TV Land Grabs Rights to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

NEW YORK, June 4: TV Land
has secured the exclusive off-network rights to the hit ABC show Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition.

Through its deal with
Disney-ABC Domestic Television, TV Land gains access to prior seasons of the
series, and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will debut on the channel on August 7.

“Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition is the perfect complement
to TV Land's strategy of superserving Baby Boomers, the first generation to
grow up alongside television,” explained Larry W. Jones, the president of TV
Land. “The show's central theme of giving back to society is a quality Boomers
appreciate and the fact that each episode comes complete with a happy ending is
a device the TV Generation has come to expect from TV viewing.”

The hit series, which will
begin its fifth season on ABC this fall, follows a team of designers,
contractors and workers as they race against time to complete a project that
would normally take months to achieve. The design team can change the
lives of these families in need, if it can achieve the seemingly
impossible—rebuilding an entire house in seven days.