|
''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." 〔Facebook: (The series is... ) Canada's Worst Handyman (accessdate January 2013)〕 In June 2014, Discovery Channel Canada started canvassing for couples at www.badhandyman.ca.〔http://www.badhandyman.ca (accessdate June 2014)〕 The new version of the show airs in Spring 2015, under the title Blood, Sweat & Tools, featuring couples instead of individual handymen.〔 Bell Media, ("Not-So-Handy Duos Give it Their All in New Competition Series BLOOD, SWEAT & TOOLS, Beginning April 13 on Discovery" ), 25 March 2015 〕 == Format == 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. 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 centred 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canada's Worst Handyman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|