Village of Medina Goes Hollywood Apr 18, 2009
A 104-year-old Rochester firehouse has a multi-million dollar extreme makeover on the way. A new crop of farmers is taking produce on the road. (R News)
For those feeling old before their time Apr 16, 2009
"People are looking for more than a basic makeover show now. They've seen Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Trinny & Susannah, How to Look Good Naked and Extreme Makeover." 10 Days, she says, "takes the logical next step, which is to combine diet and exercise, beauty, styling, cosmetic treatments, dental work to try and achieve this goal of taking 10 years off their perceived age". For Kruger, the show's appeal largely stems from the genuine and down-to-earth nature of the couples selected to take... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sexing Up TV Lands Slate With Fresh Fare Apr 13, 2009
As it undergoes its own brand metamorphosis, the TV Land cable network is getting into business with longtime Extreme Makeover executive producer Tom Forman. The network has closed a deal with Mr. Forman to produce a pilot presentation for a series that will offer a new take on the makeover genre, according to Keith Cox, executive VP of original programming for TV Land. (TVweek.com)
Panasonic WhisperGreen® Ventilation Fans Selected for Two Extreme Makeover: Home Edition TV Episodes Apr 10, 2009
Panasonic WhisperGreen Ventilation Fans Selected for Two Extreme Makeover: Home Edition TV Episodes - Yahoo ... Panasonic WhisperGreen Ventilation Fans Selected for Two Extreme Makeover: Home Edition TV Episodes ... SECAUCUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic WhisperGreen Premium ceiling-mounted ventilation fans with SmartAction Motion Sensor were specified products for two recent episodes of the popular Extreme Makeover: Home Edition television series. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Spring 2009 Reality Show Auditions Apr 1, 2009
Check their website for information on Supernanny, Perfect Partners, Wipeout, Opportunity Knocks, Wife Swap, The Bachelor Season 14, The Bachelorette and Extreme makeover Home Edition. Some shows have complicated video audition rules and questionnaires to fill out and mail in. (Suite101.com)
Akeena Solar Powers This Sunday Night's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' On ABC Mar 28, 2009
March 27, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- When the Emmy Award-winning hit reality TV show ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' was looking to build the ultimate green home for a deserving family in San Bernardino, they chose the high performing, sleek and beautiful design of Andalay solar panels distributed by leading solar designer and installer Akeena Solar (NasdaqCM: - ). This Sunday, March 29, watch with the rest of America as Ty Pennington, the ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' crews, and Akeena... (Primezone Releases)
CNBC Special Report: Cruise Inc. Mar 25, 2009
When CNBC visited in November 2008, the ship undergoing the extreme makeover was the 76,800-ton Norwegian Spirit, a mid-size ship in Norwegian Cruise Line's 11 vessel fleet ... 24 - CNBC visits a dry dock where older cruise ships get an extreme makeover - at a fraction of the cost of building a new ship. (MSNBC -- Business)
Will the real "slumdog millionaire" please stand up? Mar 23, 2009
Kate Winslet and "Slumdog Millionaire" rule, while Hugh Jackman gives the awards an extreme makeover and -- miracle of miracles -- it works. By Heather Havrilesky. (Salon)
Unity, NH voters urged to approve new school Mar 21, 2009
UNITY, N.H. (AP) -- After going as far as applying for the TV show "Extreme Makeover," Unity, N.H.'s elementary school is reaching out to voters. In spite of challenging financial times, Principal Chip Baldwin hopes voters will approve a new, $6. (Concord Monitor)
Minn. homebuilders employ new tactics in recession Mar 21, 2009
"Green" homes, an extensive Web site, and a stint building a house for charity on the TV show Extreme Makeover Home Edition also help bring in home buyers. Budzynski said profits are still down about a third from their peak a few years ago. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
TV Academy honors 8 programs with a `conscience' Mar 19, 2009
This year's recipients include "Brothers rs: "Prior Commitments," ABC; "A Home for the Holidays," CBS; "Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football," HBO; and Extreme Makeover Home Edition: "The Martirez Families," ABC.Other honorees are "God on Trial" ("Masterpiece Contemporary"), PBS; "Stand Up to Cancer," ABC, CBS, NBC; "30 Days," FX; and "Whale Wars," Animal Planet.The recipients were selected by a TV Academy committee that reviewed nearly 150 entries, including scripted... (North County Times)
Washington diary Mar 12, 2009
While the First Lady is doing push ups, serving meals at soup kitchens and posing for Vogue, the president is busy rearranging the political furniture of the nation as if this was a marathon edition of Extreme Makeover USA.. And Lord only knows what the First Puppy will be capable of. (BBC News -- Americas)
