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Genre Comedy Directed by Mackenzie Crook Network BBC Four | 8.6/10 IMDb Written by Mackenzie Crook Composer(s) Johnny Flynn Writers Mackenzie Crook | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Mackenzie Crook
Toby Jones Opening theme "Detectorists" by Johnny Flynn Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy Cast Mackenzie Crook, Toby Jones, Divian Ladwa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Metal detecting is an extreme sport detectorists series 2 episode 2 preview bbc four
Detectorists is a British single camera television sitcom series which was first broadcast on BBC Four on 2 October 2014. It is written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, who also stars in the production alongside Toby Jones.
Contents
- Metal detecting is an extreme sport detectorists series 2 episode 2 preview bbc four
- Detectorists trailer
- Cast
- Series 2
- Production
- Broadcast
- Critical response
- References
It is set in small fictional town of Danebury in northern Essex. The plot revolves around the lives, loves and detecting ambitions of Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club (DMDC).
The series won a BAFTA award at the 2015 British Academy Television Awards for Best Situation Comedy.
Detectorists trailer
Cast
Series 2
Series 2 commences with a 3-minute sequence showing an Anglo Saxon monk or priest fleeing from a place of worship with a holy book, and an aestel, a pointer stick similar to that associated with the Alfred Jewel, in a sack. He is fleeing mounted spearmen, possibly marauding Vikings. He buries the sack near a standing stone. Time lapse shows all but the decorated gold handle of the stick decaying and the shot pans upwards to reveal Andy and Lance walking across the field in present-day Danebury, detecting as they go. Having had no success they decide to look up the hill. The jewel is shown again, still buried, at the beginning of subsequent episodes.
Production
Detectorists was announced by the BBC on 31 January 2014. The producer is Adam Tandy and the series is a Channel X and Lola Entertainment co-production.
The series is mainly filmed in Suffolk with Framlingham used as a major location. Other locations used in filming include Orford, where Orford Primary School is used as the outside of Becky's school, Great Glemham, where interior pub scenes were filmed, and Ipswich. In series 2 the round tower church at Aldham to the west of Ipswich, is used as a recurring location. Locations were sourced by Creative England.
Broadcast
Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on 9 November 2015 on BBC First. In the United States, the series premiered on Acorn TV.
Critical response
Series one of Detectorists was met with positive reviews from a number of UK and US media outlets. David Renshaw, writing for The Guardian, had particular praise for the "delightful double-act" Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones. Renshaw points to the "biggest ratings BBC4 has ever had for a comedy" as evidence that "Detectorists has clearly struck the sort of gold that Lance and Andy spend hours sweeping the fields for". Rupert Hawksley, writing for The Daily Telegraph, was particularly impressed with Crook's "first-rate writing" and remarked in his review that series one "has all the markings of a classic sitcom".
Ellen E. Jones of The Independent said that while the show "requires some patience ... it has turned out to be one of the best new sitcoms of the year".
In the US media, The New York Times writer Mike Hale describes Detectorists as a "distinctive creation - not for everyone, but bound to be fiercely loved by those who fall into its rhythms". Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times "can't recommend it enough", saying: "Like the ordinary lives it magnifies, Detectorists has the air of seeming to be small and immense at once, to be about hardly anything and almost everything. It is full of space and packed with life."
When the programme returned for a second series, the response was also positive.