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And with the seemingly endless rainy season comes an uncharacteristically lethargic group of British Columbians who, at time, just want to stay indoors. The latest theme packs from TELUS Optik TV® offer all the channels that fit your B.C. lifestyle, without making you pay for the channels that don’t.
Here are our top picks for shows that epitomize what makes life better here.
Love It or List It: Vancouver
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With B.C. housing prices being what they are, sometimes there’s nothing more enjoyable than engaging in some real estate voyeurism without any of the financial commitment. Love It Or List It: Vancouver, part of the W Network in TELUS Optik TV’s Lifestyle & Beyond theme pack, offers you exactly that. Families that no longer fit their current home are offered the opportunity to renovate with design-guru Jillian Harris, or purchase a new home with the eternally-charming Todd Talbot. It’s the perfect way to view open houses without needing to awkwardly admit to the real estate agent that you don’t actually have two million dollars.
Farmhouse Rules
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One of the best parts about living in B.C. is the abundance of fresh, local fruit and vegetables available. Farm-to-table restaurants are popping up everywhere in the lower mainland, but Farmhouse Rules believes in bringing the trend home. Available in the Living theme pack, the Food Network’s Farmhouse Rules inspires old fashioned home-style cooking using all local and seasonal ingredients. It’s almost like being in your grandmother’s kitchen.
Healing Yoga: Yoga for Real People with Real Problems
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In the rainy B.C. winter, it can be next to impossible to motivate yourself to go to the gym or to your favourite yoga studio. Thankfully, the One: Body Mind Spirit channel in TELUS Optik TV’s Knowledge theme pack delivers a variety of healthy living programs, including fitness and yoga classes, right to your television. Healing Yoga: Yoga for Real People with Real Problems is designed for people of all ages and abilities, facilitating stretches and positions to restore your healthy body and mind. With a focus on relatable health concerns like lower back pain and digestive issues, Healing Yoga is a must-record program; spread out a mat in your living room whenever your busy schedule allows it.
Timber Kings
If you’re not from B.C., you probably visualize life here as a forested wintery wilderness full of log cabins. If you’re truly from B.C., you realize that only the lucky few live that luxury. HGTV’s Timber Kings, available in the Living theme pack, offers the chance to experience the fullest potential of these log homes. Filmed in Williams Lake, B.C., Timber Kings will make you long for the log cabin lifestyle or maybe more like log mansion, in many cases.
Tattoo Nightmares
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You may have, at some point, walked into a sketchy all-night tattoo parlour and gotten a regrettable tattoo. Spike TV’s Tattoo Nightmares offers truly inspirational options for covering up your ex’s name, or fixing that botched portrait of grandma. Wait, what? Our province is known for many things, but our tattoo heritage isn’t one of them. So if tattoos aren’t your thing, why watch it? Optik TV theme packs are smaller and more relevant so you pay for the channels you actually want and get less of the ones you don’t.