This year has been a very tough one for so many people and here in early November the television seems to be a device invented to deliver stress directly into people brains. However, there are programs that not only do not talk endlessly about the crumbling state of civilization but also are devoid of assault, murder, and other stressful act even when committed in fiction and I am here to bring one of those.

Travel Man 48 Hours in … is hosted by The IT Crowd‘s Richard Ayoade and follows in the wake of his program Gadget Man. Where gadget Man a program where Richard demonstrated various apps and gadgets came off as advertising way too much Travel Man is much more pleasant. (Aside from season one where there were still unfortunate elements of Gadget Man still lurking about.) The basic premise of Travel Man 48 Hours in … is that in each episode Richard travels a city bringing along a celebrity guest and that explore the location for two days, sampling food, buying trinkets, while providing a running comedy commentary. A good introduction to the series might be Helsinki which Richards visits with American actor and comedian Paul Rudd and we are introduced to a Burger King with a sauna.

Each episode runs about 23 minutes and makes for a very pleasant, entertaining, and utterly unserious break from the real world.

Travel Man 48 Hours in … is currently streaming on Hulu.