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Find sources: – ( September 2017) () Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Genre Reality television series Starring Constance Ramos Preston Sharp John Littlefield Dawson Connor Country of origin United States No. Of seasons 9 No. Of episodes 200 () Production Producer(s) Running time 43 minutes (86 minutes for 2 part episodes) Production company(s) Base Camp Films Hoosick Falls Productions Distributor for Release Original network (2003–2012) (2020) Picture format () Original release Original series: December 3, 2003 ( 2003-12-03)-December 17, 2012 ( 2012-12-17) Revival series: TBA 2020 External links Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ( EM:HE; sometimes informally referred to as Extreme Home Makeover ) is an American series providing for less fortunate families and community schools. Inpage file convert to jpg.

The show was hosted by former model, carpenter and veteran television personality. Each episode features a family that has faced some sort of recent or ongoing hardship such as a 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.

Watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Season 9, Episode 9 - Hill Family, Part 1: Actress Glenn Close and the team build a home for the family of a soldier.

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. 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 of, an earlier series providing personal makeovers (often including ) to selected individuals. Unusual for a spin-off, Home Edition outlasted its mother show by several seasons.

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, on which Pennington was previously a key personality. The series was produced by (the people behind,,,, and other reality shows) in association with 's.

The Executive Producers were Brady Connell. The program originally aired on Sunday evenings but was moved to Friday nights as of October 21, 2011. 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 and never converted to a or widescreen presentation. On December 15, 2011, ABC announced that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition would end its run on January 13, 2012. It will, however, continue to air as a special on the network. However, on January 15, 2019, the cable channel announced that the series would be revived on their network and begin airing new episodes in early 2020, with over 100 episodes of the original run also brought over. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Overview [ ] Extreme 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 was among '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. The show ranked 41st in its first season, averaging 10.6 million viewers per episode, with the pilot episode bringing in 12 million viewers. 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 next four seasons each ranked at least in the top 30, with seasons two and three ranking in the top 20, and seasons four and five ranking in the top 25. The sixth season, however, fell out of the top 35, and ranked 38th, averaging 10.3 million viewers per episode.