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Canada's Worst Handyman was a Canadian television series on Discovery Channel, based on a one-off 2004 episode of Britain's Worst DIYer. The show was produced by Proper Television, whose president, Guy O'Sullivan, was the director of the original Britain's Worst Driver series until its 2003 cancellation and shared its production with Canada's Worst Driver, including executive producer and host Andrew Younghusband. Like sister series Canada's Worst Driver, there have been similar adaptations in other English-speaking countries, in the United States in 2011, with America's 10 Worst DIYers and 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."[1] In June 2014, Discovery Channel Canada started canvassing for couples at www.badhandyman.ca.[2] The new version of the show airs in 2015 under the title Blood, Sweat & Tools, featuring couples instead of individual handymen.[3]
In this season, the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre is located at the Delta Upsilon fraternity house in London, Ontario. As with the past season, contestants must purchase the supplies they need, this time to renovate individual rooms in the frat house. Group challenges this season center on the renovation of a central kitchen.
As explained by Andrew, no one is given the titles of most improved or worst, and Brian P becomes the first contestant ever removed from any "Worst Handyman" series. The incident brought an unusually serious sense of tense drama to an otherwise humorous, lighthearted show featuring clumsy and troubled handymen as they struggle to improve themselves. Brian P's exit also made him statistically the worst handyman in the show's history, having failed every single challenge during the four episodes he participated in (every other candidate on the show passed at least one challenge during the first four episodes of any given season).
Canada's Worst Handyman 1 was the first-ever season of the Canadian reality TV show "Canada's Worst Handyman," which aired on the Discovery Channel, based on the UK Channel 4 Television Corporation's "Britain's Worst Driver." The show is considered to be a sister show of "Canada's Worst Driver" (itself an adaptation of "Britain's Worst Driver"), as "Canada's Worst Handyman" shares much of its production crew with "Canada's Worst Driver." As with subsequent years, five people, nominated by their family or friends, enter the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre to improve their handyman skills, in an effort to not be named Canada's Worst Handyman. This year, the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre is located in a public housing complex building in the Regent Park neighborhood of Toronto that has since been demolished to make way for a supermarket.
As was obvious to nearly everyone, the worst is either Deen or Simon. Deen appears to be confident of his chances in avoiding being Canada's Worst Handyman (though Andrew warns him of being overconfident), as he had declared his room finished 30 minutes before the others, while leaving serious mistakes unaddressed. Simon admits to a lack of focus, and admits to his shortfalls. The experts' deliberation is not shown, but in the end, Deen, who had not been named the worst in any particular episode, is ultimately named Canada's Worst Handyman, after being frequently injured due to doing things in an unsafe manner throughout rehab. As he hoists the wolf-shaped Canada's Worst Handyman trophy, everyone else gives him one final wolf howl in his honour.
The series is the successor of "Canada's Worst Handyman" and has a broadly similar format, but with an emphasis on rewarding competent handiwork rather than finding the nation's worst handyman. The couples are divided into teams, who are each tasked with undertaking a number of handiwork-related challenges, with the overall goal of improving their skills and confidence. At the end of each episode, the most improved couple is awarded a prize (unlike "Canada's Worst Handyman," no one is named the worst). At the end of the series, a $50,000 cash prize is given to the most improved couple as voted on by the public.Before naming the most improved team, the experts drop a bombshell; prior to the final episode, two teams will be eliminated. They do not tell the teams how or when this will occur, but hint that as of now, they consider the Blue Team to be the worst of the five due to leaving jobs unfinished and having shown no improvement in their ability to work together. The Red Team are also privately concerned that any repeat of their careless safety violations could result in them being thrown off the show if they commit a bad enough mistake.
