Underplayed Gems

The Ricky Gervais Show (2010)

The Ricky Gervais Show poster
Genre
comedy television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
3 seasons, 39 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 120 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Three friends have unscripted chats about random topics. The audio from their podcasts is turned into cartoon episodes.

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What happens

The Ricky Gervais Show is an animated comedy television series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4. The series is an animated version of the popular audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, which feature Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant (creators of The Office and Extras) along with colleague and friend Karl Pilkington, talking about various subjects behind the microphone. The TV series consists of past audio recordings of these unscripted "pointless conversations," with animation drawn in a style similar to classic era Hanna-Barbera cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context. The animated Ricky Gervais Show aired 39 episodes across three series starting in 2010. There were some plans for a possible fourth series which would have used newly recorded audio, but this was shelved in June 2012. Series 3 of The Ricky Gervais Show premiered on 20 April 2012 on HBO, and on 8 May 2012 on E4. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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