Flipping Vegas
| Flipping Vegas | |
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| Genre | Reality |
| Starring |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 41 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
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| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Loveable Scoundrels Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network |
A&E FYI |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| First shown in | August 21, 2010 |
| Original release | June 18, 2011 – September 27, 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Flipping Vegas is an American reality television series on A&E in the United States. The series premiered[1] on June 18, 2011. It features Scott Yancey and his wife Amie Yancey with realtors from their brokerage Goliath Company[2] as they buy, fix and flip houses in Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally airing[3] on Saturday mornings, A&E moved the show[4] to Saturday evenings at the beginning of Season three. The show was moved back to Saturday afternoons for the final eight episodes. FYI and A&E split up Season 3's 23 episodes to make Seasons 4 and 5 on FYI. A&E lists it as only 3 Seasons.[5]
A common theme is tension between Scott and Amie, as Scott wants to keep to a very tight budget and always has stringent time constraints and deadlines. In contrast, his designer wife Amie is more focused on creating higher end homes and frequently goes around Scott's wishes.
After the success of Flipping Vegas, similar shows from other cities such as Flipping Boston and Flipping Miami premiered in 2012 and 2013.
Production
Regarding the show's origin, Scott Yancey said: "I'm from the Hollywood area originally, and I was talking with some buddies who are in the industry. I was telling them how I had to pull my Glock out on some homeless guys who came at me with needles in one of the houses that was all boarded up. They’re like, 'Man, you need your own reality show. We'll make it like a commercial for your website or something.' So I paid their expenses, and they gave it to another friend of ours, who gave it to a guy who worked at Lionsgate."[6]
The series filmed its pilot in 2009, under the working title of Last House Standing.[7] The second season concluded filming in April 2012.[8] As of November 2013, the show was filming its fifth season.[9] Approximately 120 to 140 hours of footage was shot for each episode, which was then edited down to 43 minutes.[6] Scott Yancey said, "The houses that are the worst to buy are the ones we save for TV because we know there's a great storyline with it".[9]
Regarding the biggest misconception that viewers may have about the show, Scott Yancey said, "What the people see is us stressed in a house on an episode. What they don't see is us doing five others at the same time. [...] The TV show usually edits in the drama. They don't see that an hour from now, we're gonna be holding hands walking our dog somewhere. They edit it in a way that's obviously going to be most entertaining. They don't ever show me say 'thank you, good job' to somebody or show us going to a restaurant at night or in the summer on a beach."[9] Amie Yancey said, "The main thing is that in TV land, they speed everything up. They [the viewers] think, 'Oh, wow, it's a breeze. They come in, and it's done.' It takes a long time to put them together, to pick out the fit and finish and work on the quality. They only see a glimpse of it."[9]
Episodes
Season 3 was split into Seasons 4 & 5 on FYI.[5]
| Season | Episodes | Premiere | Finale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | August 21, 2010 | July 30, 2011 | |
| 2 | 10 | December 8, 2012 | February 16, 2013 | |
| 3 | 8 | November 2, 2013 | December 14, 2013 | |
| 4 | 7 | March 1, 2014 | April 12, 2014 | |
| 5 | 8 | August 9, 2014 | September 27, 2014 | |
Season 1 (2010-11)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | August 21, 2010 |
| Scott Yancey and his wife, Amie Yancey, work with project manager Baldemar Rivera to flip a dilapidated house. Simultaneously, one of Scott's rental properties suffers fire damage. Scott enlists Baldemar to repair the fire-damaged house. Dealing with problems at both houses, Baldemar struggles to finish them on time for Scott. | |||
| 2 | 2 | "Flood House" | June 18, 2011 |
| After purchasing a house that suffered water damage, Scott finds the property to be in worse condition than he initially expected. | |||
| 3 | 3 | "Hot Tub House" | June 25, 2011 |
| 4 | 4 | "Twins House" | July 2, 2011 |
| Scott teams up with identical twin brothers, Phil and Tom, to flip a house. | |||
| 5 | 5 | "Ridge House" | July 9, 2011 |
| 6 | 6 | "Country Club House" | July 16, 2011 |
| 7 | 7 | "Dream House" | July 23, 2011 |
| Scott teams up with the owner of an unfinished mansion to complete the property. | |||
| 8 | 8 | "Pink Door/Mouse House" | July 30, 2011 |
| Scott works on two homes simultaneously: one with a pink door and the other with an infestation of mice. | |||
Season 2 (2012-13)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | "Red Rock House" | December 8, 2012 |
| Scott purchases a well-kept home in Summerlin's Red Rock Country Club golf community. Scott teams up with his former project manager, Baldemar, for some minor renovations on the house. Amie insists that the staircase's spindles be replaced, and uses a chainsaw to destroy them, forcing Scott to replace them with new spindles. Scott suffers chest pains and must go to a hospital after fighting with Amie over her expensive plans for the house. | |||
| 10 | 2 | "Haunted House" | December 15, 2012 |
| Scott purchases a house that is rumored to be haunted. Amie, believing the rumor to be true, hires a local psychic to rid the house of its negative energy. | |||
| 11 | 3 | "Grow House" | December 22, 2012 |
| Scott discovers that the former owners of a house were growing marijuana in the attic. | |||
| 12 | 4 | "Ugly Coyote House" | January 5, 2013 |
| 13 | 5 | "Stink House" | January 12, 2013 |
| Scott purchases a house that is troubled by a bad odor. | |||
