The Ricky Gervais Show

The Ricky Gervais Show is an American animated series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4. It is an animated adaptation of the popular British audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, featuring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and their colleague Karl Pilkington as they discuss various subjects behind the microphone. The TV show consists of past audio recordings of these unscripted "pointless conversations," with animation drawn in a style reminiscent of classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context. The animated Ricky Gervais Show has aired 39 episodes across three seasons since its premiere in 2010. There were plans for a possible fourth season that would have used newly recorded audio, but this was shelved in June 2012. Series 3 of The Ricky Gervais Show premiered on 20 April 2012 on HBO, and on 8 May 2012 on E4.