Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Gets a Fifth Season

If you've been holding out hope that one day, maybe Ty Pennington and crew will build you a house, ABC has fed your dream by renewing Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for another season. The reality show, in which Pennington and a team of do-gooder designers and builders take just a week to construct a new home for a family in need, was one of 14 shows that got an early pick-up from the network.

I'll admit to rolling my eyes sometimes over the show's blatant tear-jerking, but I'm delighted it's been renewed for two reasons: It consistently shows families of children with special needs in a positive, even heroic, light; and it's one of the few programs my daughter loves that I can bear to watch with her. That's So Raven? Corey in the House? Not so much. But a family of five kids with autism, or a son with cerebral palsy, or a daughter with a heart condition, being gifted with a customized abode full of disability-minded design concepts? Yeah, I'll sit down for that.

If you think your family or a family you know deserves a home makeover, download an application form the ABC site and go for it. They've got a new season's worth of wishes to grant.

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