The Trip is a 2010 British television sitcom series directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves on a restaurant tour of northern England. The series was edited into a feature film and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010. The full series was first broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD in the United Kingdom in November 2010. Both the TV series and film received very positive reviews.
A second series, The Trip to Italy, followed in 2014. Like the first series, it was edited into a feature film, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. The television series premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom in April 2014.
A third series is set to film in 2016 in Spain. It will premiere on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom.
Plot
Series one
In an effort to impress his gourmet girlfriend, Mischa, actor Steve Coogan has accepted a commission from The Observer newspaper to go on a restaurant tour of the north of England. However, when Mischa insists they take a break from their relationship, Steve is forced to invite colleague and friend-of-sorts Rob Brydon. Coogan has a number of one-night stands, but is miserable both professionally and personally, despite being the bigger star; Brydon, with his young family, is more happy and affable. The two constantly bicker and attempt to undermine and humiliate each other with their impersonations of Michael Caine and Sean Connery, for example, especially in the presence of attractive women. The competitive atmosphere is occasionally broken by passages of amicable and spontaneous comic improvisation.
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The Trip is an eight-part Channel 4 television series that was first broadcast in 1999 (during the late night time bracket known as 4Later). The Trip consists of rarely seen NASA space footage from the earliest days of space exploration to 1990s interplanetary stellar discovery, set to a deftly crafted cutting edge dance music soundtrack. From "we have lift off" to man's first steps on the moon, "the final frontier" to "Houston, we have a problem", The Trip is an intergalactic mind bending space journey into the unknown. It is the brainchild of producer Jacques Peretti.
A CD soundtrack for the series was also released by Shifty Disco on 22 March 1999 containing many of the tracks used in the series.
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"The Trip" is a two-part story (the 41st and 42nd episodes to air) of NBC's popular sitcom, Seinfeld. Airing on August 12, 1992 and August 19, 1992, it kicked off the fourth season of the show.
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Part 1
Jerry is offered two free tickets from New York to Hollywood to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He offers one to George and they decide that while they are in Los Angeles they will track down Kramer, who headed to Los Angeles in the previous episode, "The Keys", to become an actor. A dead woman turns up in another part of LA and Kramer's script he had given to her is found on her body. George thinks he has insightful conversations with the talk show guests (Corbin Bernsen and George Wendt) but they both call him "some nut" when they appear publicly. Jerry can't remember the wording for a joke and blames the hotel maid, Lupe (Dyana Ortelli), who threw it away while cleaning the room. As Jerry and George leave The Tonight Show, they see Kramer's picture on the news. He is the main suspect for the "Smog Strangler".