Norm has been a celebrity on public television here in the states for years. And he has all the best toys!

The New Yankee Workshop is a spin off from his day job on "This Old House". Ostensibly it's a show about restoring old homes like most home owners would like to do. But in recent years "This Old House" been about millionaires turning good homes into mansions.

If the long running, but now defunct, Tim Allen sitcom "Home Improvement" ever made it to air in the UK, it's an ode to "This Old House" and one of the characters is a direct rip off of Norm.