| 14 | 6 | "Condo From Hell" | January 19, 2013 |
| Scott purchases a run-down condominium in a crime-ridden neighborhood in northeast Las Vegas. Scott and Amie later discover a homeless woman living in the condo; Scott manages to convince the woman to vacate the premises. Later, Scott receives a phone call in the middle of the night, informing him that someone had broken into the condo. Upon arriving, Scott discovers graffiti on the walls, but no sign of the intruder. Several interested people arrive for the open house, but none can afford to purchase the condo, so Scott devises a rent-to-own solution. | |||
| 15 | 7 | "Chop House" | January 26, 2013 |
| 16 | 8 | "Class Action House" | February 2, 2013 |
| Scott attempts to obtain funds from a class action lawsuit to pay for defective plumbing in a house. | |||
| 17 | 9 | "Pay It Forward House" | February 9, 2013 |
| Scott flips a house for free, to prepare it for a military veteran. | |||
| 18 | 10 | "Yancey's Eleven" | February 16, 2013 |
| Scott purchases 11 unfinished homes at Lake Las Vegas and struggles to complete them on time. | |||
Season 3 (2013)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | "Cat House" | November 2, 2013 | 1.057[10] |
| Scott must devise a way to remove 17 cats that are still living inside a house he has just purchased. | ||||
| 20 | 2 | "Frat House" | November 9, 2013 | 1.017[11] |
| Scott teams up with Mark, a competitor house flipper, to flip a former fraternity house with a damaged retaining wall in the backyard. Amie's expensive design decisions anger Mark. | ||||
| 21 | 3 | "Doomsday House" | November 16, 2013 | 1.027[12] |
| Scott teams up with Phil and Tom to flip a home that is filled with supplies for a potential apocalypse. | ||||
| 22 | 4 | "Hoarder House" | November 23, 2013 | 1.237[13] |
| 23 | 5 | "Area 51 House" | November 30, 2013 | 1.086[14] |
| 24 | 6 | "Party House" | December 7, 2013 | N/A |
| Scott and Amie team up with Phil and Tom to flip an unkept party house. | ||||
| 25 | 7 | "Fire House" | December 14, 2013 | 0.994[15] |
| Scott purchases a house that has suffered fire damage. | ||||
| 26 | 8 | "Day Care House" | December 14, 2013 | 1.068[15] |
| Scott purchases a house that formerly operated as a day care center. | ||||
Season 4 (2014)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | "Skate House" | March 1, 2014 |
| Scott purchases a run-down home that had been used by local teenagers as an indoor skatepark. | |||
| 28 | 2 | "Renters From Hell" | March 8, 2014 |
| Scott purchases a worn-down home that had previously been occupied by 12 people. | |||
| 29 | 3 | "Black Market House" | March 15, 2014 |
| Scott purchases a home filled with counterfeit credit cards and driver's licenses. During renovations, box deliveries keep arriving at the house. Later, Scott and Amie discover that someone had broken into the house to retrieve the boxes. | |||
| 30 | 4 | "Reptile House" | March 22, 2014 |
| Scott purchases a house and discovers it is full of reptiles. | |||
| 31 | 5 | "Flip Gone Wrong" | March 29, 2014 |
| Scott purchases a home that had been poorly renovated by its previous owner, an amateur house flipper. | |||
| 32 | 6 | "Dog House" | April 5, 2014 |
| 33 | 7 | "Old Folks Home" | April 12, 2014 |
Season 5 (2014)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 1 | "'70s House" | August 9, 2014 |
| Scott and Amie flip a house with an outdated 1970s design. | |||
| 35 | 2 | "Scott vs. Amie House" | August 16, 2014 |
| Scott and Amie compete against each other when they flip their own sections of a dilapidated duplex. | |||
| 36 | 3 | "Amie's House" | August 23, 2014 |
| Scott allows Amie to take over on a house flip. | |||
| 37 | 4 | "Fight House" | August 30, 2014 |
| Scott purchases a house that had been used for boxing. Scott has special windows installed on the home to lower the sound of overhead jets from the nearby Nellis Air Force Base. | |||
| 38 | 5 | "Blackmail House" | September 6, 2014 |
| 39 | 6 | "Redneck House" | September 13, 2014 |
| 40 | 7 | "Spider House" | September 20, 2014 |
| 41 | 8 | "Plastic Surgery House" | September 27, 2014 |
| Scott purchases a home that had previously operated as an illegal plastic surgery clinic. | |||
References
- ↑ "Flood House". imdb. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Goliath Company".
- ↑ "Flipping Vegas Episode Guide 2011 Season 1 - Flood House, Episode 1 - TVGuide.com". tvguide. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Flipping Vegas Episode Guide 2013 Season 3 - Cat House, Episode 1 - TVGuide.com". tvguide. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
- 1 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714050/episodes
- 1 2 Acuña, Jessi (May 28, 2014). "Seven Questions for Scott Yancey". Vegas Seven. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Flipping Vegas The Original Pilot (Working title Last House Standing)". Vimeo. October 22, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ↑ Mosier, Jeff (April 17, 2012). "Southwest Las Vegas in the spotlight". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Domanick, Andrea (December 5, 2013). "Photos: Flipping out on the set of A&E's 'Flipping Vegas' with Scott and Amie Yancey". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Ratings - Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: ABC Tops Viewers, Demos with College Football - TheFutonCritic.com:". The Futon Critic. November 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Ratings - Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: CBS Dominates Charts with LSU/Alabama - TheFutonCritic.com". The Futon Critic. November 12, 2013.
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- ↑ "Ratings - Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: ESPN Tops Viewers, Demos with College Football - TheFutonCritic.com:". The Futon Critic. November 30, 2013.
- 1 2 "Ratings - Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: FOX Tops Demos with UFC - TheFutonCritic.com: - TheFutonCritic.com:". The Futon Critic. November 30, 2013.