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An Idiot Abroad

Documentary · 2010

An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1 and Science, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress.

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  • A reluctant traveler sent around the world
  • The Seven Wonders of the World
  • Trips set up by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant

An Idiot Abroad is good for you if…

  • you like Karl Pilkington grumbling in front of the Great Wall of China.
  • you like his deadpan phone calls with Gervais and Merchant.
  • you like real trips with no script for the traveler.

An Idiot Abroad is bad for you if…

  • you want awe at the world's wonders, not complaints about them.
  • you can't laugh at a man pranked into trips he hates. Gervais and Merchant enjoy his misery from London.

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