THE RICKY GERVAIS SHOW
The Ricky Gervais Show audiobooks have been developed into an animated TV series, which premiered on February 19, 2010, on HBO. The Animated Podcast of The Ricky Gervais Show is an animated version of the popular podcasts of the same name. It features real audio from conversations between Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington from the first series of podcasts which were released starting in December of 2005. A lot of people were expecting new material (for some reason) but as advertising and Ricky’s Blog indicated, it was money for old rope, as they put the old audio on top of new animation. It is very funny and the animation in my view adds a new layer to the hilarity.
LIFE’S TOO SHORT
In April 2010 it was announced that Gervais and Stephen Merchant will be writing a new show, called Life’s Too Short, which they described as, “A cross between Extras and Curb your Enthusiasm and One Foot in the Grave but with a dwarf. That is out and out funny.”
Life’s Too Short will star Warwick Davis. Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant will write and direct the show much like they did with The Office and Extras. Warwick will play himself in this observational comedy based on his real life trials and tribulations being an actor with dwarfism. The show is similar in style to that of Larry David’s HBO show Curb your Enthusiasm as it has a very similar concept and will be shot in a single-camera style.
When speaking of Warwick in a recent interview Ricky Gervais stated that “pound for pound he is one of the funniest men I know”. Gervais & Merchant have stated that for this project they plan to focus purely on comedy rather than the mix of comedy and drama that their previous projects have consisted of. Gervais confirmed via his blog that they will probably shoot 6 episodes for the first season. In April 2010 Gevais announced that the first production meeting has been held and it was “very exciting”.
Davis is best known as the title character in Willow and the Leprechaun series; other prominent roles include Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies and Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Davis played himself in the third episode of the second series of Extras (clip below).
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