Nine's long-running renovation TV series The Block is a goldmine.
Mr Ahmadinejad's preoccupation is reported to have driven his government to allocate $17m £9.7mm) to Jamkaran's renovation.
In one new hybrid show on Channel Seven the dual genres of food and renovation will collide in Kitchen Revolution: a reality format which will screen every week night until the restaurants built by the contestants are ready for the viewers to visit and eat the cooked by the reality stars.
Yes, renovation is still hot, and in TV if it works flog it to death.
"His character is in every way that of a moderate; he is absolutely capable of undertaking the necessary renovation without any leaps into the unknown," said Francesca Ambrogetti, one of his biographers.
Flames from construction scaffolding around the bell tower, which has been under renovation, rose high above the Moscow skyline as firefighters struggled to protect one of the city's most beloved landmarks.
The show will return for its 11th series later in 2015 but for viewers who can't do without renovation on their telly until then, Nine has produced another show to fill the spot.
Glad to see Timothy Garton Ash touching on the question of corruption in parliament (It's not just parliament's buildings that require extensive renovation, 28 March).
In 2010, French designer Philippe Starck completed his renovation of a former wine cellar to create the Alhondiga culture and leisure centre (recently rebranded as Azkuna Zentroa).
On a nearby white board were instructions about automotive repair that could just as well been a campaign memo about the renovation of Clinton's image.
This is the man who turned the tiny Gate theatre into one of London's pre-eminent venues, before moving to the Royal Court, where he more than doubled the theatre's output, and raised several million pounds to finance the building's complete renovation.
