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''Stephen Fry in America'' is a six-part
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television series in which
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travels across the
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. In the six-part series he travels, mostly in a
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, through all 50 of the
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and
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. The episodes are regularly repeated in the UK on
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, the program screened on
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. The ratings were so successful that the broadcaster decided to finally air Fry's other BBC programme, '' QI'' the next month. The series was filmed in two segments, the first in October–November 2007, and the second in February–April 2008. Special guests featured on the show include
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Episode list


Home media releases

The UK home video version was released by West Park Pictures through Lace Digital Media Sales on 17 November 2008. Both the DVD and Blu-ray versions are two-disc sets, complete and uncut. A two-disc Region 1 version was released in the United States in July 2010. In Australia, it was released by
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on two-disc DVD and Blu-ray on 19 August 2009.


Book

A book to accompany the series, also called ''Stephen Fry in America'' (), was published by
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in 2008. In it Stephen writes in more detail about some of his adventures, as well as some of the ones not featured in the show.


Announced follow-up

In May 2008, it was announced that a five-part companion series, ''More Fry in America'', had been commissioned for BBC Four. It was to feature in-depth essays excluded from the first series due to time constraints. No further information about the project has since been released.


Sequel

A four-part sequel series, ''Stephen Fry in Central America'', was broadcast on
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in the UK from 27 August to 17 September 2015, following Fry travelling through
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and the countries of
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References


External links

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2008 Fry Podcast mentioning the series
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