Canada's Worst Handyman
| Canada's Worst Handyman | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Proper Television |
| Written by | Andrew Younghusband |
| Presented by | Andrew Younghusband |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 45 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Guy O'Sullivan |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Discovery Channel Canada |
| Original release | March 13, 2006 – June 13, 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Canada's Worst Driver Blood, Sweat & Tools |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Canada's Worst Handyman is a Canadian television series broadcast on Discovery Channel. The show is produced by Proper Television, and shares its production with Canada's Worst Driver, including executive producer Guy O'Sullivan and host Andrew Younghusband. The series is based on a one-off 2004 episode of the Britain's Worst series, titled Britain's Worst DIYer. Like sister series Canada's Worst Driver, there have been similar adaptations in other English-speaking countries, in the US in 2011, with America's 10 Worst DIYers, in Britain with a Britain's Worst 2005 spin-off series, Britain's Worst DIYer. Six seasons of the show have been completed.
On January 10, 2013, the series' Facebook page posted a statement that the show is "on hiatus with an unknown date for relaunch." In June 2014, Discovery Channel Canada started canvassing for couples at www.badhandyman.ca. The new version of the show airs in Spring 2015, under the title Blood, Sweat & Tools, featuring couples instead of individual handymen.
In each season, five contestants and their nominators arrive at the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre, where they partake in a three-week (16 filming days over 18 days) renovation project there, consisting of challenges that are designed to improve the contestants' handyman skills. Each contestant and nominator pair are assigned colour-coded workplaces, and otherwise work separately on their respective projects. Prior to entering the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre, each contestant performs a challenge in their own home, to be aired in the first episode; this is colloquially referred to as the "home challenge".
Since the second season, each challenge is judged on a pass/fail system, based on whether challenges are completed within the allotted time limit (typically two to three times the time needed for a professional to perform the challenge). Nominators are expected to assist their nominees (though, as of season 5, they are unable to directly offer suggestions as to the proper course of actions, so as to not take charge of the challenge themselves), and contestants may freely help each other upon the completion of their challenges. Contestants may also revisit a previous challenge on their own time if they had failed the challenge or was otherwise incomplete.
Each episode also contains a group challenge, where the five contestants, typically without their nominators, must perform a challenge together. Starting with the second group challenge, one contestant is deemed the foreman and is given the task of leading the other four. The foreman concept was instituted starting with the second group challenge in the first season as a reaction to how bad the contestants had worked together for the first group challenge, and it has stayed with the series since.
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