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Another group of automotive fans received’t get an opportunity to satisfy their childhood goals. Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge has been cancelled, so there received’t be a second season of the NBC present. The first season’s 10 episodes completed airing in August.
A contest collection, the Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge TV present is hosted by automotive aficionado Rutledge Wood and impressed by Mattel’s Hot Wheels toy automotive assortment. In every episode, two automotive superfans enter the Chrome Zone, the place they are going to face off, remodeling an extraordinary car into the life-sized Hot Wheels of their goals, impressed by private tales and popular culture touchstones. The two superfans, working alongside a workforce of automotive magicians referred to as “The Car Pool,” create their designs in high-tech, decked-out garages. The winner of every episode takes dwelling $25,000 and the possibility to get into the season finale competitors. In the finale, three fortunate finalists remodel one other automotive in hopes of profitable a legendary prize — a further $50,000 and the dignity of getting their design made into an official Hot Wheels die-cast automotive.
Airing on Monday nights, the first season of Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge averaged a 0.26 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and 1.70 million viewers within the stay+identical day rankings (together with DVR playback by way of 3:00 AM). The present was NBC’s lowest-rated series in viewership final summer time.
What do you think? Have you watched the Hot Wheels TV collection on NBC? Are you upset the competitors collection was cancelled as a substitute of renewed for a second season?
