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Long Way Down
Long Way Down is a television series, book and DVD documenting a motorcycle journey undertaken in 2007 by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, from John o' Groats in Scotland through eighteen countries in Europe and Africa to Cape Town in South Africa. It is a follow-up to the "Long Way Round" of 2004, when the pair rode east from London to New York via Eurasia and North America.
The journey started on 12 May and finished on 4 August 2007. They were accompanied by
episode of "Sit Down, Shut Up" was written by series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill. It was originally written by Hurwitz in 2000, but he "kept it in a drawer for a long time" and brought it out when he needed money. The idea for the series was based on the Australian situation comedy of the same name. He pitched his adaption to different networks that were interested in the concept, but they turned it down, because the characters were "way too broad