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What began, more or less, with 'Trading Spaces' -- a fairly innocuous program in which neighbors redecorate each other's houses -- has metastasized into niches of sub-niches. There's the personal makeover show ('What Not to Wear,' 'How Do I Look?,' 'Fashion Police,' 'Ambush Makeover'); the home-improvement makeover ('Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,' 'Clean Sweep,' 'Guess Who's Coming to Decorate?,' 'Design Invasion'); and a hybrid of both ('Queer Eye for the Straight Guy/Gal,' 'Style Court'). There's also the family/marriage makeover ('Wife Swap,' 'Trading Spouses,' 'Supernanny,' 'Nanny 911' and my favorite title, a forthcoming ABC show called 'Fix My Husband'). TLC -- which used to stand for The Learning Channel but now just stands for TLC -- is almost entirely devoted to this sort of program, as is a look-alike competitor, the Style Network. Whether hearth and home, hairdo or husband, every one of these programs starts with the same premise: You (or someone very much like you) just aren't good enough...
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