Almost impossible to believe now, after watching Nicole Curtis up to her tool belt in rotting floorboards and moldy ceilings all these years, but the working title of her HGTV series was going to be “Princess of Preservation.” “And I was like, ‘Listen, this is wrong — there is nothing about me that’s a princess!’” grins Curtis, the industrious blonde Lake Orion native who has been the foundation of the HGTV and DIY home renovation series Rehab Addict since 2010. “Then one of our editors said, ‘What about Rehab Addict?’ When we started, everybody thought I was a drug user!

Only you can save NBC’s Grosse Pointe Garden Society! OK, that may be the grossest of gross exaggerations, granted. However, it does contain a kernel of truth.

The first clear image you’ll see in the pilot for Grosse Pointe Garden Society, the glossy, trashy prime-time murder mystery premiering at 10 p.m. Sunday on NBC (Channel 4 in Detroit), is a giant rectangular sign proclaiming “Mack Avenue Garden Center.” Mack Avenue?