Jan 29, 2018 - Season 9, Episode 8 • “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and the Entertainment Industry Foundation are joining forces for a one-hour special.

All good things must come to an end and it’s certainly been a good run for Ty Pennington and company on. ABC has announced that the venerable reality series is wrapping up on January 13th with its 200th episode. The show will be helping to rebuild seven homes that were destroyed by tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri. The cancellation doesn’t come as a big surprise considering the show’s number of years on the air and the. This season, ABC shuffled the series to Friday nights to make room for a new show,.

It’s currently averaging a poor 1.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.5 million viewers. Though EM:HE is ending as a regular series, the network says that they plan to bring the crew back together for specials in the future. Here’s the press release from ABC: THE BELOVED SERIES THAT CHANGED THOUSANDS OF LIVES, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” AIRS ITS SERIES FINALE JANUARY 13, 2012 Nine Seasons Conclude with Historic, 200th Episode from Tornado-Ravaged Joplin, Missouri “EM:HE” Will Return with Specials After This Season The heart-tugging original feel-good series “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” concludes its 9th and final season on ABC with two episodes in January 2012, including its biggest-ever build — the 200th episode, in which the team builds 7 homes in 7 days for tornado victims in Joplin, Missouri. The final two regularly scheduled episodes, “Gibbs Family” and “Joplin, Missouri,” will air January 6 and January 13, respectively (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” will continue on ABC with specials after this season. During its run, the quintessential feel-good reality show transformed the lives of thousands of deserving families and galvanized communities and businesses to help their neighbors in need. “EM:HE” also put a spotlight on causes that touched these families, ranging from the treatment of serious illnesses or accident victims and the importance of foster care and adoption, to helping veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress and the plight of the homeless, to campaigning against texting while driving and building coalitions to end bullying.

Celebrities including First Lady Michelle Obama, Elton John, Robin Williams, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Glenn Close, Tyler Perry, Mary J Blige, Carrie Underwood, David Duchovny, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Usher, KISS, Rihanna, Jessica Alba and Derek Jeter are among the many who “got on the bus” over the years to join the show. In addition, the series won multiple Emmys for Outstanding Reality Program, received six Emmy nominations, won two People’s Choice Awards and an NAACP Image Award, as well as many additional honors. As the series traveled to all 50 states, the team designed and re-built over 200 state of the art homes, and didn’t stop there, also tackling firehouses, schools, daycares, soup kitchens, Little League fields, free clinics, churches, food and clothing shelters, summer camps, community centers, dormitories, parks, teen centers, homeless shelters, animal shelters, dance studios, therapeutic riding centers and much more. A typical build attracted 3,000-5,000 volunteers, for a total of over one million people sacrificing their time to build for their neighbors. “EM:HE” held blood drives along with the American Red Cross and collected life-saving blood for over 20,000 people to date. For each build, they’d fill an average of three food pantries for those in need. In Toledo, Ohio, they collected three truck-loads of school supplies, clothes and food for Haiti.

In Indianapolis, Indiana, the builder made over six blocks surrounding the inner city location of the show’s build site. In Salem Oregon, “EM:HE” worked with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to supply over 150 hearing aids to children from the Oregon School for the Deaf and their families. In Buffalo, New York, with the help of Americorps, volunteers finished over 100 projects for inner city homes. More than 50,000 people from all 50 states took the pledge to stop texting while driving. And over 140,000 people took a stand to end bullying.