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January Publicity 2011
TX52 / 1st January 2012Sunday / Grow Your Own Drugs
(Start of 2)
Saturday 2.30pm & 11.30pm
Sunday 9.30am & 6.30pm / From ice lollies made from Echinacea to acne gels made from marigold flowers, home-made natural remedies are about to get a makeover as ethnobotanist James Wong reveals how to Grow Your Own Drugs.
In this innovative series, James demonstrates how to make a variety of remedies and offers an informative guide to plants and gardening along the way. He tells how to harness their natural beneficial properties to help with minor everyday ailments, from coughs and colds to eczema and insomnia, plus great ideas for luscious, free beauty fixes.
TX1 / 2nd January 2012
Monday / Over Designed
(Series 1)
Monday 7.30pm
Tuesday 10pm
Wednesday 11.30am
Thursday 3.30pm / Design expert Kenneth Brown helps those nominated by friends and family because of their unique and zany home design style. Although the nominee thinks their design has style, their loved ones might not always agree!
3rd January 2012
Tuesday / Makeover Wish
(Start of Series 2)
Tuesday 6.30pm
Wednesday 11.30pm
Thursday 10.30am
Friday 2.30pm / Featuring top designers, remarkable transformations and plenty of raw emotion, Makeover Wish performs $25,000 room makeovers for truly deserving individuals in need of a break. After sending their targets off on a surprise weekend getaway, the expert crew creates a superbly executed showpiece in just 72 hours. From a fabulous new bedroom to the world’s coolest family room, every lavish detail is geared to enhance everyday life through beauty, function and design that is a gift of a lifetime.
4th January 2012
Wednesday / Junk Raiders
(Series 1)
Monday 5pm
Wednesday 9pm
Thursday 9am
Friday 1pm
Saturday 1.30pm & 10.30pm
Sunday 8.30am & 5.30pm / Why spend a fortune on new building materials when other people have chucked out exactly what you need?Junk Raidersis a journey into 'up-cycling'; the thriving do-it-yourself subculture that takes trash and uses innovative recycling methods to give it new life. The first series saw theJunk Raidersteam use cast-offs to transform an old 1,600 square foot steel factory into a swanky VIP live/work space. The second series ups the stakes by challenging the team to build a funky freestanding two-story building out of cast-off shipping containers, finely furnished with trash. With furniture made from old ambulance stretchers, chairs made out of bike frames and even walls filled with 20,000 used wine corks, this project promises to stretch the team's imagination and ingenuity. Will their garbage transformation be good enough? Or will their demanding client order it all torn down and sent to landfill? Only time and trash will tell.
5th January 2012
Thursday / Design For Life
(Start of Series 1)
Monday 12pm
Tuesday 4pm
Thursday 8pm
Friday 8am / Designs for Life is a new four-part series that follows four couples as they set out to build their very own designs for life. Presenter and Architect Garry Miley matches each of the aspiring homebuilders with an architect who he thinks is their ideal match. Whether it's a new build on a stunning site or a complete overhaul of a house bang smack in the middle of a heritage town Garry, picks the architect who he thinks will meet the challenge, but will this be enough to turn their dream homes into a reality?
6th January 2012
Friday / Secrets of a Restaurant Chef
(Series 2)
Monday 11pm
Tuesday 10am
Wednesday 2pm
Friday 36pm
Saturday 7am & 5pm
Sunday 11am & 8pm / A viewers’ private window into the kitchen of a top restaurant, this series reveals the concise, easy to master techniques of a top-level chef. By showcasing professional secrets on preparing food that is full of flavour, seasonal and creative, yet never frou-frou or scary, Anne Burrell translates your favourite restaurant foods into amazing at-home meals. With years of restaurant experience mixed with a pumpedup passion, Anne gets you making meals that are special enough for guests, but easy enough for a rushed weekday evening.
