Premiering August 17 on Acorn TV:  a “delightful…wistful, subtle comedy” (The Guardian, UK) starring Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Toby Jones (The Hunger Games). The pair strike comedic gold in this critically adored series about two oddballs scouring the English countryside for treasure. These amateur metal detectorists have an unhealthy fixation on uncovering a fabled trove of buried Saxon loot. Unfortunately, the world of high-stakes metal detecting is surprisingly turbulent, as are their personal lives.

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Along the way, Andy’s girlfriend, Becky (Rachael Stirling, The Bletchley Circle), is none too pleased about the amount of time he sinks into his fruitless hobby, and even less so when a female colleague enters the equation. Lance, meanwhile, is still hopelessly in love with his ex-wife and finds several embarrassing ways to show it. However, behind the most excruciating moments lies a winning combination of warmth, eccentricity, and humanity that makes this comedy “indispensable viewing” (The Guardian, UK) and “one of the loveliest, most inventive things on TV all year” (The Daily Mail, UK).

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