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We have the MAGAZINES; The BOOK and VIDEO list grows monthly and BREAKTIME gets more traffic than an LA freeway.
When should we expect to see a quality porgram???
HGTV keeps growing but the quality of most programs leaves much to be desired.
How About It????
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I'll second it. But keep most of the usual "TV crap", happy feel good crap out. Facts, data, methods, details. Very little paint & paper, please.
I'll get cable as soon as you're ready.
-Rob
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Great idea
If it became anything like some of these threads it would rival network programming.
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Now the wife fusses about me being on the 'puter to long and next it will be the TV..........
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I hereby nominate Patty and Lisa as hosts....
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I listen to talk radio sometimes while working, is "audio Breaktime" possible?
*With flame wars? Nah, stick to the music, if you want flap, tune in the AM yap stations. Too many to list.
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How about "celebrity guest of the week" using breaktime celebs. Yes even the famous five. They could wear hoods if they want to remain anonymous.
*Can someone from FHB respond? Is it a new idea, already in the works or will never happen?
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I'd like to see a segment on the program where a builder and an architect square off on a construction detail or system. Informative yet entertaining.
What is HGTV ?
*Maybe the "fabulous five" are planted on this very site to generate pre-release publicity. Then they'll spring the channel like the WWF or WCW!How about "Architecturally Correct with Bill Maher." Or "Structurally Correct," or "Thermally Correct," or "Materially Correct."-Rob
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FHB-TV sounds great to me as well. There are more topics and details that could be looked at than ten years worth of Sunday mornings could handle. I'd like to see it combined with a Consumer Reports type thing, so tools, materials, systems and assemblies could analytically be compared in an unbiased manner; then we'd know which drill to buy, which shingles hold up the longest, which laminate flooring really does the job, what method of valley flashing works the best, et cetera. A show for the pro's and tradesperson's; people that know what they're talking about (or are supposed to).
*Yes,doit,FHB tube show.
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Lisa, Lisa, we can be famous! Our own TV show! I all ready have an idea for our alter personalities... you know those guys that refinish furniture, the funky ones? I want to be the one who never changes his socks, okay?
Actually, I think that FHB tv is a great idea! If it has the quality of the magazine, books,
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then it can't miss! No less than an hour in length, of course. There's lots of funding out there.
Mike, HGTV is Home and Garden TV - everything from craft shows to quilting shows to garden shows to DIY home repair. Also an enormous website.
Patty
*Yer friggin' sick. . . the lot'o ya. . . I weaned myself of night time t.v. to spend my free(?) time in front of this lil monitor ranting & chuckling with you'all and now you wanna depersonalize back onto one way t.v.. . . there ain't enough hours in my day to work, and eat, and play with my kids and read bedtime stories,i and do breaktime as it is. . . I'm already sleep deprived . . .but if Lisa and Patty (and Bea?) do a demo of proper procedure for pur. foaming windows while naked. . . well ya might hook me for one show!!!( I'll probably tape it and watch it when Breaktime goes down). Socks could be optional, if worn upon feet!!And before you ladies get your p/hose in a knot screamin i sexismyou asked fer it when you started rattlin on about PMS at the bar of the boys sandbox. :%
*Yeah I think it is a great idea, especially would be useful to see someone live on TV (Fabio and Pamela Sue Anderson could host) patching drywall just like on the cover of the latest issue. Is this Fine Homebuilding or Fun Homerepair? I guess you can only flog the same old same old so much, but there are plenty of things yet to be covered so cut the repair crap and get on with the good stuff and can the TV idea please.
*Patrick You Filthy Pig... I'm proud of you.For a Canadian. You've shown how Civilized and Proper we Yanks really are, and I am indebted to you.To wit, you may drink my ration of BudLite this month.Black47 in hand...
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I'm new to the net ,therefore breaktime, but have enjoyed FHB for years. If the TV program would be anything like the magazine, I say yes, definitly, BRING IT ON!
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FHB TV would be a winner! If it carried on the magazine's tradition of excellent technical content, then it would definitely outcompete other similar shows such as "this old house", "Bob Vila's Home Again", and "Home Time". I think you have a huge potential audience of do-it-yourself'ers and professionals who long for a TV show which displays a more advanced and thorough level of craftsmanship than those "other" shows that concentrate on "acting" and oversimplify most topics.
While were at it, why not beef up your website too by providing your subscribers with instant electronic access to the full text and illustrations of all your magazine archives. I realize that you probaby make a profit from all the hardcopy back-issues you sell, but you could recover the cost by providing this service to subscribers for a small one-time or annual fee.
There ... I've said my two cents.
