Sadly, there’s a lot on HGTV that is crap. Incidentally, there’s also a lot that’s Canadian. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, either. But one show that is Canadian and simultaneously isn’t crap is Income Property. The gist? Host Scott McGillivray helps homeowners renovate a rental space (say, a basement) to provide extra income and lower (or eliminate) mortgage payments. Each episode McGillivray presents homeowners with two renovation plans to transform the space to a greater or lesser extent. After the choice is made, work commences, and by the end of the episode a gorgeous new apartment is revealed.

One oddity, at least in our household: McGillivray’s insistence on listing the resulting spaces as “legal” apartments. To our ears that just sounds more suspicious, not less. Maybe it’s just because we’ve never lived in a big metro area, or maybe the focus on “legal” apartments reflects Canadian zoning issues (like the requirement of windows but not necessarily windows one can fit through in bedrooms.) Whatever the case, it’s a great show. Unlike, say, My Big Amazing Renovation; somebody must have told the announcer that dropping the “g” from “-ing” words would make him sound more casual, because he is constantly overdoin’ it.