Mother-daughter duo renovates houses in new season of ‘Good Bones’
Building family: Anyone who has ever tuned in to HGTV, the Discovery Inc.-owned home and garden network, will likely have seen a duo or two tearing down walls and building a new home for a lucky couple or family. One of these pairs is none other than Karen E. Laine and her daughter, Mina Starsiak Hawk, hosts and renovation/design experts on “Good Bones.”And good news for fans: Season 6 of the show is premiering Tuesday, June 29, on HGTV.
After five seasons of renovations, family high jinks and the birth of two of Starsiak Hawk’s own children, viewers might wonder whether the part-time renovators (Laine is a lawyer by day and Starsiak Hawk is a real estate agent) have left any home “unflipped” in the greater Indianapolis area. The answer, however, is self-evident as the two are preparing for another season of their hit unscripted series; a season Starsiak Hawk touted as a bit “crazy.”
“Gosh, there’s always crazy stuff and they just run together in my head,” Starsiak Hawk said in an interview with PopCulture.com. She later elaborated: “Cory [Miller] buys a house. So, that’s really exciting. It’s his first home purchase and it’s one of ours — and in our neighborhood, so it’s a really cute episode.”
Miller is the project manager of the “Good Bones” team and the women’s Two Chicks and a Hammer project for neighborhood revitalization.A recurring worker on the show, Miller is expected to feature more prominently this season given his recent home-buying experience.
The newest season, cleared for renewal just one month after the birth of Starsiak Hawk’s second child, Charlotte “Charlie” Drew, in September 2020, will run for a total of 14 episodes in its regular Tuesday evening time-slot.
Don’t miss a minute of the “crazy” sixth season of “Good Bones,” premiering Tuesday, June 29, on HGTV.
BET Awards: If you’re ready to celebrate this year’s greatest achievements in Black entertainment — from film and television to music and sports — you won’t want to miss the 21st BET Awards, airing on BET, BET Her and CBS on Sunday, June 27.
While the show’s organizers are planning to have live audience attendance for fully vaccinated people, unvaccinated and one-dose fans can enjoy the ceremony from the comforts of their own home.And enjoy they will!
Music industry heavy-hitters Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby are leading this year’s nominations board with seven nods each, while staple artists Cardi B and Drake are close behind with five mentions apiece. Megan Thee Stallion is up for Best Female Hip Hop Artist,Album of the Year for “Good News” and Best Video of the Year for her feature on Cardi B’s “WAP.” She also has her hat in the proverbial ring twice for Best Collaboration — for the aforementioned “WAP” and for “Cry Baby,” featuring the BET Awards’ leading man, DaBaby.
DaBaby, in addition to his Best Collaboration acknowledgement with Megan Thee Stallion, is in the running for Best Male Hip Hop Artist. It should be noted, however, that he has not one, not two, but a total of four Best Collaboration mentions — the remaining three being for “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, his feature on Jack Harlow’s “What’s Poppin’ (Remix),” which also features Tory Lanez, and Lil Wayne and the late Pop Smoke’s “For the Night,” in which he is featured alongside Lil Baby. DaBaby is also up against Megan Thee Stallion for Album of the Year, thanks to “Blame It On Baby.”
While hosting duties and special performance announcements are still pretty well under wraps as of writing, viewers can also expect to see appearances from Beyoncé, J. Cole, Chloe x Halle, France’s Aya Nakamura, Nigeria’s Wizkid, Brazil’s Emicida in the music categories and many more from across film, television as sports as well.
Check BET.com/bet-awards for all the details, and don’t miss the 21st BET Awards when they air across BET networks and on CBS on Sunday, June 27.
Down and Dirty: Decorating maven and household name Martha Stewart is welcoming viewers into her home for “Martha Gets Down and Dirty,” and it all begins Thursday, July 1, on discovery+.
No stranger to making ordinary things beautiful, Stewart is teaching followers why she isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty while working on her 150acre farm in Bedford, New York. Covering every manner of housekeeping and property (though some might say “life”) improvements from planting a veggie garden to making a delicious cocktail, Stewart, now 79, shows no signs of slowing down.
Welcoming friends and special guests Kim Kardashian (“Keeping Up With the Kardashians”), Ellen Pompeo (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Seth Meyers (“Late Night With Seth Meyers”),Tiffany Haddish (“Kids Say the Darndest Things”), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Modern Family”),Tamron Hall (“Tamron Hall Show”), Paris Hilton (“The Simple Life”) and more to help her with various tasks around the estate, each of the new series’ eight episodes have something for every kind of home dweller — which is especially important given the recent rise in time spent at home.
While the first three episodes will be available to stream on July 1, fans of the show will have to catch the rest of “Martha Gets Down and Dirty” weekly, as they air on discovery+.