Don't Drive Here
Don't Drive Here | |
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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) |
Release | |
Original network | Discovery Channel Canada |
Original release | 2013 2015 | –
Chronology | |
Related shows | "Worst Driver" franchise |
External links | |
Website |
Don't Drive Here was 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 , then by , expanding on the challenges of driving to the challenge of doing things.
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[]
References[]
- ^ "Canada's Worst Driver launches spinoff Don't Drive Here". Canada.com. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ "Facebook posting". 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. 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[]
- 2010s Canadian reality television series
- Discovery Channel original programming
- Television series by Proper Television
- 2013 Canadian television series debuts
- 2015 Canadian television series endings