Don't Drive Here is a reality television series. It aired on Discovery Channel Canada and was hosted by Andrew Younghusband. The series was a follow-up to Canada's Worst Driver.[1] In August 2015, it was announced that the show had not been renewed for a third season.[2] The show was replaced first by How Hard Can It Be?, then by Tougher Than It Looks, expanding on the challenges of driving to the challenge of doing things.
| Don't Drive Here | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Andrew Younghusband |
| Developed by | Proper Television |
| Written by | Andrew Younghusband |
| Presented by | Andrew Younghusband |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Guy O'Sullivan |
| Producer | Lesia Capone |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Discovery Channel Canada |
| Release | June 17, 2013 – 2015 |
| Related | |
| "Worst Driver" franchise | |
Each one-hour episode featured Younghusband in a different country completing driving challenges in one of "the world's worst driving cities", with the ultimate goal of learning to drive better than a local professional driver. Cities featured in the first season of the show included Delhi, India; Bangkok, Thailand; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, Philippines; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; and Lima, Peru.[3] Cities featured in the second season included Nairobi, Kenya; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; La Paz, Bolivia; Rome, Italy; and São Paulo, Brazil.
Don't Drive Here was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Factual Program in 2014.[4]
A reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press called the show "this week's most white-knuckle-inducing, terrifying television…undoubtedly one of the most stressful hours of prime-time programming you'll encounter this or any other season".[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Canada's Worst Driver launches spinoff Don't Drive Here". Canada.com. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ "Facebook posting". Facebook. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
- ^ "Don't Drive Here". Discovery Channel. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ "The Canadian Screen Awards Nominations was today and here is the full list of television nominees..." Thunderbird. Archived from the original on 2 January 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ Oswald, Brad (15 June 2013). "Fear fans can sink their teeth into two kinds of TV terror". Winnipeg Free Press.
External links
edit- Official website
- Don't Drive Here at IMDb
- Don't Drive Here at Bell Media Archived 2014-03-10 at the Wayback Machine