ATLANTA — Reality TV shows create ridiculously artificial deadlines to amp up drama. That's the crux of shows like "Project Runway," "Lego Masters" and "Top Chef."
Back in the 2000s, former Atlantan Ty Pennington as host made an art out of quickfire renovations on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
Tom Forman, a producer of "Extreme Makeover," had a variant idea that Netflix ultimately said yes to: fix up a home in a span of just 12 hours. Have the family leave at 7 a.m. and come back 12 hours later to a transformed pad. Called "Instant Dream Home," the show, shot in metro Atlanta last year, features the type of rush jobs that make great dramatic TV but make no sense in the real world.
