Hamish and Andy's Gap Year

Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
Presented byHamish Blake
Andy Lee
Opening theme"Gap Year Theme Song" by Hamish & Andy (2011)
"Addicted" by Bliss n Eso (2012–2014)
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes29
Production
Running timeApproximately 60 minutes (inc. commercials)
Original release
NetworkNine Network
Release28 July 2011 (2011-07-28) –
5 August 2014 (2014-08-05)
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Hamish & Andy's Gap Year is a Logie Award–winning comedy series following Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, a pair of Australian comedians, on their trips to various international locations. The first season saw the boys visiting America for ten episodes and broadcast their show weekly from New York City. In its second season in 2012, the show was titled Hamish & Andy's Euro Gap Year, and seven episodes were broadcast from The Lord Stanley,[1][2][3][4][5] a disused pub[6][7] in East London, England.[8] The third season, known as Hamish and Andy's Gap Year Asia in 2013, was broadcast from a bar in Bangkok, Thailand, called The Raintree.[9] The fourth season was known as Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year South America.

The concept for the show was created when the Nine Network hired comedians Hamish Blake and Andy Lee for two series in two years. They came across the idea of "Gap Year" when they realised they never took a gap year after high school, so they would film their many adventures overseas, as it was ironic that they had just received a contract for TV.

The show featured the American band Moon Hooch for the first season as an in house band - during the show, they band were dubbed The Buskerteers.

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  9. ^ [2] Archived 11 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine