ok i know this is the home and garden network but come on! Enough with all the design shows! I used to watch HGTV every day but now, I can take about an hour in the morn and then I have to change the channel. Surely this network can come up with something else to add. How do you all feel about this? BTW, I love Holmes on Homes.

There's just no pleasin' anyone. First you get folks bellyaching about "too many real estate shows,". Now, "too many design shows." Go figure.

I agree with OP. Where are the gardening shows? Many of the programs are about buying and selling homes, which given the stagnant market seems pointless. Not all of us are buying and selling, I would enjoy a program or two about the yard and garden.

Funny, and all the design to sell homes, what's my house worth, buy me, are so out of date, they do not apply in today's market.

i am watching Homes Across America these days.

HGTV once had some real gardening shows before they had major landscaping shows and they were good. I like the Saturday shows too. i am sick of House Hunters. It bores me and its on too often. Not crazy about Hidden Potential either. Lets talk plants for a while.

If they add more gardening shows that means I will have fewer shows I need to watch or record and can devote more time to CSI rerns. I love plants and flowers but have no interest in gardening shows with the exception of Rebecca's Garden and Paul James.

I like a balance of the Design Shows and the
Gardening Shows. Every once in a while I would love to see a Gardening Show at night. Make that
a week night.

the show color correction is the only one that i dont like. the rooms turn out as bad as they were when they began and she always makes this awful color combinations.... so yes eliminate this show and add something different, more interesting

I agree-they need a better balance. I really miss Suprise Gardener! I wish they would at least show repeats in the middle of the night or something.

Goosie, I had to laugh about the CSI shows. I jokingly say that I watch so much murder and decorating shows that I will know how to get rid of someone then redo the house so well, I could sell it before they could catch me.

I don't usually post on this forum, but I believe there is enough room for them all. There are so many re-runs on that I don't understand why they can't balance it out a little more and have something for all of us.

I like the design shows, but like the gardening shows as well. Don't you guys agree that there is room for all?

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love Holmes on Homes.

me too. cranky but factual.
this summer HGTV has aired mostly reruns, but I do like the new CURB APPEAL even if I can't afford their mega upgrades

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hi, I'm new on this site,and I agree with everthing everyones saying .the thing I really don't understand is why the don't show anything in the middle of the night.I would think the sponcers would pay more for air time them those long commercial{sp} do. maybe we all need to hgtv know. how we feel

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Originally posted by pam963:
hi, I'm new on this site,and I agree with everthing everyones saying .the thing I really don't understand is why the don't show anything in the middle of the night.I would think the sponcers would pay more for air time them those long commercial{sp} do. maybe we all need to hgtv know. how we feel

Good luck on that one, Pam. The reality is, HGTV doesn't CARE how we feel - there have been numerous postings and complaints and emails sent to them concerning this or that show screaming TAKE IT OFF (like Hidden Potential, Color Correction, etc) and they only add it back to back over and over. HGTV used to be quality programming for those of us who wanted to learn about making our environment beautiful, whether inside or out. Now it's mostly a mishmash of young, 20 somethings jumping around, giving us bad design and leaving us with bad tastes in our mouths. I wish there was something we could do....perhaps tying the programming person to a chair and forcing him/her to watch back to back episodes of Hidden Potential with bobblehead Barry for hours on end. They simply don't care - it's all about the bottom line and what is cheapest to produce. As with King George, the little people (fans in this case) get the sigmoidoscopy.

2 words......DIY Network! I used to be an HGTV addict! Now, most shows that I tape on my DVR are on DIY. They also show reruns of one of my favorite old HGTV shows.....Weekend Warriors. Sorry HGTV, you are quickly loosing a faithful viewer.

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Sorry HGTV, you are quickly loosing a faithful viewer.

True! don't forget marketing to a new (and younger) audience. surely we've noticed HG is only one of many owned & operated by a single corporation? or the long gone "color" gal is boss of several new shows produced in Canada! or diverse ethnicity is the new focus?
anyone care to bet why I'm inundated by ads for ever more home shows on other channels? - maybe my cable provider is same corporation -

sorta like the claims that Emeril's new shows would only be available on another network - hmmm? last night, on same food network, fewer bams, but all about touting his new ten thousand acre organic veggie business!

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