When big shot Hollywood decisions are made about sequels the usual response is to go bigger, but luckily Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington have decided to go shorter for their latest Sky 1 instalment. What this overly long statement/cryptic crossword puzzle question means is that for the upcoming third series of An Idiot Abroad, The Short Way Round, Pilkington will also have Warwick Davis out on the limb with him.
If you missed Life’s Too Short when it aired last year or you’ve never seen Willow, Warwick Davis is the world’s best loved actor under the height of 4 ft. He’s affable, articulate and never complains, according to Ricky, so he’s poles apart from the curmudgeon make-up of Karl Pilkington.
The unlikely duo will be heading out East in a bid to retrace Marco Polo’s epic journey from Italy to China, but the last time Karl made it to China (his least favourite destination abroad in the first series) was to visit a tourist attraction town designed for little people. His conversation justifying the place to Warwick Davis at the time didn’t go down well, so maybe An Idiot Abroad The Short Way Round is doomed to be a fractured trip of discontent for the two journeymen.
Either way, it’s probably going to be pretty funny with the combined genius of Warwick’s inclusion and the Marco Polo connection acting as good ways to reinvent to show for the first series. We’re putting in the shout now, but hopefully the fourth series will see Karl and Warwick heading up a team of elephants to retrace the steps of Hannibal in his Roman attack on Northern Italy.
An Idiot Abroad The Short Way Round has been given an air date for later this month (November 2012), so it’ll be showing pretty soon in the run up to Christmas. The journey starts in Venice and heads down through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the middle East, India and into China, but the biggest question has got to be, what is he going to say this time around.
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