Ellen's Next Great Designer

The concept is good. The execution, not so much. The contestants and judges are so problematic. The former are whiny and self-absorbed, especially Mark, whose droning litany of perpetual exhaustion made my ears bleed. The judges are not fit to decide anything. They were all of the place.

Foley is a decent and affable host, though. Ellen is churning out trash to pursue big money for her own (very private) design projects. I have to imagine she would not buy most of the lousy stuff churned out on this series. Ellen, do better.

I watched whole season. Talented designers. Annoying hosts. Ellen's involvement minimal.

The judging is the worst. Unfortunately all reviews are correct the judges are not good at this. Why where they chosen?????

Scott Folley is great and has great insight. Luckily minimal Ellen in the show.

What a mind numbing judging. Absolutely rubbish. Did like the pieces some of the contestants made.

Ellen is just in the title. She's shown basically maybe ten minutes in the show. She's not a part of it, she lets Scott handle everything.

The judges don't seem to be that great and they have an agenda on who to keep there. In one episode everyone else builds their design, one gets 90% of it manufactured by someone else and they are applauded for it. Sure, it's not the worst thing I've seen, and this is supposedly a design competition, but still.

It's clearly just an Ellen cash grab, slap their name on something, have them show up in a couple of episodes, find people who get starstruck by Ellen and Scott regardless of their talent (most of them are talented, don't get me wrong), and you have a show. Focus on one of them whining about things, blaming their helper for breaking stuff, and then going "but he's so haaawt!"

So don't waste your time with it. It's bad. Just look up the designs and you get all you need from this show.