HGTV Fans Stunned as Network Drops Beloved Home Makeover Shows
HGTV is the home of renovation and real estate programming, and now… movies? That’s right, the channel appears to be undergoing some significant changes for 2025. And fans are shocked. Instead of lots more Home Town and other beloved shows, the network has A\been filling popular weekend slots with films.
As first noticed by House Beautiful, the network’s schedule over the weekend included a surprise reshowing of the 2015 Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro movie, The Intern. Usually, the HGTV Saturday line-up is comprised of reruns of some of the network’s most popular original reality shows, such as My Lottery Dream Home and Fixer to Fabulous.
The Intern isn’t the only film on the HGTV schedule for the coming weeks. As House Beautiful pointed out, next Saturday’s (January 11) 1 pm ET slot is reserved for the 1995 Michael Douglas film The American President, while the January 18 slot is occupied by the 2004 Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams romantic drama The Notebook.
Things seem to return to normal on Saturday, January 25, as the 1 pm slot begins a six-episode back-to-back rerun of Love It or List It, hosted by Hilary Farr and David Visentin.
So why the change? Perhaps the network is hoping new viewers will tune in for the movie replays and then stick around to watch HGTV’s original content. Or maybe the schedulers thought viewers simply needed a breather from an entire day of reruns.
Certainly, the move has not gone down well among HGTV fans on reddit.
“Why the heck are they playing father of the bride this afternoon? I’m so confused. I miss the old hgtv shows like curb appeal,” said one viewer.
“Sad. They made all these hosts egotistical millionaires with high demands. But they have not come up with a new show/concept in years,” pointed out a second.
“Why???? HGTV is my default channel. Just sat down on a rainy post Christmas day to relax …and Father of the Bride is on. Ugh. I can watch that anywhere. Why must they ruin everything?” added another.
TV Insider has reached out to HGTV for comment.
This coming Saturday’s (January 11) schedule begins at 7 am ET, with Ben and Erin Napier‘s Home Town, which will run until 1 pm ET. After the airing of The American President, the HGTV reruns will continue at 3:31 pm ET, with old episodes of House Hunters airing for the rest of the day up until 3:30 am ET.
As for new programming, 2025 will see the new seasons of long-time favorites like Home Town, Rock the Block, 100 Day Dream Home, and My Lottery Dream Home, in addition to new hits like Renovation Aloha and Divided by Design.
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What?? No, no, don't change the format. if we wanted to watch movies we'd be watching the channels that play movies. Please don't change!
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Love the old shows, really do Not want any Christina, Moussa shows. Too.much drama & they had their time. More Jen, Jasmine, Hillary, etc. The new Bet on Paradise looks appealing. The more authentic & genuine the hosts, the more appealing.
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Please don't take off property brothers,many shows,don't even mess with home town...I'm begging hgtv..love it or list it,fixer upper,house hunters. Thank u,kim c
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I gave up on HGTV a long time ago. Most of the programming is home renovation. They never have any gardening shows anymore. Kind of funny that they think their viewers want to watch movies...
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Same here. I don’t think HGTV has been good in over 15 years. I miss the landscaping shows as well. They used to have a more rounded network of shows.
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I'm with you. Where is the G in HGTV!? May as well call it HTV.
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I wish they would bring back Desert Flippers with Eric and Lindsey Bennett and Texas Flip N' Move. I loved those two shows!
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Exactly! What happened to the “G” in HGTV? (I have missed the excellent advice and hilarity of Paul James’ “Garden g by the Yard” for so long!) Or just DIY shows that did quick fixes on a budget, like “Design on a Dime?”
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Please leave it as it has been, this is the only channel I watch, where I can find something nice being done for others, even if it's paid, but no violence, I can watch it with my kids my husband and feel comfortable watching. Please leave it alone and get new shows like fixer to fabulous , hometown, The Fords, this is constructive entertainment.
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I don't want to watch movies. I want to see more home design/renovation. Instead of movies how about a second season of Small Hometown Potential? Bring back Cirb Appeal, bring back Brother vs Brother. I am not paying extra money for Discovery+ to watch movies@
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Done! The changes will push HGTV into the same situation as TLC. Good programming changed into boring and unnecessary programming!!!!
