HGTV is shaking up its renovation roster, ordering the six-episode series “Junk or Jackpot?” with designer Bobby Berk and wrestler-turned-entrepreneur John Cena attached as executive producer, while longtime staple “Rehab Addict” steps aside until autumn at host Nicole Curtis’s request.
“Junk or Jackpot?”—slated for a late-2025 debut—follows collectors whose sprawling stashes of superhero figurines, rare puppets and other memorabilia are appraised and, if they agree, partially sold to finance overdue home makeovers. Berk says the format helps “passionate people sift through their cherished items and give them re-imagined spaces that will best honor what they hold dear.” Cena adds that the idea grew out of wondering whether prized collections are “trash or treasure.”
The designer’s pivot comes after his exit from Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” which, according to People, will wrap with its tenth season next year.
HGTV’s pickup lands amid a wave of cancellations—including “Bargain Block,” “Farmhouse Fixer,” “Married to Real Estate” and “Izzy Does It”—that have triggered viewer backlash online. Comments under the network’s July lineup post range from pleas to reinstate axed shows to vows to abandon the channel altogether.
Curtis’s scheduling shift adds tension of a different sort. Two new “Rehab Addict” episodes aired in June, yet the host told followers she made an “executive decision” to shelve the remainder until fall so she can spend the summer with her children.
In an Instagram Reel she emphasized that HGTV supported the pause, that David Bromstad’s “My Lottery Dream Home” will only fill the timeslot temporarily, and that the opening episodes remain on Max and discovery+. Curtis, returning after a three-year hiatus sparked by a personal setback, says the current season’s renovation of an 1890s Wyoming home represents her “hardest project yet.”
Together these moves show the network balancing renewal and continuity—placing Berk at the center of a collector-driven concept while banking on Curtis’s veteran appeal when “Rehab Addict” resumes in the fall.
