Extras Season 2 delves deeper into the cringe-worthy hilarity and awkwardness of Andy Millman. It was created by Rocky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and released by BBC Two in September 2006. Here’s ...

Gervais’ character, Andy Millman, is a pudgy, fortysomething Everyman who’s given up an unnamed but well-paying day job to become a film actor. Alas, his career is going nowhere, thanks to his ...

Ricky Gervais' luck is the polar opposite of his character on "Extras." His Andy Millman gets no respect. Gervais is riding high. The Golden Globes last week named "Extras" the best TV series, musical ...

finale coming up just as soon as I give a male friend a hug near an open window...My love of "Extras" -- well, at least, of the second season and now of this movie -- hasn't been shared by the world ...

We don’t give them much attention, but they’re always there. They’re in the background of our favorite movies and television programs — they make a scene feel natural, or fill in the epic scope of a ...

“Extras” isn’t the first show you think of when you hear the words “Christmas Special.” Conjured by television’s current professor of comedic dark arts Ricky Gervais, the HBO comedy is a painfully ...

It feels like an actual scene from HBO’s “Extras.” Ricky Gervais, the writer-director-star of the critically acclaimed showbiz lampoon, is sitting on the set of “Ghost Town,” a 2008 release and his ...

Emmy voters have one last chance — for a while, anyway — to celebrate television’s Kings of Dark Comedy. To understand what the TV comedy world is losing with the departure of the Ricky ...

Delivering a dark exclamation point to their second great series, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have wrapped up "Extras" with an expanded special to culminate its two six-episode "seasons," as ...

"What's the point?" he explained. "Got other things to do, really." Demonstrating a rare sense of TV perspective, he followed that up by admitting, "But then again, that's like saying, 'Do you want to ...

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