Ready, Set, Go!

Summary For season 11, the focus for the panel of experts with this year's crop of nine nominated as Canada's Worst Driver are the hazards of speeding, especially in combination with distractions behind the wheel and/or ineptitude in driving skills. The speed demons of the nominees are: Tina Cook, a belligerent driver who is unrepentant about her drinking and driving, believing everyone does it; Cameron Donavin, a distracted driver as he can't put his cell phone away when he's driving despite knowing that whatever he is doing on his phone is never an emergency; Jillian Matthews, a nervous driver who speeds if only to get off the road as quickly as possible in her nervousness; Alex Morrison, an extremely aggressive driver who will play chicken with slow moving vehicles and who will often drive with his knees while he does something else with his hands; Jordan Paddon, who is more concerned about personal grooming and personal hygiene tasks behind the wheel than he is about paying attention to what's happening on the road; and Polly Sergeant, who drives at widely variable speeds as she gets distracted with other things around her. The seventh nominee, Renee Boily has the opposite problem in that she drives so slowly as she is so nervous when there is any other traffic around, especially on the highway, that she will turn on her hazard lights to let cars pass, while she will often pull over the side of the road to deal with her nervous emotions. Nominated by his brother Shmuel Hoffman, the eighth nominee is Sholom Hoffman. The ninth and final nominee is Shmuel, who was in turn nominated by Sholom. The brothers are relatively new drivers whose inexperience shows. The nominees' first task is to do the approximate one hour drive on the predetermined route with their nominator in the back seat from - appropriate to this year's theme - Cayuga Dragway to the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre at Dunnville Airport, with Sholom and Shmuel taking turns on their joint drive. At the Centre, the nominees are then subjected to an assessment drive, consisting of a reversing section which includes both straightaways and slight curves, a tight maneuvering section through a concrete-barriered course, and a slalom which must be driven at 60kph. The nine then meet the expert panel for the first time, the panel who provide their initial thoughts.

S11.E1 ∙ Ready, Set, Go!

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Andrew Younghusband Cam Woolley Philippe Létourneau Shyamala Kiru

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 25, 2015

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

Summary For season 11, the focus for the panel of experts with this year's crop of nine nominated as Canada's Worst Driver are the hazards of speeding, especially in combination with distractions behind the wheel and/or ineptitude in driving skills. The speed demons of the nominees are: Tina Cook, a belligerent driver who is unrepentant about her drinking and driving, believing everyone does it; Cameron Donavin, a distracted driver as he can't put his cell phone away when he's driving despite knowing that whatever he is doing on his phone is never an emergency; Jillian Matthews, a nervous driver who speeds if only to get off the road as quickly as possible in her nervousness; Alex Morrison, an extremely aggressive driver who will play chicken with slow moving vehicles and who will often drive with his knees while he does something else with his hands; Jordan Paddon, who is more concerned about personal grooming and personal hygiene tasks behind the wheel than he is about paying attention to what's happening on the road; and Polly Sergeant, who drives at widely variable speeds as she gets distracted with other things around her. The seventh nominee, Renee Boily has the opposite problem in that she drives so slowly as she is so nervous when there is any other traffic around, especially on the highway, that she will turn on her hazard lights to let cars pass, while she will often pull over the side of the road to deal with her nervous emotions. Nominated by his brother Shmuel Hoffman, the eighth nominee is Sholom Hoffman. The ninth and final nominee is Shmuel, who was in turn nominated by Sholom. The brothers are relatively new drivers whose inexperience shows. The nominees' first task is to do the approximate one hour drive on the predetermined route with their nominator in the back seat from - appropriate to this year's theme - Cayuga Dragway to the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre at Dunnville Airport, with Sholom and Shmuel taking turns on their joint drive. At the Centre, the nominees are then subjected to an assessment drive, consisting of a reversing section which includes both straightaways and slight curves, a tight maneuvering section through a concrete-barriered course, and a slalom which must be driven at 60kph. The nine then meet the expert panel for the first time, the panel who provide their initial thoughts.

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 25, 2015

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

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Sommer mit Hausfreund

Sommer mit Hausfreund

Hamburg cello teacher Elisa Gehlen has been looking forward to a luxurious Caribbean vacation with her husband Ludwig for weeks. The two want to celebrate their upcoming silver wedding under the tropical sun. But then the archaeologist Ludwig literally canceled the trip at the last minute because of an important research assignment. Although Elisa has been used to such changes of plan for a long time, this time she wants to take the consequences: Instead of carrying Ludwig's files to the office as usual, she decides to pursue her long-neglected musical career more intensively from now on. But on the same day, Elisa experienced another surprise: without telling her in advance, Ludwig invited his Italian colleague Carlo Dalcura to live with him temporarily. The two men compete in the prestigious archaeological project exploring the battle between Romans and Germans in the Teutoburg Forest. At first, Elisa is anything but happy about the unexpected house guest. Very quickly, however, she takes a liking to the charming nature of the handsome Italian, who courts her and is interested in her music in a way that her husband has not been for years. And although the jealous Ludwig is aware of the danger, the work is still more important to him. When he again transfers his wife to a planned "reconciliation" concert visit, he finally paves the way for the budding love between Elisa and Carlo. The two begin a romantic affair, and in her love frenzy Elisa even allows herself to be persuaded to leave her husband and their adult son Jakob in order to move to Florence with Carlo. Ludwig's financier, Lydia Pöniken, who is as attractive as she is influential, uses the opportunity to ensnare the renowned archaeologist. Elisa, who finds out in the unfamiliar surroundings that habit means not only boredom but also familiarity, returns home remorsefully. When she searches for Ludwig at his excavation site in vain and accidentally makes a crucial find, events take a turn for the worse. But this time Ludwig - when asked what is more important to him: job or wife - seems to have made the right decision.

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