The Science Channel has ordered up a second season of An Idiot Abroad independently of Britain's Sky1, becoming a producer of the show in the process. The first season was produced for Sky1 and then aired in the US on The Science Channel (soon to be known simply as "Science," somewhat confusingly). USA! USA! USA!
Here's a full 23-minute preview of Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington's An Idiot Abroad, which is coming to Britain's Sky1 this fall and presumably the States at some point. If you listened to Gervais and Merchant's podcasts or watched the animated HBO show based on them, you're familiar with Karl Pilkington; he's essentially their whipping boy who they make fun of and humiliate relentlessly, with hilarious results. So of course, a show based on sending the awkward, bitter guy around the world to suffer for our enjoyment can't really go wrong. Hit the jump for the second half of the preview.
Good news! Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington's comedy travel show An Idiot Abroad is set to be aired here in the USA starting next month on Discovery Science. The eight episode series, premiering on Friday, January 21, follows the misanthropic Karl as Gervais and Merchant send him around the world to experience things that make him acutely uncomfortable. You can check out a 23-minute preview of the show right here.
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have yet another show coming to British television, with the latest called Life's Too Short: "As with the pilot, the series centres on Warwick Davis – whose credits include Star Wars and the Harry Potter series – and who is one of Britain's pre-eminent dwarf actors. It is an observational comedy following Warwick's day-to-day frustrations, but still managing to find the optimism and warmth in a small world where big things happen."