‘Extreme Makeover: BCCC Edition’ Mar 12, 2009
Extreme Makeover: BCCC Edition ... They re working as volunteers at the Jamesville job site of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which is building a new house for the Cooper family mom Clara, dad Jeff and children Windy and Aaron ... For more photos of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition project, see Pamlico Horizons in Sunday s Washington Daily News. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Andy On Heroism Mar 9, 2009
Why don't you turn your TV to ABC after 60 Minutes is over and you will see hundreds of ordinary people who volunteer to help fix/build homes on the Extreme Makeover - Home Edition. And the people who do the program and design the home interiors week after week show us what herioism is all about, and the heroes who accomplish each week's work. (CBS News)
Riojas, volunteers watch Fresno Makeover show Mar 9, 2009
Chances are, many among a national television audience also choked with emotion as ABCs Extreme Makeover: Home Edition aired Riojas story, which was filmed in a west-central Fresno neighborhood in January. Single mother. (Fresno Bee)
Fresno's "Extreme Makeover" family watches show with 400 others Mar 9, 2009
Chances are, many among a national television audience also choked with emotion as ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" aired Riojas' story, which was filmed in a west-central Fresno neighborhood in January ... Mary Ann Riojas and her children -- from left, Nichole, 18, Victoria, 17, Angel, 15, and Jessie, 14 -- watch ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" with about 400 volunteers and others Sunday evening at The Bridge Evangelical Free Church, which in January had donated $25,000 to help pay... (Fresno Bee)
The Emmy Award Winning Producer of "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" Revolutionizes Reality TV with THEBETTERREALITY.COM Mar 4, 2009
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The concept of Reality programming is about to evolve into a new dimension as Conrad Ricketts, Emmy Award winning Executive Producer of Extreme Makeover Home Edition, proudly launches Our Everyday Hero and One Good Turn, on TheBetterReality. com. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
PR Newswire Summary of EntertaiNet Copy, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 Feb 27, 2009
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9 Types Of Facebook Pals Feb 24, 2009
Extreme Makeover, Facebook edition: She was the ugly duckling from high school who is now working as a personal trainer. He's the guy who got shoved in the locker in elementary school, and recently shaved his unibrow and went to a few Tony Robbins seminars. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Are the Oscars recession-proof? Feb 24, 2009
Kate Winslet and "Slumdog Millionaire" rule, while Hugh Jackman gives the awards an extreme makeover and -- miracle of miracles -- it works ... Kate Winslet and "Slumdog Millionaire" rule, while Hugh Jackman gives the awards an extreme makeover and -- miracle of miracles -- it works. (Salon)
Media critic to speak at Oregon State Feb 21, 2009
With humor, analysis and clips from such shows as The Bachelor, America s Next Top Model, American Idol, Extreme Makeover and Flavor of Love, Pozner will argue that so-called reality TV reinforces regressive stereotypes about women and men, race and class, and sex, love and marriage in America. Pozner founded Women in Media and News in 2001 to increase women s presence and power in the public debate through media analysis, education, advocacy and reform. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
• Service rewarded Feb 17, 2009
LAURIE WELCH/Times-NewsAfter receiving a 20,000 check Monday from ABC-TV's Extreme Makeover Home Edition's 'American Dream Edition,' Ray and Cheri Archibald, right, watch as KIFI Local News 8 Anchor Karole Honas speaks on the phone with their daughter, Tawny Campbell, who submitted their name to the contest, as Mike Shiverdecker, the station's promotion director, films the segment ... ABC-TV affiliate KIFI Local News 8 Anchor Karole Honas presented Ray and Cheri Archibald with the cash prize as... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
ABCs Bachelor Set for Renewal Feb 12, 2009
Indeed, while primetime is populated with a number of veteran reality shows that still perform wellSurvivor, The Amazing Race, The Biggest Loser, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and, of course, American Idolthe ratings resurrection happening with The Bachelor is rare. During the 2004-05 season, the series was averaging barely 8 million viewers, well off its 2002 zenith, when more than 25 million viewers watched the shows second-season finale. (TVweek.com)
I Like to Watch (102) Feb 10, 2009
