Dr. Joti Samra, R. Psych. Organizational & Media Consultant

(by Jessica Grabert, Television Blend)   OWN has been keeping fairly quiet ever since the network put into effect a restructuring plan that left 30 of its employees without a position, and left Oprah afterward proclaiming the institution of the cable network may have been a mistake. Nonetheless, the struggling network keeps pressing forward, hoping [...]

The Oprah Winfrey Network in the United States will debut Million Dollar Neighbourhood on June 9, 2012.    In the debt-ridden town of Aldergrove, the community is teaming up for a challenge that could change their fortune forever by attempting to increase their net worth by $1 million in three months.   To watch [...]

(by Adam Benzine, realscreen.com)   Force Four Entertainment has appointed Dana Johl as its head of production and Deborah Wainwright as its head of creative, overseeing the Vancouver-based indie’s slate of factual entertainment titles.   The news comes after the company last week received a greenlight from Corus Entertainment for a second season of Million [...]

(by Janet Balmforth, DRG News) Leading independent distributor DRG has acquired the rights to the new ground-breaking and emotionally charged, social transformation format Million Dollar Neighbourhood   and has sold the rights to a leading US cable network.   The agreement comes on the heels of the announcement of DRG’s first-look agreement with Million Dollar Neighbourhood’s [...]

(by Staff, C21News)   MIPTV: US cablenet OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is bringing the first season of Million Dollar Neighbourhood south from its Canadian sister channel.   Million Dollar Neighbourhood (10×60′) features 100 families trying to make US$1m over 10 weeks through team work. A second season has already been commissioned by OWN in Canada [...]

The neighbourhood scrambles to earn every last dollar they can – only to discover that some of the money they’ve counted doesn’t actually increase their net worth. Will they prevail and become the Million Dollar Neighbourhood? And if they do, which family is going to be voted to receive the life-changing award of $100,000?

(Staff, Real Screen)   When the global recession of 2008 hit, factual entertainment programmers sought to create shows that would reflect the financial unease potentially afflicting audiences without depressing the hell out of them. “Aspirational” became the buzz word du jour. Here we are in 2012, and things really haven’t changed all that much – the [...]

The neighbourhood is divided into three teams and challenged to use all of the lessons they’ve learned to reach their ultimate, million-dollar goal. But the teams flounder when forced to compete and demand to form one united team. But have they learned the lessons of “net worth” well enough to become the Million Dollar Neighbourhood?

With the help of celebrity home renovation expert Kristi Hansen, the families have one week to renovate the dilapidated home of one community member, as well as increase the energy savings in their own homes.