Extreme Makeover: Home Edition


‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ heads to Brazil

Brazil’s Globosat has commissioned the first local adaptation of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Globosat’s pay-TV channel GNT has ordered a primetime run of the home reno format from Endemol Shine Brazil. The order comes just weeks after US cable channel HGTV ordered an Endemol Shine North America-produced reboot of the format with Modern Family star […]

Discovery LatAm picks up slate of ESI non-scripted shows

Endemol Shine International (ESI) has licensed a raft of factual entertainment shows to Discovery Latin America, including MasterChef Latino Seasons 1 and 2, and new seasons of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Trading Spaces. The titles will air across the LatAm region on Discovery Home and Health channel, via a deal negotiated by Veronique Verges, […]

Discovery elevates trio of lifestyle veterans

Discovery has promoted veteran lifestyle programmers Loren Ruch, Betsy Ayala and Lynn Sadofsky within its HGTV and Food Network brands. Ruch shifts from his former role as SVP of programming, partnerships and special projects for Discovery lifestyle brands HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel and Great American Country, to group SVP of production and […]

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition gets reboot at Discovery’s HGTV

Hit format Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is getting a reboot at Discovery’s HGTV, after near seven years of hiatus. The format is expected to land on the network with 10 fresh episodes in early 2020. The cast for the new edition is yet to be determined. HGTV has also secured the rights to 100 existing episodes […]

Fox orders Relativity’s Home Free

US broadcast net Fox has ordered a new home renovation competition series Home Free and Electus will sell it internationally. Relativity Television is making the series and its CEO, Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition), will exec produce. In the series, which will debut in late July on Fox, nine couples compete to restore a […]

Franchise building

The current batch of home renovation formats mirror the pared-down approach to home ownership in the post-recession. Jesse Whittock looks at how the genre continues building. Fitting a new kitchen, re-turfing the garden or completely renovating a home are stresses every home-owner identifies with. The reward when the job’s done is unique, and perhaps that’s […]

Relativity lines up home reno UK remake

US producer Relativity Television has sold live event home renovation format Built By America Live to a UK prodco. Zig Zag Productions will look to work up a UK version of the format, which is billed as “half home renovation, half live stunt” event television. Over five days, an audience will design a dream home, […]

David Goldberg out at Endemol

David Goldberg is leaving Endemol USA at the end of the year. The chairman and CEO of Endemol’s North American division has been with the company for over a decade having been brought in by John de Mol in 2000 to build a US business. Goldberg will depart in December but remain as a consultant […]

Foxtel buys hundreds of hours of lifestyle from Endemol

Foxtel has acquired a 282-hour package of lifestyle programming from Endemol. The Australian pay TV operator has acquired the raft of content, which will play across a range of its channels. It has taken new seasons of Wipeout! for The Comedy Channel and two seasons of AMC’s unscripted show for the joint venture A&E channel. […]