Esquire's Car of the Year: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Television is strange. I'm told it is strange whether or not you are used to it, that it never gets normal. When David Granger and the Esquire Network asked if I'd be part of Esquire's Car of the Year, a five-part miniseries airing this fall, I said yes. Who says no to something like that? I called a friend who'd been on TV before. Be yourself, he said. No problem, I thought. When am I not myself? Turns out it's harder than it looks.

The whole thing reminded me of the first time I rode a dirt bike in deep sand—I'd ridden on the street for years, but with dirt everything is opposite. Every rule is counterintuitive, and the only way to learn them is through painful trial and error (read: watching yourself onscreen). The only way forward is to ignore what you know. That's TV, plus craft services.

Series details

• Title: Esquire's Car of the Year
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2015-10-24
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-10-24
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Esquire Network
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 6386

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-10-24; final listed air date 2015-10-24; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from Esquire's Car of the Year on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.