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An Idiot Abroad

Name: An Idiot Abroad
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Cast: Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Warwick Davis, Chas Hodges

2010–2012 · 3 seasons, 19 episodes · 43m episodes · Comedy, Documentary · Sky One · United Kingdom · Rated TV-MA (US)

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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Ricky Gervais

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Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Warwick Davis, Chas Hodges, Dave Peacock

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