Don't Drive Here Explained

Runtime:60 minutes (including commercials)
Creator:Andrew Younghusband
Developer:Proper Television
Producer:Lesia Capone
Executive Producer:Guy O'Sullivan
Presenter:Andrew Younghusband
Network:Discovery Channel Canada
Num Seasons:2
Num Episodes:12
Related:"Worst Driver" franchise

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.

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 SĂŁo 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]

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  1. Web site: Canada's Worst Driver launches spinoff Don't Drive Here. 11 February 2014. Canada.com.
  2. Web site: Facebook posting. 2015-12-18. Facebook.
  3. Web site: Don't Drive Here. 11 February 2014. Discovery Channel. https://web.archive.org/web/20140222210111/http://www.discovery.ca/Article.aspx?aid=52315. 22 February 2014. dead.
  4. Web site: The Canadian Screen Awards Nominations was today and here is the full list of television nominees.... Thunderbird. 28 March 2014. 2 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170102171528/http://thunderbird.tv/2014/01/13/the-canadian-screen-awards-nominations-was-today-and-here-is-the-full-list-of-television-nominees/. dead.
  5. News: Fear fans can sink their teeth into two kinds of TV terror. Winnipeg Free Press. Oswald, Brad. 15 June 2013.