Canada's Worst Handyman | |
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Developed by | Proper Television |
Written by | Andrew Younghusband |
Presented by | Andrew Younghusband |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 45 |
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Executive producer | Guy O'Sullivan |
Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
Original release | |
Network | Discovery Channel Canada |
Release | March 13, 2006 June 13, 2011 | –
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]