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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

★ 6.3 5K votes 2003–2020 10 seasons · 216 episodes Ended ABC
Feel-goodReliably uplifting television that leaves you lighter than it found you.This show: 9/10Lifestyle realityUnscripted lives, homes and work observed.This show: 8/10Warm glowQuiet happiness, the TV equivalent of a hug.This show: 8/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 8/10WholesomeKindness and decency at the core, with barely a trace of cynicism.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 8/10HopefulPersistent optimism in the face of adversity.This show: 7/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Eric Ancker
Starring
Eric Ancker

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About

"Manufactured miracles that still make you cry"

A team of designers and builders descends on a family facing hardship (illness, disability, disaster, loss) and demolishes their home, replacing it in about a week with a lavish rebuild. The format leans hard on manufactured suspense, teary reveals, and the bus pulling away to expose the new house. It is unabashedly sentimental and formulaic, but the real families and their circumstances give it genuine emotional pull. Watching it feels like comfort television: predictable beats, big feelings, and a steady dose of catharsis rather than surprise.

Watch it for

the genuine emotional payoff of watching struggling families receive real, life-changing help.

Maybe skip if

you find manufactured tears and repetitive reality-show formulas tiresome.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12004
7.7174139h 4m
This is a list of season 1 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 22004
8.22442411h 53m
This is a list of season 2 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 32005
7.92283111h 23m
This is a list of season 3 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 42006
8.5115269h 39m
This is a list of season 4 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 52007
8.31162611h 39m
This is a list of season 5 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 62008
8.8742615h 22m
This is a list of season 6 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 72009
8.0702418h 51m
This is a list of season 7 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 82010
7.6352214h 38m
This is a list of season 8 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 92011
8.783188h 56m
The ninth and final season of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition started on Sunday September 25, 2011 at 8/7c. It aired four episodes and then moved to Fridays on October 21, 2011 at 8/7c. The new fantasy drama, Once Upon A Time took its old time slot. The series finale aired on January 13, 2012. This is a list of season 9 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
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Season 10
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Ty Pennington Self - Host
Paul DiMeo Self, Self - Designer
Michael Moloney Self, Self - Designer
Tracy Hutson Self, Self - Designer
Paige Hemmis Self, Self - Designer
Edward Sanders Self, Self - Designer
Preston Sharp Self
Eric Ancker Announcer
Eduardo Xol Self, Self - Designer
John A. Carr Self

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