Chris Hyndman & Steven Sabados, hosts of Steven & Chris on CBCThe Steven and Chris Show: Two Gay Hosts Take Canadian TV by Storm
Move over Martha: former Designer Guys Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman will be taking up residence on Canada's national station, CBC, with a fresh new daytime talk show. Think Queer Eye meets Oprah.
Toted as a "lifestyles" show, Steven and Chris will tackle pertinent issues of the day such as entertaining, cooking, fashion, health, and their specialty, home decor. The bickering boys will also interview a slew of celebrity guests, who no doubt will have to fight to get a word in edgewise amidst the hosts' constant (and entertaining) cattiness.
This will be the fourth show that the Canadian twosome have hosted together. They are more widely known for their design program, Designer Guys, which aired for 3 seasons and has been seen in the US and over 17 countries worldwide. The premise of that show had the two guys coming into someone's space and helping them revamp the decor, complete with snarly comments usually directed at one another. A spin-off show, Design Rivals, had the two competing to win a client by offering up two different re-decorating scenarios. Whomever the client chooses to go with is the design that they must carry out. So Chic With Steven & Chris saw them moving away from their design roots and instead, overhauling innocent women and showing them how to be chic on a shoe-string budget.
Previously relegated to specialty channels like Home and Garden Television, Steven and Chris have finally made it onto a mainstream network with the CBC. This marks the first daytime talk show ever to be hosted by not one, but two, openly gay men. Kudos to CBC for putting it on the air! And with personalities as big as Steven and Chris', there is no doubt that this will be a program worth tuning into. Steven and Chris premieres January 14th, 2008 on CBC.
"Designer Guys" Come Out as Lovers[BGay.com / 01-10-08]
TORONTO, CANADA -- Canada's former Designer Guys hosts Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman have officially come out as lovers, and have just taped the first episode of their new daytime lifestyle show, Steven and Chris.
The long-time gay couple was busy Wednesday with taping the very first episode of their new show, which debuts Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. ET on Canadas CBC TV station.
Together for years, Sabados is the more serious half of the couple who keeps his emotions in check, while Hyndman is the joker, cracking wise and cracking up routinely, The Canadian Press reports.
"I am a control freak," Sabados admits backstage after the lifestyles coach told him as much on-air.
"That's exactly what he is," Hyndman agrees.
"I now take that as a positive," Sabados says.
"Well, you have to love yourself, don't you? It's important to love yourself no matter what. I'm a freak and you're a control freak so that's the way it works."
Despite their different personalities, the couple say they rarely get on one another's nerves even after long and hectic days at work.
"It's like we don't know anything different," Hyndman says.
They fight sometimes, Sabados says, but it's nothing out of the ordinary.
"Of course we do, everyone does, but what's nice about it is that I can say: 'I had a really exhausting day, I'm fried and I'm wired.' And he had the same day. Neither one of us is going to want to go out and party."
The pair is delighted the CBC is taking a chance on them with the new show, and pleased they've got a lot of input into what "Steven and Chris" will explore every day.
"They're producing a show around what we love, what we do, what our hobbies are, what our passions are, what we're interested in, so they've taken everything that we do and made it into a show," says Hyndman. "We're not really just hosts - this show represents who we are."
CBC-TV Ends Production on Fashion File, Steven & ChrisCiting economic concerns, CBC-TV announced Tuesday it is ending production on two lifestyle shows: daytime chat-fest Steven & Chris and long-running runway chronicle Fashion File.
"Like every other media organization right now, we're facing big challenges as a result of a significant drop in advertising revenues," Kirstine Layfield, CBC-TV's executive director of network programming, said in a statement.
"We're not able at present to make the kind of expenditures we ordinarily would."
Steven & Chris will conclude production April 15, while Fashion File will wrap up March 31. According to CBC spokesman Jeff Keay, the decision affects 34 jobs: six permanent and 28 contract positions.
After production ends on the two programs, the shows will continue in their respective time slots in reruns, until the announcement of a new afternoon schedule "in several weeks," Keay said. [...]
COMMENTS
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I can't believe that the show is going off the air. It is one of the few CBC television shows I truly enjoy. Big mistake as far as I'm concerned. You could go a different route with the show to suit the economic times. We've got great Canadian talent here, and CBC could really be tapping into something big. If not I'm sure they will be picked up by another television studio. Hope you change your mind!
This is the worst day ever for Canadian Television. I absolutely love Steven and Chris, as well as Fashion File. This is terrible. Whatever they are replaced with will never be as good.
It's a sad day when a show as good as Steven and Chris gets a hiatus. It is a great, uplifting show......but I bet the networks will still want to keep showing all of us the bad news in the world, and that won't be cut! We need to keep these good shows going! If I win a lottery I am gonna try and help them out!
London, England__[Twitter.com / 10-15-09]Steven & Chris - blog
YOUR BOYS ARE BACK!
[10-08-09]
Life has just become little more fabulous! Steven and Chris are coming back with new episodes starting January 4, 2010 at 2 PM everyday on CBC!
During the summer, Steven and Chris travelled across the country and abroad, researching the latest trends in lifestyle, decor, food, fashion and more. They have returned rested, fresh, and excited to share their experiences with all of you!
The boys will kick off their return in December with a prime-time Holiday Special, and will follow in January with new daily shows. They'll be expanding 'Ask Steven and Chris', where you can get the boys' expert advice on your pressing decor questions, and will continue to host experts and celebrities to bring you the latest trends in entertaining, exercising, beauty, relationships and more.
We hope you're as excited as we are, and that you'll join us again in the New Year for more fun, laughter and fabulousness!
Steven and Chris - design collection & bios
Steven believes the most important design element of any decor is the person who will be living in it. [...]
Even at a young age, Chris Hyndman understood that color was often the lifeblood of a room, bringing a vital energy to everyone who entered. [...] _______________________________________________
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Uh, Dana, I think the people on this website know more about "challenging the views of gender roles" than a straight female. Do you know where you are here, sweetie? LMAO
(soto voce: don't do it…don't do it. Oh, f*ck, what the hell!)
And Dana, some of us here are Adam fans, but we're still trying to get over the way he prostituted himself so ludicrously last week for his "straight female" fans. I for one did not like seeing him make such fool out of himself. The album cover's kinda cool, kinda tacky, and really majorly ADAM! But why don't you ladies stay out of here and let us heal. LMAO!!!!!!
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