An Idiot Abroad is Spinoff Novels published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington, as well as an travel documentary television series broadcast on Science and Sky1. The ongoing theme of television series and the novels is that Pilkington does not have any attention in traveling that is world wide, therefore Gervais and Merchant make him traveling while they remain at britain and track his own progress.