Alumnus creates Game of Homes TV show

By James Reaney Jr

Back in the 1980s, Millan Curry-Sharples, BA'87, Dpl'88, was a Western political science student who helped bring such Canadian rock stars as the late Jeff Healey and Spirit of The West to the campus.

These days, he is a Gemini-winning producer prepping for the second season of a W Network TV show giving competitors the chance to win a home and a plot of land to put it on.

“I’m so focussed on Game Of Homes I don’t have time to watch Game Of Thrones,” Curry-Sharples said Friday when asked the inevitable question about the fantasy world cult TV hit.

So his game is all about Homes and its teams of competitors, even if the name-inspiring Thrones also fires up thoughts of less-friendly competition.

Game of Homes is casting across Ontario for teams of two — composed of amateur home renovators and designers — ready to compete for what series producer Ron Carroll calls “one of the biggest prizes given away on Canadian television.”