I Wrecked My House

2014 Canadian TV series or program

I Wrecked My House
Genre	home renovation reality
Starring	Steve Patterson Dave Rannala
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	15
Production
Production company	Mountain Road Productions
Original release
Network	HGTV Canada
Release	2014 (2014) – present

I Wrecked My House is a Canadian home renovation reality series, which airs on HGTV.^[1] Hosted by Steve Patterson,^[2] the show visits homeowners with poor home renovation skills — people whose abilities are, according to the producers, more MacGyver or Red Green than Mike Holmes^[3] — who then receive a professional home renovation from contractor Dave Rannala in collaboration with a local design company.^[1]

The series premiered in April 2014 with a one-hour special which profiled five sets of homeowners,^[4] while the regular series launched in April 2015 with 14 half-hour episodes profiling a single home per episode.^[4] The show was produced and co-written by Toronto-based producer, Derek Miller.

Patterson garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Host in a Variety, Lifestyle, Reality/Competition, or Talk Program or Series at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards.

References

^ ^a ^b "Rescuing wrecked houses; Victoria contractor plays starring role on new HGTV reality series". Victoria Times-Colonist, June 23, 2015.
^ "Too much funny for Twitter: Steve Patterson, host of CBC's The Debaters and HGTV's I Wrecked My House, performs at Showplace". Peterborough Examiner, April 15, 2015.
^ "HGTV show seeks Kingston 'MacGyers' of home repair". Kingston Whig-Standard, September 4, 2014.
^ ^a ^b "I Wrecked My House: Good intentions gone bad". Windsor Star, September 20, 2014.