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ABC"Extreme Transformation: Home Edition" ABC has canceled Extreme Transformation: Home Edition.our editor recommendsThe Kardashians Throw Anti-Bullying Rally With Demi Lovato on 'Extreme Transformation: Home Edition' (Video)'Extreme Makeover' Host Ty Pennington Joins New ABC Daytime Show'Extreme Transformation: Home Edition': Michelle Obama to Guest Star around the ABC Reality Series The network has elected to not proceed with the series in the weekly format, The Hollywood Reporter has learned solely. ABC, however, will air four special episodes after its current ninth season finishes its operate on Jan. 13 using its 200th episode. The series, featuring host Ty Pennington along with a team including designer Michael Moloney going to and repairing the houses of households in need of assistance, opened in 2003 like a 13-part special to 12 million audiences on the Wednesday evening, moving to the initial home every sunday where it grew to become a normal staple because of its first eight seasons. The Ultimate Transformation spinoff ongoing to develop, cracking the very best 20 in viewership in the second season, calculating 15.8 million audiences per episode because it made its method to visit all 50 states helping veterans, sufferers of disasters, the destitute and promote care and adoption organizations. Up to now, they has designed and reconstructed a lot more than 200 houses, additionally to firehouses, schools, daycares and much more. ABC moved the series to Fridays this season where it's battled to draw in exactly the same audience -- despite a slate of high-profile visitors including first lady Michelle Obama and also the Kardashians -- against competition including Fox's Kitchen Bad dreams and scripted choices together with a Gifted Guy. Its newest episode, airing against CBS' holiday broadcast of Chilled the Snowman (7.3 million), came 5.a million audiences along with a 1.3 rating within the marketer-coveted grown ups 18-49 demographic. The choice to air four special offers follows an identical model Fox incorporated for America's Popular. The lengthy-running law-enforcement series, located by John Walsh, was canceled like a weekly series in May with Fox choosing to air four quarterly special offers. (Lifetime has since acquired the series for any 25th season.) "It's having a somber heart I close this chapter, however with such excitement I begin the next,Inch Moloney stated inside a statement to THR. "I've EM:HE by way of thanking for that platform I must keep doing great work and great design in 2012 as well as on.Inch Pennington, meanwhile, has arranged a brand new gig, ABC's approaching daytime health insurance and lifestyle series The Revolution, set to premiere in The month of january. He joins Tim Gunn and Harley Pasternak. The series has gained two Emmys for outstanding reality enter in its nine-year run, with another year of qualifications to visit. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit ABC Extreme Transformation: Home Edition