Wanna Be On TV? New Documentary Needs Bad Drivers

Jo Clinton-Davis, ITV’s new Controller of Popular Factual has commissioned her first programme since joining Alison Sharman’s team at the Network last month. Timed to coincide with the Department of Transport’s official review of the driving test later this year, Last Chance Driving School puts Britain’s driving test under scrutiny in this factual entertainment event which will be produced by Steadfast Television.

Ten of Britain’s worst and most dangerous drivers, who have either failed to pass their tests, or who have been banned from driving, spend ten days in the residential Last Chance Driving School under the uncompromising regime of three of the country’s toughest driving instructors. They will be rigorously put through their paces to see if they can not only pass the basic driving test, but also pass a new tough version which road safety experts believe should be introduced in the UK.

The show is underpinned by an online and off air campaign to make Britain’s roads safer and is a blueprint for the test road safety campaigners want to see introduced to Britain.

All the emotional dramas involving the drivers, their instructors, and the examiners, will be recorded by a host of cameras hidden throughout the driving school and inside the cars. It will include night driving, dealing with road rage, motorway madness and tiredness

The show was devised by Steadfast Television’s Chief Executive, Charles Thompson, who will executive produce the show with Steve Carsey.

For more information, visit ITV.com.