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This Sunday at 7 Pm, you can tune in to Ty's Great British Adventure on ABC. In it, Ty Pennington, the host of ABC's popular Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, heads to the UK to do what he does on Em for a sleepy town in the UK. Except that this episode, which is being aired as a one hour special, was a six episode series in Britain. In fact, the series has had three seasons already; this one is from a year ago.
Ty said the biggest challenge for him was how polite and laid back the Brits are; he could barely get them motivated to get things done in his one week time frame. "Let's sit down to tea and talk about this," they'd say instead.Continue reading Ty condenses his British makeover series into a special for ABC
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This Sunday at 7 Pm, you can tune in to Ty's Great British Adventure on ABC. In it, Ty Pennington, the host of ABC's popular Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, heads to the UK to do what he does on Em for a sleepy town in the UK. Except that this episode, which is being aired as a one hour special, was a six episode series in Britain. In fact, the series has had three seasons already; this one is from a year ago.
Ty said the biggest challenge for him was how polite and laid back the Brits are; he could barely get them motivated to get things done in his one week time frame. "Let's sit down to tea and talk about this," they'd say instead.Continue reading Ty condenses his British makeover series into a special for ABC
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- 7/30/2009
- by Jason Hughes
- Aol TV.
London -- British pay TV platform UKTV said Wednesday that it has sealed its first U.S. program sale.
The U.K. pay channel provider sealed a deal with ABC for lifestyle program "Ty's Great British Adventure," which stars Ty Pennington and sees him try to pep up the down-at-heel British seaside town Portreath.
Pennington is on U.S. screens with ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
"British Adventure" was executive produced by Pennington and Leigh Seaman for Tptv, and Twofour Prods.' Joe Houlihan.
Exec producers were UKTV's director of commissioning Jane Rogerson and commissioning editor Catherine Catton.
UKTV is jointly owned by BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media.
The U.K. pay channel provider sealed a deal with ABC for lifestyle program "Ty's Great British Adventure," which stars Ty Pennington and sees him try to pep up the down-at-heel British seaside town Portreath.
Pennington is on U.S. screens with ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
"British Adventure" was executive produced by Pennington and Leigh Seaman for Tptv, and Twofour Prods.' Joe Houlihan.
Exec producers were UKTV's director of commissioning Jane Rogerson and commissioning editor Catherine Catton.
UKTV is jointly owned by BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media.
- 7/22/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ty Pennington, star of ABC's Emmy-winning Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, has spent his summer break filming a feature for the British Channel, UKTV Style (Here's a good interview with Ty). On Sunday, August 2nd, at 8:00pm, ABC will broadcast the special, titled "Ty's Great British Adventure".
The show centers around Pennington's efforts to motivate and help argumentative town leaders and citizens of the small, sleepy seaside village of Portreath towards the goal of rejuvenating the park in the center of town. Somehow, I'm sure Ty's enthusiasm (and bullhorn if he brought it over the water with him) will also rejuvenate the morale of the citizens of Portreath, who are facing a rough ride in these rough economic times.
This sounds just like the kind of summertime feel-good television we need! Here's a clip of one of Ty's adventures in Portreath – a visit with some farm animals…and an unfortunate encounter with a goose.
The show centers around Pennington's efforts to motivate and help argumentative town leaders and citizens of the small, sleepy seaside village of Portreath towards the goal of rejuvenating the park in the center of town. Somehow, I'm sure Ty's enthusiasm (and bullhorn if he brought it over the water with him) will also rejuvenate the morale of the citizens of Portreath, who are facing a rough ride in these rough economic times.
This sounds just like the kind of summertime feel-good television we need! Here's a clip of one of Ty's adventures in Portreath – a visit with some farm animals…and an unfortunate encounter with a goose.
- 7/22/2009
- by Howey Davenport
- TVovermind.com
Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello is reporting that Nip/Tuck's Joely Richardson has been cast in the fourth and final season of Showtime's The Tudors, where she would play King Henry VIII's final wife, Katherine Parr. The Tudors is set to return in Spring 2010 and Showtime would not comment on the casting. (Entertainment Weekly's Ausiello Files) In a first, British channel UKTV has sold lifestyle special Ty's Great British Adventure to ABC. Special, which will air Sunday, August 2nd at 8 pm on ABC, features Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's Ty Pennington transforming the rundown Cornish beach down of Portreath, including commissioning a children's park, a sports shop, and walking routes, along with other improvements. (Broadcast) Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos) has joined the cast of ABC's Ugly Betty, where she will recur as Natalie, Daniel Meade's new assistant who is described as "sexy, spiritual, [and] funny,...
- 7/22/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
UKTV has sold its first show to a Us network, announcing that Ty's Great British Adventure will air on ABC primetime later this year. The programme, hosted by Ty Pennington, was screened on UKTV Style - recently rebranded as Home - last September and became the broadcaster's highest-rated lifestyle commission. Channel head Clare Laycock said: "This is a fantastic coup for UKTV and I am delighted that it's a Home commission that crossed the pond first. The series was a massive (more)...
- 7/22/2009
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
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