Holmes and Holmes
Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian television reality show, which premiered on HGTV Canada in 2016. The show features contractor Mike Holmes and his son Mike Holmes Jr. renovating homes.
Outside Canada, the following series, Holmes 911, is marketed as the third season of this series; Holmes 911 first aired in Canada on CTV Life. Additionally, the episodes were remade into a separate series, titled Holmes and Homes: Retooled; as with Holmes Makes it Right: Retooled, Holmes and Holmes: Retooled splices footage from the original series alongside including never-before-seen footage from the original series; the Retooled version generally focuses on the construction aspects of the project, compressing the construction timeline of each featured home of the first two seasons into two episodes each, and a single episode of the Holmes 911 homes, as opposed to spreading them across the entire length of the season as with the original series.
History
The first season of the show focuses on Mike Jr., who, following his efforts to build his father the ultimate garage the previous year, is challenged by his father to lead an effort to renovate his bungalow home by adding a second storey addition in order to turn his bachelor pad into a family home for him and his longtime girlfriend, Lisa.The second season, which premiered in 2018, saw Mike and Mike Jr. going into business together and flipping three different homes.
Holmes 911, which premiered in 2019, saw Mike, accompanied by Mike Jr. and his sister Sherry, help fix and renovate homes for five different families in need.
Shelagh Cooke received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Direction in a Lifestyle or Information Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, for the second season episode "Water: The Good, the Bad and the Money".
Crew
Through the course of the three seasons, Mike Jr. brings with him two friends to act as his crew:Derek Ullman is the best friend of Mike Jr., who has been with the Holmes Crew since the start of Holmes Makes it Right.Rob Collier is another friend of Mike Jr. who acts as the apprentice of the team. In later series, he is identified as Mike Jr.'s brother-in-law.Other crew members seen on-screen include the following:Sherry Holmes is the younger of Mike Jr.'s two older sisters. She got her start in the trades on the series Holmes in New Orleans, and is developing an eye for interior design. In the first two seasons, she helps her brother on certain jobs when extra manpower is required. On Holmes 911, she announces that she is pregnant with her first child, Cali.Blake Steed is the construction coordinator in the second season, and one of the crew chiefs on Holmes 911. He has been with the Holmes Crew since the start of Holmes Makes it Right, and eventually marries Sherry during the events of Holmes 911.Marc-Antoine Charette is a general contractor local to the Kingston, Ontario area, who Mike and Mike Jr. collaborate with on one of the homes featured in the second season. He helps oversee the construction efforts there while Mike and Mike Jr. are in the Toronto area, working on the other featured homes.Crystal Charette is the wife of Marc, and serves as the interior designer on the Kingston-area home featured in the second season.
Additionally, the following people have a recurring presence in the series:Lisa Grant is the longtime girlfriend of Mike Jr., having met as teenagers and reconnected as adults. During the events of the first season, Mike Jr. proposes to her while on a weekend date to Ottawa; they are formally married during the events of the second season. In later series, she is introduced under her married name, Lisa Marie Holmes.
Additionally, HGTV interior designer Sarah Richardson makes guest appearances advising Mike and Mike Jr. on design aspects relating to a different home in the second season.