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Canada's Worst Handyman

November 2024 •English

They're armed, dangerous and pose an imminent threat to person and property - and you might even be one! Discovery Channel has tracked down five shockingly shoddy renovators and offers the critical tools to help them improve.

Maître du chantier

November 2024 •French

12 young construction professionals compete in a skills competition that will determine the best entrepreneur in Quebec.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

November 2024 •English

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series providing home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. The show is hosted by former model, carpenter and veteran television personality Ty Pennington. Each episode features a family that has faced some sort of recent or ongoing hardship such as a natural disaster or a family member with a life-threatening illness, in need of new hope. The show's producers coordinate with a local construction contractor, which then coordinates with various companies in the building trades for a makeover of the family's home. This includes interior, exterior and landscaping, performed in seven days while the family is on vacation and documented in the episode. If the house is beyond repair, they replace it entirely. The show's producers and crew film set and perform the makeover but do not pay for it. The materials and labor are donated. Many skilled and unskilled volunteers assist in the rapid construction of the house. EM:HE is considered a spinoff of Extreme Makeover, an earlier series providing personal makeovers to selected individuals, which the Home Edition has now outlasted. This show displays extreme changes to help recreate someone's space. However, the format differs considerably; in the original Extreme Makeover, for instance, participants were not necessarily chosen based on any recent hardship, whereas the family's backstory is an important component of Home Edition. EM:HE also has similarities to other home renovation series such as Trading Spaces, on which Pennington was previously a key personality.

My RONA Home

November 2024 •English

With the help of a team of experts and friends, two families compete to design, construct and decorate brand new homes over the course of just ten weeks.

Female Construction Workers

November 2024 •Dutch

Women in construction are still very much in the minority. The figures speak for themselves: of all construction workers, only 8 percent are women. But those women certainly stand their ground! With the same ease with which they use a curling iron, these tough ladies operate a crane, concrete mixer or bulldozer.

Lachey's Bar

November 2024 •English

Following Nick and Drew Lachey as they open a bar in their hometown of Cincinnati—because nothing mixes together quite like siblings, construction, and beer.

Ma Maison RONA

November 2024 •French

Maine Cabin Masters

November 2024 •English

Builder Chase Morrill is teaming up with his brother, sister and best friend to save and transform abandoned cabins buried deep in the remote woods of Maine. From historic cottages nearly a century old, to camp cabins in need of some major TLC, they'll give these properties the facelift they've needed for decades. And, you never know what you might find when you go for a walk in the woods.

Constructions sauvages

November 2024 •French

Flipping Boston

November 2024 •English

Two house flippers in Boston try to refurbish and sell properties quickly.

Renovation Gap

November 2024 •English

Father and daughter home renovation team Doug and Paige pick up a hodgepodge Dallas, TX, home in need of some extra attention. They intend to turn this confusing home into a charming and cohesive space. Will they be able to pull it off?

Spice Up My Kitchen

November 2024 •English

When a kitchen is so dysfunctional and ugly that every night is take-out, Spice Up My Kitchen steps in to cook up a hot new space. Designer Lauren Lake and her carpenter duo, Jeff Devlin and Mark McGraw, take kitchens that the homeowners think are outdated or ugly, tear them down and rebuild them from scratch -- providing the homeowners with brand-new kitchens. Designer Lauren Lake presents the homeowners with two design plans based on their budget and wish list. The homeowners choose a plan then before they know it, their old kitchen is transformed into a delicious new space.

Renovation, Inc.

November 2024 •English

Bryan and Sarah Baeumler share how their story began with the establishment of their Canada-based renovation company in this "prequel" to Renovation Island.

Home Improvement

November 2024 •English

The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.

Guy Martin: Building Britain

November 2024 •English

Guy Martin is on a mission to learn about the UK construction skills shortage. Meeting the grafters of the future, Guy will try his hand at the specialist skills that helped build Britain.

Dinnerladies

November 2024 •English

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.

Timber Kings

November 2024 •English

The most unique log homes on earth are custom built by master log-smiths in the small town of Williams Lake, British Columbia. Each one is handcrafted on site, then taken apart, shipped around the world, and reconstructed wherever the client wants. No one else can do it like the boys at Pioneer Log Homes. They are "Timber Kings."

Modern Marvels

November 2024 •English

HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

November 2024 •English

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.

Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan

November 2024 •English

Kevin McCloud follows an innovative community-led regeneration scheme in Castleford.