Ricky Gervais's New Cartoon Screened In U.K And U.S.

"The Ricky Gervias Show" is the comedian's animated series that is based on his podcasts and is set to be aired in the U.S. and U.K. The 13 part series will air on U.S. cable channel HBO in February and then is expected to be shown on U.K. television the next month.

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Ricky Gervais is the comedy genius behind "The Office" and "Extras" which were aired on the BBC, however apparently Channel 4 "made [him] an offer [he] couldn't refuse". The podcasts, which the cartoon show is based on, made the Guinness Book of Records as the most downloaded podcast of 2007. It is estimated that by 2006 it had been downloaded around eight million times.

The animated series stars Gervias and his comedy partners Stephen Merchant and producer Karl Pilkington. Gervais has said that this show is different from his other projects where he says he "stopped prematurely through fear of going stale and running out of ideas".

Karl Pilkington takes on the lead role in the series with Gervais describing his as "a global village idiot, but the funniest man alive. He thinks that a seal is a cross between a fish and a dog. Karl is a bottomless well of stupidity."

"Who'd have thought three blokes chatting in a room would turn out to be so lucrative?" says the award-winner, who will also host the Golden Globes next month.