Extreme Makeover Home Edition-related stories
Posted Apr 23rd 2009 5:05PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Dancing With The Stars, Cancellations, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
It's that time of year again when network executives are having meetings after meetings to decide which shows we should be watching next season.
The CW announced the renewal of six of its shows about two months ago but besides that announcement, news of renewals have been rare when compared to news of cancellations.
Today, ABC sent out a press release confirming the twelve of its series would return for the 2009-2010 season. As you'll see after the jump, it was pretty much a given that those series would get another year either due to their ratings or the low cost of production compared to the money the show brings in with sponsors and ads.
Continue reading ABC gives early renewals to 12 shows
Posted Jun 29th 2008 1:24PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
When I look at some of the people who have emerged as today's biggest stars on TV, I scratch my head and wonder, "how did that happen?" There are a few stars who have completely exceeded my expectations -- and I bet yours, too. In fact, after you read my five (no cell phone pun intended), I'm betting that you'll have a few more overachievers to add to the list.
1) Ty PenningtonI'm not ashamed to admit that for a couple of years I was hooking on TLC's
Trading Spaces. It may have been the perky Paige Davis, the home improvement on a $1,000, the cool things that the designers did in just 24 hours -- whatever it was, I was a regular viewer. Oh, yes, there was also a carpenter on the show named
Ty Pennington.
Continue reading Five TV stars who've exceeded expectations
Posted May 19th 2008 3:07PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, Game Show
If you have a leisure suit in your closet and think it'll never be in style again, you may be wrong. Everything has a way of coming back around, even game shows. With that in mind,
Queen for a Day, a game show that ran in daytime for 20 years, is being resurrected for today. RDF USA has obtained format rights and plan to present their resurrected, revamped edition to cable and broadcast nets this week.
Queen for a Day was originally a radio show, but appeared on TV in 1947 and ran on and off until 1970. It was sort of the
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition of its day, albeit on a much more modest level. Female contestants would appear to tell her story of woe and misfortune in order to be eligible to become queen for a day, wherein she would win prizes, be feted with a crown and robe, offered roses and other gifts. "Make every woman a queen, for every single day," was the host, Jack Bailey's closing line each day. If it sounds hokey, it was. Comedy shows regularly satirized it.
Continue reading Queen for a Day is coming back
Posted Nov 2nd 2007 6:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Video
We get a lot of press releases and other PR goodies here at TV Squad HQ; there are so many of them, to be honest, that it takes a lot for one to grab our attention. But this one managed to do it: it's a video clip of the upcoming episode of
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. In it, Ty and crew go to Wyoming to help the Miller family rebuild their farmhouse into a haven for not only their family, but the mistreated animals that they have rescued over the years. The reason why they have to rebuild? The house is rife with Radon, and a simple renovation will not clean it all up.
So, instead of imploding the house or demolishing it using a backhoe, Ty and company decide to blow it up. You heard me; watch the video after the jump and you'll see that they blow it up "real good," like it's being attacked by aliens in
Independence Day. Here's what I want to know, though: doesn't that make the clean-up, which is now spread among a much bigger area, a whole lot more of a pain in the ass?
Continue reading Ty Pennington and company blow up a house - VIDEO
Posted Jun 5th 2007 3:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals
TV Land, the network that caters to the baby boomers and everyone else who likes a dose of nostalgia in their TV viewing, is making some big changes. They're rebranding their network from being a retro TV destination to being a network that has a whole lot more. And apparently that strategy involves reality shows.
The channel has picked up reruns of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. They'll start airing on August 7, and its regular slot will be Tuesdays at 11pm.
I'm baffled by this. Why destroy the network theme that has made you as successful as you are? Or do they consider Extreme Makeover a "future classic?" How many times can you watch the rerun of a home makeover show? And at 11pm??
It's great that they're also going to start running some original programming, but airing reality reruns is lame at best.
Posted May 16th 2007 10:48AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Industry, Programming, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Jericho, Shark, Upfronts
CBS is on a good run, being the most watched network for the last five years, but they have taken a bit of heat for the formulaic way they have gone about doing it. Not arguing with success, the whole family of CSIs, and their crime based cousins, will be back, but the network is trying to branch out with some edgier programming. Most notably,
Swingtown, Viva Laughlin, and
Moonlight.Returning: The Amazing Race, Cold Case, 60 Minutes, How I Met Your Mother, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami, NCIS, The Unit, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY, Survivor, CSI, Shark, Without A Trace, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, 48 Hours Mystery.
New: Viva Laughlin, Swingtown, Moonlight, Cane, Big Bang Theory, Power of 10, Kid NationOut: King of Queens, Jericho, The Class, Close To HomeMoving: Without A Trace moves back to Thursday at 10.
Shark heads to Sunday at 10.
Continue reading The Upfronts: CBS
Posted Mar 22nd 2006 1:34PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: ABC, Programming
Get ready to plan
out your weeknights for the month of May because ABC finally announced the airdates for their stable of popular shows.
The biggest news is that Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Boston Legal,
and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will all have two-hour season finales. Now that definitely counts as a real
gift for the fans of these shows.
Also announced was the airdate for the much-anticipated movie based on Stephen King's novel Desperation.
It will air on Thursday, May 18 at 8PM.
The dates for all the other finales:
- Grey's Anatomy (2 hours) - Monday, 5/15 at 9PM
- Boston Legal (2 hours) - Tuesday, 5/16 at 9PM
- Invasion - Wednesday, 5/17 at 10PM
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2 hours) - Sunday, 5/21 at 7PM
- Desperate Housewives (2 hours) - Sunday, 5/21 at 9PM
- Alias (2 hours) - Monday, 5/22 at 9PM
- Lost (2 hours) - Wednesday, 5/24 at 9PM
Also of note is the season finale of America's Funniest Home Videos which has it's finale on Friday, May
19 at 9PM. This episode will mark AFHV as the longest running entertainment program in ABC history.
[via Ain't It Cool News]
Posted Mar 4th 2006 10:59AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Industry, Commercials
This should probably come as no surprise to anyone, but Sears is giving serious
consideration to kicking Bob Vila to the curb after sixteen years and bringing in magniloquent hugmonster Ty
Pennington. Chris, over at our pal Ad Jab,
picked up on this tidbit. The company and its Craftsman tools are already heavily associated with Pennington's
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. However, Sears has not made any definite plans to sign Pennington on as a
spokesman for their Craftsman line of tools. Speculation is that he may be a bit too "touchy-feely" for that
particular product line.
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