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The Fix (2008 TV Series)
''The Fix'' is a Canadian reality television series that uses home renovation pranks as a primary plot device. The series premiered on July 3, 2008, on HGTV. The program is produced by General Purpose Pictures and is hosted by contractors Neil Davies and Jay Purvis. The series also airs on the Fine Living Network Fine Living (Sometimes called Fine Living Network or FLN) was a European television channel, initially owned and operated by Scripps Networks Interactive and later by Discovery Inc., from 2018 onwards. It broadcast from to . It featured document ... in the United States. Synopsis In each episode, the homeowners are introduced to Neil and Jay who gain their trust and learn of their dreams for the ultimate home renovation. After a few days of work the homeowners are then presented with a fake space. As the homeowners are brought into the fake space Neil and Jay drag the joke out until they finally reveal that the space is a fake. The hosts, with the help of a professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Davies (TV Personality)
Neil Davies may refer to: * Neil Davies (Australian footballer) (1931–2009), Australian rules footballer * Neil Davies (rugby league) Neil Davies (4 December 1980) is a Welsh professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 2000s. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, Wales Students, Wales Dragonhearts and West Wales, and at club le ..., Welsh rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s See also * Neil Davis (other) {{hndis, Davies, Neil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Purvis
Jay Purvis is a former model and television host. Purvis was a co-host of ''Kitchen Equipped'', which was shown on Food Network Canada, Purvis also hosted HGTV. Purvis now hosts '' The Fix'' which airs on HGTV. The ''Kitchen Equippeds resident carpenter's looks (Purvis) are compared to ''American Idol'' host Ryan Seacrest. Purvis is also compared to English chef Jamie Oliver due to Purvis's use of Brighton slang and public school accent. Biography Purvis was born in Oakville, Ontario in 1976, but his mother and brother moved to Britain and later when he was 8 years to Israel. Jay is a former pupil of Claremont Preparatory School and then Sutton Valence Public School and grew up in rural Kent with his mother and brother Shawn (DJ and surfer). He rode his mother's horses helping her in her equestrian hobbies and also played good rugby and cricket for his schools. After Shawn had finished his A levels they all moved to Brighton, where he worked in the building renovation and ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HGTV (Canada)
HGTV is a Canadian English-language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel owned as a joint venture between Corus Entertainment (which serves as managing partner and owns 80.24% majority control through licensee HGTV Canada, Inc.) and Warner Bros. Discovery (which owns the remaining 19.76%). HGTV broadcasts programs relating to real estate, home and garden design, and renovations. The network's programming draws partially from the U.S. version of the channel, but it also carries original Canadian-produced series, some of which have in turn also been picked up for broadcast by the U.S. network or others internationally, as well as a smaller selection of home renovation programming acquired from other channels in the United States or the United Kingdom. History In September 1996, Your Channel Television Inc., a company majority owned by Atlantis Communications with minority partner E. W. Scripps Company, was granted a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Living Network
Fine Living (Sometimes called Fine Living Network or FLN) was a European television channel, initially owned and operated by Scripps Networks Interactive and later by Discovery Inc., from 2018 onwards. It broadcast from to . It featured documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to home, cooking, travel, lifestyle and health. History The channel was operated by Scripps Networks Interactive in a joint venture with Chello Zone from the launch till 2018 when Discovery, Inc. acquired Scripps Networks Interactive. Fine Living HD launched in Europe on 1 September 2015. Fine Living ceased broadcasting in the Netherlands and Flanders on 31 January 2019. Content from former Scripps television channels Travel Channel, Fine Living and Food Network has been integrated into the programming of Discovery, TLC and Investigation Discovery in the Benelux. On 31 December 2020, it was announced that the television channel has been dissolved following a bankruptcy proceeding due to accumul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Canadian Television Series Debuts
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HGTV (Canada) Original Programming
HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. As of February 2015, approximately 95,628,000 American households (82.2% of households with television) receive HGTV. The network was bought by Warner Bros. Discovery, then known as Discovery, Inc., in 2018, and it has come to be ranked at No. 4 in audience size among cable networks. History Kenneth W. Lowe (then a radio executive with The E. W. Scripps Company and, subsequently, the chief executive officer of Scripps Networks Interactive) envisioned the concept of HGTV in 1992. With modest financial support from the E.W. Scripps corporate board, he purchased Cinetel, a small video production company in Knoxville, as the base and production hub of the new network. Lowe cofounded the channel with Susan Packard. Cinetel became Scripps Productions, but it found p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