7th & 8th January 2012
Saturday & Sunday / On The Beach
(Local Show - Series 1)
Tuesday 9.30pm
Wednesday 9.30am
Thursday 1.30pm
Friday 5.30pm
Saturday 10am & 7pm
Sunday 2pm & 10pm
The Gardener
(Local show- Series 10)
Tuesday 9pm
Wednesday 9am
Thursday 1pm
Friday 5pm
Saturday 9am & 6pm
Sunday 7am & 1pm / Join presenter and interior designer Juliet Newell as she showcases some of South Africa’s most beautiful and charismatic beach houses. She will chat to the owners, architects and designers to get the inside track on these magnificent and charming homes. Juliet will also select her favourite room in each home and show you how to get the look.
SA’s favourite gardener, Tanya Visser, is back on The Home Channel this summer with another season of her wildly popular show, The Gardener. Each week, Tanya features a fabulous and creative garden and gardening element and then shows viewers how to practically and easily get the look in your own garden.
TX2 / 9th January 2012
Monday / King Of Dirt
(Series 3)
Monday 6.30pm
Tuesday 11.30pm
Wednesday 10.30am
Thursday 2.30pm / In each episode Gino meets with homeowners to share his “no-holds barred” opinions on their yard project. If he doesn’t like the way something looks or the way it was built, he’s not afraid to make jokes or tell his prospective clients that it’s a piece of garbage.
10th January 2012
Tuesday / Get Growing
(Start of Series 1)
Tuesday 7pm
Wednesday 10.30pm
Thursday 11am
Friday 3pm
Saturday 12pm & 9pm
Sunday 4pm / Each week Lynda will set the family a hidden task as well as follow up from the task from the week before. Lynda will talk about her crop of the week and its many uses, and in her weekly diary will cover top tips for the week ahead regardless of where you live in New Zealand. She’ll be joined in each episode by a member of our support team- Garth from Palmers, Heather from Living Earth and Hamish from Yates- who will tackle a gardening challenge, with everything from moving established plants to solving basic problems.
11th January 2012
Wednesday / Over Your Head
(Start of Series2)
Monday 2.30pm
Wednesday 6.30pm
Thursday 11.30pm
Friday 10.30am
Saturday 12.30pm & 9.30pm
Sunday 4.30pm / Over Your Head is the series for everyone who has ever attempted a home improvement makeover only to find themselves, well, a little over their heads. Even seemingly simple home improvement projects can go oh, so wrong. On each episode, host Eric Stromer and his team of professionals bail out do-it-yourselfers, taking them on a wild ride from what went wrong, to what it takes to make it right.
12th January 2012
Thursday / Home Made
(Series 1)
Monday 1pm
Tuesday 5pm
Thursday 9pm
Friday 9am / 10 designers from across Australia take on the biggest renovation competition ever attempted as they have to completely makeover two family homes in just five days.
13th January 2012
Friday / The Unsellables (Canada)
(Start of Series 1)
Monday 11.30pm
Tuesday 10.30am
Wednesday 2.30pm
Friday 6.30pm / From dated décor and filthy interiors… to cluttered closets and messy bedrooms, The Unsellables tackles the most unsightly and ‘unsellable’ listings on the real estate market… And encourages desperate homeowners to get smart, let go of the past, and prepare for a sale.
Join property guru and British TV personality, Sofie Allsopp, and celebrity contractor Anthony Sayers, as they coach and cajole home sellers through a major clean-up and targeted makeover that will help them seal the deal.
14th & 15th January 2012
Saturday & Sunday / My Dream Home
(Series 1)
Monday 8pm
Tuesday 8am
Wednesday 12pm
Thursday 4pm
Saturday 11am & 8pm
Sunday 3pm
Restoration Man
(Series 1)
Monday 4pm
Wednesday 8pm
Thursday 8am
Friday 12pm
Saturday 3pm
Sunday 10am & 7pm / The hosts of My Dream Home are determined to help couples find, buy, and transform extreme fixer-uppers into their ultimate dream home. Since it’s hard to see beyond a dated property’s shortcomings, they’re using state-of-the-art CGI to reveal their vision of the future.
Each of the nine episodes in The Restoration Man features a home owner who is restoring an unusual building by converting it into a residential dwelling. Architect George Clarke tours the British Isles and on his way discovers some of the finest examples of windmills, follies, gate houses, ice houses, towers, and churches. The series focuses heavily on the architectural and historical significance of each of these interesting and mysterious finds.
