{"id":149159,"date":"2025-09-11T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:46:08","slug":"ricky-gervais-adult-animated-comedy-series-alley-cats-set-at-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149159\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais Adult Animated Comedy Series Alley Cats Set at Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ricky-gervais\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ricky-gervais\" data-tag=\"ricky-gervais\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Gervais<\/a> is heading back to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>, this time for an adult animated series about a bunch of feral cats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAlley Cats,\u201d created by the Emmy and BAFTA-winning Gervais (\u201cAfter Life,\u201d \u201cExtras,\u201d \u201cThe Office\u201d), is set to debut on the streamer in 2026. Netflix has released a first look image. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe six-part show is described as a \u201cslacker sitcom\u201d following the trials and tribulations of a group of feral British cats from all walks of society, who seek companionship while ruminating on everyday life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGervais directs and also voices one of the cats, joining a cast that reunites him with many of his on-screen collaborators over the years, including Tom Basden, Andrew Brooke, David Earl, Kerry Godliman, Jo Hartley and Diane Morgan. It also features Natalie Cassidy and Tony Way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI play a fat, lazy, rude, opinionated creature with fangs, who\u2019s not as smart or brave as he thinks he is. So quite a stretch,\u201d said Gervais. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAlley Cats\u201d is being co-directed by Elliot Dear, with the animation from U.K.-based award-winning studio Blink Industries (\u201cDead End: Paranormal Park,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Hug Me I\u2019m Scared\u201d). Gervais exec produces for Derek Productions alongside Steven Hamilton Shaw (\u201cGnomeo &amp; Juliet\u201d) of Shush Creative. Tang Heng (\u201cKung Fu Panda\u201d 1 &amp; 2) serves as production designer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAside from his stand-up comedies, \u201cAlley Cats\u201d marks Gervais\u2019 return to TV as a creator for the first time since \u201cAfter Life,\u201d which ran for three seasons on Netflix from 2019-2022. He was recently among the voice cast for \u201cDog Man,\u201d playing Flippy the Fish, a cyborg butterfly fish with telekinesis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais is heading back to Netflix, this time for an adult animated series about a bunch of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,217,24892],"class_list":{"0":"post-149159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-netflix","10":"tag-ricky-gervais"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}