Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Put together one very run-down house, a deserving family, several opinionated designers, seven days and what do you get? The answer is "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." The show has won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program, plus two People's Choice Awards and the Family Television Award for Best Alternative/Reality Program.

For the fifth straight season, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" ranked No. 1 in its Sunday 8:00clock time period in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic. During the 2007-08 TV sason, "Home Edition" beat its nearest competition in the hour by 19% in Total Viewers and by 15 % in Adults 18-49. The broad appealing unscripted series also led its time slot among Adults 25-54 and across all key women demographics (W18-34/W18-49/W25-54).

For Season Six, with the year-long theme of "Heroes," the show will open in Maryland and feature a single mother of four who is struggling to keep all of her 10 nieces and nephews out of the foster care system (14 kids total). There's nowhere "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" won't go to help a family in need. This season expect to see more extreme homes, the latest in extreme technology, and families with more immediate need for a home than ever before. In addition, there will be "green" elements built into every episode, with eco-friendly, low energy and recyclable sources being incorporated into designs.

Each episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is self-contained and features a race against time on a project that would ordinarily take at least four months to achieve, involving a team of designers, contractors and several hundred workers who all have just seven days to totally rebuild an entire house - every single room, plus the exterior and landscaping. The lives of the lucky families are forever changed when they learn that they've been selected to have their home walls moved, their floors replaced and even their facades radically changed. The result should be a decorator's delight... if it can be done in time.

Each episode begins with team leader Ty Pennington's now-famous "Good morning!" wake-up call, when he, along with the other designers, surprises the unsuspecting family with news that their home has been chosen to receive a makeover. Then viewers witness not only the unbelievable transformation of the house, but during the final and emotional reveal, they see how the home makeover has impacted the lives of the deserving families.

The design team includes team leader Ty Pennington, with designers Paul DiMeo, Paige Hemmis, Michael Moloney, Ed Sanders, Tracy Hutson, Eduardo Xol, John Littlefield, Rib Hillis and Didiayer.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. David Goldberg is president of Endemol USA. The new season's executive producer is Anthony Dominici ("America's Next Top Model," "The Amazing Race"). The series premiered December 3, 2003.