Speaking to rottentomatoes.com Gervais revealed his upcoming feature film, The Man from the Pru, would spinoff into its own television series shortly after its debut. “We’re thinking of doing a TV spinoff,” Gervais said. “We’re doing it the M*A*S*H way round. It was originally just going to be a TV series – in fact it predates Extras.”

The Man from the Pru is first big-screen collaboration with Stephen Merchant, with whom he co-wrote The Office and Extras, is set in a 1970s Prudential building society.

Explaining the concept of spinning the film off into its own TV show, Ricky said, “I think it’s a much better way around that doing a TV show and trying to turn it into a film. This way around gives it a bit more gravitas, I think.

Gervais also hinted what direction the third series of the award winning Extras will take with the central character Andy going to Hollywood. He said:

“It’d be nice for Andy to go [to America] and maybe Britain thinks he’s huge but actually he’s struggling. Maybe everyone assumes the remake will be huge and it gets cancelled after one episode or one series.

The full interview can be read on www.rottentomatoes.com