HGTV is the house of renovation and actual property programming, and now… films? That’s proper, the channel seems to be present process some vital modifications for 2025. And followers are shocked. As a substitute of tons extra House City and different beloved reveals, the community has been filling widespread weekend slots with movies.
As first seen by Home Lovely, the community’s schedule over the weekend included a shock reshowing of the 2015 Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro film, The Intern. Often, the HGTV Saturday line-up is comprised of reruns of a number of the community’s hottest authentic actuality reveals, akin to My Lottery Dream House and Fixer to Fabulous.
The Intern isn’t the one movie on the HGTV schedule for the approaching weeks. As Home Lovely identified, subsequent Saturday’s (January 11) 1 pm ET slot is reserved for the 1995 Michael Douglas movie The American President, whereas the January 18 slot is occupied by the 2004 Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams romantic drama The Pocket book.
Issues appear to return to regular on Saturday, January 25, because the 1 pm slot begins a six-episode back-to-back rerun of Love It or Checklist It, hosted by Hilary Farr and David Visentin.
So why the change? Maybe the community is hoping new viewers will tune in for the film replays after which stick round to look at HGTV’s authentic content material. Or possibly the schedulers thought viewers merely wanted a breather from a complete day of reruns.
Actually, the transfer has not gone down effectively amongst HGTV followers on reddit.
“Why the heck are they taking part in father of the bride this afternoon? I’m so confused. I miss the previous hgtv reveals like curb attraction,” mentioned one viewer.
“Unhappy. They made all these hosts egotistical millionaires with excessive calls for. However they haven’t provide you with a brand new present/idea in years,” identified a second.
“Why???? HGTV is my default channel. Simply sat down on a wet submit Christmas day to loosen up …and Father of the Bride is on. Ugh. I can watch that wherever. Why should they smash every part?” added one other.
TV Insider has reached out to HGTV for remark.
This coming Saturday’s (January 11) schedule begins at 7 am ET, with Ben and Erin Napier‘s House City, which is able to run till 1 pm ET. After the airing of The American President, the HGTV reruns will proceed at 3:31 pm ET, with previous episodes of Home Hunters airing for the remainder of the day up till 3:30 am ET.
As for brand spanking new programming, 2025 will see the brand new seasons of long-time favorites like House City, Rock the Block, 100 Day Dream House, and My Lottery Dream House, along with new hits like Renovation Aloha and Divided by Design.