Will Obama give America an extreme makeover. Will the Europeans rule "Top Chef". (Salon)
TV highlights, Monday 9th Feb 9, 2009
Dr Ordon, though, is your man, as the show hurtles into extreme makeover mode with one of his patients undergoing a three-day facelift for the cameras. Still, an impressively diverse and compelling first show. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Veteran actor Richard Jenkins shares Oscar's glow Feb 8, 2009
- A renegotiated mortgage will give a Michigan family a better chance of staying in their home, which was refurbished on TV's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.". NEW YORK - Miley Cyrus is responding to criticism that she mocked Asians in a photograph of the tween star stretching the corners of her eyes. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Many 'Extreme Makeover' volunteers had religious ties Feb 8, 2009
Did God lend a hand in helping to build the Fresno "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" house ... An unidentified boy holds a sign of hope on Jan. 15, the day that Mary Ann Riojas and family first saw their new home, which was rebuilt for the show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." ... Hansen says he learned through Jan. 5 media reports that "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" would help a family in the Fresno area. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Parker and gal pals plan more `Sex and the City' Feb 8, 2009
" Katrina Darrell didn't make the cut last night as the show moved is another step closer to revealing its 36 semifinalists.MIAMI - Two-time Indianapolis 500 champion and "Dancing With The Stars" winner Helio Castroneves predicted Thursday he will be acquitted of federal tax evasion charges and suggested the case against him should never have been brought.OAK PARK, Mich. - A renegotiated mortgage will give a Michigan family a better chance of staying in their home, which was refurbished on TV's... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Local decorator on "Extreme" TV show Feb 8, 2009
Be sure to tune in to Extreme makeover-Home Edition this coming Sunday, Feb. 8 ... This is a story that brought in more volunteers than ever before in an Extreme Makeover episode ... Sandra s role in the project was to seek a team of qualified seamstresses to partake in the most fabricated Extreme Makeover Home Edition house to date. (Littleton Independent, MA)
Dancings Season Eight Cast Is Revealed! Feb 8, 2009
The namedropping of the 13 contestants began at the eight oclock hour when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition aired, and continued throughout the telecasts of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. For the first time on the show, a celebrity couple singer Jewel and her husband, rodeo star Ty Murray will compete against each other. (People Magazine)
Host John Garabo is let go at KISS Country Feb 7, 2009
Helping hands: Volunteers collected 29,031 pounds of food for the Community Food Bank in connection with the recent stop here by the ABC series "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.". On the air: The one hour "California Gold Special" filmed in Big Creek will be broadcast at 6 p.m. Sunday on KVPT (Channel 18). (Fresno Bee)
Primetime schedule for 2008-2009 Feb 7, 2009
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Desperate Housewives. (Variety)
No stimulus for Applebee's Feb 7, 2009
You know, just another reason Europe's so great. " Have some dignity, man. Have we really fallen so far as a people? But before we get too superior about the insecure chumps in our midst, let's not forget another American, Jamie, who can't open her mouth without delivering a big, superior nanny-nanny-boo-boo to the universe. After weeks of watching Jamie grimace and blink and sigh deeply at the awful mediocrity of everyone and everything she'd been forced to encounter since agreeing to appear on... (Salon)
'Oprah's Big Give' in Atlanta Apr 1, 2008
Overall, it lacks the overarching emotional wow factor of Extreme Makeover or the fascinating interplay on shows such as Survivor or Amazing Race. Instead, it ends up being a neutered hybrid. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Networks set to shake up upfronts Mar 29, 2008
NBC this week makes good on its promises to shake up the upfronts -- and it's not the only network planning an extreme makeover for one of the smallscreen's most important rituals. Continued fallout from the WGA walkout, along with TV's rapidly changing business model, have conspired to dramatically reshape the 2008 upfront selling season. (Variety)
Dancing Joins Singing Atop Nielsen List Mar 27, 2008
46 million; "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 11. 37 million. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
I-Play Enters Deals Mar 26, 2008
The company produces the break-out hits Deal or No Deal, 1 VS 100, Fear Factor, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Big Brother. Endemol USA is a division of Endemol Holding, a prominent international content developer, producer and distributor of television and online programming. (IGN Wireless Games)
