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Britain's Worst Driver was a British television series created and hosted by ex-Top Gear host Quentin Willson made by Mentorn airing between 2002 and 2005 on Five. Each series, eight drivers were nominated by friends and family as being 'Britain's Worst Driver' and on the show had the opportunity to "earn back" their driving licences by performing various driving challenges, judged by a panel of industry experts including a motor accident investigator, a behavioural psychologist, a chief executive of a motor insurance group, and presenter and motoring journalist Vicki Butler-Henderson. The driver who performed the worst over the course of the series was awarded Britain's Worst Driver.
Britain's Worst Driver | |
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Also known as | Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver (2003-05) |
Genre | Reality |
Created by | Quentin Willson Duncan McAlpine |
Presented by | Quentin Willson Jenni Falconer (2005) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 18 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Production company | Mentorn |
Original release | |
Network | Five |
Release | 18 October 2002 25 September 2005 | –
Related | |
Worst Driver |
In each episode, the drivers received extra tuition and were then set driving related challenges to show what they had learnt and to gauge their improvement. The driver that the panel of judges deemed to have shown the most improvement was allowed to go home and was rewarded with a brand new car and a course of additional driving lessons.
Comedian Tim Key, nicknamed 'Timid Tim' for his cautious and slow approach to driving on the roads. He won the first series, however sold the car that he had won after a week.[1]
Transmissions
editRegular series
editSeries | Start date | End date | Episodes |
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1 | 18 October 2002 | 29 November 2002 | 7 |
2 | 9 September 2003 | 21 October 2003 | 7 |
Celebrity series
editSeries | Start date | End date | Episodes |
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1 | 4 November 2003 | 2 December 2003 | 5 |
2 | 11 September 2005 | 25 September 2005 | 7 |
Specials
editDate | Entitle |
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28 October 2003 | Highlights |
24 December 2003 | The Best of... |
References
edit- ^ "Chortle Weekly Trivia File". Chortle.
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