What To Know
- Discovery Channel will premiere Homestead Rescue: Intervention on July 14.
- The show focuses on the Raneys meeting struggling off-gridders—who are often too proud to ask for help—with interventions to save their failing homesteads.
- This spin-off differs from the original Homestead Rescue by targeting those who haven’t requested assistance.
Discovery Channel is adding an all-new high-stakes series to its programming slate with Homestead Rescue: Intervention. The show, which premieres July 14, centers on the Raney family (dad Marty, and kids Matt and Misty), who are wilderness living experts.
These masters of survival respond to desperate pleas from concerned loved ones of struggling off-gridders too proud or unwilling to ask for help. It’s gotten so bad that an intervention rescue is needed. Enter the Raneys, who must confront a new range of challenges and emotions to save the failing homesteads, fractured families and fading dreams. The trio heads to different remote destinations across the country with each stop bringing something that will test them like never before.
The show spins off the long-running Homestead Rescue, which had its Season 14 finale on June 16. Cameras have followed Marty and Matt and Misty as they worked to save failing off-grid homesteads. Through the episodes, they lend a hand to those struggling in isolation, facing financial hardship, extreme environments, and oftentimes, lack survival skills. It wasn’t the first offshoot of Homestead Rescue. In 2020, Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch ran for two seasons. The show documented the family’s efforts to build and live on their own remote 40-acre homestead in Alaska.
In the premiere episode of the new series, a desperate uncle pleads for an intervention of his niece’s family. We’ll meet Jon and Leighann, who are determined to go it alone despite being dangerously unprepared for their new life in the wilderness of Alaska. Sleeping in tents beside a mold-infested cabin as winter and predators close in, they must accept help…or risk everything.
Discovery Channel gave TV Insider the first look at the new show through the teaser above. The Raneys looks to help a family in Northwest Montana on their own homestead. There are seven people living in a 500 sq. ft. cabin. The winter seemed to be bearing down on the property. The owner is too proud to ask for help. The feeling is he would feel less of a man.
“Will pride be their downfall?,” was asked. “I think if they don’t get help right now this could absolutely be a life or death situation,” a loved one concluded. “If something ever happened to this family, I would never be able to forgive myself.” It was believed, given the circumstances, there needed to be some forced help upon them. In this case, it’s not people who ask for help like in the main series. They were hoping they wouldn’t be turned away. Will these owners take the help? We’ll have to find out by watching!
The network also gave us additional details regarding what’s to come. This season will see Marty, Matt, and Misty using their building, farming, and hunting expertise to help homesteaders across Montana, the Arizona high desert, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Vermont. In Montana, a previously rescued homesteader pleads for the Raneys to intervene with a family lacking critical infrastructure just five weeks from winter. In the mountains of North Carolina, a mother and sister fear for a 34-year-old off-gridder’s safety, as he struggles to survive using videos he watches online. And in Vermont, a desperate plea comes from within, where a wife has been pushed to the breaking point with a husband who believes extreme hardship and danger means living out his rugged dream.
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Homestead Rescue: Intervention premiere, July 14, 8/7c, Discovery Channel