Hoarders
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 115 (list of episodes) |
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| Camera setup | Multiple |
| Running time | 42 to 48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Screaming Flea Productions |
| Distributor | A+E Networks |
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| Original network | A&E, Lifetime |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | August 17, 2009 – present |
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Hoarders is an American reality television series that debuted on A&E. The show depicts the real-life struggles and treatment of people who suffer from compulsive hoarding disorder. The series premiered on August 17, 2009 and concluded its original run on February 4, 2013, after six seasons.
Over a year after the program's original cancellation in 2013, Lifetime began airing a series of weekly "Where Are They Now?" episodes on June 2, 2014. This led to the production of a seventh season, Hoarders: Family Secrets, which aired on Lifetime from May 28, 2015 to July 30, 2015.
The program returned to A&E for an eighth season which began January 3, 2016. A second part of the eighth season began on August 21, 2016, under the title: Hoarders: Then and Now. Each broadcast presents an episode from earlier seasons, ending with a present-day visit to one of its featured hoarders by the therapist or organizer who worked with him/her. Interviews with the hoarder and his/her family reveal how their lives have progressed since their first appearance on the show.
A ninth season began on December 19, 2016. Some episodes during this season air under the title Hoarders: Overload, presenting expanded versions of episodes from earlier seasons that include previously unaired footage and updates on the subjects.
Each 60-minute episode profiles one or two interventions. During most of the first season, the hoarder worked with either a psychiatrist/psychologist, a professional organizer, or an "extreme cleaning specialist," each of whom specialized in some aspect involving the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, and/or hoarding. A crew of professional cleaners (usually a local franchise of the series' major corporate sponsor) performed actual cleanups. Two episodes in the first season featured a cleanup with both a psychologist and an organizer: Jill (episode "Jennifer and Ron/Jill") and Patty (episode "Patty/Bill"); from season two onward, all Hoarders were given a psychologist and an organizer. The final episode of the first season, "Paul/Missy and Alex" featured professional organizer, Geralin Thomas, CPO-CD working with Missy, while a child psychologist, Dr. David Dia, worked with Missy's seven-year-old son Alex. Beginning in the second season, each hoarder had a psychologist-plus-organizer/cleaning specialist team assisting them in their cleanup. The psychologist-plus-organizer/cleaning specialist combination leads a group of cleaning professionals, family, friends, and relatives of the hoarder in conducting a two- to three-day decluttering session. The cleanups aim both to teach the hoarder new ways of thinking and patterns of behavior and to make the home a liveable and usable space. In most instances a crisis prompts the intervention, such as the threat of eviction or the removal of minor children from the home.
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