New HGTV series 'Condemned' ready to save Detroit's most blighted homes
Detroit is getting another home renovation series on HGTV and this one promises to tackle the toughest projects in the city.
'Condemned' is scheduled to premiere sometime this summer on the cable network. The show, which will have eight one-hour episodes, will star a father-daughter rehabbing team, property investor Kristyn Patterson and her builder dad, Pancho Patterson, according to HGTV.
They will be facing what is being touted as the city's 'most blighted homes.' As the news announcement for the series puts it, the Pattersons 'will stop at nothing to rescue The Motor City's worst houses that are destined for the wrecking ball.'
Along the way, they will encounter financial pressures, people who have moved into the properties without permission, the challenges of a Detroit winter and more as they set out on their reality-TV mission.
'Kristyn and Pancho have a tangible passion for Detroit and the necessary skills, grit and humor to renovate crumbling homes no one else will touch. Our cameras will follow the highs and lows as they grow their family business and prove that no home is too far gone,' stated HGTV head of content Loren Ruch in the announcement.
'Condemned' is one of several current and past HGTV series set in the Detroit region. The best known of them probably is 'Bargain Block,' the popular home-rehab show that aims to turn decaying houses in Detroit into chic, affordable starter homes.
'Bargain Block' stars renovation pros Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas and Detroit real estate expert Shea Hicks-Whitfield.
"Condemned" isn't the first brush with HGTV for the Pattersons. The daughter-father duo were one of three families to appear on the network's 2022 series "I Bought a Dump...Now What?"
Contact Detroit Free Press pop culture critic Julie Hinds at jhinds@freepress.com.StoryBlock
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