EXCLUSIVE: Canadian sitcom 0-60 Driving School has been renewed for a second test drive.
Bell Fibe’s TV1, the Bell-owned community network, quickly shifted gears to order Season 2 after the first season launched on May 22.
The series stars Steve Lawrence, as a single father and head of the family Steve, who is seeking to offload his driving school business to his equally uninterested and under-qualified children, Baby Steve (Devon Taylor) and Lauren (Alexandra MacLean). Paul Simmons, Muleta Williams and Nathan Simmons also star.
Production on Season 2 will begin in the fall in Nova Scotia.
Loosely based on Lawrence’s life, the show has a writer’s room comprising Lawrence, MacLean and producer-director Jonathan Torrens (Mr. D). Jenna MacMillan (Who’s Your Father?) is also a producer. Torrens’ Torrential Pictures co-produces with MacMillan’s Club Red Productions. It is billed as Atlantic Canada’s first-ever Black family sitcom.
“Audiences responded so positively to the first season of 0-60 Driving Academy that we are excited to see what is next for Steve and the family,” said Paul Gardner, Senior Producer at Fibe TV1.
“Bringing Steve and the family into people’s homes with Fibe TV1 has been a delight,” said Torrens. “Now that everyone knows our cast of characters, we can start in second gear.”
Torrens recently launched Torrential Pictures as a retooling of his Canadian Content Studios imprint. He’s best known as an actor in early 2000s Canadian sitcom Trailer Park Boys, and has had roles in Letterkenny, Mr D and Call Me Fitz among others. He previously produced firefighter sitcom Vollies for Fibe TV1 and co-produced TV1’s Roll With It, about a wheelchair user with a business dream, with MacMillan in 2023 and 2024.
“The cast and crew of 0-60 is both talented and eager,” added MacMillan. “I am thrilled to bring us all together again to create comedy gold while highlighting a very special community in Nova Scotia.”
MacMillan directed her first feature film, The Snake, through Club Red earlier this year. Her company is based on Prince Edward Island.
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