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Edit page. Clear your history. Host Ty Pennington usually has a "secret" project which is only revealed when the family sees it. The construction is accomplished with the help of a large army of blue-shirted volunteers and a wide array of sponsor-donated products and services. Did you know Edit. Trivia Some neighborhoods in which the new homes were built were in communities where property taxes were based on an average value of the homes in the community.

Many older homes were replaced with houses that were significantly larger and thus more valuable, which caused others living in these communities to pay higher property taxes. Quotes Ty Pennington : Bus driver, move that bus! User reviews 48 Review. Top review. The only reality show on TV worth watching.

I have to shake my head when I read the comments of people that don't care for this show. It's obviously not about the nuts-and-bolts building of a house, and as far as Ty "never picking up a hammer" - for God's sake, they can't show the entire seven days of building the house, and if they did, who'd want to watch it?! Extreme Makeover Home Edition instead highlights the best in human behavior - compassion, a sincere desire to help someone in need, and the "pay it forward" idea that helping another human being will lead to that person helping another, and on and on.

I don't enjoy being shown that people can be selfish, hateful morons that will eat a pig rectum or back-stab a friend for money or exposure, but I DO enjoy being reminded that there are people in the world willing to help others down their luck and do it in ways that change the recipient's lives. Extreme Makeover Home Edition is a wonderful, entertaining, inspiring show, cast to perfection with funny, entertaining people who do their jobs with exquisite taste and imagination.

May it run forever! Details Edit. Release date December 3, United States. In the case of the Swenson-Lee home in Minnetonka, TJB and its plus crew of contractors and subcontractors went beyond expectations. But he turned the keys to the house over to the design team on Monday afternoon, after 99 hours of construction labor. Extreme Insulation Using the latest insulation technologies to battle the Extreme winters of Minnesota, the Swenson home was covered from top to bottom with the very best.

How long did it take for the insulation crew to insulate every square inch of this awesome 5, square foot home? The materials and labor are donated. Many skilled and unskilled volunteers assist in the rapid construction of the house. EM: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. 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.

The program originally aired on Sunday evenings but was moved to Friday nights as of October 21, Upon the airing of its final episode in series form, and for the special holiday run, it remained ABC's last series to air solely in standard definition and never converted to a high definition or widescreen presentation.

It will, however, continue to air as a special on the network. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition premiered as a thirteen-part special on Wednesday, December 3, , and had its official series premiere on Sunday February 15, 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 The show ranked 41st in its first season, averaging However its ratings soared thereafter with the second season entering the top 20, finishing 15th for the year, averaging 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 The sixth season, however, fell out of the top 35, and ranked 38th, averaging The seventh season ranked 39th, averaging 9.

By season eight, the show barely ranked in the top 50 with just over 8. The last season ranked below the top finishing at and averaged only 5. Series reruns began airing on TV Land on Tuesday August 7, , making it the youngest non-original show to air on the network. The show is also in syndication on CMT. The show is hosted by Ty Pennington , formerly a carpenter on the show Trading Spaces. The series is devoted to rebuilding families' homes when the family is in need of new hope.

During the — season, the show went to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina and helped communities to rebuild themselves with help from other organizations. It was a short-lived spin-off of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that featured extra behind-the-scenes footage of what had happened in that week's episode.

An occasional special would feature The Muppets , property of ABC, engaging in comical scenes with the design team. However, their scenes were usually filmed after the renovation.

Two episodes in two different cities are shot at the same time a few days apart , using two different production crews.

There are also two groups of designers. Ty Pennington flies back and forth between the cities to do the "door knock", the braveheart march, and the "reveal", as well as to finish up work on his projects, which he mentions and gives walk-throughs in his magazine. The amount of work that Ty and the design team put into the house itself and the projects they take on depend mostly on the amount of filming needed to be done.

In some circumstances, such as smaller makeovers or makeovers scheduled to be two-hour episodes, the lead designers lay out a general idea for their projects, and the show's backup designers take over. Generally, the lead designers are notified in advance of the makeover recipients, to enable them to start their plans ahead of time.

At several makeovers, they have been criticized for never doing any work at all, and just being there to put on a show.

In , during the makeover for the Carter Family in Billings, Montana , a local radio DJ accused Pennington of using a spray can of grease on his face to make it look like he was really working, only to be confronted over the air by Pennington himself, who called in from the construction site. While creating a wood carving of the American flag, Sanders removed part of the guard for a hand-held wood grinder, which led to him slicing one of his hands open. Pennington works on the show over days out of the year, while the remaining designers work in shifts.

During the production season, crew members work for two weeks, then are off for one week. The show usually begins shooting in June and goes through March or April, leaving one to two months of downtime. During the off-season, crew members occasionally work on pre-season episodes. Location managers work constantly, often spending a month in a city before selecting it as the next site. ABC received thousands of applications from families in need, and the team said that it was extremely hard to filter through the stories and choose only one of them.

The families they looked for must have met two criteria: first, they must have been truly deserving and in need of the makeover, and second, they must have been the kind of people who gave something of themselves back to their community.