Extreme Makeover: Home Edition News
March 22, 2007
The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars, and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have joined fellow ABC reality shows Supernanny and Wife Swap in receiving early renewals for the 2007-2008 television season. The renewals were announced as part of a Thursday announcement in which the network disclosed that it had given early 2007-2008 season pick-ups to 14 television series.
- March 7, 2007
A California judge has thrown out an allegation made by five orphaned siblings who claimed that ABC Television broke a contract to provide them a permanent home after their March 2005 appearance on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Associated Press reported on Saturday.
February 15, 2007
Ty Pennington is known as the lead designer and host of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, but the 41-year-old said he's "just an artist lucky enough to have an outlet."
January 24, 2007
Building a house can be physically demanding. But for some of the designers who regularly appear on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the job can also take an emotional toll.
July 3, 2006
Five orphans have gotten the go-ahead from California's Court of Appeals to sue ABC and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" for their eviction from their house.- September 27, 2005
First lady Laura Bush was in Biloxi, Miss., Tuesday for an ABC TV "Extreme Makeover" episode about recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina. - April 21, 2005
A New York City woman whose small home was made over by "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" faces higher property taxes based on $125,000 in improvements. - January 19, 2005
ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" star Ty Pennington was recovering at his Atlanta home Wednesday from an emergency appendectomy.
November 21, 2004
It looks like ABC has found its own reality version of NBC and CBS's ever-expanding Law & Order and CSI franchises. The alphabet network has announced that starting in January it will be adding a third weekly Extreme Makeover series to its lineup -- the double-coloned Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do That? spinoff of its smash-hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
- November 14, 2004
Don't look now but it appears a new reality ratings titan has quietly joined the ranks of CBS's Survivor, Fox's American Idol, and NBC's The Apprentice -- ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.