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Posted Tuesday 8/17/21 at 1:59AM EDT
Wheelchair-bound The Office UK producer Ash Atalla says Ricky Gervais' disability jokes about him went too far
Atalla, who produced all 14 episodes of The Office UK, uses a wheelchair after contracting polio as a child.
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Ted Lasso's sincerity represents TV's evolution away from David Brent's The Office irony
"Two decades ago, TV’s most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of ironic detachment.
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Posted Wednesday 7/14/21 at 2:11PM EDT
HBO paid James Gandolfini $3 million not to star in The Office, according to Talking Sopranos
Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa had on Ricky Gervais on their weekly Talking Sopranos podcast this week, where it was...
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Posted Friday 7/09/21 at 1:50PM EDT
The Office UK premiered 20 years ago today: Read the oral history
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's BBC mockumentary series about life as an office worker kicked off its brief two-season, 14-episode...
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Posted Tuesday 6/01/21 at 10:45AM EDT
Netflix removes After Life producer Charlie Hanson over sexual misconduct allegations -- Ricky Gervais says he's "shocked and appalled"
“On Monday, we received an anonymous email containing historical allegations about a producer on one of our titles,” Netflix said...
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Jimmy Fallon Finds the Perfect Bit for Ricky Gervais with "Wheel of Opinions"
One of the thing we love about Ricky Gervais is that he's got needlessly strong feelings about pretty much everything.
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Posted Tuesday 12/01/20 at 5:06PM EST
Dave Chappelle's 8:46 is YouTube's top trending video of 2020 -- Jim Carrey's SNL debut as Joe Biden is No. 2
NBC also cracked the Top 10 with No.
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Thumbs For Nipples or Nipples for Thumbs? Ricky Gervais Explains.
Ricky Gervais has been taking questions from his fans to keep himself sane during the pandemic, and he told Conan...
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Posted Friday 10/16/20 at 9:42AM EDT
When Curb Your Enthusiasm started out, it was rejected for guest roles by Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Steven Spielberg
These days, Larry David and the writer and executive producer Jeff Schaffer have their pick of guest stars.
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Posted Friday 7/10/20 at 2:24PM EDT
Ricky Gervais says The Office UK wouldn't work if it premiered today "because people take things literally"
“I think now it would suffer because people take things literally," Gervais tells The Times of London, according to The...
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Posted Friday 5/15/20 at 5:10AM EDT
TV has been the fastest to adapt to our new reality: It will likely be remembered as the medium of the coronavirus pandemic
Television, says the Los Angeles Times, is "an art form that kept its lights on as others’ flickered out.
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Posted Wednesday 5/06/20 at 1:32PM EDT
The Tonys may be canceled this year
Variety reports that talks for bringing back the Tonys later this year after they were postponed due to coronavirus are...
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Posted Wednesday 5/06/20 at 1:32PM EDT
Netflix renews After Life for Season 3 and signs Ricky Gervais to an overall deal
After Life's renewal comes less than two weeks after its Season 2 premiere.
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Posted Monday 4/27/20 at 10:34AM EDT
Ricky Gervais' After Life baffles viewers with an actress' head that looks superimposed
Viewers spotted what appeared to be actress Kerry Godliman's head on the body of another woman in a Season 2...
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Posted Saturday 4/25/20 at 8:00AM EDT
Ricky Gervais says he was stunned After Life resonated with so many people
"I think that too many people second guess what an audience can take," Gervais says in promoting Season 2 of...