Travel Sick

Description: Travel Sick (2001–2002) was a hybrid comedy-travel television show which placed UK writer Grub Smith in a different ... more

Travel Sick ... region of the world in each episode. In each destination Smith was asked to complete five undesirable challenges posed by the show's producers. If he failed a challenge, he was forced to perform something unpleasant called a "forfeit". The more he failed the worse the "forfeit" at the end of the show became.

Newest Review: ... wasn't one as this is by no means his only venture into odd travel programmes. In Travel Sick, he travels the world with each episode based in a different country, he gives himself several tasks to complete and if he is unable to do them, there is a forfeit, the more tasks he fails - the bigger the forefeit. I get the feeling that the forefeit is not necessarily taken seriously for the ... more

... most part as there are certain moments he fails to follow through or finds an easy escape route. The majority of Grub Smith's challenges involve interesting bits of knowledge that you may or may not want to know, there's often array of interesting characte...more

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Travel Sick: Quirky travel comedy programme (253 words)
by - written on 09/07/09 (Very useful, 15 readings)
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Travel Sick is a comedy documentary about travelling and probably one of the most light-hearted ones that I've come across in recent years, it's occasionally a little bit rude with the occasional naughty theme but usually just a bit of swearing thrown in. Grub Smith comes across as your pretty run of the mill cheeky chappy Londoner, so I was surprised to find out he was a Cambridge grad in Anthropology. He's clearly found a niche where there wasn't one as this is by no means his only venture into odd travel programmes. In Travel Sick, he travels the world with each episode based in a different country, he gives himself several tasks to ... Read the complete review

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