Crash Course TV Show ABC!
The new ABC TV Show Crash Course premieres tonight with Orlando Jones and Dan Cortese. Crash Course on ABC is described as a “New Automotive Competition Reality Show Featuring Challenging Driving Courses Never Before Seen on Television”.
Exciting description …. but was the premiere as exciting?
ABC says the show is from the producers of Hell’s Kitchen:
This summer ABC fulfills your need for speed and laughs by putting you in the driver’s seat of “Crash Course,” a one of a kind automotive competition reality series produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions, the producers of “I Survived a Japanese Game Show” and “Hell’s Kitchen.” Hosts are Orlando Jones (”Drumline,” “Biker Boyz”) and Dan Cortese (”The Superstars” “Surviving Suburbia”). Production was shot in the automobile capitol of the world, Detroit, Michigan. The program airs Wednesday nights from 9:00-10:00 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network, starting AUGUST 26.
Imagine racing fast and furious in the ultimate driving course. Now imagine it with your significant other or mother right beside you giving you directions, all the while seeing flaming ramps up ahead. “Crash Course” will not only put the couples’ navigating skills to the test, but will test drive their relationships and patience, as teams work together and summon their greatest driving skills to make it across the finish line. The contestants will be everyday people from all walks of life who have a pre-existing relationship (father and daughter, boyfriend and girlfriend, best friends, etc).
The five teams will be reduced to a final prize of $50,000.
Each week, five teams of two will compete against each other, being eliminated one by one as they battle through several challenges before facing the final “Crash Course” at the end of each episode — the ultimate gravity and logic defying driving test — for a chance to win the ultimate prize of $50,000.
Teams will be tested individually as well as in group races by such competitions as car bowling, backward drag racing — with a boat in tow — and parallel parking the most challenging vehicle ever (as in tank, fire truck, bus). Driving on the road of life is not about the destination but the journey, and for these contestants it’ll be a hilarious, nerve wracking and emotional lap to victory. Whether it’s driving on an exploding slalom course or bursting through garage doors with no idea what lies on the other side, contestants will have to face speed bumps, falling objects and all manner of extreme driving conditions to conquer the “Crash Course.”
The executive producers are Arthur Smith and Kent Weed for A. Smith & Co. Productions (”I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” “Hell’s Kitchen”), Rick Hurvitz and Bruce Beresford-Redman for Mindcrime.
Catch it tonight on ABC.
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on August 27th, 2009 at 9:30 am
I would love to join the Crash Course show so I can prove to my husband that I’m a really good driver. I’m capipable of driving well under all kinds of conditions.
on August 27th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Whole family enjoyed this new show! Hope ABC keeps it!
on August 27th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
FINALLY a show that really makes me want to join!! My entire family (ages 7-38) enjoyed this one!!! Would love to see ABC keep this one going!
on August 27th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
This show was great. My son and I watched it. His only problem was he wanted to do it and is only 8. ABC please keep this show going. Orlando and Dan were funny as well to watch and listen to their comments!
on September 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I LOVE THIS SHOWWW I WATCH EVERY NIGHT ITS ON AND RECORD IT. MY AUNT AND I WANT TO GET ON THE SHOW. WE EVEN PICKED A TEAM NAME. MY HOLE HOUSE WAITS FOR THE SHOW TO COME ON TOO. I HOPE ONE DAY WE WILL BE ON THE SHOW AND I HOPE THIS SHOW STAYS ON ABC!!!!!!
on September 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
the whole family watched the show,it was great. i wish i could get both my sons on it as i trained one to drive a truck and one to drive a race car, the brother’s team could take it all. keep this one going!
on September 3rd, 2009 at 12:04 am
I really enjoy the show but I want the producers of the show to fix a MAJOR discrepancy. The American flags they are wearing on their uniforms in the show on their right shoulder is incorrect. The blue in the flag needs to be facing the front, currently they have it to where the blue in the flag is facing the rear. It’s flag etiquette, The blue is always going forward towards the fight. Or, for the women out there, The blue in the American Flag is always closest to your heart. PLEASE FIX THIS !! It means a lot to those of us who serve or have served to defend that flag. Thanks, Todd “USMC”
on September 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 am
We love the show. One question- Are you still looking for contestants. My husband and I would LOVE to be on the show!!!
on September 16th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
How do you get on the show
on September 24th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Hey, I have two children of the 50’s that are ready to show the younger generation how to drive. Sign us up! We may be in our 50’s but were fit and up to the challenge.
on October 9th, 2009 at 7:58 am
My husband and I would love to be on this show. We enjoy watching it very much. We both love driving and have a future goal of getting into rock crawling. I have been looking for casting calls, but havent found any yet… Sign us up!!!
on October 22nd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Love this show and would love to be a contestant!!!! Fun to watch but I’m guessing even funner to participate!!