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www.postmagazine.com 19 POST FEBRUARY 2018 eality TV programming has had a history of delivering extreme circumstances and nail-biting moments to home viewers. From the early days of MTV's The Real World and CBS's Survivor, unscripted television has grown to become one of the most lucrative types of pro- gramming on television today. Here's a look at two top shows — TLC's highly anticipated returning favorite, Trading Spaces, and NBC's Emmy Award- winning reality competition, The Voice, and what it takes to deliver compelling content from one season to the next. TLC'S TRADING SPACES When Trading Spaces debuted in 2000, it sparked a huge interest in home decorating shows. Originally produced by Ross Productions, and later Banyan Productions, the show's concept followed the play- ful idea of allowing friends to redecorate a room in each other's home. 'Two rooms, two days, $2,000!' was the motto. Couples would swap houses for 48 hours and pair up with a team of designers and construction pros, who collectively work to make it happen for under $1,000 each. The show resulted in both interesting and questionable designs, and the strict budget and time deadlines helped add to the drama. Paige Davis served as the host of Trading Spaces for most of its eight-year run. The show never saw a ninth season, but by that time, cable TV was full of similarly-themed programs. Now, a decade later, TLC is reviving the show, and even managed to bring back the well-liked host, along with so many of the program's past designers and carpenters. Fans will recognize many familiar faces, including Genevieve Gorder, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Ty Pennington and Vern Yip, and will be introduced to new crew members, too. Producing and posting the new iteration of Trading Spaces falls on the shoulders of the team at Authentic Entertainment (www.authentictv.com) in Burbank, CA. The 2018 season will include eight one-hour episodes, along with two one-hour re- unions. The concept stays the same, but the budget has been upped to $2,000 per room. Will Pisnieski is the head of post production and chief technology officer at Authentic Entertainment. It was his job to put a pipeline in place that would allow editors and assistants to build each show as efficiently as possible. "I am designing the workflow ahead of time," he says of his role as post supervisor. "I work with the editors in terms of what their needs are — everything from music needs, trying to help them R Paige Davis returns to host TLC's Trading Spaces.

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