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June 12, 2008

A housing (TV show) boom

Think television programs about homes and the housing market are suffering along with sellers? Think again. As The New York Times reports today, the two channels best known for housing-related shows -- HGTV and TLC -- are drawing more viewers now than during the boom times:
HGTV’s prime-time schedule — built around the shows “Designed to Sell,” “House Hunters” and “My House Is Worth What?” — now average more than a million viewers every evening.

Shows that were hallmarks of the bubble — like “Flip That House” (on TLC) and “Flip This House” (on A&E) — are still around, but have been retooled with less-than-happy endings. The TLC episodes are repeated several times each week and still draw an average of 700,000 viewers a showing.

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 11:50 AM | | Comments (2)
        

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Think of all the other (non) reality TV shows we Americans watch. Were in a perpetual state of disillusionment.

It's fair to say that the "Flip" series has been relegated to the ranks of "escapist utopian" television.

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About Jamie Smith Hopkins
Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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