On an unseasonably cold and rainy day in the summer of 2012, I arrived to work promptly at 5:30 a.m. in downtown Brooklyn. I was one of about 100 background actors—colloquially referred to as “extras” ...

Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale is technically a Christmas special, but other than the box art depicting Ricky Gervais covered in lights with the tagline “Bloody merry,” you’d hardly know it.

The film and TV production industry is booming, and starting an extras-only casting agency can potentially secure you a portion of this multibillion-dollar industry. Extras casting is simply supplying ...

As cringe-inducing as The Office, Extras lampoons Hollywood with great cheer while paying mournful tribute to failed dreams When we first met Ricky Gervais in the early noughties, he played the cringe ...

BBC sitcom Extras, from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, began on Thursday. Ashley Jensen (l) and Gervais play bit-part actors in Extras In the space of just a few years, Ricky Gervais has become ...

“Extras,” which premieres Sunday on HBO, is Ricky Gervais’ follow-up to “The Office,” the BBC series that made him famous and, I suppose, rich. The series, which focuses on the world of the uncredited ...