HGTV’s Good Bones to Return for Surprise ‘Limited Season’ — Find Out When

HGTV’s Good Bones is (briefly) rising from the television grave.

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The cable net announced on Wednesday that home renovation series Good Bones — which ended its run last October after eight seasons — will in fact return for a “special limited season” later this summer.

The three-week run begins with a 90-minute premiere on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 9/8c; subsequent episodes will run two hours each. Mother-daughter duo Karen E Laine and Mina Starsiak Hawk will be back as hosts, too.

According to the official logline, Good Bones’ abbreviated return will follow Mina and Karen “as their lives evolve past their time renovating homes in Indianapolis. Mina will purchase a very dated but ‘groovy’ lake house just north of Indy and give it much-needed cosmetic updates to create the peaceful family getaway of her dreams. Karen will set off on a new adventure in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she’ll risk her retirement nest egg on a bungalow that requires more work than anticipated to become a colorful, beachy oasis.”

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Good Bones first premiered on HGTV in 2016 — nearly a decade after Starsiak Hawk and Laine launched their home renovation business, Two Chicks and a Hammer, in Indianapolis — and followed the women as they found local homes in serious disrepair and transformed them into stunning remodels.

In August 2023, Starsiak Hawk announced that Good Bones would conclude with its eighth season. At the time, she expressed pride and gratitude for “making a show for the last eight years that, for the huge majority of the time, has been super representative of who I am.”

Then, on an episode of her Mina AF podcast just last month, Starsiak Hawk opened up about her experience making Good Bones , calling the last two seasons “really hard emotionally and mentally, financially and physically.” Additionally, having recently been pitched on a new show that “leans back into the older Good Bones model, maybe working with some of those people again,” Starsiak Hawk offered, “I just think it would be a really bad decision for me, like, mentally and emotionally, let alone financially, to kind of get back in that place.”

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