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Discovery said today that its cable nets TLC and Hgtv are teaming to revive the 2000s home-makeover series while you were out.

The premiere of the first series co-production under Discovery’s expanded lifestyle portfolio will be simulcast on both networks, with each brand lending its special flair to the series, Discovery said. Production begins this month for a 2019 premiere.

While You Were Out will feature TLC and Hgtv stars designing one room in neighboring homes

while each set of homeowners send their significant others on a weekend getaway to await the ultimate surprise reveal upon their return. The nets will air their own version of the same episode featuring the same homeowners, designers and carpenters.

“This is an exciting moment for the newly combined Discovery Lifestyle portfolio and for our passionate, female audiences,” said Howard Lee, President and Gm of TLC, and Allison Page, President and Gm of Hgtv and Food Network.

Discovery is relaunching hit home makeover series “While You Were Out,” which will debut as a crossover series airing on both TLC and Hgtv in 2019, the company announced Monday.

The project marks Discovery Inc.’s first co-production after the company, led by chief lifestyle brands officer Kathleen Finch, acquired Scripps Networks earlier this year.

“While You Were Out” — which originally debuted on TLC in 2002 and ran for four seasons — will simulcast its revival premiere on both TLC and Hgtv, “with each network brand lending its special flair to the series,” according to Hgtv.

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Per the series official description, “While You Were Out” will “feature TLC and Hgtv stars designing one room in neighboring homes while each set of homeowners send their significant others on a weekend getaway to await the ultimate surprise reveal upon their return.”

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Discovery is looking to capitalize on the promise of its Scripps Networks Interactive acquisition through a plan to revive the home makeover series “While You Were Out” with separate episodes of the show tailored for TLC and Hgtv audiences.

The series is billed as the first crossover series among Discovery networks following its $14 billion purchase of the parent company of Hgtv, Food Network, Travel Channel and other lifestyle cablers. Those brands are now being integrated into the Discovery fold alongside TLC, Animal Planet, Own, Science, Velocity and other outlets.

“While You Were Out” will blend designer stars from past and present TLC and Hgtv shows in a competition format. The series will air at the same time on both networks when it premieres next year.

“This is an idea I used to dream about, but we couldn’t do it before our companies came together,” Kathleen Finch, Discovery’s chief lifestyle brands officer,...

Trading Spaces is sticking around. Today, TLC announced they've renewed the TV show for a 10th season.

The home renovation show follows neighbors as they remake each other’s houses with the help of designers and carpenters. The series is hosted by Paige Davis and features designers Doug Wilson, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Laurie Smith, Frank Bielec, Genevieve Gorder, and Vern Yip. New designers include John Gidding, Kahi Lee, and Sabrina Soto.

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Neighbors, prepare your reaction faces because Trading Spaces is back in production. The TLC home makeover show that features two pairs of neighbors swapping homes to remake a room returned to huge ratings in 2018 and production on a second revival season is now underway. Who's return? We've got that scoop. Along with host Paige Davis, the new season will feature…everyone from last year! Brett Tutor, Carter Oosterhouse, Doug Wilson, Frank Bielec, Genevieve Gorder, Hildi Santo Tomas, Joanie Sprague, John Gidding, Kahi Lee, Laurie Smith, Sabrina Soto, Ty Pennington and Vern Yip will all return for some savvy makeovers. Like last year, the two sets of neighbors will trade rooms for two days and with the help of a...

Trading Spaces will return. Today, TLC announced they've renewed the TV series reboot for a 10th season.The home renovation show follows neighbors as they remake each other's houses with the help of designers and carpenters. The series is hosted by Paige Davis and features designers Doug Wilson, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Laurie Smith, Frank Bielec, Genevieve Gorder, and Vern Yip. New designers include John Gidding, Kahi Lee, and Sabrina Soto.Read More…...

Just ahead of the Season 1 finale, TLC has picked up a second season of its hit home makeover show Trading Spaces, its tenth season overall. Casting is underway for premiere in early 2019. TLC says Season 2 will be an expanded episode order beyond Season 1’s eight episodes. The exact number of episodes is still being determined.

The revival of TLC’s signature 2000s reality competition series has been a ratings success for the network. The return season of Trading Spaces currently ranks #1 in cable in its premiere time period among key women W25-54/18-49 demos. Driven by the revival series, TLC ranked as the No. 2 cable network on Saturday night with W25-54 in 2Q18 to-date.

“The response to the revival of Trading Spaces, from longtime devotees to newfound superfans alike, has been seismic, and we are proud to continue the celebration in 2019,” said Howard Lee, President and General Manager of TLC,...

TLC has renewed its “Trading Spaces” revival for another season, which will be No. 2 of this new version and Season 10 overall.

Production is slated to begin this summer. The series will return to TLC in early 2019 with even more episodes than this current run got.

“The response to the revival of ‘Trading Spaces,’ from longtime devotees to newfound superfans alike, has been seismic, and we are proud to continue the celebration in 2019,” said Howard Lee, president and general manager of TLC, in making today’s announcement. “We look forward to our designers and carpenters bringing more color, design risk and most of all, fun, into homes across the country in the upcoming season.”

