Kiwi comedy duo Flight of the Conchords ar planning to ground their Emmy-nominated tV series subsequently the next season to pursue other interests.
In an article headlined "The Chuckle Brothers", Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have told British music magazine Q that the second, 10-episode series of Flight of the Conchords, now being filmed in New York, is probable to be their last.
"The second serial seems to me like it would be a good close to the show. I feel like another 10 ... That will be enough," McKenzie says.
McKenzie's mother, Deirdre Tarrant, a Wellington dancing teacher, said the geminate wanted to spread their wings.
"They want to break into a few other things."
McKenzie was keen to focus on music and script writing and he was missing being a member of Wellington dance band The Black Seeds, Ms Tarrant said.
"There are quite a few things in the wind. I think they desire to cast a few more things under their belts.
"They've done a huge amount of touring. It's just got out of control.�They're in spades developing a show that's going to play fully grown spaces."
Flight of the Conchords have been booked for a January gig at the new O2 sphere in London which seating room 20,000 people.
Clement of late landed a leading office in the American picture Gentlemen Broncos and McKenzie told Q magazine he had applied for a part in a moving-picture show version of DC Comics' Justice League of America.
The first series of the HBO show Flight of the Conchords, in which the deuce Kiwis play folk singers struggling to make it big in New York, has standard four Emmy nominations for writing, original music and lyrics.
Clements and McKenzie volition attend the awards ceremony on September 21.
They south Korean won a Grammy award for best drollery album in February.
Q magazine said the pair were the "furor hit of the moment".
"New Zealand's biggest export since those films about hobbits", and the "funniest thing to be found right now both on leg and TV".
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