Crowd gathers at Hank for 'Makeover' showing Mar 25, 2008
They needed it to get the job done for the Gaudet family, whose home was rebuilt from the ground up as part of the ABC TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." ... Kite-flying wind whipped at the giant, inflatable video screen that organizers tried to erect at second base for a behind-the-scenes "Extreme Makeover" video that was to be shown at 6 p.m. ... Because of the wind, however, they had to keep the screen down until just minutes before the 7 p.m. "Extreme Makeover" national telecast. (AL.com)
Local middle school student started recycling program Mar 25, 2008
-Favorite TV show: "Extreme Makeover Home Edition". -Favorite movie: None. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
West Boca High cheerleaderdies after breast surgery Mar 25, 2008
" In recent years, doctors have performed an increasing number of procedures such as breast implants, liposuction and tummy tucks on young women and even girls as young as 14. The enormous popularity of reality TV shows like Extreme Makeover have fueled the desire of adolescent girls to alter their bodies permanently, and they are finding more surgeons willing to oblige them. Breast implants and liposuction are now bestowed by parents as graduation or birthday gifts. Some doctors say they have... (The Palm Beach Post)
'Idol' has twice as many viewers as anything else Mar 20, 2008
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 12. 05 million viewers. (CNN -- Showbiz)
DeAngelo Hall needed to go Mar 20, 2008
As the Falcons go through this extreme makeover look for them to move character nearer the top of the criteria. They will look for mature, team-players who display good character. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
'Idol' tops Fox, new shows struggle Mar 19, 2008
Outside of "Lost," ABC's top performers included Sunday's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (4. 1/11, 12. (Variety)
ABC tops sluggish Sunday Mar 18, 2008
Extreme Makeover' nets 12 ... 4 million viewers overall), and kept it going at 8 o'clock with "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (4 ... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC). (Variety)
Patrick Henry Hughes’ Extreme’ new home revealed Sunday Mar 15, 2008
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which has been on the air since 2003, is about a team of designers, led by host Ty Pennington, that travels throughout the country to make over homes for people in need ... Terry Sparrow wrote on Feb 18, 2008 9:31 AM:" I watch Extreme Makeover all the time and feel that there are many deserving families. However none have touched my soul like Patrick Henry. Loving people from the inside out we should all learn from him. I know that I will never forget the... (News Enterprise Online)
Should local news be entertaining? Mar 7, 2008
ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" will premiere an episode featuring the makeover of a home belonging to the Turner family of Fairmont, W.Va. at 8 p.m. Sunday on WTAE.. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Oprah special smashes competition Mar 6, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- Books, TV movies, a presidential candidate and now a philanthropic reality show. Maybe everything Oprah Winfrey touches really does turn to gold. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Fox still on top with 'Idol' Mar 5, 2008
09m), which meshed nicely with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (5. 2/13, 14. (Variety)
'Big' start for Oprah on ABC Mar 4, 2008
"Big Give" built slightly on its strong lead-in from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (prelim 5. 1/13 in 18-49, 14. (Variety)
* `El Loco' returns to Colombian soccer Mar 2, 2008
He even appeared on the Colombian version of Extreme Makeover. But he returned to his true calling in last July, playing for Venezuela's Guaros del Lara. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
'Biggest Loser' comes to town Mar 2, 2008
"This is like 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,' only it's your body that gets the makeover," he said. "We want to change our lives and this is how we want to do it.". (Suffolk News Herald, VA)
Oprah's reality show turns giving into a competition Mar 1, 2008
Part "Apprentice," part "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Oprah's Big Give" turns helping the needy into a fierce contest, as 10 "Big Givers" compete to be Oprah's favorite player and - without knowing it - the recipient of $1 million ... Which isn't to say that, like "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Oprah's Big Give" doesn't have its emotional moments. (Boston Globe)
Higuita less than glittering in return to Colombia Mar 1, 2008