*Mike,Patty was almost right about HGTV. Actually, the letters stand for Hack & Gag Television, referring to the program content. It features their answer to Martha in a skunk striped lady who never met an idea she didn't like, a gushy couple who like to drape fabrics in bathrooms and call it designing, a landscape architect forever stuck in a North Carolina subdivision ("Now we'll stick in twenty azaleas and gardenias.."), and TOH Classics, wherein skinny, black haired clones of Bob and Norm retrofit a Boston home with the "latest" in PB plumbing, Masonite hardboard siding, and Entran II radiant heating.
*Patrick,Sounds like you've been drinking that cheap wine again!! I told you to go for the b good stuff!Seriously, I'm game, but only if we shoot that first episode here.....the country folk that want to partake could camp out in the woods beside the stream in the back, the content city dwellers would be welcome inside, and those who don't know what they want, well, they could park an RV in the front. There's room for all here!Beatrix
*GeorgeWith favours like that who needs flames or slaps. . . Black47 eh, anything like Colt45? . . . what happened to that Smokey Mtn.Mud stuff you were creamin about last week??? I'd send you a bottle of Upper Canada Dark but the alcohol content would probably blitz you, and then ya might commit sepuku knowing what you'll always be missing.
*Patrick, sometimes we have to support the local economy, with the weather back to chilly a Stout will do. Warm up, and I'm tempted to IPA or Bock again.Sharpening up my Waki-sashi just in case my opener breaks.
*GeorgeA good i shuto uchishould do the job, extra points for a clean break.
*I remember when Norm Abram was a carpenter. At some point he became a "personality" so the got Tom Silva to be the carpenter. Now Tom is a "personality" so they are grooming Tom's nephew to be the carpenter. Every time one of Dean's wives becomes too much of a "personality" he gets another. It seems that all of these shows are more about living the good life with Robin Leach than good old saw dust. I fear that FHB-TV would simply become another TOH with "personalities" and projects no one can relate to. You may have noticed the TOH magazine has less substance than the show itself (and more personality ego stroking). I don't think that a FHB-TV program could be anywhere close to the quality of the magazine. Let's leave TV to the personalities.
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Heh, heh, heh. Ok, but I want to be the one in the wild shirts and off-color jokes. And only if they let us do it live. We could do all sorts of in-jokes and make comments to our buds here like "Blue, we're gonna measure this here piece o wood, so go get a beer" or "Freddy, don't get your panties in a knot, we'll get to that air barrier" or "Patrick and Adrian, look how we finally found a use for your pretty money - dp cels!" We would even keep a computer, with a big screen, available, so we could read aloud whatever scatalogical conversation happens to be going on...
I think that FHB tv could be a really great thing, IF they stick to their guns about quality and content. If neccessary, expect to take a loss on it for several years until you get a real viewship built up. If the PTB (powers that be) let it slide into HGTV crap, it will hurt the magazine and the books, and that would be a real loss.
As soon as I get the call, I'll pack my bags...could we film it in Jamaica...pretty please?
Lisa
*Patrick, Patrick, Patrick, PUR? Nah, lets do dpcels intead, that way we could pop out of a bag at the beginning. Besides, does the nudity apply to helpers and camera crew too? Wanna volunteer? I never scream about it, when I run across real sexism (you didn't qualify) I just bury the s(d)ob where the body will never be found...Broad (:-p) mindedly, LisaI haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on disc someplace...
*I was watching this weekend while they pushed over an old oil furnace - covered in asbestos - just pushed to the floor, took sledges to it to break it up... I can just see OSHA if someone tried that today...
*Bea, What part of the country are you in? If I'm gonna do any buildin nekid I want it to be nice out. Actually, I was thinking that if we did it down at Patty's place, say in the French Quarter, we'd fit right in...As George keeps reminding them, the poor boys don't have any good stuff up there. Don't be too hasty inviting us all to your place, we might like it so much that we'll stay, and then there goes the neighborhood!Feelin the tax day blues...Lisa
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Lisa,
Southern Ontario.....it's finally spring here. No need for socks!! hehe. I just bought some American Travellers cheques today...you guys would make a
b killing
coming here! I've been to the French Quarter in "norlens"-great place to visit, but the gunshots give me a headache! I'm sure that our neighbors would even hand out the extension cords for the RV's!!
