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Lancecrossfire
| Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 12:12 am
Per a request, here is a thread to discuss an upcoming show by the same title as the thread title. It's on A&E starting Jan 5th.
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Wilsonatmd
| Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 3:41 pm
Ok..here's what I could get from the brief preview on the website. So if some of this is wrong, please understand. -George Wendt ("Cheers") is the host. -16 players start the game, 8 men and 8 women -they are building a house from scratch (only the foundation has been laid) -while they are building the house, they sleep in modified tents -it seems like every week, there will be some sort of a challenge to pick two people for possible elimination. The first episode, I think it's simply a game of luck (they are shown picking keys to open a door. I believe that the two people who's keys don't open the door are up for elimination, or perhaps the opposite is true, that the person or persons whose key opens the door get to pick who is up for elimination. Again this is based on the brief clips.) -those two people are the "red hats" (red hardhats), and have to plead their case to the others. One gets to stay, the other is eliminated. -People were seen talking about their votes openly...So maybe after they players make their votes, they have to tell the others how and why they voted (either before or after the results are announced) Makes it interesting for the person who stays in the game, since they then know who's gunning for them. -last person standing wins the house. Here's the website. For now it just has the promotional video I was talking to you about and the 16 players and their stories for why they want the house.
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Fnbdave
| Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 11:41 pm
I believe it's called a key ceremony and the players randomly pick keys each week, the 2 that dont open the door are up for elimination. They have to openly tell everyone at the evictions who they are voting for and why so there is no hiding anything. This sounds like a blast because that alone is sure to cause drama and it being random makes it harder to survive.
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Seamonkey
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 1:28 pm
Starts tonight!!! followed by Airline..
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Fnbdave
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 2:28 pm
I just read in the NY Post that a married guy on the show hooked up with a woman and now he is divorcing his real life wife to live with the woman he met on the show. Is that the first time this has happened on a non dating reality show?
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Wilsonatmd
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 8:39 pm
Well that was interesting...... Well part of it is pure luck....the odds of having a non-working key increase as the show goes on. And you knew the former lawyer was going to win with the vote as being at the time, the less threatening option. But $5,000 for a couple of days work isn't too bad for the first one eliminated...I wonder if the money will increase as they go along? They really don't want a tie in a vote (which will only happen in odd numbered episodes with an even number of people remaining)...Having the two nominated people eliminate one of them is interesting....and you know that the two nominated people would agree on someone.... And where was the censor? There were at least 2 words that normally would be bleeped....that got through....
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 12:17 am
Not the greatest.. I'd rather see more of the actual house building. Should be more interesting as people leave and others manipulate things.
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Hummingbird
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 11:26 am
George Wendt does not look at all healthy. I'm worried about him. He has that "heart attack waiting to happen" look.
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Mamie316
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 11:32 am
And George is really not that good of a host. There was no enthusiasm at all.
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 11:57 am
Oh right.. he was awful.. this show so far just doesn't hang together.. I liked the show where they finished off and decorated several homes in Arizona because you got to see them work and argue and see the plans of the decorators and how things turned out and most of the voting was by the decorators and you hears WHY.. they still had competitions for extra budget, or taking budget from competitors but there was a basic concept of actually caring about the process of decorating and landscaping. At least this first night here.. and I admit I wasn't just glued to staring at it but it seems to be more about the keys and then rallying support and sob stories about "needing" the house. Like the guy with the family in a homeless shelter.. having a child who has ONLY been homeless well my question is.. if you couldn't even control growing your family when you had no place to live, why would I think you'd still have this house after you had to start supporting it.. paying taxes, maintaining, etc.? I did like that even for the first woman voted out, she did get $5000 and really cool that she plans to help that family she knows with that money.
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Purplecow
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 7:53 pm
<<Like the guy with the family in a homeless shelter.. having a child who has ONLY been homeless well my question is.. if you couldn't even control growing your family when you had no place to live, why would I think you'd still have this house after you had to start supporting it.. paying taxes, maintaining, etc.?>> Thanks, Sea. I was thinking I was evil for thinking that guy needed a job and a vasectomy more than he needed a house. I didn't catch everyone, but was there anyone there who didn't have a sob story and just wanted the house to live in?
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:57 pm
Ok, I wasn't being very gracious. I really believe it is good to give people help getting into a home, but unfortunately when the "help" comes it usually isn't enough or they don't screen well and when people fail in large numbers it hurts others in the area.. housing values, etc. I lost bigtime, even though I wasn't the problem.. I actually could and did afford to keep up my payments. So many people lost out because the bond money didn't come with more realistic rules and strings attached. but I admit I was being cynical.
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Seattlemom
| Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 7:28 am
I may be wrong but somewhere i caught a promo for this show and when he talked about being homeless they went back to the host and interviewer and he said Hmm could be a sympathy lie too! I'm not saying he is but if a dead grandmom gets sympathy maybe someone is playing the same type of game? I liked House rules so will try to rember to catch this one Thanks for posting when it starts I have CRS cant rember S-- LOL
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Tobor7
| Friday, January 16, 2004 - 10:02 pm
This is really a low-rent show. I can't watch it anymore. I'm done!
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Fnbdave
| Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 12:20 pm
There have only been 2 episodes so far...how can you be done? I like it alot and everyone at my job is addicted. STAR Magazine has a big article on Flor having an affair with Jim during the show and leaving his wife after. I guess they even live together now it says. Can't wait to see this unfold on national television!
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Tobor7
| Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 2:30 pm
OK. fnbdave. I'll tape one more and FF through the boring parts. When they get to that dingy pier at the end of each show I have to laugh. It's like Survivor on the super-cheap. LOL Only NO SET. And Wendt behind that podium? C'mon... At times I feel like the joke is on us. I think I like the random aspects of the key-and-door deal though. Plus... they don't really seem to be building that house. When they came back for the 2nd show... so much more had been done. WHO DID IT AND WHEN?
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Seamonkey
| Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 3:32 pm
I agree, this isn't about the building at all.. but about the people and the personalities and the voting and the keys. I've now accepted that and will watch the very different show that is here. But I can see someone being done. It is pretty flat.
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Tobor7
| Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 3:48 pm
Do you think those that are building the house "to give to someone else" are lying about it to get an advantage?
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Hootyhoot
| Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 9:37 am
When is this show on? I can't find it in my tv listings
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Cathie
| Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 1:40 pm
It is on Monday night on the A&E channel, 8pm central time. http://www.aetv.com/tv/shows/house_of_dreams/
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Puttergirl
| Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 2:02 pm
Its on right now on A & E. They just showed the first one again, and the second one is on right now.
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Fnbdave
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 8:47 am
good times people good times
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Seamonkey
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 8:43 pm
I managed to miss both showings the other night, thanks to my DVR being flakey.. it actually was recording but then decided it was full and erased it right away.. ARRGH
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Fnbdave
| Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 10:37 am
They rerun it on Sundays between 2 and 4 pm I believe, double check though!
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Reader234
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10-11-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 7:55 pm
I take it no one else is watching this show? IT looked like it was going to be a catfight coming... did anyone else get the impression that alliances are evil, that they are so discouraged? Just some of the comments sound like the producers are trying to get them NOT to form alliances... of course I missed it last night, so my impressions are still forming... just a couple of strange quirky things keep popping up to make me go "huh? what?"
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