He may have become one of the premiere indie film directors since the first series of Gadget Man, but that hasn’t stopped Richard Ayoade stepping up for a second series!

Last month a section for the show was recorded in a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Chingford, where Richard tried out a rather clever-sounding lambent shopping handle (you can read all about that here).

The new series is likely to air this Autumn; as soon as we can find out an actual transmission date, we’ll let you know. It remains to be see whether he’ll be inviting his TVO-connected buddies to accompany him in this series. We hope so!

In the meantime, you can feed your Gadget Man hunger by visiting Channel 4 here, where you can watch clips galore. There’s even an entire episode on youtube if watching short clips makes your brain dizzy.

And finally, while we’re talking about Mr Ayoade’s audiovisual output, why not take a look at this recent interview with him and Jesse Eisenberg (published last week), in which they discuss working together on The Double with Jian Ghomeshi. Admittedly it’s got nothing to do with Gadget Man, but we like to mix things up around here occasionally: