Love it or List it

Christine Diakos puts her Big Coat back on
The veteran TV exec has rejoined the unscripted producer to help the company expand into scripted and grow its factual division.

Maria Farano joins Big Coat Media
The former Corus exec joins the unscripted prodco as SVP content, the latest in a series of senior hires at the Toronto company.

Big Coat Media adds to development team
The Amazing Gayl Pile‘s Brooks Gray and former Sony Pictures Television exec Frank Sutera join the Toronto-based prodco.

Love It or List It format heads to Germany
Beyond Distribution has sold the Canadian home design format to German broadcaster Kabel Eins.

W Network launches Love It or List It Vacation Homes
The latest real estate series from Big Coat premieres May 9. (Hosts Elisa Goldhawke and Dan Vickery pictured.)

Big Coat execs on taking Love It or List It worldwide
Following a sale to the U.K. last year, the Love It or List It format has been optioned for several other European territories. (Pictured L to R: Maria Armstrong and Catherine Fogarty.)

Best of the Year: W Network
Playback‘s Channel of the Year is honing its audience strategy by focusing on its talent brands and original programming. (W’s Masters of Flip pictured.)

Crossing the pond with Love It or List It
Raise the Roof Productions’ co-creative director Andrew Jackson on how the company tweaked Big Coat Productions’ format Love It or List It for the U.K. market.

Big Coat takes Canadian format rights to The Extra Mile
The Israeli reality competition format sees divorced couples endure challenges for a cash prize.

Why Big Coat is crowdsourcing its next big idea
Inspired by the success of its long-running hit Love It or List It, Big Coat Productions is launching a national campaign to source new ideas.

Channel 4 to remake Love It or List It format
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has penned a deal to remake Toronto-based Big Coat Productions’ Love It or List It (pictured).

Production underway on Who Lives Here? for W Net
The new factual series from 3Bird Media will complement successful W Net programming such as Love It or List It, says Corus exec Vibika Bianchi.