Kiwi comedy duo Flight of the Conchords plan to can their Emmy-nominated television series after 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 likely to be their last.

"The second series seems to me like it would be a good end to the show. I feel like another 10...That will be enough," McKenzie said.

Clement recently landed a leading role in the American movie Gentlemen Broncos, and McKenzie told Q magazine he had applied for a part in a movie version of DC Comics' Justice League of America.

Flight of the Conchords have been booked for a January gig at the new O2 arena in London which seats 20,000 people.

The first series of the HBO show Flight of the Conchords, in which the pair play folk singers struggling to make it big in New York, has received four Emmy nominations for writing, original music and lyrics.

Clements and McKenzie will attend the awards ceremony on September 21.

They won a Grammy award for best comedy album in February.

NZPA