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Lottery dream house? Not a fan. Old favorites like Love/List it, Home Town, Fixer to Fab are what keep me interested. But one question to the Marrs regardong their own home reno...whatever we're the thinking redesigning the primary bedroom without WINDOWS!
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Very disappointed that HGTV would change their long time programing of Home & Garden that includes beautiful makeovers for movie reruns that can be found on other networks. I am so very upset with this decision and hope they return with the standard HGTV shows that we've grown to know and love.
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They are going to ruin HGTV like they did the food Network. They made the food Network the Guy fieri Network and now I never watch it
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This is not a movie chanel. Get the movies off.
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No more movies. I watch this channel for the homes remodeling house hunting....if you run movies..that click will be me changing the channel
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Rogers has bought HGTV Channel and Food Network, renaming them Flavour and Home. Latest info is that they will be all Canadian content now, no longer carrying the American favourites. The only episodes of shows like Chopped, Hometown, Lottery Dream Home etc will be reruns.
Why Rogers thinks viewers want "rerun channels" is the question of the year.
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It's already been Canadian content.
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Don’t turn HGTV into another MTV! I enjoy going to HGTV to watch renovations. I have more movie choices than I want and do not want yet another. If HGTV is having a problem with ratings, it’s not because of the platform they have, it’s because they need to mix it up with different styles of improvement shows. Right now, most of the shows are the same just with different hosts, and I’m somewhat ok with that. Why not try to make some “How To” shows similar to This Old House where they teach you how something is installed or made, and not just say we are doing this or that and you just see the end result? I know one thing, as soon as I saw a movie was on HGTV, I flipped to a different channel and was upset about not having a chance to get away from any movie or standard drama or comedy shows.
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If HGTV wants to change forget the movies we can see on dozen or dozens of other channels-
Tiny houses are the rage but how about a program more realistic same formula but building MID houses 600-900 square ft to reduce homeowners footprint but make sense more people.
Or, copy the British home repair show in which the homeowners have a more realistic $12-25,000 budget to fix a room or two--
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Don't drop Home town. That is the only one that is creative
The other ones all look the same after awhile
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I really enjoy the home improvement shows. Adding movies would take away what home improvement. Is supposed to be about.
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>I love the regular programming of the home shows...not happy with the movies at all. FYi
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Just so long as you don’t mess with Keith & Evan’s show—-and nobody will get hurt, ok
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This reeks of the ignorance shown by the Budweiser marketing team, know your audience aka customers! I don't watch HGTV for boring old movies. And stop running "my lottery dream home" four thousand times a week- they are not shows that bear repeating over and over. I think there is rewarding for a certain host being of a persuasion that the HGTV clueless folks in charge of programming want to promote as normal. Read the room! I have no problem with David but too much is TOO MUCH, you take fun and quirky and make it boring and repetitive. A little gardening is okay to add to the programming but a lot would be a snooze fest. Most people live where gardening isn't an option. A little less of House Hunters would improve the line up too. I'm transitioning from a huge fan to ho-hum, and I watch less and less. I hope you listen to your viewers.
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What is H&G doing? Ever since Fixer Upper left with the Gaines, nothing has been the same, but movies now, NO! Want Homes and Gardens bits my favorite channel bi can watch movies anywhere. Fixer to Fabulous is great, Home Town, the Property Brothers, etc. want more No Demo and Jasmine with Help, I wrecked my House, Windy City, etc. Geeze, don’t mess up a good thing!!!! Customers like me will leave.
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I miss all of the original shows on HGTV. Carol Duvall, Curb Appeal, Designing for the Sexes, Landscapers Challenge, etc. I enjoy Love it or List it, my favorite and Lottery Dream Home is also a favorite, David really makes that show. I still watch House Hunters. It seems all of the renovation shows are the same, renovations by different people in different states, no variety.
I have been wanting to comment on HGTV for a long time. I don’t watch it nearly as much as I used to.
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I agree, after awhile it seems you see the same thing over and over again. Bring back some new version of the older shows like Curb Appeal and Gardening By The Yard and other different kinds of shows. There needs to be a variety.
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How about Design on a Dime ? Especially in this economy. We all could use the help. Even the old reruns would help!!!
