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HGTV has unveiled its 2021 programming slate, giving a production green light to 13 new series and three pilots. Details below.

New Series:

Home Against With the Fords will star sister-brother duo and home reno experts Leanne and Steve Ford, a series in which they will help clients transform their childhood homes.

Lara Spencer will host Everything but the House (wt). In the series, Lara and her team of expert appraisers will help families declutter their homes.

In Outgrown, business partners Luke Caldwell and Clint Robertson will renovate homes for growing families in Boise, Idaho.

Texas Two Step will feature Houston-based, husband-wife team Jon Pierre and Mary Tjon-Joe-Pin as they help clients sell their house for top dollar and use the profit to purchase and overhaul a new place.

House-hunting series Self-Made Mansions (wt) stars style entrepreneur Clinton Kelly, who will help self-made millionaires find the home of their dreams.

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HGTV has ordered 13 series and three pilots, including new shows from Leanne and Steve Ford, Luke Caldwell and Clint Robertson, and Lara Spencer. Plus, an “International” version of “My Lottery Dream Home” is being readied from across the pond.

Additionally — but definitely not “finally” — Clinton Kelly is getting his own house-hunting series.

“We’ve locked in a solid lineup of creative, innovative and entertaining programming to inspire people who want to reimagine their homes,” said Jane Latman, president, HGTV. “This is just the beginning. We’re taking scores of pitch meetings, reviewing hundreds of concept reels, talent sizzles and social media sites–looking for imaginative real estate, renovation and design experts who are pushing the envelope with their distinct points of view.”

“This order of new series and pilots will focus on stories of home and the families who live in them,” she continued. “All of our stars will offer...

HGTV, known for dozens of programs that focus on home makeovers, is doing some remodeling work on a non-traditional structure: its programming lineup.

The next spate of series from the cable network – one of the biggest properties in the stable of parent company Discovery – will add new elements to the outlet’s usual spate of fix-it shows and flip-your-house programs, including soapy storylines and a new recognition of the nation’s fragile economic state.

In one new series, “Everything But The House, host Lara Spencer will take viewers along as families declutter and downsize their homes. In “Home Again With The Fords,” renovation experts Leanne and Steve Ford will help people whose circumstances send them back to their childhood homes. The new series – HGTV has greenlit 16 series and pilots, representing more than 109 episodes or 77 hours – will also play up real-life dramas involving some of the network’s on-air personalities, whether...

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We made a couple of absolutely huge discoveries Saturday night – not the least of which is that Benson Henderson is human!

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Tony Schiena

Winner of numerous Mma trophies around the globe, Schiena flexed his acting chops in Locked Down as a framed cop who winds up in jail and is forced into cage fighting by none other than Brit hardman turned thesp Vinnie Jones. Schiena retired from sport after breaking both his ankles (ouch!) but has since found his feet on the big screen working with everyone from Pacino to Van Damme.

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson

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The card was highlighted by Roy Nelson dominating Matt Mitrione on the feet with a beautiful uppercut. The fight was punctuated with a well-timed flurry by Big Country to turn off Meathead’s lights completely. The Tuf 16 Welterweight champion was also crowned, Us Army Ranger Colton Smith.

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Tony Schiena

Winner of numerous Mma trophies around the globe, Schiena flexes his acting chops in Locked Down as a framed cop who winds up in jail and is forced into cage fighting by none other than Brit hardman turned thesp Vinnie Jones. Schiena retired from sport after breaking both his ankles (ouch!) but has since found his feet on the big screen working with everyone from Pacino to Van Damme. He was last seen in the straight to DVD flick Circle of Pain.

For a fleeting moment it looked like Chuck Liddell had changed. He was in shape, finally. He had stopped drinking. His new girlfriend had him on the straight and narrow. In the Octagon, Chuck actually threw kicks for the first time in years, one of which broke Rich Franklin's left arm. Liddell was attacking with purpose. Then it all came undone as Franklin threw a short right hook that caught a lunging Liddell and knocked him out.

Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell was unconscious on the mat, again.

For whatever reason many are trying to put a positive spinon this: "Liddell went out like a champion" or "he went out the way he would've wanted to". Almost as if this was some Western; changing Custer's Massacre to Custer's Last Stand.

Sadly, Liddell was not riding off into the sunset even in ambiguity like the western Shane. You couldn't even compare...