60 Minute Makeover

Infobox Television
show_name = 60 Minute Makeover


caption = Titles introduced in 2007
format = Home makeover show
picture_format = 16:9
runtime = 44 minutes
(exc. adverts)
creator =
presenter = Claire Sweeney
(Series 1–3),
Terri Dwyer
(Series 4–)
network = ITV
country = UK
first_aired = April 19, 2004
last_aired =
num_series = 6
num_episodes = 213-Present
producer = Granada Television
(branded as ITV Productions)
related =
imdb_id =

"60 Minute Makeover" is an ITV reality TV makeover show.

The show documents a makeover team as they rush to finish a makeover of four rooms in a 60 minute time limit, as a surprise gift to a deserving owner or resident of the house. Although the bulk of the makeover is performed in this time, it is evident that a few things are 'touched up' at the end of the show, to add to the dramatic effect when the makeover is revealed to the surprised owner.

First shown from April 2004, it was originally presented for the first three seasons by Claire Sweeney. The challenge is to redecorate four rooms in a house in an hour (60 minutes). There are several designers attached to the show including John Amabile, Alison Cork, Julia Kendell, Richard Randall, Kathryn Rayward, Sophie Robinson, Hannah Sandling, Derek Taylor & Scott Waldron. Terri Dwyer took over as the presenter of "60 Minute Makeover" at the beginning of series 4.

While the show claims to do the makeover in 60 minutes this is not strictly true. The Crew arrive at 7am in the morning and generally don't finish filming until 6-7pm 12 hours later; maybe they should rename the show "12 hour makeover". An insider the show for explained what happens on the day "Generally we arrive at 7am in the morning and set up all the equipment, we then unload our van which has all the furniture and other bits that go in the house. This usually takes about an hour then its breakfast. After breakfast we start stripping the house down, removing wallpaper, putting masking tape on the walls, covering carpets, pulling out kitchens. While this is taking place the camera crew are filming interviews in each room explaining what the designer is going to do to the room. Also while this is happening all the furniture that is going to go into the makeover is being pre- built."Fact|date=October 2008

The actual makeover does not start until 12-1pm a full 5 hours after the crew arrived.Fact|date=October 2008

The insider goes on "The 'makeover' starts about 12.30pm after everything is ready, all the paint is in the rooms so when the whistle blows we can all run in and start straight away, there are a lot of us, around 40, and so painting doesn't take long. The problem we do have though is allowing the paint to dry if we need to do a second coat, if a second coat is needed we have been known to cheat a little bit and do this in the ‘Tea Break'."Fact|date=October 2008

"The 'Tea Break' can last anything up to 2 hours depending how much work we need to do in the makeover and we also cram in lunch" When ask if this was cheating the insider replied "On the show the tea break is shown and the clock is stopped. We might do some work in this but we want to do a good job for the people whose house we are making over."Fact|date=October 2008

The second half of the makeover kicks off after the 'Tea Break' has eventually finished. There are 3 cameras running around filming all the mayhem. When the "60 minutes" are up Terri blows the whistle to signal everyone to stop, but this is not what happens.Fact|date=October 2008

Repeats of Series 1-3 with Claire Sweeney are shown once a week on ITV at night time.

Parodies

The series was parodied on Harry Hill's TV Burp as "46 Minute Makeover" as the length of the programme is 46 minutes with the commercial breaks removed.

eries guide

*Series 1 - 33 editions from 19 April 2004
*Series 2 - 50 editions from 06 September 2004
*Series 3 - 30 editions from 18 July 2006
*Series 4 - 30 editions from 18 January 2007
*Series 5 - 70 editions from 13 December 2007
*Series 6 - ?? editions from 01 September 2008