HGTV’s Good Bones to Return for Surprise ‘Limited Season’ — Find Out When
HGTV‘s Good Bones is (briefly) rising from the television grave.
The cable net announced on Wednesday that home renovation series Good Bones — which ended its run last October after eight seasons — will in fact return for a “special limited season” later this summer.
The three-week run begins with a 90-minute premiere on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 9/8c; subsequent episodes will run two hours each. Mother-daughter duo Karen E Laine and Mina Starsiak Hawk will be back as hosts, too.
According to the official logline, Good Bones’ abbreviated return will follow Mina and Karen “as their lives evolve past their time renovating homes in Indianapolis. Mina will purchase a very dated but ‘groovy’ lake house just north of Indy and give it much-needed cosmetic updates to create the peaceful family getaway of her dreams. Karen will set off on a new adventure in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she’ll risk her retirement nest egg on a bungalow that requires more work than anticipated to become a colorful, beachy oasis.”
Good Bones first premiered on HGTV in 2016 — nearly a decade after Starsiak Hawk and Laine launched their home renovation business, Two Chicks and a Hammer, in Indianapolis — and followed the women as they found local homes in serious disrepair and transformed them into stunning remodels.
In August 2023, Starsiak Hawk announced that Good Bones would conclude with its eighth season. At the time, she expressed pride and gratitude for “making a show for the last eight years that, for the huge majority of the time, has been super representative of who I am.”
Then, on an episode of her Mina AF podcast just last month, Starsiak Hawk opened up about her experience making Good Bones, calling the last two seasons “really hard emotionally and mentally, financially and physically.” Additionally, having recently been pitched on a new show that “leans back into the older Good Bones model, maybe working with some of those people again,” Starsiak Hawk offered, “I just think it would be a really bad decision for me, like, mentally and emotionally, let alone financially, to kind of get back in that place.”
I thought they were not on speaking terms???
It sounds like it will be done in different cities. They won’t have to be on the same set. They are doing seperate projects. Probably only way to get her to do it.
It sounds like they’re filming each of their respective projects separately with no interaction between the two.
It sounds like they’re doing separate projects, 800 miles apart. No speaking necessary!
Don’t think I can watch either of them. Type A Mina or increasingly eccentric Karen. I at least hope that HGTV has kept their segments separate.
Not much of a surprise as it was discussed when the original series ended that Mina would have a follow-up show about building a lake house. Maybe the surprise is the Karen part?
There has been talk HGTV was doing something with Karen.
They basically are mushing the pilots together under the Good Bones banner.
I used to really like the show but I found Mina to be too annoying after a while. I like Karen but her designing style wasn’t my favorite either. I really liked the rest of the crew, though.
My first thought was “Wow, Mina is working with her mother again? Did hell freeze?” and then I saw separate cities and it all makes sense.
Someone in my family loved the old show, so I know all about it without having ever been all that invested in it myself. I don’t blame Mina for wanting to get away from Karen one BIT. Karen was…awful. Frequently awful, onscreen, which makes you wonder how bad offscreen. The rest of the jokers HG had her working with weren’t much better (with the rare exception) and it’s wild to find out how much they thought they could get away with b/c Mina didn’t employ them, how much her employees had to come in and clean up after them when cameras weren’t rolling.
Ppl call Mina “annoying” and “type A” but honestly, she’s a business owner and a boss. What “type” is a BOSS supposed to be? Having a show like this, I’m sure, can be helpful in that line of work, but it’s also a huge hassle and a lot of pressure on you to be what the producers want and put up with all kinds of crap. I really liked seeing her buck those restrictions over the years, stop taking it so much. I’m glad she’s gotten to a better place since, and hopefully this show will be what she wants. And we can all just fast forward pass Karen, lol
Will Never watch again