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New on The Home Channel this May:

Home Made Easy
Premiered: Tuesday 6 May 2008 at 20h00
Repeats: Wednesdays at 20h00, Thursdays at 12h00 and Fridays at 16h00
Episodes: 13
Duration: 30 mins

Home Made Easy host, Stephanie Lydecker, gives simple and effective ideas on how to sparkle up and maintain a well run home. She covers everything from cleaning jewellery to handling credit card debt.


Risky Business
Premiered: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 at 21h00
Repeats: Thursdays at 09h00, Fridays at 13h00 and Mondays at 17h00
Episodes: 6
Duration: 30 mins

TVSA's Risky Business mini-site.

Time Makeover
Premiere date: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at 09h30
Repeats: Wednesdays at 09h30, Thursdays at 13h30 and Fridays at 17h30
Episodes: 13
Duration: 30 mins

Time makeover is a time management makeover show that helps people tackle their time crisis to streamline their lives.

In the first episode: Kim and Eric Moore have two careers, two children and no time. With all the unexpecteds in life that Kim juggles from week to week...there is one thing that remains constant; Kim is always late. And her bad habit is hindering one important aspect of their family life, dinner together. Time management expert Molly Gold comes into their world to see how she can streamline their lives and get them to the dinner table together once a week.


Mission Organisation 2
Premiere date: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at 20h30
Repeats: Wednesdays at 08h30, Thursdays at 14h30 and Fridays at 16h30
Episodes: 13
Duration: 30 mins

Mission Organisation helps clear out clutter and reorganize homeowners' closets, offices and garages. Experts share tips on storage and reducing junk collections.

The show's experts work with real homeowners looking to reclaim their own living space to create mission impossible befores-and-afters.

In the premiere episode of this second season: Carol Reitz is a human-resources pro. When she moved into her two-family home in 1994, she figured the first two floors of living space would be more than enough, so she used the third floor attic for storage.

She now wants to make the attic an exercise room and home office. The problem is it is cluttered with so much stuff that even her canine buddy Maddie isn't allowed up there. She hires professional organizer Crystal Sabalaske to help solve her dilemma.

Fat Men Can't Hunt
Premiere date: Thursday, 15 May 2008 at 21h00
Repeats: Fridays at 09h00, Mondays at 13h00 and Tuesdays at 15h00
Episodes: 4
Duration: 1 hour

Eight western couch potatoes, all of them obese, and whose idea of stressful eating is waiting for the pizza to arrive, are put to the biggest test of their lives’: living with a bush tribe.

For a month, thecontestants are thrown into the depths of the Kalahari Desert to live with the !Kung San Bushmen - living in a style reflecting our pre-historic ancestors. The tribe are completely detached from modern society; their existence revolves around utilising the land on which they live.

Under the tutelage of 10 San Bushmen, the contestants integrate into tribal life; build their own straw huts, make fires, gather food, hunt and cook roots, nuts and, hopefully, animals.

How will the contestants cope in the desert? They might be hungry, but their diet should be good for them; food that is less processed has a healthier balance of protein to sugar and carbohydrates, and contains less fat.
And the effort of hunting food each day should prove to be a lot more exercise than our fat contestants are used to. They'll quickly be burning off more calories than they consume each day.

Mentally they’ll be straining from sugar, caffeine and nicotine withdrawal as their bodies’ undertake a complete detox. How will this make them feel? Will they relish their new-found back-to-basics lifestyle or will it all prove too much for them? Will they become lean, mean killing machines? Or will they simply be too heavy to hunt?



Big City Broker
Premiere date: Saturday, 17 May 2008 at 07h30
Repeats: Saturdays at 13h30, Sundays at 10h30 and 18h30
Episodes: 13
Duration: 30 mins


While other real estate shows reveal how to buy or sell a home, nobody’s focused on what it takes to be the dealmaker; and, nowhere is the deal-making more intense than in urban development and real estate.

Brad J. Lamb is a Big City Broker and the leader of the action on this fly-on-the-wall reality series. Each episode explores the inner workings of his realty sales & development company - one of the most successful private real estate groups in North America.

The show joins Brad as him and his team, wheel and deal their way through big city real estate life.  Across the series Brad goes head-to-head with city councilors, lawyers, architects, planners and rival realtors.


Divine Design With Candice Olson
Premiere date: Saturday, 17 May 2008 at 11h30
Repeats: Saturday at 19h30, Sundays at 14h30 and 17h30
Episodes: 26
Duration: 30 mins

Divine Design is a Canadian interior decorating show, hosted by Candice Olson - one of Canada's top interior designers.

Candice works with a team of experts that inlcudes carpenter - Paul Daly, electrician - Chico Garcia and painter - Andrew Downward.

Each episode begins with Candice meeting a homeowner who has a room that needs a makeover. She discusses the design issues they're facing and comes up with a plan for change.

Her and the team then go through a step-by step process of transformation.

In the first episode: Kelly and Mike are busy doctors, who lead busy lives with their busy one-year-old son Jacob. The house is chaotic, due in large part to the fact that Jacob, and Jacob’s toys have taken over the house; no room has been spared.

Mike and Kelly have had enough, they love their son, but they want one room that they can call their own, their master bedroom. The life of a doctor leaves little time for leisure, and Mike and Kelly fear they will never get the room done on their own. So it’s the doctor of design to the rescue.

Candice will transform their master bedroom into a contemporary, cool, and completely private space that is completely off-limits to their son.


Making It Big
Premiere date: Monday, 19 May 2008 at 21h00
Repeats: Tuesdays at 21h00, Wednesdays at 13h00 and Thursdays at 17h00
Episodes: 13
Duration: 1 hour

Making It Big offers young professionals a ticket to the top of today’s most popular creative careers.

In each episode three hopefuls face a tough challenge as they vie for a reward money can’t buy -mentoring by a high-profile leader in their industry such as television host Phil Keoghan of The Amazing Race, renowned Manhattan event planner Preston Bailey and Academy Award winning costume designer Angus Strathe.

From music video directors to fashion photographers, from pastry chefs to songwriters, Making It Big features the careers that everyone dreams about living - if only for an hour.


Gardening By The Yard
Premiere date: Saturday, 31 May 2008 at 08h30
Repeats: Saturdays at 16h30 and 23h30; and Sundays at 11h30 and 14h30
Episodes: 13
Runs: 30 mins

Hosted by professional gardener Paul James, Gardening By The Yard is gardening show that gives tips and advice on different aspects of gardening, as well as related topics eg: how to protect your skin if you're a keen gardener.

Other topics in the season include: diagnosing plant problems, the ideal time to plant specific plants and how to create different plant combinations.

The show also features other garden experts in different areas.

In the premiere episode entitled Chores: Paul tackles chores around the garden-he fills the gaps between flagstones, dresses up his iron basket with flowers, and pulls potatoes and garlic for dinner.

In Portland, Oregon, expert Allan Rogers talks about his perfect peonies. Next, Mark Jones shows how to build inexpensive arbors for spiffing up the garden. Finally, how to determine a plant's hardiness.

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