Ricky Gervais
- 63 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, executive producer and stand-up comedian
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Ricky Gervais moving to C4 after Life's Too Short flops
Ricky Gervais is poised to join Channel 4 after his latest BBC show Life's Too Short flopped.
Nicola Methven, The Mirror, 21st December 2011Life's Too Short's finale was too little, too late
Life's Too Short's final episode was its strongest as Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant cracked out some good gags and Warwick Davis' life slowly unravelled. But is it all too little, too late?
Rachel Tarley, Metro, 21st December 2011Ricky Gervais plays care worker in comedy pilot for C4
Spoof documentary called Derek also features Karl Pilkington, while Life's Too Short comes to a quiet end on BBC2.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 21st December 2011Life's Too Short, 1.7 - episode seven
There's a certain irony that Life's Too Short is co-produced by Backlash Productions, because it's provoked a lot of negative chatter about Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's careers.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 21st December 2011Second series of Life's Too Short planned for 2013
Ricky Gervais reveals that a new series of the Warwick Davis-fronted comedy is in the works.
Tom Cole, Radio Times, 21st December 2011Ricky Gervais confirms 'Life's Too Short' renewal
Ricky Gervais has confirmed that Life's Too Short will return for a second series.
Tom Eames, Digital Spy, 21st December 2011As an avid Radio 4 listener tvBite was pleased to hear that Mark Evans's Bleak Expectations was getting the big money transfer to TV.
But while there are good bits, (As hero Jedrington Secretpast Robert Webb is great at being silly and the names remain excellent) the transition isn't entirely successful. What had been a lovely half hour radio show, at an hour feels stretched longer than Ricky Gervais's joke. Also, while some people liked Stephen Fry being evil, others thought he was too, well, Stephen Fry. Depends on where you stand on Stephen Fry, really.
TV Bite, 19th December 2011Life's Too Short's grounds for Gervais-Merchant divorce
Life's Too Short's penultimate episode saw Warwick Davis' marriage finally come to an end - sadly, we've still got one more instalment of this tripe before we can say goodbye to Ricky Gervais.
Rachel Tarley, Metro, 16th December 2011Surrealist bluffers guide to the British Comedy Awards
Will Ricky Gervais behave like a dick? Will anyone recognise Charlie Brooker as a comic? And will Miranda make anyone laugh, ever? Read on to find out...
Joshua Burt, Sabotage Times, 16th December 2011New fury at Ricky Gervais tweets
Ricky Gervais provoked outrage yesterday after saying on Twitter that Jesus "starved little children" so they would be "thin in heaven".
The Sun, 15th December 2011