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''Designer Guys'' was a Canadian design show on
HGTV 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, appr ...
, created by Mary Darling and produced by WestWind Pictures. Debuting in 2001, the first seasons were hosted by
Chris Hyndman Christopher Edward Hyndman (March 3, 1966 – August 3, 2015) was a Canadian interior decorator and television personality, who was co-host of the afternoon talk show ''Steven and Chris'' on CBC Television until his death in August 2015. Career ...
and
Steven Sabados Steven Sabados is a Canadian television host, designer and writer, who frequently appeared in television programs with his husband and business partner Chris Hyndman and as one of the hosts of '' The Goods'', a daytime talk show on CBC Television. ...
. They hosted until 2004, when they were offered a deal with
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to create a new series, ''
Design Rivals ''Design Rivals'' was a Canadian design show, which premiered on HGTV in 2004. The series featured designers Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados redesigning living spaces for clients. Following from the duo's earlier series ''Designer Guys'', in w ...
''. After they departed, the show was relaunched in 2005 with new hosts Matt Davis, Allen Chan and Anwar Mekhayech, partners at The Design Agency."New designer guys pick up the ball in popular show". ''
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'', March 4, 2006.
Whereas the original Hyndman/Sabados incarnation of the show concentrated primarily on interior design, the new version took on larger renovation projects. Producer Mary Darling compared the process of relaunching the show to "trying to recast ''
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''". The second version of the show remained in production until 2008. In one of the most noted episodes of the second incarnation, Davis, Chan and Mekhayech travelled to
Dawson City Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest town in Yuko ...
,
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to redesign the childhood home of Canadian literary icon
Pierre Berton Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. Berton wrote 50 best-selling books, mainly about Canadiana, Canadian history and popular culture. He also wr ...
as a writer's retreat."Design goes north; TV HGTV's 'Designer Guys' give Pierre Berton's childhood home in the Yukon a face-lift". ''
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'', March 27, 2007.
The original Hyndman-Sabados era has also been credited as one of the innovators of a shift in home design reality programming in the early 2000s,"Chris Hyndman, co-host of ‘Steven and Chris’, remembered for breaking boundaries"
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'', August 4, 2015.
as one of the first such programs to be hosted not by a single designer depicting only the conventional parts of the renovation process, but by a pair of designers who allowed their debates and conflicts over design choices to be depicted as part of the series.


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* HGTV (Canada) original programming 2000s Canadian reality television series 2001 Canadian television series debuts 2008 Canadian television series endings {{Canada-reality-tv-prog-stub