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"Tonight"

BBC2 9pm "Extras", the new comedy from Gervais & Merchant.
I'll be watching without question, Ben Stiller is the guest tonight.

But I promise you, without doubt, it's going to get slammed both here and in reviews because of The Office.
I love The Office and I'll happily say so, but I've spoken to a couple of people and there's already a backlash towards it and, without having seen an episode, of Extras.
People seem to resent somebody being succesfull, plus they think it gives them some kind of non-existent "net cool" to be one of those "Yeah, I prefered their early stuff" kind of people.
I asked them how they can rubbish Extras before they've even seen a single episode?
"Oh I've seen Gervais interviewed and he's turned into such an ego monster, he thinks he's really funny and he's not"

Fair enough, each to their own but I'll be watching tonight.
It might be good, it might be bad. It won't be The Office and that's enough for me.

It was alright.
Some bits were a bit dull but who knows, they cold just be setting up the characters. Plus, it is obviously meant to be more serious.

I liked when Stiller pulled out the gun to the kid's mum. Bits seem like The Office because of the cringe worthy thing but I like that.

Still, at the start I was going " This isn't very good ".

Already I'm the odd one out with comments of quality and awesome being mentioned :S maybe it's me that got it wrong. I'll go see what others make of it because I'm pretty sure it wasnt that great at all. To each his own I guess but still... aiyaa ¬_¬.

Okay it seems that on other sites, some people loved it and think it's better than the Office and others who like me were disappointed but hopeful that it might get better.

There were scenes that could have come straight out of the Office, especially the scene with the Japanese woman, but Gervais' character is different enough, it seems, to not be the Office Mark 2.

Anyway, it was awesome. But everything Gervais does is, it seems.

Favourite bit - Gervais listing the reasons not to go out with Goran because his wife had been murdered.

Quality? WTF I thought it was very poor and I'm not even comparing it with The Office. "Wasn't very good" said my brother and mum, so I'm glad I'm not the only one. And I really wanted to like it, perhaps I need to see more episodes. But for the first episode I was rather diappointed and only a few lines from Ben Stiller got a laugh out of me.

Ah crap, I forgot. I was really looking forward to it too. Anyone know if/when it's repeated?

Well that was very good I thought. Managed to create the same kind of sticky and awkward situations that we saw in "The Office" but they weren't so similar that it felt like a cash in.

Those last two minutes were quality. :)

"Do you by a pair then throw one away?"

Do you know who I am?

Starsky or Hutch, I can't quite remember

Was that supposed to be funny?

I dunno, you were in it




Aha

Quality.

Just quality.

I like Gervais

Apart of me expects it not to be amazing but that is going to happen after The Office. Though, I'd rather they stopped putting so much emphasise on 'guest' stars.

Same idea as a character on Chewin' The Fat up here in Scotchland