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Popular talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres, who is known for her passion for architecture and design, will next produce a six-episode design competition for HGTV.
“Ellen’s Design Challenge,” which is scheduled to premiere in 2015, will feature “six competitors as they tackle ingenious challenges to sketch, design and build extraordinary furniture in just 24 hours.”
“I’m so excited about this show because I love finding really special pieces of furniture,” said DeGeneres in a statement released by HGTV. “One time I found a beautiful one-of-a-kind armoire that spoke to me in a way I’d never experienced. It turned out there was a drifter living inside of it, but that’s a story for another time.”
Like similar reality programming, such as “Project Runway,” would-be designers will attempt to create furnishings with the help of a master carpenter as they race against the clock and face various design challenges.
Lynne A. Davis, vice president of national broadcast media and talent relations for HGTV and DIY Network, said in an email that DeGeneres would be involved in the series, with details of her participation announced “at an upcoming date.”
The winning designer will get a cash prize.
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The next book by prize-winning religious scholar Elaine Pagels will be personal.
Pagels has an agreement with Ecco for “Why Religion?” in which she draws upon her own life to write about faith. Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced the deal Friday. It has scheduled the book for release in 2018.
The 71-year-old Pagels won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle prize for “The Gnostic Gospels,” a best-seller published in 1979 and ranked by the Modern Library as among the hundred best nonfiction books of the 20th century. She is also known for “Adam, Eve and the Serpent” and “Beyond Belief.”
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