'HOME TOWN' SEASON TWO DELIVERS SOLID LIVE PLUS SAME DAY RATINGS FOR HGTV

New York [March 14, 2018] The sophomore season of HGTV's hit series Home Town, starring Ben and Erin Napier as they transform outdated properties into gorgeous family homes in Laurel, Mississippi, averaged a .55 live plus same day rating among viewers P25-54 during its 10-week run. Home Town attracted more than 14 million total viewers since its premiere on Monday, January 8, at 9 p.m. ET/PT -- helping HGTV hold its position as the #4 ranked cable network among upscale women 25-54 during the Monday 9-10 p.m. ET/PT timeslot. The solid performance led the network to order 13 new episodes of the series.

In Home Town, first-time homebuyers, couples with young children and adults wishing to live closer to grandchildren all benefit from Erin's imaginative hand sketches and Ben's custom handiwork showcasing local reclaimed materials.

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HGTV delivers the superstar experts, fascinating families, compelling renovations and stunning transformations that make all things home fun. America's favorite way to get entertaining, relatable and inspirational home and lifestyle content, HGTV offers: a top 10 cable network that is distributed to more than 90 million U.S. households; a website, HGTV.com, that attracts an average of 9.7 million people each month; a social footprint of 16.8 million; HGTV Magazine, a monthly publication that reaches more than one million readers and exclusive collections of home-oriented products through the HGTV HOME(TM) consumer products line. Viewers can become fans of HGTV and interact with other home improvement enthusiasts through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. HGTV is owned by Discovery, Inc., a global leader in real life entertainment whose portfolio also includes Discovery Channel, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.