Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Season 8
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series that provides home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. This season consists of a list of season eight episodes of the series, continuing the show's focus on delivering life-changing home renovations. As a reality television program, the series captures the emotional journeys of deserving recipients as their living spac
Season 8 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series.
- The series provides home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools.
- The show is hosted by a carpenter and veteran television personality.
- The program originally ran from 2003 to 2012 before being rebooted.
Season overview
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series that provides home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. This season consists of a list of season eight episodes of the series, continuing the show's focus on delivering life-changing home renovations. As a reality television program, the series captures the emotional journeys of deserving recipients as their living spaces are completely transformed. The narrative arc centers on identifying those in need and executing remarkable architectural and design projects to improve their quality of life. Through the collective efforts of the production team, designers, and community volunteers, each episode showcases the dramatic unveiling of a newly renovated home.
Episode Guide
Season 8 Progress Shield
Boys Hope/Girls Hope
Sep 26, 2010 · 60 min
Ty Pennington and his design team, including new designers Xzibit and Jillian Harris, traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, to surprise the students of Boys Hope/Girls Hope in a unique
Lutz Family
Oct 3, 2010 · 60 min
The team rebuilds a house for a man and a woman who returned home after the death of their parents to care for six siblings with Down syndrome.
Johnson Family
Oct 10, 2010 · 60 min
Cedric the Entertainer, Tommy Davidson, Ralphie May, Paul Rodriguez and Brooklyn Decker help the makeover team renovate the home of a couple whose marriage seminars keep children f
Arboleda Family
Oct 17, 2010 · 60 min
The design team pairs up with some of the dancers from ``Dancing With the Stars'' to renovate the home of a man who has made it a mission to battle childhood obesity
Urban Family
Oct 24, 2010 · 60 min
The Extreme Team is off to Hamburg, Pennsylvania to meet Trisha Urban, who was blindsided by the untimely death of her husband. Trisha is looking to turn the page and move forward
Oregon School for the Deaf
Oct 31, 2010 · 60 min
The team must make the basement safe at Oregon School for the Deaf in time for the school's annual Halloween haunted-house fundraiser.
Marshall-Spreier Family
Nov 7, 2010 · 60 min
After surviving a battle with cancer, a single mother of nine loses her home to a fire; Kylie Minogue performs.
Lighthouse School/Sweatt Family
Nov 14, 2010 · 60 min
The team assists a Tennessee family whose school was swept away in flooding earlier this year, but who still found time and resources to assist other struggling families in the reg
Anderson Family
Dec 5, 2010 · 60 min
Andre and Jasmine Anderson are both blind because of their diabetes. That hasn't ever slowed them down; as they are they are the driving force behind the Disability Awareness Cente
Gaston Family
Dec 12, 2010 · 60 min
Ty and the team rebuild a home for a cheerleading coach who left college to care for his family after the death of his mother; singer Mariah Carey and Olympian Dominique Dawes make
Grommesh Family
Jan 2, 2011 · 60 min
The team builds a handicapped accessible home for the family of a wheelchair-bound 10-year-old; the old home, moved to a new location, will house another family.
Lampe Family
Jan 9, 2011 · 60 min
Ty and the team rebuild a home for a beloved family of eight that mentors children and runs a now-struggling tree service.
Simpson Family
Jan 16, 2011 · 60 min
Ty and the team head south to Savannah where the Simpson family is in dire need of a brand new home. Carmen and Jim Simpson have three beautiful kids. Their son, Isaac, is eight. D
Graham Family
Jan 23, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps build a home for a single mother of two who divides her time among family, work, college, and volunteering for the Girl Scouts.
Brown Family
Jan 30, 2011 · 60 min
The team heads to Texas to build a home for a family who lost a teenager in a car accident; singer Justin Bieber and actress Emma Roberts volunteer.
Hurston Family
Feb 13, 2011 · 60 min
Ty and the team rebuild a house for a Florida family of five that flies to disasters all over the world to deliver water purifiers, medical supplies and food to those in need.
Zeigler-Hansen Family
Feb 20, 2011 · 60 min
The team builds a home for a soldier, who was wounded in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, and his fiance; ventriloquist Terry Fator, comic Dane Cook and fashion designer Monique Lhuill
Hall Family
Apr 17, 2011 · 60 min
A car accident man leaves a man paralyzed from the shoulders down; now he, his wife and four children receive a new home.
Hill Family
Apr 24, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps rebuild the home of a woman who has dedicated herself to her community and her six adopted daughters.
Dickinson Family
May 1, 2011 · 60 min
The team assists the family of a Marine whose home's condition is continually depreciating due to spreading mold and flood damage.
Prewitt Brewer Family
May 8, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps build a new home for a volleyball coach and the three sisters she has taken in; beach volleyball player Misty May helps out.
Sharrock Family
May 15, 2011 · 60 min
The team builds a safe home for a lively 9-year-old who has brittle-bone disease and his family.