TV icon, comedian, author and multiple Emmy-Award winner Ellen DeGeneres strikes out in a new direction in her HGTV show Ellen's Design Challenge, a six-part competition series featuring talented furniture designers.

The brand new series premieres Sunday, January 26 at 9pm/8c on HGTV.

In this all-new HGTV series, Ellen presents six top-notch furniture designers with a variety of novel challenges to complete in a limited time frame. Each is assisted by a 'lead carpenter' -- one of HGTV's or DIY Network's show-hosts with expertise in building and design. The last designer standing in this heated competition takes home a $100,000 cash prize.

Portia de Rossi pays a surprise visit to the set of Ellen's Design Challenge.