements such as extreme heat, as well as critters including scorpions and rattlesnakes.
There is a true catharsis that comes from spring cleaning, and probably an even greater one that comes from sloughing off an entire relationship post-breakup. Enter Unspouse My House, wherein interior designer Orlando Soria helps newly single clients reimagine their homes and personal spaces to start their next chapter fresh.
Casual HGTV watchers will recognize a ton of familiar faces when watching old episodes of this competition show, which initially ran from 2006 to 2013 and then was brought back in 2021. After a series of design-based challenges, one winner emerges and is awarded with their very own HGTV show. The first-ever winner, David Bromstad, went on to host the now-defunct show Color Splash and today hosts My Lottery Dream Home. Season eight winner Tiffany Brooks was named to the AD100 list this year.
If you find yourself fresh out of episodes of both Million Dollar Listing and Selling Sunset, you might want to tune in to this Down Under version. The show offers a look inside some of the most expensive homes in Sydney, Australia. Most of them are ultra-modern behemoths with water views that would rival any home in Los Angeles.
Selling Sunset is to Los Angeles (see below) as Million Dollar Beach House is to the Hamptons. The Netflix original, which ran for one season of six half-hour episodes, features drama, drama, and more drama between the agents of Nest Seekers International. But, between it all, they show off some seriously swoon-worthy mansions. Even if you watch on mute, it is interesting to check out the variety of architecture in the ritzy area, which ranges from ultra-modern to classic shingled beach houses.
For some, the adventure is in the homestead. On Extreme Homes, homeowners show off their untraditionally structured dwellings, including one that stretches out like an accordion, one that is made up entirely of refrigerator panels, and yet another one that was built to resemble Easter eggs.
Now in its 220th season (yes, you read that right), the wildly popular HGTV series House Hunters chronicles the trials and travails of families, individuals, and couples looking to find the perfect home among three presented to them by a real estate agent. There are countless spin-offs showing different types of buyers, but House Hunters International, which shows people searching for homes everywhere from Prague to So Paulo, is a fan favorite (and is now in season 179).
Think of this as an HGTV all-star competition. Hosted by OG design-show personality Ty Pennington, Rock the Block pits stars from other hit design shows against one another. Each team designs an entire house on a street erected just for the show. It is a huge undertaking, and the show has attracted top talent, including Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent.
No amateurs allowed in this delicate competition, wherein 10 expert glass blowers are faced with timely challenges that test the limits of their ability to create the most beautiful, unique sculptures under massive amounts of heat. The winner takes home $60,000 and notoriety.
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages.[6]
Launched on January 16, 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media services, with over 277.7 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of July 2024.[5][7] By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of October 2023, Netflix is the 23rd most-visited website in the world, with 23.66% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 5.84% and Brazil at 5.64%.[8][9]
Initially, Netflix offered a per-rental model for each DVD but introduced a monthly subscription concept in September 1999.[20] The per-rental model was dropped by early 2000, allowing the company to focus on the business model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees, or per-title rental fees.[21] In September 2000, during the dot-com bubble, while Netflix was suffering losses, Hastings and Randolph offered to sell the company to Blockbuster for $50 million. John Antioco, CEO of Blockbuster, thought the offer was a joke and declined, saying, "The dot-com hysteria is completely overblown."[22][23] While Netflix experienced fast growth in early 2001, the continued effects of the dot-com bubble collapse and the September 11 attacks caused the company to hold off plans for its initial public offering (IPO) and to lay off one-third of its 120 employees.[24]
DVD players were a popular gift for holiday sales in late 2001, and demand for DVD subscription services were "growing like crazy", according to chief talent officer Patty McCord.[25] The company went public on May 23, 2002, selling 5.5 million shares of common stock at US$15.00 per share.[26] In 2003, Netflix was issued a patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to cover its subscription rental service and several extensions.[27] Netflix posted its first profit in 2003, earning $6.5 million on revenues of $272 million; by 2004, profit had increased to $49 million on over $500 million in revenues.[28] In 2005, 35,000 different films were available, and Netflix shipped 1 million DVDs out every day.[29]
In 2004, Blockbuster introduced a DVD rental service, which not only allowed users to check out titles through online sites but allowed for them to return them at brick and-mortar stores.[30] By 2006, Blockbuster's service reached two million users, and while trailing Netflix's subscriber count, was drawing business away from Netflix. Netflix lowered fees in 2007.[28] While it was an urban legend that Netflix ultimately "killed" Blockbuster in the DVD rental market, Blockbuster's debt load and internal disagreements hurt the company.[30]
On April 4, 2006, Netflix filed a patent infringement lawsuit in which it demanded a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Blockbuster's online DVD rental subscription program violated two patents held by Netflix. The first cause of action alleged Blockbuster's infringement of copying the "dynamic queue" of DVDs available for each customer, Netflix's method of using the ranked preferences in the queue to send DVDs to subscribers, and Netflix's method permitting the queue to be updated and reordered.[31] The second cause of action alleged infringement of the subscription rental service as well as Netflix's methods of communication and delivery.[32] The companies settled their dispute on June 25, 2007; terms were not disclosed.[33][34][35][36]
On October 1, 2006, Netflix announced the Netflix Prize, $1,000,000 to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10%. On September 21, 2009, it awarded the $1,000,000 prize to team "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos".[37] Cinematch, launched in 2000, was a system that recommended movies to its users, many of which might have been entirely new to the user.[38][39]
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