Unlike "Canada's Worst Driver," none of the contestants are eliminated; instead, at the end of each episode, one will be named the most improved, while another will be named the worst. Also, the time frame for "Canada's Worst Handyman" is much shorter, lasting only two weeks, as opposed to the eight weeks for "Canada's Worst Driver," with each episode being chronicled one or two days, as opposed to a week for "Canada's Worst Driver." On the sixth episode, the five contestants will work together to refurbish an apartment in ten hours, with the one with the worst individual performance being named Canada's worst handyman. Like "Canada's Worst Driver," the contestants "are" accompanied by their nominators, who are allowed to assist them in their various tasks. Each episode (except the finale) also features a "group challenge," which is done by the five contestants as a group. Except for the first group challenge, each of the group challenges has a contestant named as the project's foreman and the foreman designation is given to the most improved contestant for the previous week; this particular twist was added when the judges saw how badly they performed at the first group challenge without a designated leader. The contestant named the worst in each show is obligated to "hang their head in shame" and nail a picture of themselves along a "wall of shame" and be personally tutored by Younghusband on an aspect leading to their nomination.The five contestants for the first season are as follows:
With the final exam finished, Greg and Robin believe that everyone is still in the running for Canada's Worst Handyman: Darryl for the lack of planning skills, Jeannie for doing too little overall, Barry for not following directions, Keith for taking too many breaks, and Merle because he is doing things too quickly. When the final exam is evaluated, only one (Merle's bathroom sink installation) of the contestants' eight completed works are given a passing grade. The final verdict: although Barry's two floors were both awful, he is not Canada's Worst Handyman, as he has admitted to learning by failure. Jeannie is also free to go because, although she had injured herself, she quickly got right back into the game. Darryl's poor carpentry skills meant that he could still be Canada's Worst Handyman, while Keith's wallpapering meant that he, too, was still in the running. As for Merle, knowing how to do things right and getting the skills needed to get off his duct tape addiction, his aversion to measuring, and, above all else, get his daughter's room finished makes him definitely not Canada's Worst Handyman. As he leaves, he makes a celebratory dance.
Darryl was named the episode's most improved handyman due to his overall attitude and first impressions, while Barry was named the worst because he did not listen to the instructions given by the experts – a fact that Barry in fact admitted to, and in retrospect, was deserving of. His extra lesson: a lesson in listening skills, where Andrew asked Barry to do one instruction until he got it right.
Canada's Worst Handyman 5 is the fifth season of "Canada's Worst Handyman", a Canadian series which attempts to improve the handyman skills of five contestants, nominated by their peers. It airs on Discovery Channel Canada.
In the recap episode, the six sheds (the five belonging to the contestants, plus one built by the experts) are delivered to the persons who had bought them sight unseen on eBay. As Canada's Worst Handyman, Terry will be present to personally present his shed to the ones who had purchased his. The six eco-sheds – one each from the contestants and one built by the experts, combined raised over $10000 for Habitat for Humanity Canada. As it is an hour-long drive from the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre to the shed's new owners, the Lange family in Caledon, Ontario, Terry and Andrew reminisce on their time at the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre on the way there.
As to who Canada's Worst Handyman is, though, Geoff argues the case for Brian, as Johnnie had markedly improved. Gail, however, thinks Johnnie is Canada's Worst Handyman. Between the two, she thinks of Brian as "a whiner" while Johnnie as "incompetent": Brian simply needs to be set straight while Johnnie needed more experience. Gail's opinion eventually wins out, and Johnnie is eventually named Canada's Worst Handyman. Johnnie had conceded this (the other nominees having thought Brian was worse), and, as the Canada's Worst Handyman trophy is given to him, he sings for his captive audience an operatic rendition of his own ineptitude.
This is a list of episodes for the first season of the Canadian television series "Canada's Worst Handyman", where the worst contestant, as determined by 25 challenges over 12 days, is given the dubious title.
