Never Ever Do This at Home explained

Genre:Documentary, Reality, Comedy
Starring:Teddy Wilson,
Norm Sousa
Country:Canada
Language:English
Num Seasons:2
Num Episodes:21
Location:Southwestern Ontario
Runtime:30 minutes
Network:Discovery Channel, Property TV

Never Ever Do This at Home is a comedy-reality TV show that airs on Discovery Channel (Canada). Based on Ikke gjør dette hjemme, the show features hosts Teddy Wilson and Norm Sousa, who ignore the warning labels on a variety of household items, with varying results. The show made its debut on May 6, 2013[1] with two back-to-back episodes. The show has been bought by Spike TV to air in the United States.[2] Reruns also air on MTV in Canada.

The hosts

Teddy Wilson

Teddy Wilson is best known as the host of InnerSPACE, a science-fiction news show airing on Space.

He began his career in the entertainment industry as a child actor in You Can't Do That on Television. He went on to earn an Honours B.A. in political science and worked as a political advisor in the Ontario legislature. He left politics to work at MTV in 2005, and in 2008 was recruited by Space to host InnerSPACE. His first assignment was interviewing George Lucas.[3]

Norm Sousa

Norm Sousa is a comedian and actor from Toronto currently living in New York City.

He started his entertainment career at where, after graduation, he founded a comedy troupe called punchDRYSDALE which performed multiple times at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. He later joined the comedy ensemble The Sketchersons, where he became the head writer and producer of Sunday Night Live.[4]

Production

On September 12, 2012, following the success of Ikke gjør dette hjemme in Norway, Discovery Channel Canada secured the rights to produce the first English-language version of the show from Norwegian broadcaster NRK through independent distributor DRG. Insight TV was commissioned to produce 13 30-minute episodes for the first season. Similar shows are planned for the Danish, German, and Swedish TV markets.[5]

Filming began on an old farm house in southwestern Ontario where the hosts set up shop along with a crew of safety professionals, including firefighters. 20 cameras were installed in the farmhouse to capture every angle, including Phantom high-speed cameras that can capture 2,650 frames per second. The show focuses on the physics and chemistry behind the disasters caused by the hosts' experiments.[6] [7]

Season 2 was filmed in the Bradford, Ontario area.

Critical response

Before the show's first episode aired, Bill Harris, of Canoe.ca, said the show appeals to "the defiant [...] kid [...] within all of us" and said the show works best when it focuses on potential disasters viewers might have wondered about, and said he didn't relate to experiments such as the walk-in microwave oven, since that's not what a normal person might think of.[8]

Episodes

Season 1 (2013)

14 episodes aired in the first season, including a retrospective and behind-the-scenes special at the end of the season. Here are the highlights of the episodes.[9]

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Season 2 (2014)

Season 2 of Never Ever Do This At Home aired on May 12, 2014.

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See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Stinson. Scott. Blowing stuff up has never been so educational as on this Discovery series. 8 May 2013. National Post. May 6, 2013.
  2. Web site: Vlessing. Etan. MIPTV: Spike TV Buys Canadian Adaptation of Norwegian Format (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter. May 8, 2013. May 8, 2013.
  3. Web site: Cast Bio -- Teddy Wilson. Space. May 8, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130414001840/http://www.space.ca/InnerSPACE/Cast-Bios/Teddy-Wilson.aspx. April 14, 2013. dead.
  4. Web site: Sousa. Norm. Bio -- Norm Sousa. Norm Sousa's personal blog. May 8, 2013.
  5. Web site: Never Ever Do This At Home - Format (Press). drg.tv. 7 October 2016.
  6. Web site: Deacon. Eleni. Never Ever Do This At Home premieres tonight on Discovery. Space. May 6, 2013. May 7, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150620023323/http://www.space.ca/article/Never-Ever-Do-This-at-Home-premieres-tonight. June 20, 2015.
  7. Web site: Never Ever Do This At Home. Bell Media. May 7, 2013.
  8. Web site: Harris. Bill. Discovery series Never Ever Do This At Home appeals to the defiant kid in all of us. Canoe.ca. May 1, 2013. May 8, 2013. https://archive.today/20130616001605/http://blogs.canoe.ca/rabbitears/television/new-discovery-series-never-ever-do-this-at-home-appeals-to-the-defiant-kid-in-all-of-us/. June 16, 2013. usurped.
  9. Web site: Never Ever Episodes. Discovery Canada. May 8, 2013.