The Ricky Gervais Show | |
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Genre | Cartoon Comedy Podcast |
Created by | Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant Karl Pilkington |
Directed by | Craig Kellman (season 1) Dan Fraga (seasons 2–3) |
Voices of | Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant Karl Pilkington |
Composer | Glyn Hughes |
Country of origin | United States United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producers | Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant Karl Pilkington Glyn Hughes Bob Higgins Lisa Ullmann Steve Patrick (seasons 2–3) |
Producers | Michelle Papandrew (season 1) Michelle Wilson (season 2) Pamela Arseneau (season 3) |
Editors | Damon P. Yoches (season 1) Mattaniah Adams (seasons 2–3) |
Running time | 22–25 minutes |
Production companies | Wildbrain Entertainment Media Rights Capital HBO Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | HBO (United States) Channel 4/E4 (United Kingdom) |
Release | 19 February 2010 13 July 2012 | –
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The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy animated series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4.[1] 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,[2][3] 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,[4][5][6] but this was shelved in June 2012.[7] Series 3 of The Ricky Gervais Show premiered on 20 April 2012 on HBO, and on 8 May 2012 on E4.[8][9]