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Extreme Makeover Home Edition, with Ty "The Handy Guy" Pennington as the ringmaster, brings tears and promise to our living rooms.

Ty Pennington began his romance with hammers and television viewers on TLC's Trading Spaces. His quirky yet kind behavior made him lovable and helped the show become a hit. He now shares his love of humanity and building things on our new favorite construction show Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition finds a worthy family and builds them a new home. Not just any old home either. Their team of contractors and designers personalize every aspect of the home to meet the needs of the family that is being blessed with this experience. Each home they create is one of a kind and absolutely breathtaking.

Now let's touch on the humanitarian effort put forth in the concept of this primetime charity fest. The homes and all of the furnishings are supplied by ABC. The families often receive vacation, paid mortgages and college tuition as part of this spectacular experience. Often this show changes the lives it touches forever.

"How can ABC afford this?" Good question.

The answer, very simply, is a symbiotic product placement deal. Suppliers give the show merchandise at little or no cost and the show mentions the products name. Everybody wins here. We hope to see more shows like it.

Sundays at 8:00 p.m. on ABC

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Extreme Makeover : Home Edition - **POP-UP ALERT** ABC's official webpage dedicated to the show. cast and crew bios, episode guides, pictures, summary, wallpapers, awards, episode previews, a section where you can meet the families featured on the weekly smash hit, video clips, photo gallery,online shopping and the official application to appear on the show.

Extreme Makeover : Home Edition - Local news coverage of how Extreme Makeover touches a community and taps the humanity in all of us. Don't you want to go and volunteer yourself? You can ...

Extreme Makeover : Home Edition - Find find pictures of the cast. episode guides & summaries, wallpaper, and related links, from Star Pulse.com.

Extreme Makeover : Home Edition - Wikipedia explains the premise of the show and keeps you up to date on some of the not so cheery side of things. "... in August 2005, five orphaned siblings who appeared on the show sued ABC, accusing the network of fraud and breach of contract. The siblings said that the family that took them in - after their parents died later - drove them out of the nine-bedroom mansion that was built for them."

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