Travel Man


Travel Man is a British television travel documentary series. It features presenter Richard Ayoade, travelling to a popular city each episode with a celebrity guest. It was produced around the same time Ayoade was presenting Gadget Man.
The show is characterized by fast pacing, with bracing editing and dry humour, intercut with Ayoade's fourth-wall-breaking voiceover. Unlike Top Gear which evolved from a consumer advice show on cars into pure entertainment, Travel Man entertains and remains useful to viewers planning a trip. Onscreen pop-ups highlight various activities or places to visit and their cost, with the overall price of staying 48 hours in that week's city mentioned at the end of each episode. Ayoade's presentation style and banter with that week's guest often emphasises his social inadequacies.
Travel Man has been twice nominated in the best Features category at the BAFTAs and won Best Factual Programme three years running at the RTS Midlands awards. In Australia, the series is broadcast on SBS Viceland, and in New Zealand on TVNZ Duke.
In July 2019, Channel 4 announced that Ayoade would be leaving the show after the tenth series and would be replaced as host by comedian Joe Lycett.

Episodes

Series overview

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

2016 Christmas Special

Series 5

Series 6

2017 Christmas Special

This is an hour-long special.

Series 7

Series 8

2018 Christmas Special

Series 9

Series 10

Home video

Travel Man Series 1 and 2 was released on DVD in October 2018.