The Ricky Gervais Show (2010)

Animation · Comedy · Talk-Show

The Ricky Gervais Show is an American cartoon series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4. The series is an animated version of the popular British audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, which feature Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, along with colleague and friend Karl Pilkington, talking about various subjects behind the microphone. The TV show consists of past audio recordings of these unscripted "pointless conversations," with animation drawn in a style similar to classic era Hanna-Barbera cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context. The animated Ricky Gervais Show has aired 39 episodes across three seasons since it premiered in 2010. There were some plans for a possible fourth season which 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.

IMDb rating: 8.4 (17,812 votes)
Episode average: 8.1 -0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 3
Streaming (US): Netflix
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (2010)

8.18 avg 13 episodes 8.1 → 8.3 25 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Space Monkey	8.1	296
2	Knob at Night	8.0	255
3	Charity	8.5	239
4	Dolphins	8.0	207
5	Glass Houses	8.1	204
6	Cobblers	8.2	197
7	The Diary	8.6	221
8	Nuts	8.1	185
9	The Jockey	8.1	184
10	The Fight	8.2	186
11	Beetles	8.0	171
12	Noises	8.1	180
13	Freaks	8.3	182

Season 2 (2011)

8.23 avg 13 episodes 8.8 → 8.4 24 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Clive Warren	8.8	222
2	Doppleganger	8.1	164
3	The Fly	7.9	154
4	Onion	8.3	154
5	Insects	8.3	161
6	Kidneys	8.0	151
7	Night Club	7.9	147
8	Future	8.6	161
9	Natural History	8.1	139
10	Leg Rubber	8.4	148
11	Mrs. Battersby	8.2	144
12	Art	8.0	141
13	Munchies	8.4	153

Season 3 (2012)

8.01 avg 13 episodes 8.2 → 8.1 26 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bryan's Brain	8.2	171
2	Comic Relief	8.0	146
3	Armed Forces	7.9	146
4	Room 102	8.0	143
5	Karl's Day	8.2	156
6	The English	7.9	139
7	Law and Order	8.2	143
8	Medicine	7.7	139
9	Earth	8.1	142
10	Society	8.1	145
11	Wartime	8.0	135
12	World Cup	7.7	135
13	The Year	8.1	136

The Ricky Gervais Show (2010)

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