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	ROTTEN TOMATOES: The Vine: The Office Fansite
		He also told MediaGuardian.co.uk that he wanted Extras, a sitcom co-written with his long-time collaborator, Stephen Merchant, to air in the summer so there was less pressure on it to succeed.
		He said the main character in Extras, a failed actor played by Gervais, was unlike Brent in that he was intentionally funny and likeable, despite having chip on his shoulder.
		Extras is unlikely to have such a small audience, however, given the huge success of The Office on DVD and the importance the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, has placed on producing original, popular comedy.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_comments.php?journalid=100001813&entryid=148248 (569 words)

	Extra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Extra (actor), an actor who has no role or purpose other than to appear in the background of a scene.
		The Extra Girl, a 1923 film about a small-town girl who comes to Hollywood and becomes an extra in her attempt to achieve stardom.
		Extra (cricket), a run scored in the sport of cricket by any means other than a batsman hitting the ball.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extras (224 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/2005/Extras
		Moving away from the "fly-on-the-wall" style, and into the plot-based format of sitcom, (albeit, still minus the laughter track) it is already a brave move, in as much that the writing requires a more rigid discipline, with rules to conform to - or break, whichever the case may be.
		Anyone who remembers his pre-box office megastar role in US sitcom Friends, as one of Rachel's aggressive boyfriends, will have recognised the similarity in the antagonistic character traits, particularly in the segment in which he scolded a child actor for laughing during a scene in which he was fleeing from an armed soldier.
		Whilst being happy to accept her life as an extra, her individual demon is that of an ongoing quest to find love, trapped by her inept social skills battling with an endearing innocence.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /reviews/2005/extras.htm (854 words)

	Extras (sitcom) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Extras is a sitcom about extras working on movie sets and theatre.
		The series is a BBC/HBO co-production which first aired on July 21, 2005 on BBC Two in the UK and premiered on September 25, 2005 on HBO in the US.
		Eager to get his self-penned sitcom script noticed, he gives a copy to Patrick Stewart who tells him about his own self-penned film starring himself, which is basically just an hour and a half of women with their clothes falling off all the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extras_(sitcom) (2738 words)

	Chapter 18 - Sitcoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The female extras worked full time for a church and were using the jobs as extras to supplement their incomes and to invite people that were interested to visit their church.
		The extra who sat next to me in the wedding scene claimed he was had been one of the production assistants on "Deep Throat", the ground breaking X rated movie released in 1972.
		As is typical on sitcoms, the first day was a short day of rehearsals and wardrobe approval, and the second day was long and included dinner and taping before a live audience.
	home.earthlink.net /~ryalh/extra18.html (5849 words)

	Bloom Mocks Himself, Depp on 'Extras' - British sitcom pokes fun at actor's popularity - Zap2it
		Fellow extra Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen) is content with her limited job, since it gives her plenty of time to pursue men on set.
		"Extras" is known for its send-up of well-known actors playing themselves on the set of fictional movies and TV shows.
		"Extras" returns to BBC2 in September, which means its stateside run on HBO shouldn't be far behind.
	www.zap2it.com /tv/news/zap-orlandobloomextras,0,3152901.story (480 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Second series of Extras planned
		Extras, which stars Gervais as a frustrated bit-part actor who envies the A-list stars, has attracted an average of 3.9m viewers an episode.
		It is Gervais' second sitcom, along with co-creator Stephen Merchant, and follows their success with The Office.
		The first series of Extras is also due to transmit in the US on HBO from 25 September.
	newsrss.bbc.co.uk /2/low/entertainment/4159100.stm (329 words)

	Modest 'Extras' spoofs celebrities - The Boston Globe
		But in its modest way, ‘‘Extras’’ is a fearless comedy that gives the entertainment industry a firm and much-deserved noogie.
		‘‘Extras’’ is at its laugh-out-loud best as it reveals the superiority and inferiority complexes of the celebrities and the money men.
		One of the many ironies in ‘‘Extras’’ is that the extras want to climb the ladder, but the people above them are quite unenviable, heartless, and ridiculous.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2007/01/28/modest_extras_spoofs_celebrities (417 words)

