Ricky Gervais at the 2016 BAFTA Britannia Awards. Photo by Matt Baron/REX/Shutterstock
Ricky Gervais’ brand new Netflix series brings back some of his former Extras and Derek co-stars.
The new series is called After Life and has received a six-episode order. Ashley Jensen from Extras will be joining the project as well as Tom Basden, Jo Hartley, Roisin Conaty and Mandeep Dhillon from David Brent: Life on the Road.
David Earl and Kerry Godliman from Derek will also be joining the cast. Other popular cast members include Joe Wilkinson and Game of Thrones star David Bradley.
The official synopsis of the show is as follows:
“Tony [Gervais] had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on,” it reads.
“He thinks it’s like a Super Power – not caring about himself or anyone else – but it turns out to be tricky when everyone is trying to save the nice guy they used to know.”
Explaining the premise for his latest sitcom (if we can call it that), Ricky said: “It’s a guy whose wife has died and he is in the depths of depression and he nearly kills himself.
“But the reason he doesn’t is that the dog is hungry, so that saves him for a while.”
