So I'm up late Sunday night, laying in bed watching one of my favorite stations, HGTV, and I'm completely taken aback by what I am seeing. Keenan Ivory Wayans as a judge on their show Summer Showdown? Are you kidding me? Since when did Keenan become the black Martha Stewart and who's big idea was this?
Any way you slice it, Keenan is a very talented man. He is best known for his work in TV as creator, executive producer, writer and cast member for the first several seasons of the Emmy Award winning Fox series In Living Color, the cutting-edge black sketch comedy show, which also starred Keenen's brothers Damon, Shawn and Marlon. It also launched the careers of many upcoming comedians including Jim Carrey, Tommy Davidson, Jamie Foxx and David Alan Grier.
The show is actually pretty neat. It's the newest show added to the HGTV lineup. The series offers four one-hour specials that have HGTV's top talent going head-to-head against each other in a race against the clock to make over rooms in dire need of an overhaul. The network went to picked homeowners with rooms they felt qualified and then made exact replicas of these rooms and created and placed them side-by-side in the Designer Dome — the mega HGTV design arena. For each challenge, the two teams must redesign the rooms, and then a panel of celebrity judges selects the best makeover. The homeowner who submitted that room gets cash to do the room themselves.
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