Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Air Date
- 2003
- Content Rating
- TV-PG
- Average Runtime
- 60m
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series providing home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. The show is hosted by former model, carpenter and veteran television personality Ty Pennington. Each episode features a family that has faced some sort of recent or ongoing hardship such as a natural disaster or a family member with a life-threatening illness, in need of new hope. The show's producers coordinate with a local construction contractor, which then coordinates with various companies in the building trades for a makeover of the family's home. This includes interior, exterior and landscaping, performed in seven days while the family is on vacation and documented in the episode. If the house is beyond repair, they replace it entirely. The show's producers and crew film set and perform the makeover but do not pay for it. The materials and labor are donated. Many skilled and unskilled volunteers assist in the rapid construction of the house. EM:HE is considered a spinoff of Extreme Makeover, an earlier series providing personal makeovers to selected individuals, which the Home Edition has now outlasted. This show displays extreme changes to help recreate someone's space. However, the format differs considerably; in the original Extreme Makeover, for instance, participants were not necessarily chosen based on any recent hardship, whereas the family's backstory is an important component of Home Edition. EM:HE also has similarities to other home renovation series such as Trading Spaces, on which Pennington was previously a key personality.
- Genres
- Reality
- Status
- Ended
Season 6
- Released
- 2008
- Episodes
- 25
Episodes
Episode | Runtime | Air Date |
---|---|---|
S06 E01 The Jackson Family | 60m | Sep 28, 2008 |
S06 E02 The Akers Family | 60m | Oct 5, 2008 |
S06 E03 The Anders-Beatty Family | 60m | Oct 12, 2008 |
S06 E04 The King Family | 60m | Oct 19, 2008 |
S06 E05 The McCully Family | 60m | Oct 26, 2008 |
S06 E06 The Hill Family | 60m | Nov 2, 2008 |
60m | Nov 9, 2008 | |
S06 E08 The Frisch Family | 60m | Nov 16, 2008 |
S06 E09 The Nickless Family | 60m | Nov 30, 2008 |
S06 E10 The DeVries Family | 60m | Dec 7, 2008 |
S06 E11 The Slaughter Family | 60m | Jan 4, 2009 |
S06 E12 The Grys Family | 60m | Jan 11, 2009 |
S06 E13 The Drumm Family | 60m | Jan 18, 2009 |
S06 E14 The Tutwiler Family | 60m | Jan 25, 2009 |
S06 E15 The Girard Family | 60m | Feb 9, 2009 |
S06 E16 The Augustin Family | 60m | Mar 1, 2009 |
S06 E17 The Riojas Family | 60m | Mar 8, 2009 |
S06 E18 The Ruiz Family | 60m | Mar 15, 2009 |
S06 E19 The Bell Family | 60m | Mar 22, 2009 |
S06 E20 The Almquist Family | 60m | Mar 29, 2009 |
S06 E21 The Kadzis Family | 60m | Apr 5, 2009 |
S06 E22 The Jordan Family | 60m | Apr 26, 2009 |
S06 E23 The Cooper Family | 60m | May 3, 2009 |
S06 E24 The Cerda Family | 60m | May 10, 2009 |
S06 E25 The McFarland Family | 60m | May 17, 2009 |