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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
Fixer Upper
My Lottery Dream Home
House Hunters International
Decorating Cents
Treehouse Masters
Grand Designs
Beachfront Bargain Hunt
Living Alaska
HGTV Dream Home
Flip or Flop
Renovation Resort Showdown
Lakefront Bargain Hunt
Ask This Old House
Vacation House Rules
Buying Naked
Room by Room
Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse
Island Hunters
Extreme Homes
You Live in What?
Man Caves
Tiny House Hunting
Mega Decks
Renovation Aloha
The Flipping El Moussas
If Walls Could Talk...
Renovation Realities
Home Strange Home
Small Space, Big Style
Curb Appeal: The Block
Indoors Out
Holmes Makes it Right
Holmes On Homes
Restoring Galveston
Christina in the Country
Sweat Equity
Design on a Dime
Elbow Room
Boise Boys
Sarah Off the Grid
Christina on the Coast
Color Splash
Help! I Wrecked My House
Backyard Envy
Sarah's Mountain Escape
Stone House Revival
The Bronson Pinchot Project
Tia Mowry's Weekend Refresh
Renovation Realities: Dale Jr. & Amy
Love It or List It Vancouver
Renovate to Rent
Dream Home Makeover
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
Rachael Ray's Italian Dream Home
Tiny House Nation
West End Salvage
Property Brothers: Buying & Selling
Garden Secrets
Flipping Boston
Desperate Landscapes
Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis
Building Roots
Game of Homes
The Jennie Garth Project
Brother vs. Brother
HGTV'd
Country House Rescue
The Stagers
The Reveal
World's Most Secret Homes
Trixie Motel
Property Brothers: Forever Home
Rehab Addict: Detroit
Buying the Rockies
The Treehouse Guys
Waterfront House Hunting
Amish Renogades
Genevieve's Renovation
Vacation House for Free
Pool Master
Rev Run's Renovation
Power Broker
Sell This House: Extreme
Bathtastic!
Cooking With Emeril
The Pool Master
Dina's Party
Home & Family
Million Dollar Listing: Miami
Fixer Upper: The Hotel
Flip to a Million
Why the Heck Did I Buy This House?
Renovation Inc: Home Sweet Home
Inside Out
Love It or List It Australia
Ultimate Treehouses
Buying Hawaii
Go Green!
Million Dollar Rooms