Garden City, South Carolina—May 13, 2026, 09:03 EDT
“Battle on the Beach” returns to HGTV on June 1, this time spanning seven episodes shot along South Carolina’s Grand Strand. Alison Victoria announced last year that the show wasn’t set to continue, but the renovation competition is back after all. Ty Pennington stays on as a mentor, joined now by Sarah Baeumler and Mika Kleinschmidt. Pressroom
The timing is notable, coming after a string of HGTV cancellations that rattled viewers and talent heading into 2025. Back in July, People reported that Victoria had told her “Pap Smear Podcast” audience: “Battle on the Beach did not get picked back up.” HGTV, for its part, didn’t comment at the time. People
HGTV is once more tapping into its tried-and-true competition format, just as home-renovation series are getting shuffled around between cable and streaming. According to TV Insider last year, shows like “Bargain Block,” “Married to Real Estate,” “Farmhouse Fixer,” and “Izzy Does It” got the axe, but competition titles including “Rock the Block” managed to hold on to their network slots. TV Insider
“Battle on the Beach” kicks off its new season with a two-hour episode, set for 9 p.m. ET/PT. HGTV reported that the previous installment pulled in 15.5 million viewers across both linear TV — that is, scheduled cable airings — and streaming. Pressroom
This season brings a jolt to the lineup. For four cycles, Pennington, Victoria and Taniya Nayak anchored the mentor team, but now it’s Pennington alongside “Rock the Block” regular Baeumler and “100 Day Dream Home” co-host Kleinschmidt. Judging the weekly builds: Tristyn and Kamohai Kalama from “Renovation Aloha.” Country Living
There are three teams in the running: Steven and Angelina Jacobs out of Waterbury, Connecticut; Baltimore’s Josiah and Anna Julian; plus Michelle Mueller and her daughter Sydney Lorence from Lincoln, Nebraska. For the premiere, they’ll kick things off in Garden City with a challenge that determines who gets the first pick of the beach houses.
Teams start with $100,000 and have seven weeks to overhaul what HGTV is calling the largest properties ever featured on the show. Each week, the top team faces a choice: pocket $3,000 on the spot or boost the final prize pool by $6,000. The grand prize? It goes to the team whose short-term rental fetches the highest peak-season rate—at least $50,000 is up for grabs.
Garden City—and by extension, the Myrtle Beach area—gets a fresh blast of national TV attention right as summer travel kicks off. According to The Sun News, filming for the new season took place in Garden City, where three teams are set to overhaul beachfront vacation homes.
There’s a risk the reboot could alter the mix that gave the previous seasons their spark. Victoria, absent from the roster of new mentors, remarked last year that the show had been “so fun and funny,” though she wondered how much of that vibe survived the editing process. She described it as “adult spring break.” People
The series hits HBO Max for streaming the following day, starting June 2. “Battle on the Beach” comes from Departure Films. HGTV, still housed within Warner Bros. Discovery, stays a core piece of both its cable and streaming lineup. Pressroom