TX3 / 16th January 2012
Monday / Renovation Nation
(Series 1)
Monday 9pm
Tuesday 9am
Wednesday 1pm
Thursday 5pm / The green home building movement is unfolding in real time on each hour-long, information-packed episode of Renovation Nation, which answers the burning questions that every homeowner in America has about going green.
17th January 2012
Tuesday / Chef at Home
(Start of Series 5)
Tuesday 6pm
Wednesday 11pm
Thursday 10am
Friday 2pm
Saturday 8am & 5pm
Sunday 12pm & 9pm / Chef at Home is series that inspires and empowers home cooks to improvise in their kitchens, venture beyond recipes, and instinctively create flavourful, simple food for family and friends.
18th January 2012
Wednesday / In My Kitchen
(Start of Series 2)
Monday 2pm
Wednesday 6pm
Thursday 11pm
Friday 10am
Saturday 8.30am & 5.30pm
Sunday 12.30pm & 9.30pm / In My Kitchen is The Home Channel’s favourite local cooking show for anyone looking to turn a regular family meal into a family feast. Each week, host Sasha Zambetti invites a food expert into her kitchen to find out how easy techniques and tips can help any home-cook feel like a chef in their own kitchen.
19thJanuary 2012
Thursday / Make Do and Mend UK
(Start of Series 1)
Monday 11.30am
Tuesday 3.30pm
Thursday 7.30pm
Friday 10pm
Saturday 1pm & 10pm
Sunday 8am & 5pm / Make Do and Mend team set out to save the viewer money by making the cheap beautiful, and the beautiful cheap. A hit squad of renovation experts target towns across Britain, showing families from every walk of life how to boost their finances using inventive tips and skills. Skill more valuable than money can buy! This brand new lifestyle series shows you how to live well and have fun without damaging your pocket. And every day the audience will be able to take away extra top tips in the Mending Our Ways bite size guides.
20thJanuary 2012
Friday / Love By Design
(Series 2)
Monday 10.30pm
Tuesday 11am
Wednesday 11am
Friday 7pm / Love by Design is one part decorating makeover and one part design showcase. Add the nuances of romantic comedy, sprinkle with the candy-colored visual conventions of a sit-com and the syncopated free spirit of a music video and finish with a dash of straight-up how-to, and that's our show.
It is a half-hour, four-act driven, light, information television show focusing on design, but working towards both a design and dating pay-off.
21st& 22nd January 2012
Saturday & Sunday / Cook Yourself Thin UK
(Start of Series 2)
Monday 11pm
Tuesday 10am
Wednesday 2pm
Friday 6pm
Saturday 7am & 4pm
Sunday 11am & 8pm
Summer Home
(Series 1)
Monday 10.30am
Tuesday 2.30pm
Thursday 6.30pm
Friday 11.30pm
Saturday 10.30am & 7.30pm
Sunday 2.30pm & 10.30pm / Forget drab diets – they don’t work… Because ‘healthy’ food can sometimes taste pretty boring. If you want to drop a dress size or several , but still stuff your face with gorgeous grub, then Cook Yourself Thin chef , Gizzi Erskine, is about to come to your rescue. Have your cake and eat it … get ready to Cook Yourself Thin.
Summer homes are all about good times, easy living and getting the most out of the summer season. SUMMER HOME transforms dark, dingy and dated vacation homes into relaxing, peaceful retreats. The series captures the fun, humour and emotion of a summer at the family vacation home. Our host creates accessible designs and provides tips and tricks for any vacation homeowner. SUMMER HOME celebrates great
TX4 / 23rd January 2012
Monday / Candice Tells All
(Start of Series 2)
Monday 7pm
Tuesday 10.30pm
Wednesday 11am
Thursday 5pm
Saturday 2pm & 11pm
Sunday 9am & 6pm / Candice takes viewers through the ins-and-outs of her signature makeovers while exploring a major design principle in each episode. The audience sees first-hand where Candice gets her design inspiration from and joins her as she traverses the city to see how these principles work in other mediums and art forms. Candice also gets the scoop from design industry insiders and meets up with professionals and artists doing inspiring and fabulous things beyond the world of interior design. It is a first-hand glimpse into Candice’s world, her design process and inspiration, as well as a chance to see her as we have never seen her before – up-close and personal!
