The British comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC Four in October 2014 , was written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, who also stars alongside Toby Jones.
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, but much of it was actually filmed in and around the market town of Framlingham in Suffolk, including The Castle Inn by the iconic Framlingham Castle.
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.
