Extras Season 1 brings the hilarious mock sitcom a heartwarming and cringe-worthy journey by Andy Millman that explores the world of extra actors. It was created by Rocky Gervais and Stephen Merchant ...

The encore Christmas special for the British television comedy Extras, debuting Stateside this Sunday, is a dissonant and satisfying coda to the acclaimed series starring comedian Ricky Gervais.

Andy Millman is fed up from all the compromises he’s been forced to make on his new sitcom, “When the Whistle Blows.” All the network meddling, all the dumbing down, the idiotic wig he’s made to wear ...

“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 ...

But Extras’ subtle, deadpan genius is going to be a lot harder to ignore this time around, as its second season starts airing on HBO (Sunday, 1/14). The show’s been supercharged, with Gervais’s ...

Extras was a comedy television series created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The show follows the life of Andy Millman, played by Gervais, a struggling actor who works as an extra in various ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every celebrity story has its ugly chapters, when a star is forced to compromise his self-esteem by appearing in forgettable flops or, worse, attaching himself to the worst dreck the entertainment ...

Redux: British Comic Ricky GervaisBritish comedian Ricky Gervais is best known to American audiences as the bumbling boss David Brent in the British version of The Office and the ever-hopeful wanna-be ...