It's too late to volunteer for Extreme Makeover Home Edition, which is currently filming in Lexington. But the show is encouraging spectators to come watch the construction in progress.
As we reported this week, the show came to Lexington to work with local volunteers who are building and furnishing a new home for the Creaseys, a family of five who have been struggling because of mom Tricia's medical bills as she fights cancer.
Construction started last week and is expected to continue into Monday, when designers will take over and decorate the new house.
Spectators are encouraged to attend and cheer on the builders, and also to be present during the presentation of the new home to the Creaseys, which is scheduled to happen about 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Spectators should go to the old Walmart Shopping Center at 37 Plaza Parkway in Lexington, where shuttles will transport them to the site. You cannot park at the site or park nearby and walk to the site. There is a roped-off area for spectators.
Spectator viewing is allowed from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Spectators are encouraged to bring canned goods for a food drive.
If your goal is to spot host Ty Pennington, you will need to wait. He's not on the set this weekend, since he flies between two productions being shot simultaneously. "He will return sometime on Monday," said a publicist working with the show.
Most of the spectators will be locals, but executive producer Conrad Ricketts told me that people often travel from nearby states to watch the show, and also that there are groups of "retired groupies" who follow the show from state to state in their RVs cheering on the workers.
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An air date has not been announced for the episode. It takes a week to film the show, but six to eight weeks to edit the footage, according to Ricketts. He said that the air date would be "Februaryish."
Pam Grier, a native of Winston-Salem, will be guest-starring in a storyline on the CW's Smallville later this season.
Grier has been cast as Amanda "The Wall" Waller, a government agent who has been featured in various DC comics since 1986. She was a recurring character in the animated Justice League cartoons and the recent straight-to-video, animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. In comics and cartoons, she has been depicted as much heavier than Grier.
Grier will make her debut in a two-part story called "Legends" that is scheduled to air in late January, and will appear in multiple episodes, according to an online report in Entertainment Weekly.
Alas, poor Andy Richter. His sitcom career has been spotty, going from the brilliant-but-quickly-canceled Andy Richter Controls the Universe to the lousy-and-not-canceled-soon-enough Quintuplets. His third and shortest-lived sitcom, Andy Barker, P.I., comes to DVD on Tuesday with all six episodes and extras about the making of the show. Richter played a likable accountant turned private eye.
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