In each season, typically 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, in an effort to not be named Canada's Worst Handyman. 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 season two, 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 five, 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. At the end of each episode, two judges and host Andrew Younghusband inspect the contestants' worksites and after each contestant is interviewed, deliberate on which contestant had improved the most and which contestant was named the worst. The contestant named the most improved is given the "golden hard hat" (a tool belt was given in the first two seasons) and is rewarded with the privilege of leading the next group challenge. The contestant named the worst (who may also be the most improved contestant) must "hang their head in shame" and nail their portrait to a "wall of shame" and is treated to a private "homework challenge" with Andrew. The experts reserve the right to not name the most improved handyman or to name more than one contestant as the worst, though the former has never occurred and the latter only once. On rare occasions, nominators may also be awarded the most improved or the worst for helping or hindering their nominees. On one occasion, the contestant and their nominator pair was collectively the most improved and worst. Throughout the entire process, the experts teach the contestants the various skills they may need in order to perform the challenge in classroom sessions. Starting in the third season, the experts also perform each and every challenge themselves before the contestants are given the challenges, partly as a demonstration to the contestants and partly to show that the tasks can be done correctly and within the time limit. During the challenge the experts observe each contestant from the show's production facilities, or in later seasons, the "expert's room." The experts may also intervene in the event of a gross safety violation or other serious incident or if a contestant is otherwise unprepared for the challenge (such as prerequisite challenges not being close to completion). The final episode of each season differs in many details, but is centered on a list of tasks that all contestants must finish. For the first season, this was the "handyman final exam," where contestants must work together to fully renovate an apartment in an extended group challenge. For the second season, the list was used in a group challenge where the contestants and nominators as a whole must finish every shed, with the final challenge being moving their sheds out of their workshop, while in subsequent seasons each contestant is given their own lists for the tasks that they must finish in their workspaces so as to make their rooms presentable for a series of clients; furthermore, the list must be completed in the order stated therein, typically corresponding to the order in which the challenges were originally presented. The contestant with the worst finished product, as determined by the clients, experts and Andrew, is named Canada's Worst Handyman.
As a result of Terry being named Canada's Worst Handyman, the person in the blue colors has been named Canada's Worst Handyman twice in a row.
Canada's Worst Handyman 2 was the second season of the Canadian reality TV show "Canada's Worst Handyman," which aired on the Discovery Channel. As with the past season, five contestants and their nominators enter the "Handyman Rehabilitation Centre," where a series of challenges await them. This year, the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre is located at a warehouse just east of Toronto. At the end of the series, one contestant is given the show's dubious namesake title. Unlike the previous season, when the focus was on home renovation, the focus of this season was on the increasing trend in garage and shed renovation. In each episode, contestants partake in a series of challenges, with one contestant being named the most improved handyman and another being named the worst. At the end of the series, the contestant with the worst shed overall is given the title of Canada's Worst Handyman. The five sheds, as well as one built by the experts, have been sold to the one lucky and five unlucky bidders on eBay, sight unseen. The winning bidders will also appear on the final episode of the series (which traditionally is a recap episode) as the shed is being delivered to them. The proceeds of the eco-shed sale goes to Habitat for Humanity Canada.
"Canada's Worst Handyman 5" has been a ratings success for Discovery Channel, with a record 500,000 viewers tuning in on its first airing, more than any other non-sports show on a specialty channel airing on the same day.
This left the two contestants with their sheds in pieces: Terry and Ruth. Although Greg and Jill vehemently differed on who is worse (Greg claiming that Ruth is the worst because she was slow, prone to giving up, and had the least amount of work done, while Jill puts Terry as the worst due to his lack of commitment to the instructions, including having his shed exceed the show's limits in all three dimensions, and also due to the quality of his work having dropped considerably after Harvey left), eventually they agree: over the course of the series, one took pride in their work but failed to deliver, while the other did not. The final factor was clearly visible: while Ruth was visibly disappointed in the fact that her shed had to be cut up, Terry revelled and fully enjoyed what amounted to tearing his shed down. Because of this, Terry Cress, despite the fact that he finished more challenges than Ruth and was the only contestant to be named most improved twice, is named Canada's Worst Handyman.
Canada's Worst Handyman 6 is the sixth season of "Canada's Worst Handyman", a Canadian reality television series on Discovery Channel which seeks to improve the do-it-yourselfer skills of five contestants.
Canada's Worst Handyman 4 is the fourth season of "Canada's Worst Handyman", a Discovery Channel Canada series which seeks to find the worst amateur home renovator in Canada. In this season, five contestants arrive at the "Handyman Rehabilitation Centre", located at the Pow Wow Point Lodge, a 100-year-old country retreat near Huntsville, Ontario. Along with their nominators, each contestant competes in challenges meant to improve their do-it-yourself skills, including one where all the contestants must work together as a group. At the end of each episode, host Andrew Younghusband and two judges determine the most improved and the worst contestant in each episode: the most improved being rewarded with the responsibility in leading the next episode's group challenges, while the worst being punished with a further one-on-one tutorial with Andrew. At the end of the last episode, the worst of the five contestants is given the namesake title—Canada's Worst Handyman.
