Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Real-estate programs defy market slowdown

NEW YORK -- Real estate might have cooled as an investment -- but not as fodder for television.

House-flipping and home-

renovating programs are still big hits on cable. While "For sale" signs sprout on lawns nationwide, TV programmers are like developers who plow ahead with new housing projects anyway.

A new season of Flip This House on A&E -- one of a troika, with Flip That House on TLC and Flipping Out on Bravo -- is to begin Saturday.

A&E has several new programs in development, and at least six new ones are beginning on TLC during the next year, starting with Date My House -- in which host Bob Guiney, the former Bachelor, has potential buyers spend a night in a home on the market.

HGTV had its highest prime-time ratings in January.

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