Ask Danny | Ep. 17: Reflecting on 25 years of Today’s Homeowner TV

Today's Homeowner TV host Danny Lipford and Creative Director Scott Gardner sit down in the audio booth to look back on 25 years of Today's Homeowner TV.
Today’s Home-owner Tv set host Danny Lipford and Resourceful Director Scott Gardner sit down in the audio booth to glance again on 25 decades of Today’s Property owner Television. (3 Echoes Material Studio)


In this special “Ask Danny,” Scott Gardner, resourceful director for Today’s Homeowner Television, joins me to appear again on 25 a long time of creating the clearly show.

Scott Gardner and Danny Lipford in the early days of Today’s Property owner Tv. (3 Echoes Material Studio)

I satisfied Scott about 26 a long time back when Today’s Home-owner Tv was nonetheless Remodeling Today, and he was performing for a neighborhood production enterprise.

Look at this job interview with Scott Gardner to listen to extra from him about the show’s heritage.

Just as our hair and models have transformed in excess of the years, so has the structure of the present. In the early times, there had been a large amount of two-section episodes. The demonstrate showcased big-scale, prolonged initiatives from my building organization, so breaking each and every a person up into two episodes created sense.

Nowadays, we focus on lesser projects so we can comprehensive them in a couple of days. That way, our viewers can see the challenge from begin to finish in every 30-moment episode.

Creative Director Scott Gardner checks the TV monitor on a Today's Homeowner TV shoot in 2020.
Scott Gardner checks the Tv keep track of on the established of a Today’s Property owner Television task in 2020. (3 Echoes Information Studio)

A different factor that is altered above the years is the emphasis on the property owner. Several years in the past, you would hardly ever see the property owner. We targeted on the contractors doing the job on the tasks, and I would intermittently pop in to give some rationalization on the work remaining finished.

Now, the owners work on every venture, and quite often they’re what makes the exhibit so entertaining. Seeing them successfully comprehensive their projects inspires our audience and offers any one who’s seeing the show a feeling of “I can do this also!”

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