Fixer Upper Reboot Plans Delayed Until 2021
by EG
You'll have to wait a while longer to see more home renovations featuring shiplap boards. Chip and Joanna Gaines have been working on a new version of Fixer Upper after taking the home renovation series away from HGTV in order to launch their own branded media empire. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic has delayed plans for that empire. The Gaineses are no doubt wondering whether the public will still be ravenous for a whole network full of Fixer Upper when the show finally returns in 2021. Read on for details.
Via People.
Chip and Joanna Gaines fans, rejoice — Fixer Upper is coming back to TV!
The home renovation show that made the Waco, Texas, couple household names will be returning to the small screen in 2021, PEOPLE can exclusively confirm. It's set to air on the Gaines’s forthcoming Magnolia Network. Originally slated to debut on October 4, 2020, the channel's launch has been pushed back to 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Fixer Upper, which originally aired on HGTV, ended in April 2018 after five seasons, drawing in a record-breaking 17 million weekly viewers during its final run.
“The day we wrapped our final episode of Fixer Upper, we really believed it was a chapter closed,” Chip and Joanna said of the series' comeback. “We knew we needed a break and a moment to catch our breath. But we also knew we weren’t done dreaming about ways to make old things new again.”
Since the show ended, the couple has taken on various renovation projects — from redesigning their Magnolia headquarters to overhauling a historic hotel in downtown Waco — but, they say, they missed the structure of the show that launched them to fame.
“These past few years, we’ve continued tackling renovations and projects, doing the work we’re passionate about, but I don't think either of us anticipated how the show would become such a permanent fixture in our hearts,” they said. “We’ve missed sharing the stories of these families and their homes with you, and we’re excited to do that again very soon!”
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