Quartile rating: 8/10 · 3 ratings
On Quartile, An Idiot Abroad scores 8/10 across five categories — strongest on Novelty (Well Above Average), weakest on Plot (Above Average).
Ranked among Quartile’s Top Novelty.
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.