Looking for stardom,
Beatrix
*Oh GAWD Bea, not you too? A Canadian! Geez, guess we'll have to bring our own beer* to your place too.* Domestic Micros
*Steve - You hit the nail right on the head. The latest issue of TOH is so lame that my wife didn't even want to read it. I gotta cancel that. I believe that mag has targeted an audience that is WAY above me. I thought $1600 was a good price for a refrigerator, but my Kitchen Aid is rental property quality in that mag.-Rob
*George,I'll take that as "Wow,you're a Canadian too!" Sure...you can bring your own beer- I'm not much of a beer drinker, but your watered down Coors Light goes down easily!Lisa....I'll blast my Bob Marley CD's for you!Beatrix
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Hey George, if you're going to be bringing the beer, you can be our "helper". Working with three talented, opinionated, and oh yeah gorgeous (;-)) co-hosts. Just think; fame, fortune, and all the tools we we could shake a framing square at(use # 3,456,978.5). I think that is why Nahm is in the business, so he can get to use all those complimentary tools - he ain't as dumb as he sounds...
Bea, I was thinking of Jamaica more for the climate, beaches, and food than the music, although that's fine too. Canada,heh? I guess we can't use the "Canadian money as dpcels" schtick then. Oh well. And RV's? Who needs RV's? That ain't camping!
Lisa
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Lisa,
It's the fence sitters who get the RV's....the rural group can camp out back by the water.I'll even get the neighbors to turn off their porch lights. Give me a few days to go to Florida and grab a palm tree to put beside the pool...that's as close to a beach as I can make it....we can order out for the food.......now if this doesn't work ,then Ok..Jamaica it is!!!!!! That wouldn't be too tough of a pill to swallow!
Beatrix
*The Rastahs might have a ting or two da say, mon. . .i dat bwy gwan ohmFond memories of Redstripe, Appleton's & local vegetation(nudge, nudge)
*BeaMove away from that freakin suburb you're always creamin' about and come on down east. . . we got lots of stars around here. . .some vertical, some horizontal. . . 'sides me of course
*Lisa, I reckon I could be forced to film in Jamaica, heh. And, yeah, I want the camera crew nekkid!And hush your mouth, Steve - I wanna be a "personality!"Has anyone actually proposed this idea to Taunton via letter/e-mail?BTW, Beatrix, those weren't gunshots - those were the refineries blowing up. Or it could have been hunting season for cockroaches; somebody bagged a 5-incher last year, but it didn't come close to breaking the record.Patty
*Bea, cool. "Decorating with Pink Flamingos" can be our third episode. We can get the FWW crowd to do cameos on episodes 1 & 2, "Constructing the Pink Flamingo & Finishing the Pink Flamingo." I suggest Lisa's house for episode three, as she needs time to drill the "lawn" for the flamingo rods. (I have it on good authority, her "lawn" is that green tennis court stuff.) Her grass on the other hand... oops, gotta go.
*George,Just got back last night from a week in heaven....I mean Florida....be careful- those pink flamingos sound pretty good to me right now!! I'm in withdrawl!! LOLPatty-Maybe those loud noises were the banging in my head from drinking Hurricanes 24 hours a day on Bourbon Street. What a party place!Beatrix
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Patty,
How about those Asian roaches - they fly! In the tropics, they would eat the labels off the cans - made dinner selection, um, interesting. I know that the TV idea has come up upon occasion before, but maybe they will have the correct incentives this time - namely us!
Bea, did you bring any flamingoes back with you? Would they be allowed through customs? I figure if you are going to do one flamingo, you should do several dozen. A whole flock even. Takes it from tacky to outsider art.
Anticipatingly, Lisa
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Lisa,
We could have brought back a few flocks of flamingos, pelicans, I'm sure even a dolphin or two and customs wouldn't have noticed- they'd have to look up to do that!!LOL There are
advantages to landing late, with sleeping children in your arms.Tackiness is relative, flamingos and anything pastel just looks good over there, here, that's a different story!Someone here asked once why anyone would choose to live in an ice-box, I laughed then, but now I'm not so sure that it wasn't a serious question!! Why do we??
Ok....here's an idea for the pilot show--we'll island hop to show the different building techniques and codes, with emphasis on unique materials and cultural decorating styles. Of course, we'll have to do before and afters- about two months apart,to maintain job security that is!
Tanned,mellow and could be packed in ten minutes,
Beatrix
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We have the MAGAZINES; The BOOK and VIDEO list grows monthly and BREAKTIME gets more traffic than an LA freeway.
When should we expect to see a quality porgram???
HGTV keeps growing but the quality of most programs leaves much to be desired.
How About It????
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Beatrix,
I like the pilot idea. Of course, someone :-) is going to have to stay on site to keep track of things between the before and afters...
I grew up in the tropics and I still wonder how I ended up in Dorothy-ville. Every winter I ask myself this...
No need to pack, Lisa