Extreme Makeover
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Extreme Makeover was a television program from ABC in which individuals volunteer to receive an extensive makeover in Hollywood. It began airing in 2002 on Thursday nights at 8pm.
Borrowing heavily from the reality television genre, the show depicts real-life people (both men and women) undergoing an "extreme makeover" involving plastic surgery, exercise regimes, hairdressing and wardrobing. Each episode ends with the subjects' return to their families and friends, showing the reactions of their loved ones, who have not been allowed to see the incremental changes during the subjects' absence.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which debuted in 2003, is a spinoff of Extreme Makeover. Ironically, the home edition eventually became more successful than the plastic surgery edition. Extreme Makeover: Wedding Edition was also a spinoff but was a one-time special due to low ratings.
It was scheduled to return to the ABC lineup on Thursday, August 3, 2006, but repeats of Grey's Anatomy instead filled the hour. The show returned to the air on Friday, October 20, 2006, but due to low ratings ABC announced that Grey's Anatomy reruns would fill the time slot starting November 3.
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[edit] Deleese Williams
On September 9, 2005, the producers of the show were sued by Deleese Williams, a 30-year-old woman from Conroe, Texas, whose sister killed herself after Williams was dropped as a contestant. Williams was promised a "Cinderella-like makeover" by the producers of Extreme Makeover. As part of the show's filming process, her family degraded her appearance on camera. The night before her scheduled dental surgery, she was dropped from the show because the recovery would take too long to fit in the show's timeframe. Four months later, her sister Kellie McGee committed suicide due, Williams claims, to the guilt McGee felt over her on-tape comments about her sister's appearance. Williams is suing the producers of Extreme Makeover for breach of contract and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other allegations.
[edit] The Extreme Team
- Dr. Jon A. Perlman, Plastic Surgeon, FACS, Diplomate American Board of Plastic Surgery, Clinical Asst Prof. of Plastic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA. (Recurring)
- Dr. Ava Shamban - Dermatologist (Recurring)
- Dr. Robert Maloney - LASIK Eye Surgeon (Recurring)
[edit] Broadcasting
- Slovenia: Kanal A Popolna preobrazba
- Bulgaria: Nova Television has already started the auditions for the first season of the Bulgarian version called Пълна промяна. Airing will start in the autumn.
- Malaysia: 8TV
- Portugal: People+Arts Extreme Makeover-Reconstrução total
- Sweden: Kanal 5
- Turkey: Elmax TV Beni Baştan Yarat
- United States: Style Network
- Norway: TV Norge
- Latin America: People+Arts Extreme Makeover
- Italy: SKY Italia
- France: Teva Relooking Extreme
- The Netherlands
- Spain: People+Arts Extreme Makeover: Reconstrucción total
- Russia: TNT Возможности пластической хирургии
- Poland: Polsat Dom nie do poznania
