Detectorists is a British comedy television series first broadcast on BBC4 in October 2014. It is written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, Mackenzie stars alongside Toby Jones who play the charters Andy and Lance.
The series is set in the fictional small town of Danebury in north Essex. The plot revolves around the lives, loves and metal-detecting ambitions of Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club DMDC a fictional club that holds meeting for it's seven members in an old Scot Hall. The main filming location for the series and Christmas special is Framlingham, a small market town in Suffolk.
The series follows Andy and Lance and other DMDC members as they get up to their detectoring hobby and the viewer will soon become embroiled in the charters wonderful and mundane world with haphazard happenings of a funny and at times hilarious nature.
Detectorists won a BAFTA at the 2015 British Academy Television Awards for Television Scripted Comedy. In May 2019, it was voted 19th in a Radio Times list of Britain's 20 favourite sitcoms by a panel that included sitcom writers and actors. The show consists of three Series from 2014 to 2017, in addition a 2015 Christmas Special and a further Christmas Special aired in 2022, folowed by reruns on BB2.
The series is set in Essex, but it was mainly filmed in neighbouring Suffolk, with Framlingham used as a primary location. Other locations used in filming include Orford, where Orford Primary School was used as the outside of Becky's school, Great Glemham, where interior pub scenes were filmed, and Ipswich.
Continuing in series 2, the round-tower church at Aldham was used as a frequent location. One location in Essex was used in Detectorists: the scenes involving Lance's girlfriend Toni's houseboat, 'Elsie', were filmed at Paper Mill Lock, Little Baddow. Locations were sourced by Creative England.
Upon deciding to finish the show at the end of series 3, Mackenzie commented "it took time to realise that I did want to do six more episodes to finish. I don't want to make any sort of big, dramatic announcement that 'never again', but I can't see myself going back to it."
Despite ruling out further episodes at the end of series 3, in December 2020 Crook suggests indirectly to the possibility that a fourth series was not out of the question, saying "I'm just starting the process of thinking 'yeah, we should get the old band back together'."
When Mackenzie pushed on the possibility of Detectorists returning for a fourth series after the 2022 Christmas special, Crook said, "I’m going to give the same answer I gave at the end of the third series; "probably not". I guess, dot dot dot, I mean, where can you go after this?". Lets keep out fingers crossed and coils to the soil.
Steampunk Metal Detector 
