Don’t Drive tours India
Rules? Ain’t no rules here. Even if you’ve never seen even a minute of Canada’s Worst Driver in the neardecade the popular reality show has been on the air, you’ll appreciate the hairpin turns and curves of host Andrew Younghusband’s followup show, Don’t Drive Here, a kind of An Idiot Abroad for people who travel to India, say, and decide to tour the country by road.
Don’t Drive Here is a deliberately hair-raising tour of some of the world’s most dangerous cities to drive in. And you won’t have to be cut off in traffic on your morning commute to feel Younghusband’s pain when he says, moments into Monday’s opener, “We’re in (New Delhi), a city where five people die every single day because of traffic accidents.”
The die is cast. New Delhi is reportedly the city with the world’s highest rate of traffic accidents where cars of all stripes and sizes vie for space with scooters, tuk-tuks, rickshaws, fuel tankers and, just to keep things interesting, cows, chickens, camels and jaywalkers determined to risk life and limb to get to wherever it is they need to go.
New Delhi has the same number of cars as Los Angeles, Younghusband notes, but eight times the number of fatalities. (Discovery Channel — 8 p.m.)
World’s Weirdest Restaurants follows raconteur and cookbook writer Bob Blumer around the world in search of unique dining experiences. (Food Network — 7 p.m.)
The Voice is down to its final performance show of the season and — surprise! — The Swon Brothers are still there. It’s getting to the point where the duo could actually win. (NBC, CTV — 9 p.m.)
Linda Cardellini, fresh off her tourde-force turn in this season’s Mad Men, appears on The Daily Show with summer fill-in John Oliver, subbing for Jon Stewart, who’s directing a film. (CTV — 12:05 a.m.)