24th January 2012
Tuesday / House Doctor: Inside and Out
(Start of Series 1)
Tuesday 8pm
Wednesday 8am
Thursday 12pm
Friday 4pm / Ann Maurice embraces a new format as she attempts to overhaul a wide range of homes that have been proving tricky to sell. Expert gardener Sven Wombwell gives the properties some much-needed kerb appeal whilst Ann works her magic on the interiors and gets those houses sold.
25thJanuary 2012
Wednesday / Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price
(Start of Series 2)
Monday 3.30pm
Wednesday 7.30pm
Thursday 10pm
Friday 11.30am
Saturday 1.30pm & 10.30pm
Sunday 8.30am & 5.30pm / Ambrose Price, is a vibrant, enthusiastic designer from Fortune Bay Nfld; population 2000. His dream is to make it in the “big city” and become Canada’s Martha Stewart. Ambrose is coming to Toronto to temp and learn from the biggest and best in the design industry. In every half hour episode, Ambrose will face a different (and somewhat daunting) decorating challenge. Of course, getting to the top is going to take a lot of hard work and training.
26th January 2012
Thursday / Marriage Under Construction
(Start 4 of Series 4)
Monday 10.30am
Tuesday 2.30pm
Thursday 6.30pm
Friday 11.30pm
Saturday 10.30am & 7.30pm
Sunday 2.30pm & 10.30pm / Kate doesn't want to live in Matt's house anymore. This young couple isn’t on the verge of a breakup; Kate just wants them to buy a house together. Until now she has been living in a home that Matt bought and renovated himself… and it’s time they take the next step: a joint mortgage.
In this fourth season of MARRIAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, we’ll be there when this new young couple battles multiple bids to land their first home together. We'll be there - hammer strike by hammer strike - as Matt takes on the majority of the construction himself in order to stretch their limited budget.
27th January 2012
Friday / OpenGardens
(Series 2)
Monday 10pm
Tuesday 11.30am
Wednesday 3.30pm
Friday 7.30pm / Presented bygarden experts Carol Klein and Joe Swift the series documents the trials, the tribulations and the triumphs ofsome of the hundreds of British gardeners who try desperately every year to win a place in theNational Gardens Schemeslegendary Yellow Book. Whilst the series uses the quest of being accepted by the NGS as it’s basis, it is the very human stories of some of the gardeners involved that lifts it from being just another gardening programme. Whether these people’s experiences are tragic, heart warming or inspirational – it is their garden that has helped them get through it all.
28th January 2012
Saturday & Sunday / On The Beach
(Local Show - Series 1)
Tuesday 9.30pm
Wednesday 9.30am
Thursday 1.30pm
Friday 5.30pm
Saturday 10am & 7pm
Sunday 2pm & 10pm / Join presenter and interior designer Juliet Newell as she showcases some of South Africa’s most beautiful and charismatic beach houses. She will chat to the owners, architects and designers to get the inside track on these magnificent and charming homes. Juliet will also select her favourite room in each home and show you how to get the look.
29thJanuary 2012
Monday / Make Do and Mend Uk
(Series 1)
Monday 11.30am
Tuesday 3.30pm
Thursday 7.30pm
Friday 10pm
Saturday 1pm & 10pm
Sunday 8am & 5pm / Make Do and Mend team set out to save the viewer money by making the cheap beautiful, and the beautiful cheap. A hit squad of renovation experts target towns across Britain, showing families from every walk of life how to boost their finances using inventive tips and skills. Skill more valuable than money can buy! This brand new lifestyle series shows you how to live well and have fun without damaging your pocket. And every day the audience will be able to take away extra top tips in the Mending Our Ways bite size guides.
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The Home Channel – DSTV 182 –January 2012 publicity highlights