The Ricky Gervais Show, the popular podcast which earlier this month made a new Guinness World Record for having 2.9 million downloads, is returning for a much-anticipated second series.
Available exclusively from Audible.co.uk and the iTunes music store, Season 2 of The Ricky Gervais Show will be online from 28 February. Users can listen to a sample from the show now and sign-up to receive the new series from next Tuesday, at www.audible.co.uk/ricky.
Season 2 will consist of at least four half-hour shows, each costing 95p to download, or £3.75 for all four shows. All 12 epis#@es of Season 1 will be available for £2.75. The show is also available to subscribers to an AudibleListener flat-rate monthly membership plan.
Like the first series, The Ricky Gervais Show features The Office and Extras co-writers Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant gleefully bursting the bubble inhabited by Karl Pilkington, a village idiot of global proportions.
This project represents the first major transition from a free to a commercial podcast. Season 1 of The Ricky Gervais Show was free, but now Season 2 is available through a small subscription charge. In the light of
3 million downloads, Gervais jokingly lamented giving his show away for free in a recent podcast, saying: “I have been a fool.”
?As with The Office and Extras, the podcasts have been attracting some high profile fans such as Matt Groening creator of The Simpsons, Christopher Guest from Spinal Tap, JJ Abrahams, creator of Alias and Lost and even Jonathan Ive, inventor of the iPod.? Ricky says ?I find it hard to imagine what these living legends must think when they hear the ramblings of that little bald-headed Manc, Karl Pilkington.?
More about Ricky and the shows at www.rickygervais.com
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