Review: ‘HGTV $250,000 Challenge’
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Premiering Sunday night on HGTV, the four-week “$250,000 Challenge” takes the home makeover that is the foundation of that network’s programming and puts it in the hands of amateurs. Five couples from the same street redesign the rooms of their house, with a team eliminated at the end of each episode and a cash prize at the end.
Judging by the catalogs that arrive abundantly at my house, and quite possibly yours, I would say this show represents the very quintessence of the American dream. Can you say ‘accent wall’? I thought you could.
A rotating cast of personalities from other HGTV series is there to help, advise and judge. Host Drew Lachey (Nick’s younger brother and former boy-bandmate, and a ‘Dancing With the Stars’ champ) pitches in as well, lending a hand to each couple in turn, as needed. Every challenge has a special requirement: Kim Myles (“Myles of Style”) wants an item from the old room repurposed; David Bromstad, from “Color Splash,” requires an original work of art for the new bedroom.
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-- Robert Lloyd
