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Rissa
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03-20-2006

Monday, April 24, 2006 - 3:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Anyone else watch the premier last night? Travis takes a bunch of twenty-somethings looking for a career-path or perhaps a change of career and has them build a luxury mansion while learning trades. At the end of the process the public gets to vote on which person gets to keep 250,000 from the proceeds of the sale of the house.

I was distracted the whole episode by the unfairness to the participants. The public gets to vote at the end, but they are doing what all reality shows do.... creating characters. I am hoping that it was just to create a bit of drama and get viewers back for episode 2. Otherwise we might as well just discuss who figures out first who it is Debbie Travis would like to give the money to. LOL

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, April 24, 2006 - 6:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Who is Debbie Travis?

Cokegirl
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03-08-2004

Monday, April 24, 2006 - 6:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cokegirl a private message Print Post    
I never even heard of this show!!!! What channel is it on?
Debbie Travis is a designer in Canada. She has a show on HGTV called Debbie Travis' Facelift where she remodels a few rooms in a house. Its a pretty good show.

Hughie
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09-04-2004

Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 6:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hughie a private message Print Post    
From the gound up is on Globel tv at 7pm on Sundays and the first show was on last week.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Not only have I never heard of this show, I've never heard of Global TV.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 1:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I see the premier is repeating tonight on Global, NTV and Prime for anyone who wants to try to catch it. Like I said before, I hope that once they hit their stride, they stop trying to *create* characters and let it happen more..... spontaneously. LOL

PS the website: http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/fromthegroundup/index.html

Jan
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08-01-2000

Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Lexie, Global is a National network in Canada, Debbie Travis is a brit living in Toronto and the show is Canadian so it is no wonder you are confused

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 5:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
LOL... well that would explain it Jan!!!

Happygal
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11-15-2004

Monday, May 01, 2006 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happygal a private message Print Post    
I'm liking this show so far. My favourites have changed from week 1 to week 2... and I suspect that I'll change my mind again before the final episode. I like that Debbie has included "design challenges" and that they mix up who the "leader" is from day to day. And adding in footage from the house they live in, is just icing on the cake for me.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 5:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I like Debbie Travis - I was her shows on TLC all the time. Oprah pretty much gave her her start by featuring her on some of her makeover shows. Debbie specializes in doing specialty painting-type stuff.

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
I really enjoyed the old Debbie Travis shows, but we don't have cable, so I'll be missing this. Sob.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 8:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
It's not on cable, Puzzle - it's a network show - well that is, if you are Canadian :-):-)

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Wednesday, May 03, 2006 - 5:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
Without cable, we don't pick up most stations. CFCF and CBMT come in good, and that's about all, in English. LOL, PBS Vermont comes in most of the time.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 7:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
MacLeans has an excellent short interview with Debbie Travis in the May 8 issue. She talks about why she wanted to do this show - about how teens today have such a feeling of entitlement that they are not willing to work their way up. They feel entitled to start at the top and don't seem to understand that they have to pay their dues.

When asked why she thought this has happened she said :

Some of the kids on the show explain it by saying: "We were the generation that was mollycoddled. We were given so much self-esteem. We were never told that we were wrong. Either at school or by our parents or at university." And so it is a shock when they come out of university and they get a job and they are working the photocopying machine for a few years. Also -- and I don't want to be a party-pooper -- but at the age of 29 they act the way I did at age 19. They make their money to spend on the club scene.

She also feels that not enough people are going into the construction trades and we need to be pushing more teenagers down that route.

MacLeans

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Some of these kids have sure rubbed Debbie the wrong way, haven't they? Can't decide if I am rooting for the brats to be publically torn down or disapointed in such blatant manipulation of the outcome. Anyone think Sheldon stands a chance for example?

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 11:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
wow this thread has died off. i kept missing the show over and over again but caught it last week and TOday.

there is a local girl from Nanaimo still in the comp. I think the public is going to vote for whom should win.

We get to see the Finished Mansion next week. That one guy who is a drama queen bothers me. I cant imagine working with anyone who keeps flipping out and walking out. In the real world that guy would ahve been FIRED the second time he tried that move.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Monday, June 12, 2006 - 5:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Sun. I so agree. If Sheldon screams "I have ADD!!!" as he runs out a door one more time..... The girl with the pink hair seems to be sincere but I still think this is just one more avenue for her to *find herself*. I thought Debbie's comment as to how she was designing for herself and not the client was spot-on.
A couple of them seem so over-the-top competitive that its hard to tell what their real motivation is... that would be Ryan-the-temper-boy and the woman with the short blond hair. At this point if I had to vote, I think it would be for blondie though.

Hair Salon woman (gee you would think I'd know the names by now) seems to finally coming into herself. She got a real ego boost this week, so I guess we wait and see what effect that has on the next task.

A couple of the guys still blend into the wallpaper for me. THe one who just had the baby (Ryan) and Sheldon's tantrum victim (Robert).

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Monday, June 12, 2006 - 5:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
I like Debbie Travis. I envy you guys!