These days on “Trading Spaces,” two sets of neighbors trade rooms for two days and — with the help of a...

“Trading Spaces” returned to TLC and brought the network’s largest Saturday night audience in eight years.

The premiere episode of the home design show was the most-watched show on TV across the entire night, with 2.8 million total viewers, besting the season premiere of the CBS drama “Ransom” and the HBO’s “Paterno” biopic starring Al Pacino.

The episode was preceded by an hourlong reunion special, which also won its timeslot with 2.5 million total viewers. Together, the two shows earned the Discovery-owned network its most-watched Saturday night block in since 2010.

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“Trading Spaces” was revived by TLC after a decade off the air, with original host Paige Davis returning, as well as designers and carpenters Doug Wilson, Carter Oosterhouse, Frank Bielec, Genevieve Gorder, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Laurie Smith, Ty Pennington and Vern Yip. New cast members include Brett Tutor, Joanie Dodd, John Gidding, Kahi Lee and Sabrina Soto.

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Fans of the original Trading Spaces can rest easy: The show’s reboot officially includes some of the hilarious design fails and cringe-worthy homeowner reactions you know and love, a new interview confirms.

“Not every episode has a happy ending,” TLC’s executive vice president of development and production Howard Lee tells TV Guide. “What one of our designers does with eggshells is shocking. Dozens and dozens of eggs were harmed.”

Returning carpenter Ty Pennington echoes the sentiment, noting that it’s the show’s unpredictability that separates it from the pristine renovations viewers have come to expect on TV...

Before TLC’s iconic home-makeover series Trading Spaces returns for Round 2 in 2018, the original team is reuniting for a game of Where Are They Now.

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Paige Davis, who is returning to host Trading Spaces 2.0, will appear alongside Amy Wynn Pastor, Carter Oosterhouse, Doug Wilson, Frank Bielec, Genevieve Gorder, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Laurie Smith, Ty Pennington and Vern Yip in a catch-up special airing this spring (exact date Tbd), hosted by Lisa Joyner of TLC’s Long Lost Family.

As seen in the preview clip above, the original cast members will reminisce about their favorite room transformations,...

Some familiar faces are about to return to your TV.

Before TLC debuts a new season of Trading Spaces in 2018, the network will host a reunion special with the home makeover show’s original cast and introduce the new designers and carpenters that will be joining for the reboot.

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Paige Davis, who signed on for the new season in July, along with designers Doug Wilson, Genevieve Gorder, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Vern Yip, Frank Bielic and Laurie Smith, and carpenters Ty Pennington,...

Trading Spaces’ comeback season may not be airing until 2018, but the cast — including eight original members — is already hard at work filming the first episodes.

Returning host Paige Davis shared the first photo on set, hanging off the iconic Ts truck. “The truck is back too!!! Just like old times. Woohoo!” Davis captions on her Instagram.

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Fan favorite designer Genevieve Gorder also confirmed to People that she is already filming new makeovers.

Joining Davis, who signed on for the reboot in July,...

Meet Brett. He’s a carpenter, and he’s about to be on your TV screen every week, building things and sweating probably.

TLC announced the cast for it’s long-awaited reboot of Trading Spaces (coming spring 2018) on Wednesday, and alongside almost all of the show’s original cast members, were a few new additions: Hgtv and Diy Network regulars Sabrina Soto, John Gidding, Kahi Lee, and Joanie Sprague and one relative newcomer, carpenter Brett Tutor.

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Tutor, 31, inherits the...

Go ahead, call it a comeback!

Any Trading Spaces aficionado will tell you the hit TLC show, which aired from 2000 to 2008, was just as much about the rotating cast of designers’ big personalities as it was about redecorating on a budget.

On Wednesday, TLC announced the lineup for the show’s forthcoming reboot after a 10-year hiatus, and almost every fan favorite from the original series is making a return. Joining host Paige Davis, who signed on in July, will be Doug Wilson, Genevieve Gorder, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Vern Yip, Frank Bielic, and Laurie Smith. Beloved carpenters Ty Pennington and Carter Oosterhouse will also be back.

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Hgtv "Design on a Dime" host Kahi Lee is hooking up 10 "Extra" friends with a Nescafe Dolce Gusto machine! Sign up to become and "Extra" friend and enter the secret word from the show Tuesday, July 5 for your chance to win!

Purina is on a mission to educate its customers about the recyclability of its pet food cans. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Friskies and Fancy Feast have created the “Together We Can” campaign.

Hgtv’s Kahi Lee, Jennie Garth, Peter Facinelli and Roberta Flack all created art for Purina’s “Repurrposed” Gallery. On April 14th in New York City, Kahi Lee hosted The RePURRposed Gallery, which highlighted the works of art created exclusively with Friskies and Fancy Feast cat food cans. At the event, art made from Friskies and Fancy Feast cat food cans was on display.

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