Canada's Worst Handyman

Canada's Worst Handyman
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Developed byProper Television
Written byAndrew Younghusband
Presented byAndrew Younghusband
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes45
Production
Executive producerGuy O'Sullivan
Running time60 minutes (including commercials)
Original release
NetworkDiscovery Channel Canada
ReleaseMarch 13, 2006 (2006-03-13) –
June 13, 2011 (2011-06-13)
Related
Canada's Worst Driver
Blood, Sweat & Tools
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Canada's Worst Handyman is a Canadian television series that aired on Discovery Channel Canada from March 13, 2006 to June 13, 2011. 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. Throughout the show's five years on air, Younghusband remained in his role of being the only host of Canada's Worst Handyman and, like with Canada's Worst Driver, has appeared in every season. 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 aired in 2015 under the title Blood, Sweat & Tools, featuring couples instead of individual handymen.[3]

  1. ^ "Facebook". Facebook.com. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  2. ^ "Bad Handyman Casting". www.badhandyman.ca. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Bell Media, "Not-So-Handy Duos Give it Their All in New Competition Series BLOOD, SWEAT & TOOLS, Beginning April 13 on Discovery", March 25, 2015