Home Front (TV series)
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Home Front is a lifestyle television series airing on TVNZ's channel Television One in New Zealand
. It combines "home makeover" ideas, home maintenance and DIY tips, and guided tours around the homes of well-known New Zealanders. The series has been running since the early 2000s in several series of 13 episodes each.
Home Front is hosted by Jayne Kiely, Dave Cull
, and Sally Ridge
, each of whom covers a particular area of the show. Kiely is the primary presenter, and also presents the guided tours. Cull prsents hints and advice for do-it-yourselfers, and Ridge presents the home makeovers section of the show.
Originally hosted by Alison Mau, until she left TVNZ for greener pastures at Prime, this series was hugely successful for TVOne. A rushed reshoot using girl next door Jayne Kiely fronting many stories previously shot using Alison Mau, added to the demise of the series when it was finally axed in 2005.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. It combines "home makeover" ideas, home maintenance and DIY tips, and guided tours around the homes of well-known New Zealanders. The series has been running since the early 2000s in several series of 13 episodes each.
Home Front is hosted by Jayne Kiely, Dave Cull
Dave Cull
David Charles "Dave" Cull, QSO JP is the mayor of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. He became the 57th Mayor of Dunedin in October 2010.-Early life and career before politics:...
, and Sally Ridge
Sally Ridge
Sally Ridge is an interior designer and former television presenter living in Grey Lynn, a middle class suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.Ridge was known in the past within New Zealand as a television presenter on shows dealing with interior decorating, including the TVNZ television series, Home...
, each of whom covers a particular area of the show. Kiely is the primary presenter, and also presents the guided tours. Cull prsents hints and advice for do-it-yourselfers, and Ridge presents the home makeovers section of the show.
Originally hosted by Alison Mau, until she left TVNZ for greener pastures at Prime, this series was hugely successful for TVOne. A rushed reshoot using girl next door Jayne Kiely fronting many stories previously shot using Alison Mau, added to the demise of the series when it was finally axed in 2005.