An Idiot Abroad – The Complete Series 1 And 2 – DVD – 15

TV documentary series, originally entitled Karl Pilkington’s Seven Wonders of the World, An Idiot Abroad documents Karl Pilkington’s journeys to foreign countries as instructed by Gervais and Merchant and under the guise of visiting the New Seven Wonders of the World. Though the New Seven Wonders of the World include the Colosseum in Rome, this is not one of Pilkington’s destinations, as Gervais and Merchant feel Karl would be too comfortable in Italy and instead he visits the Great Pyramids in Egypt. Most of each episode focuses on Pilkington’s reactions to cultural differences and idiosyncrasies in the countries he visits. Gervais and Merchant ‘phone Pilkington during each trip, to assign him tasks often not related to why he believed he was visiting the country