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Doug Hanks
Don't get Turf wrong: We're fascinated by the real estate
industry. But would it keep us from changing the channel?
The Discovery Channel is going to find out this fall with
a new reality show, Double Agents. The show pairs two real
estate agents with house hunters and tracks all the angst
that goes with the search for a dream home.
Originally this was supposed to be a contest, with the two
agents competing to find a couple a home within 48 hours.
One agent was supposed to talk to the husband alone, and the
other just to the wife, according to publicity materials still
available on the cable channel's website.
But that premise has been scrapped, a spokeswoman for Discovery
told Turf, as long as we didn't name her. Now the show will
play it straight: Two agents helping a buyer or buyers (single
mothers, married couples, gay couples, etc., the spokeswoman
said.) The only twist is that there are two agents helping,
not just one.
Which isn't to say there won't be drama.
Ray Stevens, owner of Oxford Real Estate in Oxford, Md.,
recently filmed an episode with his daughter, who is about
to join him in the brokerage.
As cameras rolled, the two showed a 30-something Virginia
couple through the historic town and the rural neighborhoods
nearby. It wasn't exactly real: Stevens already had shown
the couple property once Double Agents arrived, but the show
had everyone pretend to see some rejected homes for the first
time.
Eventually, the couple settled on a home as the cameras rolled
and as the producers packed up thinking they had an episode
in the can. Then problems surfaced during inspection.
''We're actually looking at other homes,'' Stevens said in
a telephone interview from Oxford. ''So I don't know how this
is going to turn out.''
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