Has anyone else seen the Extras yet? It's Ricky Gervais' new sitcom, follow-up to the Office, and features a man who's doomed to a life of being a line-less extra in films and being surrounded by more successful (yet incompetent) stars.
Unfortunately I missed it tonight (too busy messing around with JavaScript in order to get some funky 3-column article pages working... argh, since I heard it was quite offensive too) but the first two episodes were quite funny- there's in-jokes ("Haven't you even been in the Bill yet? Casualty?"), celebs taking the piss out of themselves (Ross Kemp saying he was in the SAS- "Super Army Soldiers"- and probably the funniest performance so far) and the usual really cringeworthy situations (usually where the main character tries to get himself into a conversation with a producer). I hope it doesn't do a Simpsons with the celebrity-saturation, but as long as they're all self-deprecating in it they should be fine...



