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	Changing Rooms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A changing room, changeroom or dressing room is a room or enclosure in a clothing store where customers may try on clothes before purchasing them.
		Changing Rooms is the name of a BBC television program; see Changing Rooms (TV show).
		Changing room number, or Changing rooms is also an expression used in the hotel industry to indicate that a person is changing from one room to another, i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Changing_Rooms (178 words)

	Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This show was such a riot and intimate as Alan had an audience of one and spent his time engaging the TV audience rather than a studio audience.
		The Late Show With David Letterman: While Dave was funny in the 1980's his move to CBS and a Tonight Show format (in time slot and show styling) proved that he has just become old and tired.
		That 80's Show: While That 70's Show had good characters set in a kitschy setting, that 80's characters had cardboard characters whose sole purpose was to point out how silly the kitsch of the 80's was.
	home.comcast.net /~wljohnso/Writing/TV.htm (1865 words)

	The Changing Rooms phenomenon that changed TV. - British Television
		The Beeb announced that the show “revolutionised how people look at their homes and what they can do with them", and Changing Rooms was recognized in a 2003 list of 24 groundbreaking TV shows.
		Having come to the show with a background in designing kids’ rooms, she now had ample opportunity to flex those decorating muscles, and became a household name in the process.
		Llewelyn-Bowen had hoped that Changing Rooms would finish on a high note, and in a dramatic and moving final special, the team brought Christmas cheer to many inhabitants of the Cornish village of Boscastle, after their homes were virtually destroyed by the drastic coastal floods of 2004.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art44488.asp (574 words)

	Changing Rooms News
		Changing Rooms star Linda Barker is hoping a new venture with Norfolk store Jarrold will prove a marriage made in heaven.
		CHANGING ROOMS star Carol Smillie is turning her hand - and feet - to a new challenge.
		THE new show apartment at Route1West in Anniesland is a worthy match for the charm and pace of Glasgow's colourful West End.
	www.topix.net /tv/changing-rooms (694 words)

	Review: Changing Rooms--AllYourTV.com
		Shows sponsored by paint manufacturers seem to spend a lot of time touting the beauties of, surprise, paint.
		Changing Rooms has been around since 1996, but I've just begun to watch it thanks to the new BBC America cable channel.
		While there are several people who appear on the show as decorators, my favorite has to be the lanky and slightly ostentatious Laurence Llewwlyn-Bowen, who always seems to suggest these flamboyant solutions to every decorating problem.
	www.allyourtv.com /9900season/changingrooms.html (513 words)

	Syndicated Column
		Changing Rooms, The Decorating Challenge, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out and Debbie Travis' Facelift are but a few popular options.
		This Old House was the first TV show that enabled the handy and not so handy to vicariously experience the joy of transformation.
		And when TV producers realized that home renovation could be mixed with sex appeal (plaid shirts and beards aside), the networks created a plethora of how-to shows quicker than you can say 'advertising revenue'.
	www.teresastrasser.com /pages/clipping_06.html (1293 words)

	Changeroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Locker rooms are thus named because they provide lockers for the storage of one's belongings.
		Locker rooms are usually open spaces where people change together, but there are separate areas, or separate locker rooms, for men and women.
		Green rooms are usually not separated by gender, because performers often operate as family and help each other change.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Changing_room (2190 words)

	Changing Rooms Episode Guide - Changing Rooms Season Episodes - TV.com
		His room currently has a lot of color going on and a very bad need for some storage assistance.
		They are going to have their breakfast room redone so they can use it for more entertaining.
		One major thing they would like to see change is the huge staircase that leads to nowhere that sits in the middle of the room.
	www.tv.com /changing-rooms/show/10364/episode_guide.html (1361 words)

	'Trading Spaces' mixes paint and friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John says their family room was "pretty average" with blue walls, stereo, TV and slipcovered sofas.
		The TV show also can set up unrealistic expectations because in the interior design field, $1,000 renovations are rare.
		On the TV show, the carpenter is free.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /tv/71831_spaces27.shtml (1468 words)

	BBC - Homes - TV and radio - Behind-the-scenes
		Changing Rooms sprinkles some Christmas cheer onto the Cornish village of Boscastle, helping the community rebuild their lives after experiencing Cornwall's worst ever floods in August 2004.
		After closer inspection of the village, the team realise that a number of the homes are structurally unsafe and many won't be fully dry for months.
		The Mill was devastated in the floods, and since then, the family of five have been living in a tiny, one-bedroomed cottage.
	www.bbc.co.uk /homes/tv_and_radio/cr_behindscenes.shtml (690 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Curtains for BBC's Changing Rooms
		"Changing Rooms was a major first and set the standards for the huge numbers of home makeover shows that followed.
		Barker, who made the Changing Rooms pilot with Llewelyn-Bowen in 1995, appeared on jungle survival show I'm A Celebrity...
		Changing Rooms, which began on BBC Two then moved to BBC One in 1998, spawned scores of similar interior design programmes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3604540.stm (366 words)

