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Share Speaking to Radio Times last year, the funnyman admitted that following his iconic comedies The Office and Extras, he struggled most to bring After Life to life due to the complexities of the story, which follows a widower's grief.   Since its release last week, After Life fans have been gushing over the second season, which continues to follow the story of grieving Tony - played by Ricky - as he begins to have his spirits lifted by his adoring support network. Heartache: The funnyman, 59, took to Twitter to reveal he was on-set to shoot the Netflix hit, which follows widower Tony J...

Ricky Gervais teases After Life season three - as filming set to begin for Netflix The show has become one of the most-watched British-made comedy series The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Ricky Gervais has revealed filming of the third series of his smash-hit Netflix comedy After Life is set to begin. The show has been streamed by more tha...

After Life follows Tony’s (Ricky Gervais) movements through the seven stages of grief. Season One was anger, and Season Two is depression – so, technically, he’s getting better. Tony is a middle-aged man working at a free small-town newspaper. After losing his wife Lisa (Kerry Godliman) to cancer, the grief overwhelms him and he decides the best way forward is to stop caring about anyone or anything. If it wasn’t for someone needing to feed his dog, Tony would already have taken his own life. The first season ended on a hopeful note, while Season Two is a meditation on sadness and peo...

TV review by Steve Bennett As what’s hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime disruptor, the coronavirus pandemic is an unusual hook for a sitcom’s pilot episode. Lockdown is certainly not a ‘sit’ you’d want to return to time and again. But Pandemonium is proof of the maxim that the characters are more important than the setting for any comedy. So while the events of the past nine months are how viewers are introduced to the Jessop family, there’s a longevity in their relationships that should sustain more conventional storylines. It takes very little time for the viewer to feel like they k...

Worzel Gummidge: Saucing Nancy – BBC One, 5.55pm Mackenzie Crook’s reinterpretation of scatterbrained scarecrow Worzel Gummidge is one of the great television moments of the past 12 months, so it is good to have a new adventure for Christmas. This time, Worzel visits a scrapyard with Susan and John and overhears the grumbling of a foul-mouthed old friend – the carved ship’s figurehead, Saucy Nancy.  Nancy would like nothing more than to return to the sea, and it falls to our heroic trio to get her there, which means a rare and rather challenging foray out of Scatterbrook for Worzel G...