	TIME.com: Tuned In - TV Blog Archives - Like Hollywood-centric Comedy? HBO Always Has Some Extra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Extras, until the last episodes, the stories repeat: Andy wheedles to get a speaking part and gets into awkward social situations with his colleagues; Maggie makes excruciatingly clumsy attempts to bed guys on the set.
		The problem with making a sitcom about people whose lives are in a holding pattern is that the sitcom can end up in one too.
		Extras is very good, and yet, like Andy, you feel it could be great if only it could get the chance to say something.
	time.blogs.com /tuned_in/2005/09/like_hollywoodc.html (540 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Extras
		Andy Millman doesn't consider himself an extra, just an actor who, at this stage in his career, is working as a 'background artist' in films and television.
		In the first series of Extras Andy tries to haul himself one rung up the ladder, desperately hoping to secure a speaking role or to star in a sitcom he has written.
		Extras was another naturalistic show that mined the theatre of embarrassment for its laughs and - particularly in the second series - reached real comedy peaks.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/e/extras_999051213.shtml (731 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
		Romano isn't the first sitcom actor to make a misguided leap to movies, and he won't be the last.
		The trouble is, sitcom actors tend to make sitcom movies, and savvy audiences hate to shell out nine dollars for the type of fare they can watch at home for free.
		Extras Review: A modest spate of extras enhance the disc, beginning with an engaging, if superficial, scene-specific audio commentary by director Donald Petrie.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5997 (1345 words)

	Finding Nemo Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		What's almost frightening is a demonstration on one of the extras showing how the studio actually replicated undersea reality, then backed off because they wanted to emphasize that this was a cartoon world.
		Marlin, meanwhile, is determined to somehow rescue his son, and with the help of Dory, a blue tang with short-term memory loss (Ellen De Generes), who plays off Brooks in hilarious Burns and Allen fashion), he has an even greater adventure than his son.
		Jean-Michel Cousteau tries to narrate what appears to be a serious short subject on reef life, but the cartoon fish keep swimming into his picture and interrupting in a way that will have the kids splitting their sides.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=137653 (1448 words)

	Extras - Pilkipedia
		Extras is a sitcom about extras working on movie sets and theatre.
		Initially, Extras' followed Andy Millman and his friend Maggie Jacobs as they worked as extras on film and TV sets and in theatre, but whereas Maggie continues to work as an extra, Andy is now the star of a BBC sitcom which he wrote.
		But while film and TV sets are still a major location for both Maggie who's still an extra, and Andy who is working on the set of his own sitcom, Andy's "celebrity" is taking them to new places, eg.
	www.pilkipedia.co.uk /wiki/index.php?title=Extras (770 words)

	HBO: Extras - News
		EXTRAS, the Emmy®-nominated HBO comedy series from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant has begun production on its six-episode second season, slated to kick off next year.
		Extras, Ricky Gervais' follow-up to hit sitcom The Office, has received a warm response from critics in America.
		Extras, the hotly anticipated new comedy series from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (creators of the Golden Globe-winning BBC comedy series "The Office"), debuts SUNDAY, SEPT. 25 (10:30-11:00 p.m.
	www.hbo.com /extras/news (438 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - Extras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One thing is for sure - the TV critics love Ricky Gervais' latest sitcom which he has packed to the rafters with guest stars; almost every magazine and newspaper in town heaped praise on it during its 2005 and 2006 runs.
		We on the other-hand were not quite so sure about it; a view that it would appear quite a large chunk of the viewing public shared (although "Extras" did manage to pull in 4m viewers on average, double the normal number for Thursday evenings on BBC2).
		The series was ok but Ricky seems to be relying too much on obtaining comedy from ruthlessly ripping it out of the Hollywood elite rather than using the subtle humour which made "The Office" such a classic.
	www.sitcom.co.uk /extras (389 words)

	British extras worry about job security - British TV extras, who say they're already underpaid, are no...
		British extras worry about job security - British TV extras, who say they're already underpaid, are no...
		LONDON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- British TV extras, who say they're already underpaid, are now concerned about losing work to amateur drama societies and contest winners, who work for free.
		The Ricky Gervais sitcom "Extras" on the BBC has given more depth to the struggle of the background actors who fill the extra spaces in productions, The Times of London reported.
	www.politicalgateway.com /news/read/64189 (141 words)

	Extras/Andy Millman - The TV IV
		Unfortunately, three things have conspired to consistently scuttle this dream: fate and circumstance, the sheer incompetence of his agent Darren Lamb, and his own talent for stepping right in it, and then making matters worse when trying to dig his way out.
		As such, he's forced to make ends meet by working as an extra on various film sets and television shows, consistently looking for an opportunity to extend his profile (or at the very least the chance to actually have a spoken line) and thus try and make his dream come true.
		His boss was apparently a something of a character, who inspired Andy to build a potential sitcom around him.
	tviv.org /Extras/Andy_Millman (233 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - Extras - Visitor Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of course the Office is still the best sitcom ever, but this new one has taken up a place in my heart it has a Chaplinesque feel to it, perhaps because nothing ever goes right for Andy.
		The critics made the mistake they always make when writers of a successful sitcom try and write something new, they assume before they've even seen it that it will be rubbish and so their judgement is clouded.
		Nobody (of sound mind) was expecting 'Extras' to better 'The Office' so it really shouldn't have come as a surprise when it was a let down.
	www.sitcom.co.uk /extras/reviews.shtml (1067 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Young Cosby's humor shines in sitcom DVD
		This half-hour sitcom shot on film without a laugh track has Cosby playing an unmarried high school coach, and the show is a very nice showcase for the comic's gentle humor.
		Social issues of the day are also addressed, right from the first episode, with Cosby jogging and getting picked up by police as a crime suspect (which doesn't end in the expected way), to one about a basketball player whose foul mouth Cosby finds offensive.
		Extras: Widescreen, 12 episodes (including four that never aired), deleted scenes, audio commentary (on the pilot), featurettes, optional English subtitles, chapters.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,645194343,00.html (866 words)

