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Sabrina Heise

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True confessions: * Not as politically aware as I should be. * I bite my nails. * I didn't love the Sex and the City movie. * I am actually, really addicted to sugar and should probably be in a 12-step program. * By addicted, I mean, I lash out at people and get grumpy when I haven't had my sug...

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Sleep on It

People have been talking for a while about the effect of the Writers’ Strike on TV programming. Now that all of my favorite shows no longer have any new material, I’ve been watching more than my fair share of decorating shows on HGTV.

There is one thing, especially, that I admire about this channel. You’d think that there’s really only one real idea behind these shows: you want a better home--through buying, remodeling, and redecorating. And any person would think that there’s only a short list of ways to creatively look at this process. But HGTV has 77 shows. 77!!! How incredible is that? 77 ways to rip out your hedges, make fun of your parents’ outdated kitchens, buy a house that will send you into bankruptcy, find out how your choice of mauve bathroom tile actually took your property value down $60,000, and it goes on and on and ON.  

Their latest show may be their best one yet. You can tell they’re excited about it too, because sometimes they’ll play the same promo twice in a single commercial break.

The show is called Sleep on It. A person (or couple) wants to buy a house...I know you’re thinking, “Seeeeen it,” but wait, there’s more! So they let the person (or couple) SLEEP in the house before they buy it, to see what it’s like. It’s like test-driving a house, for goodness sakes! They walk around in their jammies and brush their teeth in someone else’s house for a night, and they don’t even have to buy it! This is why HGTV will keep running even when all major networks go bankrupt because their greedy, money-hungry producers won’t give a smidge of their millions and billions of dollars to writers for internet programming.

HGTV has the capability to take a subject, beat it to death with a stick, kick it twice, and then wrap it in cellophane and tie a pale pink bow around it and hand it to their viewers who LOVE it and weep tears of joy for its’ creativity. And, they did it all without the help of Oprah.

But, if they did find a way to get Oprah somehow tied to an HGTV show, there’d be no stopping it. Ever.