"The Trip" (2010) TV series 2010-

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

1 November 2010 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

The series is a largely improvised sitcom in which Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer...

Plot Keywords:

Road Trip | Food | Restaurant Critic | Restaurant | Actor Playing Himself

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Steve Coogan	...	Steve (6 episodes, 2010)
Rob Brydon	...	Rob (6 episodes, 2010)
Rebecca Johnson	...	Sally (5 episodes, 2010)
Margo Stilley	...	Mischa (5 episodes, 2010)
Claire Keelan	...	Emma (4 episodes, 2010)

Series Directed by
Michael Winterbottom		(6 episodes, 2010)

Series Produced by
Andrew Eaton	....	producer / executive producer (6 episodes, 2010)
Henry Normal	....	executive producer (6 episodes, 2010)
Melissa Parmenter	....	producer (6 episodes, 2010)
Simon Lupton	....	executive producer (5 episodes, 2010)
Anthony Wilcox	....	associate producer (5 episodes, 2010)
Michael Winterbottom	....	executive producer (2 episodes, 2010)

Series Cinematography by
Ben Smithard		(6 episodes, 2010)

Series Film Editing by
Mags Arnold		(6 episodes, 2010)
Paul Monaghan		(5 episodes, 2010)

Series Casting by
Shaheen Baig		(5 episodes, 2010)

Series Costume Design by
Celia Yau		(6 episodes, 2010)

Series Production Management
Amy Jackson	....	production manager (6 episodes, 2010)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael Groom	....	third assistant director (6 episodes, 2010)
Anthony Wilcox	....	first assistant director (2 episodes, 2010)

Series Art Department
James Harrington	....	props buyer (5 episodes, 2010)

Series Sound Department
Richard Davey	....	dubbing mixer / sound re-recording mixer (6 episodes, 2010)
Simon Koelmeyer	....	additional sound / boom operator / ... (6 episodes, 2010)
Joakim Sundström	....	supervising sound editor (6 episodes, 2010)
Will Whale	....	sound recordist (6 episodes, 2010)
Chris Treble	....	dubbing mixer (5 episodes, 2010)
Per Boström	....	sound effects editor (2 episodes, 2010)
Christer Melén	....	sound effects editor (2 episodes, 2010)
Fredrik Stålne	....	sound effects editor (2 episodes, 2010)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
David Penfold	....	first assistant camera (6 episodes, 2010)
Simon Tindall	....	camera operator (6 episodes, 2010)
James Clarke	....	camera operator (5 episodes, 2010)
Jack Holmes	....	first assistant camera (5 episodes, 2010)
Henry Landgrebe	....	first assistant camera (5 episodes, 2010)
James Stormer	....	digital imaging technician (5 episodes, 2010)

Series Editorial Department
Giuseppe Circelli	....	first assistant editor (6 episodes, 2010)
Dan Coles	....	colorist / digital colorist (6 episodes, 2010)
Sion Penny	....	on-line editor (6 episodes, 2010)
Marc Richardson	....	first assistant editor (6 episodes, 2010)

Series Other crew
Josh Hyams	....	head of development / script editor (6 episodes, 2010)
Sophie Neave	....	production assistant (6 episodes, 2010)
Martha Skelly	....	production assistant / set production assistant (6 episodes, 2010)
Ruth Breslaw	....	office manager (5 episodes, 2010)
Andrew Georgiou	....	production accountant (5 episodes, 2010)
Anna Stockton	....	production assistant (5 episodes, 2010)

Production Companies

• Revolution Films
• Baby Cow Productions
• Arbie
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (for)

Distributors

• IFC Films (2010) (USA) (theatrical)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (2010) (UK) (TV)
• Filmtrade (2011) (Greece) (all media)
• Madman Entertainment (2011) (Australia) (all media)
• NonStop Entertainment (2011) (Sweden) (all media)
• Momentum Pictures (2011) (Canada) (all media)
• NonStop Entertainment (2011) (Denmark) (all media)
• NonStop Entertainment (2011) (Finland) (all media)
• NonStop Entertainment (2011) (Norway) (all media)

Other Companies

• OnSight  camera equipment provided by

Runtime:

172 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Revolution Films

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2011/I) (TV)

I gave up the will to live

I thought I was a big Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon fan, until I saw this. I think the words 'self indulgent' spring to mind, and not just on the part of Coogan and Brydon, but the idiotic 'just out of university' camera man and director. My god - was it really necessary to show stupid, wavering close up shots, over the shoulder of Brydon, of his plate, as if to point out for the more intellectually challenged amongst us, what he was eating? The whole thing is just painful to watch, I haven't laughed once, nor even felt like laughing. Who actually enjoys this rubbish? When you compare this to Paul and Pauline Calf, or The Alan Partridge Show, you wonder if this is the same man. I kept waiting for things to improve. Maybe the strange bitterness that Coogan exudes throughout would drop off, but no. And yet more typical 'BBC' direction and camera work, it's simply unbearable. Stupid shots of the motorway, as if to point out "Yes, we know that you must know by now that they are driving on a motorway, but we're going to provide some more obscure shots of a random motorway just to drive that point home."

And the sickening shots around 19" into the first episode, where Coogan speaks to his agent... how predictable - the shot from the side, from another office, from in front, cutting from Coogan to yet another random view of his agent. Is this supposed to be 'art' or 'clever'?

I can't believe this pile of rubbish actually got made. I can't believe it was actually broadcast. Hang on. I CAN believe it got made, and that it got broadcast, because the BBC is run by a bunch of self congratulating left wing nutcases, who are so used to lying to the entire country, that lying to each other is second nature, so of course a load of old twaddle can get through with flying colours - after all, nobody wants to say that the emperor is naked.

As far as I can tell, Coogan has lost it. His 'Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters' are also completely unfunny - just him, 'being' Alan Partridge, but not being remotely amusing...