Ty Pennington Leads Battle On The Beach Renewal With Seven Episodes
HGTV's battle on the beach renewal returns Monday, June 1, at 9 p.m. ET/PT with a new seven-episode season. Ty Pennington will mentor one of three two-person renovation teams as they take on the biggest homes in the show's history.
The two-hour premiere gives the three teams their first shot at an advantage in Garden City, where Steven and Angelina Jacobs, Josiah and Anna Julian, and Michelle Mueller and Sydney Lorence compete for the best beach house. The winner can choose the preferred property and assign the other two homes to the remaining teams.
Grand Strand homes and $100,000 budgets
The season takes place in the Grand Strand in South Carolina and centers on beachfront vacation properties. Each team gets $100,000 and seven weeks to turn a lackluster rental into a waterfront escape, a larger build window than many renovation shows can afford to give each household.
Sarah Baeumler, Mika Kleinschmidt and Pennington will mentor the teams through challenges that include repurposing discarded roadside finds and swapping partners for additional prize money. Tristyn and Kamohai Kalama will decide which team increases the rental value of each week's revamped space.
Weekly prizes and final payout
The weekly decision offers a choice between $3,000 now or $6,000 added to the final grand prize. That structure pushes the competition toward immediate cash versus the long game, a clean tradeoff for teams trying to build peak season rental value as they go.
The team with the highest peak season rate for its short-term rental will win at least $50,000, making the last valuation the season's real scoreboard. The previous run drew 15.5 million viewers across linear and streaming, so this return is arriving with a built-in audience and a format that leans harder into scale, cash stakes and rental math.
Garden City first advantage
The opening race through Garden City sets up the season's first practical split: better house, better assignment, better odds. For viewers who followed the last run, the return keeps the same renovation competition frame but adds bigger homes, a clearer prize ladder and a first-night advantage that can shape the rest of the season.
