This Old House: This Old House is partnering with New Yankee Workshop to make all 21 seasons of Norm Abram's classic fine-woodworking program available again! Soon you'll be able to stream every episode of NYW, with the option to purchase the plans for each project Norm makes on the show.
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This is very exciting news. I'll be completely honest, prior to Scenic Fabrication and Instillation I had never seen New Yankee Workshop. While watching it, I thought it was a really great TV show and understood why it was such a phenomenon for kids who grew up watching it. New Yankee Workshop has all of the beauty and art of TV shows I like to watch like Fixer Upper, but they replace the reality TV drama (and nonsense) with a very thorough breakdown of how the process went. The show has that familiar feel to it, like your neighbor or uncle, but gives you a great depth knowledge of the topic discussed in that episode. With digital streaming being the primary way people watch TV nowadays, I think New Yankee Workshop could have a new surge of audience members. It would be really cool if the producing company could get the seasons uploaded to a large-scale TV streaming service like Netflix or Hulu. New Yankee Workshop is definitely something I would like to watch while chilling out at home.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?! You cannot make a headline that says "Coming Soon: New Yankee Workshop" and not have an announcement that NYW is rebooting. Sure it is exciting that they are republishing the episodes online for streaming and making the plans available online (not for free though), but there were already so many episodes on youtube that I watched so this isn't as exciting as if it were actually coming back. I am excited that I will be able to watch some new episodes since I have been having a hard time finding new ones on youtube. I am curious why they are doing this now. Is it because streaming is just more relevant now or is the woodworking industry (hobby) growing and more people want Norm? I wouldn't be surprised if the producers of the show only just realized they could put the episodes online, since I consistently see signs that those producers are consistently five years behind the times. So, while I was disappointed that this article didn't say what I thought it would, I can't be mad.
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