Canada's Worst Driver is a Canadian television series on Discovery Channel, based on Britain's Worst Driver and is part of the Worst Driver television franchise. The series is produced by Proper Television, whose president, Guy O'Sullivan, was the director of the original Britain's Worst Driver series until its cancellation in 2003. O'Sullivan served as executive producer of Canada's Worst Driver until his death in April 2017, doubling as executive producer of sister series Canada's Worst Handyman until its cancellation in 2011. As such, Canada's Worst Driver is considered to be the production company's flagship show and, with 14 seasons aired as of December 2018, the longest-running of any Worst series to date. Unlike other Worst series around the world, where being a graduate is rewarded with a new car while the Worst Driver has their car destroyed, Canada's Worst Driver emphasizes the learning process of the contestants and the science of driving and is often more serious than any other Worst Driver version around the world, awarding no prizes aside from a trophy at the end of each season for being named the worst (with the exception of season twelve, in which, despite ultimately being named the worst, Krystal McCann wasn't even worthy of being awarded the trophy, leading to Tyler Dupont becoming the first-ever nominee to be awarded the "Final Graduate" trophy), as the point of the show is to educate rather than entertain, as other versions are mainly comedic. The series is also aired dubbed in French in Canada as Les Pires Chauffards Canadiens on the Z channel. Until 2011, when Canada's Worst Handyman was cancelled and later replaced in 2015 with Blood, Sweat & Tools, Canada's Worst Driver and Canada's Worst Handyman were the two highest-rated programs on Discovery Channel Canada.
Dez is quickly written off as not the worst by the experts. Casey briefly receives consideration due to Marnie building what is effectively the whole room, but the experts eventually agree that Casey did show enough skill not to be named the worst. Charmaine expects to be named the worst due to completing very few challenges, but she avoids being in the bottom two mostly due to the experts feeling that she was the hardest worker, even if it didn't always pay off, and that despite its flaws, her room has the best overall design. Geoff makes the case that Joe is the worst (for completing only two of the major challenges, and having terrible design in his room), while Tex is nominated by Jo (for his persistent work on the plumbing that did not pay off, as well as the questionable design and the questionable use of his time). At the final assembly to determine who will be taking home the worst trophy for Canada's Worst Handyman, Dez, Casey, and Charmaine are quickly told to step aside. The similarities between the two are obvious, but Joe is eventually named Canada's Worst Handyman as Tex is far more skilled. As his final task, he demolishes his own room, before vowing that in a year's time, he will no longer be Canada's Worst Handyman.
This is the first season in which Canadian Tire is the primary sponsor. Furthermore, unlike previous years contestants will not be given the materials or tools that they need: instead, they must purchase them from a nearby Canadian Tire store while keeping under budget. The overall theme to this season is the question of what is considered "good enough", in addition to working outdoors in the cold winter ("Canada's Worst Handyman" has been filmed in the winter since "Canada's Worst Handyman 2", but was held primarily indoors in previous years).
Original airdate: May 4, 2009
Handyman Superstar Challenge (also referred to as Superstar Handyman Challenge from the show's first season logo) is a television game show on HGTV Canada, hosted by Karen Bertelsen. The show seeks to find the best handyman in Canada, with the winner originally being awarded the opportunity to host a show on HGTV in the first season, though no prize is explicitly mentioned in subsequent years. However, the winner of "Handyman Superstar Challenge" is traditionally given a guest appearance in a Mike Holmes television series ("Holmes on Homes" or "Holmes Inspection"; "Holmes in New Orleans" did not feature any "Handyman Superstar Challenge" contestants).
Only one expert returns from "Canada's Worst Handyman 1":In this episode, the five contestants arrive at the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre. Prior to entering rehabilitation, the contestants were asked to specify the dimensions of their shed, along with a birdhouse-sized replica. At the end of the episode, Jeff, by virtue of never having done anything considered handiwork prior to rehab and nailing three boards together in this episode during the skills evaluation, is deemed the most improved handyman of this episode, while Candace, whose self-proclaimed "renovation skills" contrasted with it taking her 171 tries and five minutes to hammer in a single nail, was deemed the worst. Her extra lesson was in the use of hammers of all sorts.