What happened to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? Recently, host Ty Pennington spoke with The Wrap about the cancelled ABC TV show.
The reality series followed a team of builders and designers as they overhaul the home of a family in need. The show ran for nine seasons before ending in 2012.
In the interview, Pennington said he doesn’t understand the backlash against Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, with some people saying the ABC series left families in debt:
On ‘Extreme Makeover Home Edition,’ we did absolutely phenomenal things. And honestly I don’t know if there will ever be a show quite like that — that on network television, there’s a show that actually benefits a family. On television, that’s just unheard of. Let’s face it, it’s about ratings, it’s about ad sales — it’s about all those sorts of things.
Not only do we build a brand new house, we usually paid off the college tuition for their children — basically left them without any debt whatsoever. But yes, the property tax probably went up a little because the value of the house went up.”
Later, Pennington revealed some families on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition did lose their renovated homes:
There’s a couple of stories that families lost their home. We left them with a financial adviser. However, if the family chooses to triple-mortgage their house to start a business that they’ve never done before just to see if they can get into it, that’s their own demise. That’s how you lose your home, is you’re like, ‘Oh, let’s use it as a lottery ticket and see what we can get out of it. And then you lose it because you can’t make the payment.”
What do you think? Did you watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? Would you watch a reboot?
I absolutely watched the show it was a good show and I enjoyed every minute. Why ABC cancel it I don’t know they obviously did not consider those who love the show. I would like to see it come back
I absolutely loved this show and looked forward to it each week. With all the meanness in the world, this show was a small breath of fresh air, a reason to hope that there was still some goodness left in the world. I agree with Ty, people have to exercise financial responsibility. If they don’t then they can expect to have problems. I would LOVE to see a reboot of the show, but only if Ty and his crew got back together and hosted it! Anyone else trying to host the show simply could not be as good as the… Read more »
Absolutely loved this show, what it did to help families in need, was amazing, I agree w/Ty if people were stupid enough to mortgage it to the hilt that’s there problem, they should have been so grateful. It’s hard to believe how ungrateful people can be..