Canada's Worst Handyman

In each season, typically five contestants and their nominators arrive at the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre, where they partake in a two-to-three-week (16 filming days over 18 days) renovation project there, consisting of challenges that are designed to improve the contestants' handyman skills in an effort to not be named Canada's Worst Handyman. 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 season one, 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 five, 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 in response to how badly the contestants worked together for the first Group Challenge (in which they had to shingle the toolshed) and it has stayed with the series since. At the end of each episode, two experts (there were three in season one) inspect the contestants' worksites and, after each contestant is interviewed, deliberate with Andrew on which contestant improved the most and which contestant was 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 rewarded with the privilege of being foreman of the next episode's Group Challenge, while the contestant named the worst (who may also be the most improved contestant, as was the case with Terry Cress in season two, Johnnie Bachusky in season four and Dan Lafleur in season six; both Terry and Johnnie were ultimately named the worst in their respective seasons) is asked to "hang their head in shame," nail their portrait to a "wall of shame" and be subjected 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 (season four; Angie Budgell and Brian Pugh were named joint-worst in that season's third episode; Brian P. would become the first (and, as of 2011, only) nominee in any Worst Handyman series to ever be expelled from rehab for making a threatening statement to Brian Macdonald (known as Brian M. until the sixth episode, in which he was credited as simply "Brian") following the fourth episode's Group Challenge). On rare occasions, nominators may also be awarded the most improved or the worst for helping or hindering their nominees, respectively, though the former has occurred twice (seasons one and two; both David Hawe and Harvey Houle were named as such in the fourth episode of their respective seasons, although Harvey had to leave the latter series due to persistent back pain, but recovered enough to return for the final episode to deliver the second of Terry's two packages to the Lange family in Caledon, Ontario) and the latter only once (season five; Matt Hanley was named the worst in that season's fifth episode). On one occasion, the contestant and their nominator were collectively the most improved and worst (season two; Jaime García and Sheilla Stengler were named joint-most improved in that season's sixth episode, while Candace Landmark and her husband, Justin, were named joint-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, similar to that of ''Canada's Worst Driver.'' During the challenge, the experts observe each contestant from the show's production facilities or, in later seasons, the "expert 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 centered 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; furthermore, the list must be completed in the order stated therein, typically corresponding to the order in which the challenges were originally presented. At the end of the series, the contestant with the worst finished product, as determined by Andrew and the experts, is named Canada's Worst Handyman and awarded a trophy. ==Experts==