''Home Front'' is a lifestyle television series that aired on

TVNZ , type = Crown entity , industry = Broadcast television , num_locations = New Zealand , location = Auckland, New Zealand , area_served = Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the ...

's channel Television One in

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. It combines "home makeover" ideas, home maintenance and

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tips, and guided tours around the homes of well-known New Zealanders. The series premiered on 6 July 2000 with several series of 13 episodes each. ''Home Front'' was hosted by Jayne Kiely,

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, and

Sally Ridge Sally Ridge is an interior designer, television personality and socialite from Auckland, New Zealand. She is currently working as a real estate agent in Auckland city. Career Ridge has been a television presenter on several shows dealing with inter ...

, each of whom covered a particular area of the show. Kiely was the primary presenter, and also presented the guided tours. Cull presented hints and advice for DIYers (do-it-yourselfers), and Ridge presented the home makeovers section of the show. Originally hosted by

Alison Mau Alison Mau () (born 14 February 1965), known professionally as Ali Mau, is an Australian-born New Zealand journalist and broadcaster. She is a former television news anchor, former co-host of the TVNZ current affairs show '' Seven Sharp'', for ...

, until she left TVNZ for Prime Television, this series was hugely successful for TV One. A rushed reshoot, of Jayne Kiely fronting many stories previously shot using Alison Mau, added to the demise of the series when it was finally axed in 2005.

External links

TVNZ ''Home Front'' page

References

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