‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ Coming to HGTV with 10 New Episodes
Televisions highest-rated home renovation series of all timeExtreme Makeover: Home Editionis coming to HGTV, with the network planning to produce 10 fresh episodes.
Television’s highest-rated home renovation series of all time—Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition—is coming to HGTV, with the network planning
to produce 10 fresh episodes. While it has not yet revealed the cast for
the new episodes, HGTV will showcase its own superstar experts in the
weekly race to complete a custom, whole home renovation for one
deserving family. The new episodes are expected to premiere in early
2020. HGTV also secured the rights to air 100 existing episodes of the
original series that ran on The ABC Television Network for nine
successful seasons from 2003-2012. At its peak during the 2004/05
season, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition averaged nearly 16 million
viewers on Sunday nights.
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“This is a big win for HGTV and we can’t wait to put our stamp on it,”
said Kathleen Finch, chief lifestyle brands officer, Discovery Inc., the
parent company of HGTV. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was
must-see viewing for years because it combined moving stories of
families and communities with life-changing home renovations. It’s the
type of program that taps into every emotion and it’s the reason it was
so popular with everyone in America.”
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will be available on demand across
all authenticated platforms and on the HGTV app.
The HGTV episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will be
produced by Endemol Shine North America with Sharon Levy and DJ Nurre
serving as executive producers. The company also produced the original
version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for ABC.
ABOUT HGTV
HGTV delivers the superstar experts, fascinating families, compelling
renovations and stunning transformations that make all things home fun.
America’s favorite way to get entertaining, relatable and inspirational
home and lifestyle content, HGTV offers: a top 10 cable network that is
distributed to more than 88 million U.S. households; a website, HGTV.com, that
attracts an average of 9.7 million people each month; a social footprint
of 16.8 million; HGTV Magazine, a monthly publication that reaches more
than one million readers and exclusive collections of home-oriented
products through the HGTV HOME™ consumer products line. Viewers can
become fans of HGTV and interact with other home improvement enthusiasts
through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. HGTV
is owned by Discovery, Inc., a global leader in real life entertainment
spanning 220 countries and territories, whose portfolio also includes
Discovery Channel, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, and OWN:
Oprah Winfrey Network.
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