Pittsburgh native Leanne Ford, who starred with her brother Steve Ford for a few seasons on HGTV home makeover shows, posted to Instagram last week that less than a month after getting the keys to a new home in Los Angeles’ Rustic Canyon, the house was consumed by the Palisades fire.

“A beautiful historical and quirky artists’ home,” Ford wrote on Instagram, describing her West Coast abode. “We brought over so many of our favorite things to fill it with. It was to be a place to write, to create. Three days ago we lost it. We are the lucky ones. We had a beautiful safe home in PA to escape back to. I’m in awe of the firemen and women choosing to run into the flames while we get to run out. I can only say — thank you.”

Ford and her brother hosted HGTV’s “Restored by the Fords” (2016-18) and “Home Again with the Fords” (2021).

Former “This Is Us” stars Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia both lost their homes (portions of a home in Moore’s case) in the fires, just as their “This Is Us” characters’ Pittsburgh home caught fire, killing Ventimiglia’s Jack Pearson in the NBC series.

Wildfire postponements

Due to the Los Angeles-area wildfires, CBS pushed back the premiere of the new “Hollywood Squares” a week to this Thursday at 8 p.m.

The Critics Choice Awards were postponed from Jan. 12 to 7 p.m. Jan. 26 on E!

Netflix will delay the premiere of Meghan Markle’s lifestyle show, “With Love, Meghan,” until March 4.

TV save the date

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” returns with its first 2025 show on Jan. 18 with guest host Dave Chappelle and musical guest GloRilla; Timothée Chalamet will be host and be the musical guest on Jan. 25.

The reconstituted, Norah O’Donnell-less “CBS Evening News” will launch on Jan. 27.

CNN will air the TV debut of the documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” at 9 p.m. Feb. 2.

Channel surfing

Cable’s Investigation Discovery had a hit with “Quiet on the Set,” about alleged abuses against child actors, and now the same producers are back with the four-part docu-series “The Fall of Diddy” (9-11 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28) about allegations against the music mogul. … We now have Nielsen streaming data from the first two weeks of December when Disney ’s “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” premiered and the show did not make Nielsen’s Top 10 originals streaming chart either week, so it likely has fewer viewers than the canceled “Star Wars” show “The Acolyte” and is the lowest-rated “Star Wars” series in its premiere week since Nielsen started tracking streaming data. … Disney, Fox and Warner Bros, Discovery pulled the plug on their proposed sports streaming service, Venu, after new legal threats emerged once they neutralized a lawsuit from Fubo TV. … ABC’s “The View” now airs a bonus, weekly half-hour episode at 7:30 a.m. Saturdays on 24/7 streaming platform ABC News Live, featuring the show’s Friday panel in an episode taped on Friday. … Rachel Maddow will return to host her eponymous MSNBC show five nights a week for the first 100 days of the new Trump administration beginning Jan. 20 (until May 1). Alex Wagner, who has been hosting four nights a week at 9 p.m. when Maddow hosted only on Mondays, will travel the country to report on the impact of the new administration’s policies. … “Fox & Friends” weekend co-host Will Cain will take over the network’s 4 p.m. time slot beginning Jan. 21 for the departed Neil Cavuto.