However its ratings soared thereafter with the second season entering the top 20, finishing 15th for the year, averaging 15.8 million viewers per episode. The show ranked 41st in its first season, averaging 10.6 million viewers per episode, with the pilot episode bringing in 12 million viewers.
It was among ABC's top-rated series and has become far more popular than the original Extreme Makeover, which struggled in the ratings through its last two seasons and quietly ended with its episodes burned off wholesale in July 2007. Įxtreme Makeover: Home Edition premiered as a thirteen-part special on Wednesday, December 3, 2003, and had its official series premiere on Sunday February 15, 2004. It will, however, continue to air as a special on the network. On December 15, 2011, ABC announced that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition would end its run on January 13, 2012. Upon the airing of its final episode in series form, and for the 2012 special holiday run, it remained ABC's last series to air solely in 4:3 standard definition and never converted to a high definition or widescreen presentation. The program originally aired on Sunday evenings but was moved to Friday nights as of October 21, 2011. The current Executive Producers are Brady Connell and George Verschoor. The series is produced by Endemol USA (the people behind Big Brother, Fear Factor, Deal or No Deal, Wipeout, and other reality shows) in association with Disney-ABC Television Group's Greengrass Television. EM:HE also has similarities to other home renovation series such as Trading Spaces, on which Pennington was previously a key personality. 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. This show displays extreme changes to help recreate someone's space. Many skilled and unskilled volunteers assist in the rapid construction of the house.ĮM:HE is considered a spin-off of Extreme Makeover, an earlier series providing personal makeovers (often including plastic surgery) to selected individuals, which the Home Edition outlasted. The show's producers and crew film set and perform the makeover but do not pay for it. If the house is beyond repair, they replace it entirely. This includes interior, exterior and landscaping, performed in seven days while the family is on vacation (paid for by the show's producers) and documented in the episode. 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. The show is hosted by former model, carpenter and veteran television personality Ty Pennington.Įach 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. So, the team of ""Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,"" in an episode airing on SUNDAY, MAY 16 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET), made a house call.43 minutes (86 minutes for 2 part episodes)Įxtreme Makeover: Home Edition ( EM:HE sometimes informally referred to as Extreme Home Makeover ) is an American reality television series providing home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. Keenan has been able to keep his health in check, but keeping the house hypo-allergenic for him has been a problem. Keenan beat the odds and is now a strapping 16-year old who wears a size 15 shoe and stands at 6 feet tall. Determined to not give up hope, Carrie, a florist by trade, turned to her herb garden to help Keenan deal with his diseases.
Doctors told Carrie that Keenan wouldn't live to see his first birthday. It was all made worse by the dust and living mold in their Arleta, California home. It wasn't easy for Carrie Powell to bring relief to her younger son, Keenan, who suffers from a rare cell disorder, asthma, as well as allergies. The Extreme Makeover Home Edition team provides the right medicine for a young man whose house was making him sick.