Love It or List It
Love It or List It is a home design TV show currently airing on HGTV, W Network, and on OWN Canada, and is the original show in the "Love it or List It" franchise. The show is produced by Big Coat Productions and premiered as a primetime program on W Network on September 8, 2008, and has since aired on OWN Canada as well as HGTV in the United States. In September 2014, the show began filming in the United States in North Carolina. In September 2017, HGTV ordered 20 additional episodes of the program . The following season started airing in June 2018. On February 4, 2019, HGTV announced a new order of 26 episodes for premiering season 15 on November 18, 2019. Format. Every episode of "Love It or List It" follows the same format. A couple or family shows their current house to designer Hilary Farr and real estate agent David Visentin. Hilary redesigns parts of the home based on the desires of the homeowners and their budget and she oversees the renovations and construction. David finds real estate listings that meet the homeowners' needs and budget to convince them to list their  current house and buy a new one. Common challenges that Hilary faces include an inadequate budget to complete the entire request list from the homeowners, often due to discovery of unforeseen issues with the house that are uncovered during the renovation, such as lack of compliance with modern building codes. Common issues for David, meanwhile, depend on the homeowners' desires; for instance, the couple has children enrolled in the neighborhood school and they do not desire to change, or the potential house is too distant from family members or a workplace. Frequently, David will offer a house significantly outside his  given budget, and the homeowners will consider it, or homeowners will outright increase his target; Hilary meets with much more resistance to requests for even small increases in the renovation budget. After Hilary's renovation is complete, the homeowners are given a tour of their current home to see what she was able to accomplish. After the tour, David meets with them and hands them an evaluation of the home's current market value following the renovations. He will then remind the couple what they could have in one of the new homes they looked at and that they would  not get that in their current home. The homeowners then meet with Hilary and David, who pose a question to them: The homeowners must choose either to "Love It," meaning that they will continue to live in their current home with the renovations, or to "List It," meaning that they will buy one of the homes David showed them and sell their current home. At this stage, all else being equal Hilary is at a theoretical disadvantage: Although Hilary's renovations increase the attractiveness of her "Love It" option by improving the current home's livability, they simultaneously increase the  attractiveness of David's "List It" option by increasing the current home's resale value and thereby decreasing the net cost of acquiring any given new home that he proposes. By contrast, David's efforts to maximize the attractiveness of his "List It" option do not provide Hilary any offsetting benefit increasing the attractiveness of her "Love It" option. Despite this disadvantage, as of the end of Season 9 Hilary leads by an overall tally of 90 "Love Its" against 64 "List Its." After a moment to deliberate, the homeowners reveal their decision and explain their reasoning to Hilary and  David. If the homeowners decide to "List It," Hilary generally reacts with equanimity and expresses a desire for their best interest, whereas if they decide to "Love It," David frequently reacts with feigned incredulity, questioning their reasoning and/or giving at least the impression of taking their decision personally. The parties then bid each other farewell, with closing footage of Hilary and David continuing to react and occasionally continuing their bout of one-upmanship. Host and crew. Hosts Assistant Designer Contractors Behind the Scenes Episodes. Victories for Hilary are families or clients who decided to love their home and stay. Victories  for David are families and clients who decided to list and move into a new or better home. Spinoffs. "Love It or List It" has spawned five spinoffs. The first, known as "Love It or List It Vancouver" (or "Love it or List it Too" in the US), was launched in winter 2012 and is hosted by Jillian Harris and Todd Talbot. The second spin-off, a British version known as "Kirstie and Phil's Love It or List It", debuted in 2015, is hosted by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. The third spin off, "Love It or List It  Vacation Homes" debuted in spring 2016 and is hosted by Dan Vickery and Elisa Goldhawke. A fourth spin off, "Vendre ou renover au Quebec" debuted in January 2017 and is hosted by Maika Desnoyers and Daniel Corbin. The fifth spin off, "Love It Or List It Australia", debuted in September 2017 and is hosted by Andrew Winter and Neale Whittaker. Reception. On August 31, 2010, "Love It or List It" was nominated for two Gemini Awards: Best Reality Program or Series and Best Direction in a Reality Program or Series. When HGTV premiered the show on the network, the company  stated that "Love It or List It" has been the highest-rated reality series since Candice Olson's "Candice Tells All". In 2012, New York Times' columnist Gail Collins noted that it was US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's favorite TV show. According to Collins, Clinton finds the show "very calming" after being interviewed about her departure from politics. In a 2013 interview with Las Vegas Magazine, Vanna White from "Wheel of Fortune" said it was one of her favorite HGTV programs. Actress Julianne Moore also gave similar praise for the show in an interview with Katie Couric. According  to the "Wall Street Journal", the show and its Vancouver spinoff is one of Canada's beloved reality series. The show has also been referenced in various television sitcoms and films including ABC's "The Middle", CBS's "Mom" and Rebel Wilson's 2019 film "Isn't It Romantic". Controversy. In April 2016, homeowners Deanna Murphy and Tim Sullivan who had participated in a 2015 "Love It or List It" episode filed suit against production company Big Coat TV, as well as the North Carolina contractor (Aaron Fitz Construction) who had been hired by the show to do the renovations  on their home. The couple alleges that the renovation funds that they provided were not properly disbursed, and that the work on their home was done to a substandard quality. Moreover, the lawsuit states that the television personalities on the show do not play an active role in the renovation process, and that they were not shown homes on the market by any licensed North Carolina real estate agent. Big Coat TV has commented that they "do intend to vigorously defend what [they] consider to be false allegations." The suit was settled in April 2017. The plaintiffs had signed a  confidentiality agreement; their lawyer would not comment on the settlement. Big Coat had previously filed a countersuit for libel, slander and product disparagement; parts of that suit had been dismissed by the time of the settlement but that was under appeal by Big Coat. After the agreements had been concluded, both suits were dismissed.