Vegas flippers renewed
Flip or Flop Vegas, the house-flipping HGTV series starring Bristol and Aubrey Marunde, will live to see a second season.
The husband and wife team at the core told Us Weekly they work well together because they respect each other’s areas of expertise.
“Aubrey lets me do the construction, and I let her do the design,” said Bristol, who’s also an MMA fighter. Added Aubrey: “We don’t have disagreements. In our relationship, it’s pretty happy.”
In Wednesday’s new episode, Rock and Roll Renovation, the couple tackles a small condo within walking distance of the Las Vegas Strip.
Afterward, the repeat episode Is It a House or a Prison? focuses on a home that has bars on the windows and doors, and a leaky roof.
The Las Vegas-based show is a spinoff of Flip or Flop, which follows Christina and Tarek El Moussa as they beautify neighbourhoods in California one house at a time. The couple announced they were divorcing last December but they’ve filmed a seventh season of the show, which is set to air this winter.
Flip or Flop draws about 17 million U.S. viewers per episode; the Vegas edition draws about 12.5 million. HGTV also has four other Flip or Flop spinoffs in the works: They ’ll be in Atlanta, Nashville, Texas and Chicago, and will debut over this year and next.
ART OF THE MATTER
Portrait Artist of the Year, which travels Europe in search for the next It artist, airs a new episode Wednesday that features actor Richard E. Grant (Logan), actress Nina Sosanya (Love Actually), and TV personality Sue Perkins (The Great British Bake Off ).
The finalists will have their work displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the winner will be commissioned to paint a portrait that will become part of the permanent collection at the British Library.
From British network Sky, the series airs in Canada on Makeful. The judges are Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Kate Bryan and Kathleen Soriano. Other celebrities appearing this season include Parminder Nagra of The Blacklist and James Norton of Happy Valley.
CUE THE SMILEY FACE!
On Wednesday, the new GSN game show Emo-genius debuts, putting contestants’ emoji-solving skills to the test: In each episode, two teams of two battle for a chance at $10,000. It’s hosted by Hunter March, who stars in Awesomeness TV’s YouTube series Daily Report and fronts his own YouTube channel. In April, March released the book TBH: 51 True Story Collabs, about the off-camera lives of YouTube stars.