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| | Extreme Makeover | PopMatters Television Review |
 | | Both ABC's Extreme Makeover and NBC's Average Joe subscribe to this notion, and, like Cinderella's fairy godmother, producers of both shows are finding that a little bibbidy-bobbidy-boo goes a long way with viewers and, more importantly, with advertisers. |
 | | Each episode follows two patients through the entire process: the first half is dominated by testimonials about their lifelong dissatisfactions with their looks, tearful goodbyes to family and friends, and consultations with experts; the second focuses on surgery, recuperation, and their joyous return to society. |
 | | A similar interest in tension affects nightly ratings for Extreme Makeover, which, according to ABC, increase 50% among adults 18-49 from its first half-hour to its second, meaning that most viewers shun the character introductions that dominate the first 30 minutes, but tune in for the makeovers in the last half. |
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