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Home & Garden Television is the mac and cheese of cable -- video comfort food. And, like that perennial favorite, it sells very well. Last year, HGTV was the third-most-watched cable network after ESPN and Fox News.

You might think the secrets to HGTV stardom lie in real estate savvy or creative design. But for shows like Fixer Upper and Property Brothers, it's that hard-to-find combination of charm and chemistry that turns hosts into stars.

The escapist appeal of looking at other people’s beautiful homes turned Home & Garden Television into the third most-watched cable network in 2016, ahead of CNN and behind only Fox News and ESPN. Riding HGTV’s reality shows, parent company Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. has seen its shares rise more than 30 percent this year, outperforming bigger rivals like Walt Disney Co., 21st Century Fox Inc. and Viacom Inc.

In its fifth-anniversary year, HGTV, a joint venture between Hearst and Scripps Networks Interactive, keeps on building.

Scripps Networks Interactive's Chairman, President and CEO, Ken Lowe, and Chief Programming, Content and Brand Officer, Kathleen Finch, were named to the 2016 B&C and Multichannel News Power 100.

In television, the holiday season is typically filled with programming stunts, movie classics and specials catering to the whole family.  One might expect all of the Scripps networks to keep with tradition and follow suit. But one of them -- Travel Channel -- is trying something slightly different this year.

Brands have been upping the ante on bots and adding a new layer of consumer engagement to their strategy at a fever pace ever since Facebook enabled the conversational-tech friendly feature in April.

The 2017 HGTV Dream Home is located right here in Georgia on St. Simons Island and it promises to be a beauty.

If you watch HGTV, you know the identical-twin Scott brothers.