He even appeared on the Colombian version of "Extreme Makeover.'' But he returned to his true calling in July 2007, playing for Venezuela's Guaros del Lara. It ended months later amid complaints he wasn't being paid. "He's a little overweight, but with his experience he always beat the young kids of Bajo Cauca one on one, and that was sufficient,'' Rionegro manager Mariano Petro told El Colombiano newspaper after Sunday's 0-0 draw with Bajo Cauca. And he's put the legendary partying behind him,... (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Soccer)
WWE stars make film crossover Mar 1, 2008
Its female fighters, known as the Divas, recently appeared on Bravo's "Project Runway." WWE stars also turned up on NBC's "The Apprentice" and "Deal or No Deal," ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Dancing With the Stars" and "Fast Cars and Superstars.". "At the end of the day, we want to be present where our customers are," says Geof Rochester, WWE's exec VP of marketing. (Variety)
ABC renews reality fare Feb 29, 2008
Back for another round are "Dancing With the Stars," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "America's Funniest Home Videos," "Supernanny" and "Wife Swap." ... Also on Sundays, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" continues to rank No. 1 in its 8 p.m. slot with adults 18-49 -- a feat it has accomplished since its premiere. (Variety)
'Oprah's Big Give' puts good works in a bad light Feb 29, 2008
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition treads much of this same maudlin, TV-knows-best territory. But at least that show doesn't turn the people it's making over into pawns in a game a game that inevitably elevates the players' problems to the level of the people they're supposed to be helping. (USA Today -- Life)
She was determined to get 'Unhitched' Feb 27, 2008
Cooking up a special timeThe gang from ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" took a break the other day to host a barbecue in Maynard for everyone helping to rebuild Paul and Renee Giunta's house ... In the course of completely rebuilding the house, Ty Pennington's "Extreme Makeover" crew is making the Giunta's house wheelchair accessible. (Boston Globe)
Oklahoma Builder Partners Again with ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' Feb 26, 2008
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tulsa-area home builder Simmons Homes is once again teaming up with ABCs Extreme Makeover: Home Editionbut this time its for the popular TV shows season finale in New Orleans ... Simmons Homes previously participated as a builder on a January 2006 Extreme Makeover show and built a house for a Dewey, Okla ... Even three years later, the Gulf region is still suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and I believe its going to take the entire nation to... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Check egos at clubhouse door Feb 26, 2008
It s like Patrick Henry Hughes said on Extreme Makeover: the Home Edition last week, Don t judge people by their disabilities, but by their abilities ... Sign of the apocalypse a blogger quoting Extreme Makeover: the Home Edition. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Ad Track: Marketers suit up for sports; Playboy gets energetic Feb 25, 2008
ABC and TV Guide have joined to promote Sunday night's tear-jerker TV: the premiere of Oprah's Big Give charity-focused show and a new Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Some 150,000 TV Guide subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago will get a packet of tissues advertising the shows with today's edition. (USA Today -- Money)
$270 million jackpot Feb 23, 2008
I would also pay off my friends property taxes, pay for my Church to have an extreme makeover. By ed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
After hours with Scorsese Feb 23, 2008
The host of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" came calling because the Giuntas are the well-deserving recipients of a new dream home. "I'm in heaven," Giunta told us afterward. (Boston Globe)
Extreme makeover: Mouse edition Feb 23, 2008
Film Independent's Spirit Awards. Honorary Oscar: Robert Boyle. (Variety)
GDC '08: Insomniac opens up toolshed Feb 22, 2008
Insomniac are such awesome people, awesome career video, the ratchet and clank game for the kid (captain slag) on extreme makeover home edition, and this. Posted Feb 21, 2008 9:03 pm PT to rate this comment / (+0) StephenHu Posted Feb 21, 2008 9:03 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. (GameSpot)
TV show looks to ‘makeover’ county home Feb 22, 2008
ABC s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is looking for a Somerset County hometown hero in dire need of a new home ... She said she was with Extreme Makeover and I said, Sure you are ... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is looking for what they call a hometown hero, preferably someone who was a first responder to the crash of Flight 93 or had some other connection to the tragedy. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
