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 9
- Released
- 2011
- Episodes
- 14
Episodes
Episode | Runtime | Air Date |
---|---|---|
S09 E01 Jubilee/Marshall Family | 60m | Sep 25, 2011 |
S09 E02 Gomez Family | 60m | Oct 2, 2011 |
S09 E03 Rucker Family | 60m | Oct 9, 2011 |
S09 E04 Korpai Family | 60m | Oct 16, 2011 |
S09 E05 Keefer Family | 60m | Oct 21, 2011 |
S09 E06 McPhail Family | 60m | Oct 28, 2011 |
S09 E07 Hill Family | 60m | Nov 4, 2011 |
S09 E08 A Veterans Day Special | 60m | Nov 11, 2011 |
S09 E09 Dunning Family | 60m | Nov 18, 2011 |
S09 E10 Walker Family | 60m | Dec 2, 2011 |
S09 E11 Johnson/Goslee Families | 60m | Dec 9, 2011 |
S09 E12 Rhodes Family | 60m | Dec 16, 2011 |
S09 E13 Gibbs Family | 60m | Jan 6, 2012 |
S09 E14 Joplin Families | 60m | Jan 13, 2012 |