The Ricky Gervais Show is a British-American cartoon series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4. The series is an animated version of the popular British audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, which feature Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant , along with colleague and friend Karl Pilkington, talking about various subjects behind the microphone. The TV show 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 has aired 27 episodes across three seasons since it premiered in 2010. There are some plans for a possible fourth season which will use newly recorded audio. Series 3 of The Ricky Gervais Show premiered on 20 April 2012 on HBO, and is set to air on 8 May 2012 on E4. After the first season of The Office was broadcast in 2001, creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant returned to local radio station XFM London, where they used to host their own radio show.
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