The crew, wearing baseball caps with the logo of their Iraqi-run satellite channel, Al Sharqiya, fixes and refurnishes houses that owners say were destroyed by US bombs or, in Umm Hussein's case, by US troops blowing up an Iraqi ammunition dump close by.
"Labor Plus Materials" has become a hit because it is one of the few home-grown Iraqi programs on the air. The show fills a void in a TV landscape dominated by foreign satellite channels like Qatar-based Al Jazeera and US-funded channels that are widely panned by Iraqis for replaying old Lebanese documentaries and US-slanted news.
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