	Short attention span linked to TV Children show effects by age 7 - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christakis used a government database to see how much TV 1- to 3-year-old children watched, as reported by their mothers, and then related that to their scores on a behavior checklist showing attention problems at age 7.
		Frequent TV viewers in early childhood were most likely to score in the highest 10% for concentration problems, impulsiveness and restlessness.
		Although most studies haven't considered TV watching by very young children, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey last year found that about 2 out of 5 children under age 2 watch television every day, and a quarter of them have TVs in their own rooms, says the foundation's Vicky Rideout.
	www.usatoday.com /educate/college/healthscience/articles/20040411.htm (1074 words)

	Hacking the hotel through the TV \| Tech News on ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He can't look into their rooms (yet), but depending on the system he can see what they are watching on their TV, look at their guest folios, change the minibar bill and follow along as they browse the Internet on the hotel television set.
		By plugging the hotel TV cable into a USB TV tuner connected to a laptop computer, Laurie can hack his way into the back-end systems controlling the entertainment and other convenience features found in modern hotels, he said in his presentation.
		Changing the ID of the TV requires some skill, as does finding the room service billing codes.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-1009_22-5812598.html (959 words)

	Elites TV: Changing Rooms
		Changing Rooms is fun :D, I did see an ep ages ago they went back and revisited some, but it had the old host, I cant think of her name now, I remember them saying some went to the press, did Laurence go back and fix one that had stones on the floor or something?
		the best thing is they increased the budget and the rooms got 100% better- all of the designers got better when they had more money to spend.
		changing rooms marathon this morning- they are showing the AnnaRR room with the underpants on the wall.
	www.elitestv.com /discus/messages/10248/7774.html?1141670396 (478 words)

	Parents - Control TV Viewing
		Beware of tendency to use TV as a baby-sitter.
		When you must use TV as a baby-sitter, choose a program or videotape for your child as carefully as you would select a babysitter.
		Placing the TV in a cabinet, a closet or behind a curtain are simple ways to signal to your child and family that TV will not dominate your home.
	www.changingchannels.org /controlview.htm (663 words)

	TVShowsOnDVD.com - Review for Changing Rooms - Trust Me, I'm A Designer
		Watch the excitement and heartbreak when the new room is revealed to the owners.
		Fans of the show will like this, but it should also appeal to people that have never seen it before.
		This is nice because it includes a before/after of the room, interview with the designer and then the reveal.
	www.tvshowsondvd.com /reviewlist.cfm?ShowID=5194 (523 words)

	Changing rooms - TiVo Community & Store
		My home (about 14 years old) was wired for cable TV in 7 rooms, and all of the cables come out of the brick where D* has mounted my dish and 4 x 8 multiswitch.
		Since none of the cables are labeled, I don't know which ports are connected to the room from which I want to remove the Tivo, and I don't know which of the unused cables leads to the room to where I want to install it.
		I use a barrell connector to connect it to the cable in the room.
	www.tivocommunity.com /tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=321293 (425 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - 'Trading Spaces' Is 'Changing Rooms' and Continents
		"Changing Rooms," the BBC-produced predecessor to "Trading Spaces," hops over from its regular berth on BBC America for a six-hour, 12-episode stunt on Thursday, Nov. 28, from 5 to 11 p.m.
		One major difference is in space, as Santo-Tomas and Gorder left behind the vast rooms of America's suburban homes.
		As for the results, Kane recalls, "When I walked into the room where Hildi was working, she said, 'What do you think of it?' It was the first time I'd ever seen it.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|79074\|1\|,00.html (697 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Iraqi's hit house makeover show
		A home makeover-style TV programme in Iraq that offers needy families the opportunity to have their war-damaged homes re-built from scratch has become a massive hit.
		Labour And Materials, broadcast on Iraqi satellite channel Al Sharqiya, does not merely redecorate a room, but reconstructs entire properties destroyed in the ongoing conflict in the country.
		The programme makers select families whose homes have been made uninhabitable either during the war or since, and reconstruct it to the extent of supplying new furniture - and even shiny new kitchen gadgets - for free.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3999959.stm (479 words)

	Technology News: Television: Digital TV: A Changing Picture, Part 2
		To a large degree, however, access to content is precisely what traditional TV and cable broadcasters, as well as film studios, still control.
		"TV distribution works fine, and will continue to work fine," said Forrester Research VP and principal analyst Josh Bernoff, "but traditional commercials are threatened, and revenue from plain old 30-second spots will decline as digital video recorders spread."
		One way or another, it's certain that digital TV and digital convergence are well on their way, and the viewing public will play an important and pivotal role in determining how this tale will end.
	www.technewsworld.com /rsstory/51292.html (1505 words)

