From the Computer Screen to the TV Screen: Home Made Simple in Its Fourth Season on TLC

From the Computer Screen to the TV Screen: Home Made Simple in Its Fourth Season on TLC

CINCINNATI, June 5, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Learning Channel (TLC) wants to spice up your Saturday afternoon by bringing the popular HOME MADE SIMPLE(TM)(R) brand and website to life as a television series. The fourth season will premier Saturday, June 7 at 12 noon ET, the 13-episode series is based on the simple, home style principles featured on the popular homecare website, www.homemadesimple.com, supported by The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG). Traveling around the country helping homeowners easily create the homes they love to live in, decor expert Wanda Colon, master carpenter Patrick Brown and a team of guest culinary experts work with viewers who nominate a friend they feel is deserving of a visit from HOME MADE SIMPLE. From families who have dedicated their lives to helping others to single Moms juggling it all, our HOME MADE SIMPLE mavens spend a day with families and show them how to easily decorate, create simple meals and celebrate living. After each episode, viewers can go online to homemadesimple.com to learn more valuable tips on how to create their own HOME MADE SIMPLE.

Home Made Simple, launched in 2000, is an online information center and monthly interactive newsletter, which provides simple solutions to help improve lives and create homes people love to live in. Subscribers to the free monthly e-newsletter are also among the first to know about innovative home projects and can even buy new products from sponsoring brands and companies months before they are available in stores.

Home Made Simple continues to provide innovative solution for member subscribers, adding music downloading in December 2005 via a partnership with PassAlong and a community forum in December 2007 via a partnership with Ripple 6.

About Procter & Gamble

Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. The company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Pampers(R), Tide(R), Ariel(R), Always(R), Whisper(R), Pantene(R), Mach3(R), Bounty(R), Dawn(R), Pringles(R), Folgers(R), Charmin(R), Downy(R), Lenor(R), Iams(R), Crest(R), Oral-B(R), Actonel(R), Duracell(R), Olay(R), Head & Shoulders(R), Wella, Gillette(R), and Braun. The P&G community consists of almost 140,000 employees working in over 80 countries worldwide. Please visit http://www.pg.com/ and http://www.homemadesimple.com/ for the latest news and in-depth information about P&G and its brands.

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Source: Procter & Gamble

CONTACT: Diane Hensley, Procter & Gamble, +1-513-983-4818,
hensley.dc@pg.com

Web site:

http://www.pg.com/
http://www.homemadesimple.com/

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