HGTV
SUBMISSIONS
Thank you for your interest in HGTV.
If you are a producer who would like to submit a program proposal to HGTV, you will find all the information you need here online. Please read our Submissions Guidelines that provide an overview of programs appropriate to the Network.
Development Proposals
All proposals must be submitted via the ESubmissions process; we will not accept proposals mailed to our offices. Proposals will be reviewed in the order in which they are received. If we have initial interest in your project, we will contact you for more information. If we decide to pass on your submission, you will receive notification via email. Please allow at least eight weeks for a response.
Please see our “Guidelines” page for more information.
Completed Programs/Acquisitions
We are currently accepting acquisition submissions of single hours (60 minute) or series (30 or 60 minute) in all areas of property and real estate programming. For more information on our current schedules and programming, please visit our website. Acquisitions should not be submitted through this website, see “Guidelines.”
Programming should be targeted to our current audience, which is approximately 65% female, ages 25-54.
GUIDELINES
Please first review our programming needs on our network home page of ESubmissions as well as on our website to determine if your idea is appropriate.
Development Proposals
All proposals must be submitted via the ESubmissions process; we will not accept proposals mailed to our offices. Proposals will be reviewed in the order in which they are received. If we have initial interest in your project, we will contact you for more information. If we decide to pass on your submission, you will receive notification via email. Please allow at least eight weeks for a response.
Please note: All tapes will be discarded – do NOT send originals.
Please follow these guidelines when submitting an idea to us:
Please do not put your title in “quotes.”
Your Full Project Description or logline should provide us with your idea.
Please indicate the number of episodes you intend to produce, as well as the length of each episode. Please note we understand this information can be flexible and may reflect estimates.
Your estimated budget should be a per episode estimate – this field is required. Detailed budgets will be requested if needed.
You must indicate whether you are requesting a commission, a co-production, or another type of deal. Please further address any deal issues in the comments section. If you are requesting a co-production, please indicate your partners in the comments section.
Please provide us with a rough production timeline for completion of the project. Do not include specific dates; rather, we would prefer to see how many weeks you would expect to spend on each stage of the project.
Address any additional issues in the comments section.
For more information, please see our “Frequently Asked Questions” (FAQ). Please note: do not submit your idea to more than one Discovery Network – it will be discarded. None of our channels review programs already under consideration by another. If one channel passes on your idea, you may then resubmit to another network.