	Saved by the Gong - The sitcom that turned Margaret Cho into a cultural hero. By Sam Anderson
		The sitcom that turned Margaret Cho into a cultural hero.
		February has been a bonanza for connoisseurs of the mediocre sitcom.
		The show was an aesthetic failure on every level: It sandblasted the edges off of Cho's comedy and then stretched it thinly over a dubious premise, stereotyped characters, clichéd plots, and backbreaking jokes.
	www.slate.com /id/2136087/?nav=ais (512 words)

	Television Without Pity » Mondo Extras » Recaps & Extras » Season 2001 Episode 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For some diligent and/or lucky actors involved in such projects, the failure is a mere pebble on the rocky road of fame.
		Television’s landscape is littered with the corpses of spectacularly awful sitcoms helmed by the not-so-few, the not-so-proud, and the not-so-bright.
		Shows so incomprehensibly awful, so aggressively inane, and so absolutely unwatchable that their very existence can only be explained by the supposition that the executives who greenlit them were seeking to be fired or crying out for professional help.
	televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=56&story=1752&limit=&sort= (198 words)

	Extras - TV Reviews - TV & Radio - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Instead, the great comic pair stick to their guns: they have delivered us almost two seasons of brilliant laughs via the comedy of awkwardness with Extras, and they have maintained that strategy for tonight.
		He's funny, too: when host Jonathan Ross (playing himself) playfully quips that weight is problematic for many celebrities and must always have been a problem for Andy, the new sitcom star is quick to retort, in that very Gervais rhythm: "It's not a struggle.
		Whereas the punchlines from the average three-wall sitcom are telegraphed so far ahead they may as well have had royal equerries, Extras' comic pay-offs are unpredictable, almost off-hand creatures, just like those in plebeian life.
	www.smh.com.au /news/tv-reviews/extras/2007/03/20/1174153043420.html (555 words)

	An Army of extras : News 2006 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
		The residents of Thetford in Norfolk have recorded a documentary recounting their experience in the beloved sitcom, which was filmed there between 1968 and 1977.
		The 20-minute film, called Dad's Army - Extra Time, is currently being shown in Thetford library as part of an exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
		The area was chosen by the BBC producers because it was near an Army training ground was nearby, it had enough hotels for crew and stars, and its grey brick walls and flint buildings gave the right period setting.
	www.chortle.co.uk /news/2006/01/02/572/an_army_of_extras (400 words)

	Are Y'havin' a Laff? \| BustedHalo.com
		Andy Millman is a longtime "extra" in the film industry and regularly rubs shoulders with the glitterati that Americans read about in Us Weekly, and Brits in their issues of Hello.
		Speaking of catch-phrases, Andy himself is the genesis of a new one in season two of “Extras,” stemming from his sitcom, "When the Whistle Blows" which he’s managed to get on the BBC.
		Even though she often talks out of turn (she almost ruined Millman’s fledgling sitcom by telling one of the producers that Andy thought he was "too gay") we root for Andy because Maggie roots for him.
	www.bustedhalo.com /features/AreYhavinaLaff.htm (934 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'Knots Landing' lands on DVD
		Extras: Widescreen, featurette, photo galleries, slide show, optional English subtitles, described video for the visually impaired, chapters.
		Extras: Widescreen, slideshow, text biographies of scholars, optional English subtitles, chapters.
		Extras: Widescreen, printable materials, optional English subtitles, described video for the visually impaired, chapters.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635195422,00.html (783 words)

	TV Series Finale :: The last episodes of your favorite tv shows
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		The New Adventures of Old Christine: CBS Sitcom May Find New Home&bodytext=The New Adventures of Old Christine is the first show to break the so-called 'Seinfeld curse' but its future doesn't seem as secure as it once did.
		This is the first time that a sitcom has aired on a network at 10pm in well over a decade.
	tvseriesfinale.com (2465 words)

	Extras sitcom \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		October 6, 2006 8:30 AM The new series of the Gervais/Merchant sitcom "Extras" can be streamed from the BBC's website.
		The Office--by their admission--owed a huge debt to Spinal Tap and Christopher Guest's flicks, but it was in execution; It was a story-telling "model" they employed.
		This new series of Extras is straight-up imitation in content, and it's vastly inferior in all respects.
	www.metafilter.com /55324/Extras-sitcom (1995 words)

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