The coronavirus outbreak has delayed shows or forced retooling. For one renovation series, ratings are 'through the roof' as viewers binge from home.
Eric Hofmann told San Luis Obispo officials he would bus in “hundreds and hundreds of pissed off people potentially adding to this pandemic.”
And while home flips have largely halted, renovation rainmaker Tarek El Moussa is “doing everything we can to get as many episodes out,” he said in reference tohis 14-episode HGTV series filmed in Southern California. The mid-season finale is scheduled for May 21. Thanks to a drastically pared schedule, “I finally feel normal for once,” said El Moussa, when reached at the Costa Mesa home he shares with. For example, the star canceled his in-person “Homemade Investor” real estate events, moving them to webinars.
With schedules in constant flux — the coronavirus and its repercussions largely determine timetables these days — a few HGTV shows have been delayed. Among them, Brittany Picolo-Ramos’ New Orleans-based“We wanted to be sensitive to the fact that it doesn’t seem like a very fair representation of New Orleans, with what’s going on right now,” Ruch said. “We want to save it for a couple of months.”in COVID-19 cases, with death rates higher than many other areas of the country.
For viewers craving escapist simplicity during anxious times, other HGTV shows have proved nearly irresistible. Ratings for the Laurel, Miss.-basedIts spin-off,, will air in 2021. But an announcement of the selected locale — picked from more than 5,000 submissions –– is on hold until “the timing is right,” Ruch said, so that “we are also sensitive to the state of our country.
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