	USATODAY.com - Celebs have designs on 'Trading Spaces' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If you have a show with a format, the format is sacred.
		On the show, two sets of neighbors switch homes to transform a room in each other's house.
		The neighbors sign releases indicating that whatever is left in that room is fair game, and if they don't like the result — hay pasted to walls, a basement transformed into a circus tent or bedroom turned into a Pullman car - it's up to them to fix it.
	www.usatoday.com /life/llead.htm (752 words)

	JS Online:
		The two shows prove that the quality sitcom isn't dead, as some folks have claimed.
		From "reality" home shows like "Changing Rooms" (renamed in its American version as "Trading Spaces") to sitcoms like "The Office," BBC America, available on digital cable and satellite, fills us in on the trends before they make American TV.
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	www.jsonline.com /enter/tvradio/nov05/372939.asp (791 words)

	Three Sisters: Changing Rooms - TV.com
		When Nora and Elliot decide to move in together again, Annie is out of a place to live until Jake offers her his spare room - an arrangement that Gordon isn't thrilled with.
		Elliot becomes increasingly exasperated by Nora's refusal to agree to marry him again and her insistence that he occupy only one room in her house - an arrangement that makes him feel like a boarder.
		Meanwhile, inspired by Elliot's situation, Steven begins a campaign to create his own "guy room" at his and Bess' home.
	www.tv.com /three-sisters/changing-rooms/episode/112321/summary.html (207 words)

	Building rooms, changing lives : Mail & Guardian Online
		The TV programme has caught the imagination of Iraqis who have been captivated by the stories of families whose houses — and lives — have been reduced to dust by the war.
		Riding to her rescue, and into the rubble that was her home, came the team from Iraq’s first “makeover’’ TV show, called, slightly prosaically, Labour and Materials.
		She and her five children were taken in by relatives and by the next-door neighbour whose house had been only partially damaged by the explosion.
	www.mg.co.za /Content/l3.asp?ao=120203 (1070 words)

	Poynter Online - Morning Meeting - Tuesday February 5, 2002
		Yes, nothing on TV is hotter than Trading Spaces on The Learning Channel.
		Based on a hit British show called Changing Rooms, Trading Spaces features two sets of neighbors who each get two days and a set budget to transform a room in each other's home.
		It turns out that as 100 US television stations and 70 stations in Mexico use a machine that edits out single frames of television shows in order to squeeze in an extra commercial or two every half hour.
	www.poynter.org /dg.lts/id.2/aid.1337/column.htm (490 words)

	Technology Review: TiVo to Launch Video Recorder that Integrates Cable Box
		Currently, most TiVo customers with digital cable must connect their digital video recorders to a separate box using either a low-speed data port or a device that shoots infrared signals to the converter, mimicking a remote control.
		That means a show might not record properly because the TV failed to switch to the correct channel.
		A number of TV makers now sell sets with slots for the cards even though such cards currently don't support pay-per-view or video-on-demand services.
	www.techreview.com /articles/05/01/ap/ap_4010605.asp (437 words)

	The best and worst of 2003 TV - TELEVISION - MSNBC.com
		And Paris Hilton, who not only had her own reality show, but got in trouble for her own real-life antics.
		The creators of the show nailed everything from the smarmy host to the raunchy competitions to the overly dramatic elimination ceremony.
		Having nothing to do with printing presses, laminated press badges or 3-D headline graphics, but representing a potentially creepy level of cooperation between the media and the military that is spreading to other government/establishment entities.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3688364 (1184 words)

	Changing Rooms
		Interestingly, although the British and NZ versions of the show are interchangeable – same music, same graphics, etc – Australia’s version, made by Channel Nine, has just taken the idea and made it their own way.
		There is something deeply fascinating about seeing apparently perfectly normal people who live in ordinary, slightly dull houses having their living rooms transformed from insipid suburbia to hi-tech Japanese or Scottish Baronial.
		Their relationship with the contestants keeps the show on an even keel.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/broadcasting/62920 (458 words)

	"Changing Rooms" (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is one of the first shows that I had the pleasure of watching on the BBCAmerica channel.
		I love this show and although the designers don't always have an eye for taste--it does show what we can do in a pinch.
		Sometimes, the designers forget that people have to live in these rooms that they decorate and come up with some of the wildest rooms ever designed, but they do come out with more better ideas than bad ones.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0189251 (295 words)

	Trading Spaces - Zap2it - TV Show
		Neighbors swap houses, and with the help of a designer and carpenter, transform a room in two days.
		The best, and worst, part about it is that the home owner has zero say in what gets done.
		Based on the British series "Changing Rooms." Original host Alex McLeod left after the first season and was replaced by Paige Davis.
	tv.zap2it.com /shows/showlist/showcard.html?3560 (59 words)

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