DOCUMENTARY RESEARCHHoward Smith

An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, 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 themselves stay in England and monitor his progress.

An Idiot Abroad is a travel documentary type.

Documentary Mode

An Idiot Abroad is a observational and participatory style documentary showing Karl Pilkington throughout his journey around various places in the world. Offering a as it happens interviews getting in insight of what happens when they get Karl to do stupid things in extraordinary places for the viewers entertainment.

Documentaries

Sky 1’s documentaries include a variety of real life issues and crime documentaries, made to a very high standard.

An Idiot Abroad may not be seen as a real documentary but it is a travel documentary series which takes place somewhere different each episode.