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I don't need another movie channel! Yes, some of the old favorites have been rerun too many times. Where's the creative juice at HGTV? If it's a rerun I prefer No Demo Reno and Mike Holmes. Some of the new shows, offer little in terms of design smarts or construction must-do's. Limit the amount of competition shows. Too many competition shows make it boring. And I'm not interested in a Moussa competition. Has HGTV decided how it will replace Love It or List It? (Yes, we knew Hillary was going to win. It's a sunk cost decision.) But I liked seeing the alternative ideas that David presented. HGTV you're sending me to other channels.
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As someone else said, I can watch a movie on any other channel, but I want to watch HGTV for home renovation and learning how to. There's not a lot of other home fixing channels I can tune into, please go back to what you do so well. Thanks
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Our patients and myself watch HGTV for the home improvement shows not movies.
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Well this sucks. I guess I won't be watching that channel on the weekends
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Whoever is responsible for for programming needs to be fired immediately. Its bad enough to have to watch the same reruns hundreds of tomes for hours on end but no way in hell does anyone tune in to watch movies. Pathetic programming
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I miss curb appeal. That was landscaping
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I don't tune in to HGTV for movies. Love the shows. Not a fan of Love it or List it. But I love Married to Real Estate. and Bargain Block.
You could throw one Clean With Me shows in there.
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I do miss the regular shows but movies have been ok. I can’t stand Love it or leave it I can’t believe they are going with that show
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Why TF would the execs think showing 20 to 30 year old crappy movies is going to draw in new viewers?
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I liked all the flip or flop shows bargain block 100 day dream home home town and renovation aloha if I want to watch a movie I watch tcm you are dummies!
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I hate that idea. Why change something that people love? Good way to lose faithful followers.
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Give us some more Mike Holmes. Renovation with real information that can be used when doing a renovation. Pros and cons along with design.
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I noticed this over the past weekend. We don’t need another movie channel. Bring back some gardening shows! All this channel shows is home renovations. Let’s get some garden challenges or information shows going.
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Do not mess with Hometown. That's one of my favorite shows. I've waited most of the year to view new episodes.
For movies, there are more channels to watch than there is time. Just stay with thee basics.
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There are enough movie channels. We don't need movies on Hgtv. Get some new home improvement content. It is bad enough there are so many reruns. What about some gardening shows. This channel has been going downhill for several years with all the reruns and so little new or continuing programs
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Please just resell the channel. And Animal Planet too. You’ve completely screwed up both of them. 👎🏼👎🏼🤮
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So they just canceled bargain block and married to real estate! two very good shows that I thought got plenty of views. I don’t understand what’s going on with this channel anymore.
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Me too I am a gardener and enjoy the Garden part of HGTV so where did they all go. I Don't understand the fascination with the Tarek’s or Christina. How many shows can these folks keep coming up with every time they change spouses. Both Christina and the new Mrs Tarek voices are like nails on a chalkboard to me. Find some gardening shows and leave the movies to the movie channel.
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what the heck I am paying 5 dollars a month to watch HGTV more so for home makeover on Sunday nights and the new lineup really is for the birds it was better the way it was Why don't you just go back to the shows we love and if we want to watch movies we can go to the channels that have movies all the good Home network shows are not going to be showing new shows WELL GOOD BYE HVTV I NO LONGER AM GOING TO PAY FOR JUNK AND REPEATS I want to watch What I want and not what you think we want to watch there is an old saying if it work don't fool with it.
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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE eliminate MOVIES on HGTV!!!!!!! For many years, HGTV HAS provided HOME ideas, but has given so many the opportunity to get our minds OFF movies and depressing news!
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Do not like the movies on HGTV
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I use to watch hgtv all the time. Now I find it too rich for my pocketbook. I HATE the movies on Saturday afternoon. If I wanted to watch a movie I have lots of options. An̈d why do you not show any gardening shows? Like how to spruce up your yard at a reasonable price. Not everyone has won the lottery or can afford to movie to Hawaii. Maybe you need to think about the working class that lives on a tight budget.
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I watch HGTV to watch home remodeling shows. I don’t watch it to watch movies. This now ruined watching HGTV. They need to get better shows that are real people not actors or too drama like shows.
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No movies. That's why I watch hgtv!!
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Please go back to the old format. If I want to watch old movies, there's 50 channels I can watch. No more movies. I'm no longer watching because this was my only TV channel I watched regularly. My TV stays off now.
