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Leanne Ford is one of the thousands of people who lost a home in the California wildfires. The former HGTV star revealed that her house burned down as blazes ravaged through the Los Angeles area. She and husband Erik Allen Ford had just closed on the home less than one month before it the tragedy. “Three weeks ago we got keys to our new LA place in Rustic Canyon,” Leanne wrote in a January 10 Instagram post. “We were excited (though me — a bit hesitant…) to start spending some time again in our favorite part of LA. A beautiful historical and quirky artists’ home. We brought over so many of our favorite things to fill it with. It was to be a place to write, to create. Three days ago we lost it.” The Restored by the Fords star shared pictures of the rubble that remained after her home burned to the ground.

Leanne Ford of Restored By the Fords and Home Again with the Fords revealed that her family lost their new Los Angeles home in the devastating fires. The HGTV star shared images on Instagram of the home she just purchased with her husband, Erik Allen Ford, on Instagram. In the caption, Ford shared that they lost their house but that it was not yet a "home" for her family and that her family was lucky they could go elsewhere. Ford is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She shared in the post that she is willing to help those who needed it.

HGTV has renewed its competition series “Rock the Block” for a second season.

The series will return with six new episodes in 2021.

Season two will find four pairs of HGTV’s brightest renovation stars teaming up to take on identical three-story suburban properties and transform them into extraordinary custom dream homes. With only one month and a $175,000 budget, the network duo who adds the most value to their home will proclaim victory and savor the sweet satisfaction of bragging rights, according to HGTV.

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“Rock the Block has the winning combination of family-friendly competition and high stakes renovations that makes it one of our most popular crowd pleasers,” said Jane Latman, president of HGTV. “We can’t wait for our all-new line-up of HGTV superstars, intense challenges and surprise elements to bring millions of excited fans back to the block.

HGTV has picked up a second season of its hit home makeover competition series, Rock the Block.

The renewal follows solid ratings for the series, which drew more than 20.3 million total viewers in its first season. The six-episode season 2 is slated to premiere in early 2021.

In season two, four pairs of HGTV’s top renovation stars (Tbd) will team up to take on identical three-story suburban properties and transform them into extraordinary custom dream homes. With only one month and a $175,000 budget, the network duo who adds the most value to their home will proclaim victory, along with bragging rights.

In season 1, reno expert Jasmine Roth bested challengers Leanne Ford (Restored by the Fords), Mina Starsiak Hawk (Good Bones) and Alison Victoria (Windy City Rehab), to take the grand prize.

“Rock the Block has the winning combination of family-friendly competition and high stakes renovations that makes it one of our most popular crowd pleasers,...

Hgtv is spinning off popular series “Home Town” with new Ben and Erin Napier renovation series, “Home Town Rescue.”

In the six-episode event series, The Napiers will attempt to mobilize members of one community to renovate an entire town. It’s slated to premiere in 2021.

“‘Home Town Rescue’ is exactly what fans of Ben and Erin have been asking for and it will change one lucky community in a powerful and significant way,” said Betsy Ayala, senior vice president of programming and development for Hgtv. “We’ve seen how Ben and Erin put their heart and soul into every incredible renovation. It’s time for another town to benefit from their experience and expertise. This time, a different community will see their hometown restored to its former glory.”

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The third quarter of 2019 was a particularly good one to own TLC — just ask Discovery (or its shareholders).

Wall Street forecast Discovery’s Q3 earnings per share would come in at 82 cents on revenue of $2.68 billion, according to a consensus compiled by Yahoo Finance. On Thursday, the company actually reported adjusted earnings of 87 cents per share on revenue of $2.678 billion.

That all-in revenue number represents a +3% growth from the comparable quarter last year. Advertising and distribution revenues both grew in the three-month period ended Sept. 30, 2019.

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Chipping in was TLC, the No. 1 ad-supported cable network in primetime among women 25-54 and women 18-49, thanks in large part to the “90 Day Fiance” (pictured above) piece of its portfolio. TLC’s ratings grew +10% among women 18-49 and +16% among women 25-54.

