From Jonathan Chevreau of the Financial Post: Reality show puts spotlight on fiscally fragile families “If debt were a swimming pool, we’d be drowning,” one beleagured couple tells the cameras. Co-host Bruce Sellery comes across like Jeff Probst, host of Survivor: alternatively scolding and cajoling the local citizenry about their financial waywardness. In Sunday’s debut, … Continue reading Million Dollar Neighbourhood a US-style reality show →

From Eric Volmers of the Calgary Herald: Million dollar man: Calgary financial expert stars in reality show on Oprah’s network When telling the story about how he landed co-hosting duties on OWN’s new reality show, Million Dollar Neighbourhood, Calgary financial expert Bruce Sellery sounds appropriately melodramatic. It is, after all, among the first homegrown shows … Continue reading Million Dollar Neighbourhood’s million dollar man →

Set in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Million Dollar Neighbourhood is an unprecedented social experiment in which 100 families have only 10 weeks to raise their collective net worth by $1 million. It’s a challenge to rethink the way we earn, spend and save money. In the face of crushing debt, massive credit card bills, rocketing housing … Continue reading New tonight: Million Dollar Neighbourhood series premiere on OWN Canada →

From Marsha Lederman of the Globe and Mail: Lower Mainland communities OWN up to reality TV glare Two Lower Mainland communities – one in transition; one hoping to be – take their struggles to the reality TV airwaves this month. Both are essentially social experiments, one organic and the other made-for-TV. Gastown Gamble documents the … Continue reading Gastown Gamble and Million Dollar Neighbourhood come to OWN →

From a media release: New Series Million Dollar Neighbourhood Challenges 100 Families to Find a Million Dollars in 10 Weeks New series premieres Sunday, January 22 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada) This January, Corus Entertainment’s OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada) presents the premiere of the new original series, … Continue reading Million Dollar Neighbourhood premieres January 22 on OWN →