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  • 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z on BBC Three
  • 1h
  • 6h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Barely Legal Drivers follows inexperienced teen drivers to see what they’re really like behind the wheel. Each week two novices will be let loose on the road in their family car. They believe they’re filming a slice of modern teenage life. In fact, it’s all about their driving. They don’t know their parents will be watching their every manoeuvre as the cars are fitted with state-of-art cameras and a telemetry recorder to secretly track all their journeys. Each teen will go on three road trips geared towards testing every aspect of their driving. At the end of it all, helped by a former traffic cop, the parents will have a decision to make. If they don’t like the way the teens operate behind the wheel both of them could end up with advanced driving lessons. But if they think their kids’ driving is up to scratch their teen will get a car that they can call their very own.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2013-03-17T21:00:00Z

1x01 Tommy and Chantelle

Series Premiere

1x01 Tommy and Chantelle

  • 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z1h

First up are two very different characters. Tommy thinks he could give Lewis Hamilton a run for his money, while Chantelle is a prime candidate for anger management.

Tommy’s behaviour both in and out of the car is a cause for concern for his parents as he inflates condoms, snogs his way round clubs and even gets breathalysed. Seeing him up close makes dad Ajay want to become a better father.

For Chantelle it’s a heady mix of screaming and near misses as she combines her road rage with an addiction for using her phone while driving. It’s uncomfortable viewing for her dad, Mike.

2013-04-02T20:00:00Z

1x02 Bradley and Kayla

1x02 Bradley and Kayla

  • 2013-04-02T20:00:00Z1h

Bradley and Kayla are teenagers who like to party. Jack the lad Bradley dreams of being a premier league footballer while Kayla is the apple of her driving instructor dad’s eye.

With bickering, brawls and one of them even being over the legal driving limit the next morning after a heavy night, it’s questionable whether either of the two barely legal drivers deserve their own car or should they go back to driving school?

2013-04-16T20:00:00Z

1x03 Amy and James

1x03 Amy and James

  • 2013-04-16T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode, we meet two teens who love life: nineteen-year-old glamour girl Amy, who hopes to be Yorkshire's answer to Katie Price, and James, an identical twin from Middlesbrough.

Student Amy may be confident enough to strip down to her undies for a photo shoot but when it comes to driving, it's a different matter. What with going through red lights, pulling out in front of a bus and stopping dead on a motorway slip road, it isn't just Amy who is a nervous wreck; it's her mum too.

Unemployed James has spent the last year applying for over a hundred jobs, and the constant rejection has knocked his confidence. But behind the wheel he is full of bravado, so much so he will happily drive with almost zero visibility.

With in-car peer-group pressure, death-defying manoeuvres and life-saving reactions, do these two barely legal drivers deserve their own car or should they go back driving school?

2013-04-23T20:00:00Z

1x04 Caz and Lloyd

1x04 Caz and Lloyd

  • 2013-04-23T20:00:00Z1h

Nineteen-year-old Caz, an Essex girl who is 'not backwards in coming forwards', and Lloyd, a 19-year-old drama student living in Cardiff are two very different teens.

Confident Caz is convinced she has got this driving lark sussed, despite only passing her test a year ago, but is she really as confident in practice as she proclaims to be?

Lloyd loves playing the joker but, after two crashes a few years ago, and a driving tragedy close to home, is he likely to play the joker in the car?

With bad weather, bumps and breathalysers, the big questions are: do these two barely legal drivers deserve their very own car, or will they be heading back to driving school?

2013-04-30T20:00:00Z

1x05 Dean and Lauri

1x05 Dean and Lauri

  • 2013-04-30T20:00:00Z1h

Twenty-year-old student and party girl Lauri from Kingston-upon-Thames has a brilliant relationship with her parents, but hasn't driven a car since she wrote her eighteenth birthday present off, two years ago.

Eighteen-year-old supermarket worker Dean from Polegate near Eastbourne has a fractious relationship with his dad, but all he wants is for his dad to be proud of him. However, he doesn't do himself any favours by smoking in the car, speeding and driving dangerously in terrible weather.

With dodgy driving, disappointed parents and dead batteries, do these two barely legal drivers deserve their own car or should they get ready to head back to driving school?

Season Finale

2013-05-07T20:00:00Z

1x06 Matthew and Georgina

Season Finale

1x06 Matthew and Georgina

  • 2013-05-07T20:00:00Z1h

Matthew is a gay drama student from Wales. Having suffered homophobic abuse on public transport, he grabs his opportunity to drive his mum's car with both hands - unfortunately they are not always on the wheel. With loads of diva-like screaming, running red lights and an argument with a concrete pillar, Matthew's mum is less than impressed.

18-year-old party girl Georgina from Cambridgeshire thinks nothing of going on holiday with seven boys - minus her boyfriend. But when it comes to city centre driving, she falls apart at the seams and is not helped by passengers who do their best to distract her. Her parents are quite rightly worried.

With much shouting, screaming and slamming of breaks throughout, do these two barely legal drivers deserve their own own car or should they be heading back to driving school?

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