HBO/Channel 4 Snap Up Ricky Gervais Animation!! - Blu-ray Forum

garlad · 12-05-2009, 08:00 PM

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Ricky Gervais's new animated series, which puts his buffoonish sidekick Karl Pilkington centre-stage, has been snapped up by Channel 4.

The 13-part cartoon series will bring to life his much-loved podcasts feature Gervais and writing partner Stephen Merchant poking fun at Pilkington for his odd worldview.

Pilkington has already published best-selling books which collect his rambling thoughts, including 'The World Of Karl Pilkington'.

The series is to air first on US channel HBO from February and will be screened by Channel 4 (UK) in the spring.

Gervais's audio versions of their studio chats - which had their roots in a series he fronted for Xfm - have now been downloaded more than 180 million times.

Pilkington - often pilloried by his co-presenters for "having a head like an orange" - is described by Gervais as "a global village idiot, but the funniest man alive".

Gervais said: "He thinks that a seal is a cross between a fish and a dog. Karl is a bottomless well of stupidity so, unlike my other shows 'The Office' and 'Extras', which I stopped prematurely through fear of going stale and running out of ideas, I want this to run and run like The Simpsons.

"The world has a new Homer, but this one is real."

Gervais said C4 was a natural choice for the programmes.
He added: "Who'd have thought three blokes chatting in a room would turn out to be so lucrative?"

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I cannot tell you how excited I am about this!!! This will be EPIC!!!

Here is a taster of the podcast being animated (not official)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmp1uymNKGs

Toxa · 12-06-2009, 11:51 AM

Sweet can't wait

garlad · 12-06-2009, 12:02 PM

From the official Ricky Gervais site..

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Here's a first look at how Ricky, Steve and Karl will look.

koontz1973 · 12-06-2009, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by garlad

Fred Flintstone on the right. Will Wilma, Betty and Barny be in it as well.

SillyMammo · 12-06-2009, 01:41 PM

Awesome! I loved listening to those Podcast on long roadtrips.

"Instead of giving them a goat. Why not just give them a bottle of milk?" [paraphase]

garlad · 12-06-2009, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by SillyMammo

Awesome! I loved listening to those Podcast on long roadtrips.

"Instead of giving them a goat. Why not just give them a bottle of milk?" [paraphase]

lol! Love it! My favourite quote is in my sig!

I'm really looking forward to seeing this!

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.. I want this to run and run like The Simpsons. The world has a new Homer, but this one is real.

Sounds like there are going to be a LOT of episodes to look forward to!!!

tommyboy81 · 02-22-2010, 08:25 PM

not a bad season premiere. I think the last half was funnier. The monkey in space and the house with the flies and condom.

WyldeMan45 · 02-22-2010, 09:41 PM

The other day after I watched this series premiere I was on Itunes and saw that they have the entire episode for free. It looks like they will continue to add them after they air on HBO, so anybody who doesn't have it, will be able to download them for free legally. Thought that was pretty cool.

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12-06-2009, 11:51 AM	#2
Toxa Moderator Top contributor Member since:Nov 2007 Location:Opera Garnier Home Theater Gallery:110 Blu-ray collection:311 Blu-ray reviews:1	Sweet can't wait

12-06-2009, 12:02 PM	#3
garlad AVFC Member since:Dec 2007 Location:Ireland Blu-ray collection:226 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:3	From the official Ricky Gervais site.. Video Here's a first look at how Ricky, Steve and Karl will look.

12-06-2009, 01:41 PM	#5
SillyMammo Expert Member Member since:Aug 2008 4K collection:426 Blu-ray collection:1086 Trading Score:2	Awesome! I loved listening to those Podcast on long roadtrips. "Instead of giving them a goat. Why not just give them a bottle of milk?" [paraphase]

02-22-2010, 08:25 PM	#7
tommyboy81 Blu-ray Count Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Savannah, GA Home Theater Gallery:17 Blu-ray collection:93 Blu-ray reviews:3 Trading Score:2	not a bad season premiere. I think the last half was funnier. The monkey in space and the house with the flies and condom.

02-22-2010, 09:41 PM	#8
WyldeMan45 Banned Member since:Oct 2008 Location:Western Washington Blu-ray collection:49 Trading Score:15	The other day after I watched this series premiere I was on Itunes and saw that they have the entire episode for free. It looks like they will continue to add them after they air on HBO, so anybody who doesn't have it, will be able to download them for free legally. Thought that was pretty cool.

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