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Ted Sarandos confirmed Thursday that Netflix is speaking to multiple potential partners to help it introduce ads to its platform. The streamer’s co-CEO and chief content officer was speaking on a “Future Of Entertainment” panel at the Cannes Lions advertising conference where he received the event’s Entertainment…

The first Arabic language version of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s British comedy classic The Office will air in the Middle East later this year, following a deal struck between license holder BBC Studios and local producer-broadcaster MBC. Airing on the network’s TV channels and via streamer Shahid VIP, the…

In a wide-ranging interview published today in the New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has doubled down on his prior defenses of artistic freedom, backing comedians Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais. Both comics are under fire in some quarters for perceived digs at transgender people. The controversies prompted…

2nd UPDATE: Ricky Gervais is defending his trans jokes in his Netflix comedy special SuperNature that have sparked outrage on social media. “My target wasn’t trans folk, but trans activist ideology,” he told The Spectator in an interview. “I’ve always confronted dogma that oppresses people and limits freedom of…

Netflix has set May 24 for the premiere of Supernature, Emmy winner Ricky Gervais’ second stand-up special for the streamer. In Supernature, Gervais gives his take on the rules of comedy, spoiling his cat and debunks the supernatural, concluding that actual nature is super enough. Gervais had performed half of his Sup…

Leave it to comedian Ricky Gervais to have the last laugh in the generally unfunny Will Smith saga. While the reaction to the Academy of Motion Pictures 10-year ban on Smith was mixed, with some calling it light and supporters deeming it appropriate, Gervais had the definitive take. Following the Friday announcement…

Ricky Gervais gave fans a more fulsome idea of what his jokes would have been, had be been in Chris Rock’s place at the Oscars. Gervais, who has hosted the Golden Globes five times, said in a recent video chat with fans that Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair was “like the tamest joke I would've ever…

By now, everyone has weighed in on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.  In the wake of the incident, fans have been comparing past hosts, and speculating whether or not the incident would have happened if someone else was rattling off jokes. One name that came up consistently was Ricky Gervais.  Gervais…

Be happy, be kind, be Tony. Ricky Gervais is coming to the end of After Life, the Netflix comedy series that he created and stars in and which has been watched by 100 million people around the world. The final season marks a departure for the British comedian, who has never made a third season of any of his scripted…

Ricky Gervais is back for his third season of After Life, and brought a new trailer in advance of the series’ Jan. 14 renewal on Netflix. Set in the small fictitious town of Tambury, the show follows Tony, a writer for the local newspaper whose life is upended after his wife dies from cancer. While still struggling…

WarnerMedia Germany has confirmed that Ricky Gervais is among the cast of its comedy series Greenlight – German Genius, which is now shooting in Berlin. The eight-part TV satire stars Kida Khodr Ramadan (4 Blocks) as himself. It recounts a dramatized version of events after Ramadan's real-life Twitter exchange with…

Lionel Blair, the UK TV star whose career spanned eight decades, has died aged 92, his agent has said. Blair died peacefully early yesterday morning. No cause of death has been revealed. Tributes have poured in from the likes of UK stars Stephen Graham and Eddie Marsan for the entertainer, who made his name as team…