Series reruns began airing on TV Land on Tuesday August 7, 2007, making it the youngest non-original show to air on the network. The last season ranked below the top 100 (finishing at #101) and averaged only 5.8 million viewers per episode. By season eight, the show barely ranked in the top 50 with just over 8.5 million viewers per episode on average. The seventh season ranked 39th, averaging 9.1 million viewers. The sixth season, however, fell out of the top 35, and ranked 38th, averaging 10.3 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. 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. OverviewĮxtreme 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 also announced that actor, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, would be the new host. However, on January 15, 2019, the cable channel HGTV announced that the series would be revived on that network and begin airing new episodes in February 16, 2020, with over 100 episodes of the original run also brought over. On December 15, 2011, ABC announced that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition would end its run on January 13, 2012, but continue to air as networks specials. 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 executive producers were Brady Connell and George Verschoor. The series was produced by Endemol USA 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 cast-member. 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. Unusual for a spin-off, Home Edition outlasted its mother show by several seasons. 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.
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. It is not to be confused with Extreme Makeover.Ĥ3 minutes (86 minutes for 2 part episodes)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.