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The home garden television genre originally consisted of programming that was as much, if not more, about instruction as it was about entertainment. Early home improvement programs often were staged with little more than a handyman in his workshop demonstrating to viewers how to complete this or that project. Eventually, again like the food genre, home and garden television began to incorporate entertainment value, and the genre made its way to niche cable networks, where it picked up the influences of reality television.

The home genre achieved large-scale popularity in the 1980s with the rise of This Old House on PBS. Although it contained some elements of instruction, the show was primarily concerned with entertainment as it presented cutting-edge building technologies and documented the process of home renovation. Along with programs like The Victory Garden, which debuted in 1975 and was the first national gardening program on American TV, This Old House made PBS the center of the home and garden genre.

Home and Garden TV, a cable network that would eventually come to be known simply as HGTV, went on the air in 1994. From its debut, HGTV produced a full schedule of original home and garden programming, and in the beginning the programming was much like the broadcast-network programs that had come before, mostly focused on do-it-yourself instruction for homeowners and gardeners. Later programming, however, owed more to reality TV, as shows such as House Hunters and Designed to Sell followed home buyers and homeowners through their searches for new homes and design makeovers of the homes they already owned.

Hybrids of the home improvement show and game shows surfaced, too. Staged competitions in these shows feature contestants working through construction and design projects, with the winner of the competition ultimately having a shot at hosting his or her own show.

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House Hunters
Decorating Cents
My Lottery Dream Home
Fixer Upper
House Hunters International
Treehouse Masters
Grand Designs
Beachfront Bargain Hunt
Ask This Old House
HGTV Dream Home
Vacation House Rules
Island Hunters
Flip or Flop
You Live in What?
Buying Naked
Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse
Living Alaska
Elbow Room
Renovation Realities: Dale Jr. & Amy
Tiny House Nation
Game of Homes
Man Caves
The Bronson Pinchot Project
Love It or List It Australia
Renovation Realities
Pool Master
Vacation House for Free
Sell This House: Extreme
Small Space, Big Style
Fixer Upper: The Hotel
Holmes On Homes
Why the Heck Did I Buy This House?
Restoring Galveston
Pamela's Garden of Eden
Design on a Dime
Room by Room
Yard Crashers
Extreme Homes
Love It or List It Vancouver
HGTV'd
Renovation Aloha
The Flipping El Moussas
Christina on the Coast
Lakefront Bargain Hunt
Color Splash
If Walls Could Talk...
Million Dollar Beach House
Tia Mowry's Weekend Refresh
Stone House Revival
Buying the Beach
The Jennie Garth Project
Country House Rescue
The Great House Revival
House Hunters International: Best of Denmark
Boise Boys
Flipping Vegas
The Stagers
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
Curb Appeal
The Reveal
Trixie Motel
Help! I Wrecked My House
Tiny House Hunting
Property Brothers: Buying & Selling
Hit Properties with Nathan Morris
Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis
Deserving Design
Renovation Resort Showdown
World's Most Secret Homes
Building Roots
Property Brothers: Forever Home
Rehab Addict: Detroit
Buying the Rockies
The Treehouse Guys
Waterfront House Hunting
Brother vs. Brother
Home Strange Home
Indoors Out
Cooking With Emeril
The Woodwright's Shop
Million Dollar Listing: Miami
Renovation Inc: Home Sweet Home
Amish Renogades
Flipping Boston
Curb Appeal: The Block
The Martha Stewart Show
King of Thrones
CMT Cribs
Home Town: Ben's Workshop
Artfully Designed
Don't Hate Your House with the Property Brothers
HGTV House Party
One of a Kind
Buying Hawaii
Garden Secrets
Desperate Landscapes
Holmes Makes it Right
Dear Genevieve
Catch A Contractor
Income Property