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Cmon—you can’t tell me they can’t come up with more design show ideas? The host competitions are great. What happened with Galey Alex? She was fantastic! And Alison in Windy City?? Jasmine and Todryk are both super fun and really good designers. Egypt and Mike, Mika and Brian, & (always) Ben and Erin are so enjoyable and talented. And Vacation Rental was really interesting. I mean, that’s just off the top of my head.
Stop the movies. Film some more programs. Get inventive!
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So very disappointing. There are plenty of channels to watch movies for free!!!! Why are you doing this HGTV? I would rather watch a rerun of HGTV programs than a movie!!!! I am so frustrated. Why change the format when it is a Home and Garden TV channel and not a movie channel?
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I don’t like not being able to see an HGTV show when I want to! If I wanted to see a movie I’d watch a movie channel!
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I don’t like it. If I want to watch a movie I will put on a movie channel.
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I hate that the are playing movies on hgtv! They have numerous shows to play besides Hometown ,Fixer to fabulous, and now movies are playing. So disappointed in hgtv. I've been watching it less since this format has started.
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I love them but i had to cut back on watching. I got so frustrated seeing houses that were SO affordable, but only there in Laurel and I can't move there. Nowhere else can you find real estate that cheap even if I had money to remodel as beautifully as they do. Being alone after my divorced I dreamed of buying my own home but I can't move away from my kids and now my grandson. I watch only occasionally now.
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What's misleading? I came here because I went to watch home shows and there was a dumb rom com movie playing. HGTV IS showing movies on the weekend. What's up with you?
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That really sucks! I like that David goes all over, even to Nova Scotia. Americans want to see homes here. There's House Hunters, International for other countries.Why people always have to mess with a good thing. And if they do, they should ASK the audience!
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Agreed. I'm over the tiny home thing but I am interested in ADUs as my kids want me to move close to them. I want a small cottage style home but not a shoe box I can barely turn around in. It would also be good if they gave advice on how to navigate zoning issues for them.
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And YES to more gardening shows or shows with Renos that don't cost an arm and a leg. And NEVER let go of David and My Lottery Dream Home... my favorite! Nice to see people go from rags to riches. I much prefer the house hunting shows to the renovation ones, which just make me think I'd never be able to do that.
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Dumb! At least if they're going to air movies they should be home related, I don't know... Money Trap. Or Under the Tuscan sun. Or Made in Italy.Boring rom-coms are so cliched... as if women who watch home shows also want female fluff movies.Isn't that what the Hallmark Channel is for?
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What a horrible idea to show movies on HGTV. The viewers who like design shows just change the Chanel when a movie is showing. Also, why can more shows like Married to Real Estate, Windy City Rehab etc. be shown. My Lottery Dream Home should be shown less. Very disappointed!
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Think it’s ridiculous. Bring back the old shoe trading spaces but more like the British version. Or bring some UK home shows to the US
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Get rid of the movies. Get rid of my lottery dream home....what a train wreck. Glad that House Hunters and House Hunters International has gone away. Dumb....
Rock the Block, Home Town and similar shows are what bring me back.
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Leave Home Town Marrs family 100 day dream house, Lottery Dream house Alone. They are my favorite shows. If I want to watch a movie I'll watch Movie channel.
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Anything is better than House Hunters all day and night
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I think Samsung tv has it going on with the handyman station & just love leave it to Bryan and all the others
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They are trying to drive traffic to on demand apps. It's all about the 💰. Trouble is there are too many apps and HULU has become as expensive as Direct TV. I got myself a Fire tablet for Christmas and plan to read when I am not watching shows on Max or Prime. Also plan to read more articles on interior design. Go to Pinterest and IG for ideas.
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Ridiculous. Can watch movies anywhere. Let me know when it goes back to home and Reno shows. I done for now.
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HGTV in Canada changed to HOME network. A lot of newer and up and coming Reno shows on there. A lot of “Canadian” content. Brian Baumler, the property brothers, Scott macgilllvaryy etc. but others like the Jessica alba one
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If your going to show movies, why not play movies the have home renovations or gardening in them? Maybe show some new shows, my dream lottery is always playing reruns-love David...but sick of the same reruns day after day. Just play something new and fresh.
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Hey, look, a misleading clickbait headline. Get out of here with that garbage!
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