Going Nowhere Slowly

Going Nowhere Slowly is a South African cult travel-orientated television series directed by David Moore. It follows a number of off beat travellers as they cruise across Southern Africa, in an old American muscle car. Along the way, the characters share their thoughts and experiences, many times ending up in sticky situations, such as running out of gas, falling out of moving cars and with the occasional injury they move through the least travelled spots to find the unique and crazy people who bring the magic to those destinations. The show is completely unscripted. They travelled a total of 150 000 km in 176 episodes through the following countries, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania and Madagascar This show managed to launch some of the characters careers as comedians, the well remembered characters include Vivienne Vermaak, Stuart Taylor, Marc Lottering, Ian Roberts and Fiona Coyne It has aired on SABC3 since 2005, when the first 13-episode season was shown. It was renewed by the SABC for an additional 153 Episodes over 6 more Seasons, the Series ended in 2009 after airing 176 episodes in 7 Seasons . In the United States, it is syndicated for broadcast on The Africa Channel. A book for the second season, Red Car Diaries, was published in 2006. This hit show syndicated across the planet, has become the most successful travel documentary out of Africa.