Extreme Makeover: Home Edition – the world’s biggest, most transformative, inspirational and aspirational home show ever – will premiere with 10 new episodes on HGTV Sunday, February 16, at 9PM ET/PT and audiences will be hooked. The special event will kick off a year of HGTV programming that will include new series from the network’s biggest stars, new experts with innovative approaches to buying, selling and renovating homes, surprising celebrity faces, as well as compelling, emotional, relatable and inspiring stories about families at home.
“We’ve planned more than 700 hours of incredible new content this year,” said Jane Latman, president, HGTV. “Our upcoming series will attract more viewers and be more evocative and emotional, with an emphasis on the ups and downs of real life. Things might go wrong, or they might go right when you’re trying to create the perfect home, but either way, HGTV will be there.”
The high-profile reboot of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which comes with the network’s signature spin, will be hosted by award-winning actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson from ABC’s Modern Family who brings his optimism, humor, energy and giving spirit to the series. The monumental production that, in addition to a new host, will feature three new designers – Breegan Jane, Carrie Locklyn and Darren Keefe – follows the team and thousands of volunteers as they complete stunning home overhauls for 10 deserving families.
Throughout the first season of the series, featured guests will include actor and producer Anthony Anderson, an executive producer and star of ABC’s critically acclaimed hit comedy series black-ish and executive producer of grown-ish and mixed-ish; Derek Hough, a two-time Emmy Award(R) winning and nine-time Emmy-nominated choreographer, and the only six-time champion in franchise history of the ABC hit show Dancing with the Stars; LeAnn Rimes, a two-time Grammy Award(R) winner and ASCAP award-winning songwriter; Ty Pennington, a highly skilled carpenter, craftsman and designer who starred in the original ABC version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition; OWN’s Laila Ali, a four-time undefeated world champion boxer, lifestyle expert, cooking enthusiast, two-time author and mom of two; Food Network’s Tyler Florence and HGTV home reno experts David Bromstad (My Lottery Dream Home), Tamara Day (Bargain Mansions), Tarek El Moussa (Flip or Flop) and Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential).
In the coming months, HGTV will offer exciting new series that feature a fresh take on home renovation, real estate and design, including Frozen in Time, starring A Very Brady Renovation‘s Maureen McCormick. In each episode Maureen and designer Dan Vickery will overhaul homes that are stuck in a design time warp. Flipping 101 w/Tarek El Moussa will star real estate and house-flipping expert Tarek El Moussa, best known from HGTV’s hit series Flip or Flop, as he mentors property virgins to help them avoid costly mistakes. HGTV also will showcase a little-known side of Jonathan Knight, best known as a member of the Grammy(R)-nominated boy band New Kids on the Block. For more than 20 years, Knight has been restoring centuries-old New England farmhouses. Now he will take fans step-by-step as he saves beautiful old homes in Farmhouse Fixer (wt).
The network also will premiere Unsellable Houses, featuring newcomers Lyndsay Lamb and Leslie Davis – sisters who are experts in design, renovation, and real estate. The duo is so confident they can sell any home for a profit that they are willing to invest their own money to help their clients make the sale. 100 Day Dream Home will follow custom home designers Brian and Mika Kleinschmidt as they create, build and completely personalize a home from the ground-up for clients in only 100 days. And, in an amped-up twist on house hunting, HGTV will premiere House in a Hurry, where cameras will follow in real time as a family who needs to relocate spends one whirlwind weekend house hunting in their new town.