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“The Brady Bunch” star Maureen McCormick will join “Windy City Rehab” star Alison Victoria in hosting Hgtv’s “Christmas in the White House 2019,” the network announced Thursday.

During the one hour special, set to premiere in Dec., cameras will follow McCormick and Victoria on a room-by-room tour of the White House to see the holiday decorations.

“Hosting White House Christmas for the past two years has been a highlight for me, and now it will be even more amazing with Maureen,” Victoria said. “The sights and sounds of the White House during the holidays are unlike anything you’ve ever seen, and I love that together we’ll get to share it with Hgtv viewers.”

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“The White House is the most spectacular home during the holidays.

Former Hgtv “Fixer Upper” stars Chip and Joanna Gaines have announced the first original series for their upcoming Magnolia Network — but it has nothing to do with home renovation.

“Home on the Road” (working title), a six-episode reality show, will follow the husband and wife tandem of Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano Ramirez as they tour North America with their band Johnnyswim. Ramirez and Sudano will have their kids, Joaquin, 4, and daughter Luna, 1, in tow. And, oh yeah, eight band and crew members will also be along for the ride.

Watch a teaser via the video above.

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The series will premiere as part of the rebranded cable channel’s initial slate of programming for its October 2020 launch. Magnolia is a joint venture between the Gaineses and Discovery.

Leanne Ford, like a normal person, loves using the color white generously when designing her spaces. My wife does not, which means I lose the argument in front of the swatch-wall every time.

With the “Rock the Block” star on the phone ahead of her big series premiere, I asked the designer of “Restored by the Fords” — her other Hgtv series — to explain to me how to properly explain to my wife why white rules.

“I just really believe in white paint. I think it is the blank canvas, and what it does is it allows everything else in the room to shine and be important,” Ford said. “It’s really fail-proof. It always looks good, it always looks current, and it always looks timeless. There’s no white space through time that you think, ‘That looks dated.'”

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Exclusive: Hgtv has raised the stakes for its upcoming home renovation competition series Rock The Block.

In the series, top home reno experts Mina Starsiak Hawk (Good Bones), Alison Victoria (Windy City Rehab), Leanne Ford (Restored by the Fords) and Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential) go head-to-head in a showdown to max-out four identical properties and add the most property value to each home. With just four weeks and an individual budget of a $175,000, the competitors must renovate and design such spaces as a master suite, kitchen, great room and outdoor living space.

At the end of each weekly challenge, a special guest star from Hgtv will judge the rooms and crown a winner, who will land a showcase of her own Hgtv series immediately following the one-hour airing of Rock the Block.

Tarek El Moussa (Flip or Flop) will judge the reveals of the master suites, Mike Holmes (Holmes & Holmes) will review the kitchens,...

Hgtv is adding a new home renovation series to its lineup with Rock The Block, in which four of the network’s top reno experts will go head-to-head in competition. It’s slated to premiere this fall.

With a time limit of four weeks and budget of $150,000 each, Leanne Ford (Restored by the Fords), Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential), Mina Starsiak (Good Bones) and Alison Victoria (Windy City Rehab) will take identical suburban properties—located side-by-side in the Greater Los Angeles area —and morph them into extraordinary custom dream homes. Hosted by Property Brothers star and real estate expert Drew Scott, Rock the Block will spotlight the power reno professionals as they infuse the houses with their distinctive signature style. The Hgtv star who adds the most value to her home will claim victory and bragging rights.

“We couldn’t resist the opportunity to put four of Hgtv’s biggest stars...

Baby on board! Hgtv star Leanne Ford is pregnant! The Restored by the Fords interior designer is expecting her first child with her husband, Erik, the couple confirmed to the exciting baby news to People on Wednesday. Leanne, 37, and Erik, 35, are set to welcome a daughter in mid-March. The couple, who found out that they're expecting in August, had only recently started trying before they conceived. "So many women have trouble getting pregnant and so many of my friends have kind of had their woes about it, so I just assumed that would be the case and you just assume it's going to take a long time, and it didn't," Leanne told People. Erik also shared that he was "really surprised and...