The Official "Derek" Thread

[Spuddy]

Hate to get excited after being let down. But I can't help it.

[Tomkerr93]

Yeah, really excited :)

[Dirty_Barry]

This photo of him shocked me. He looks like the Derek he performed 10 year ago. Thought it wouldn't look right, what with him losing about 16 stone.

I've been quite hateful towards Gervais, but mainly because of his attitude which I'm getting fed up with. But, I really hope this new show is a success. If it becomes a huge success, there's everychance he will admit Life's Too Short was a disaster (or in as many words).

BTW...How the hell will/can Karl act? It's a highly skilled career. Just don't know how it's gonna work. Unless, it's a bit-part role and Karl will just be noticed a lot in each scene. Who knows.

I'm arguing with myself again.

[ike]

I'm hoping that Karl's part is mainly unscripted, so it's just him looking confused and improvising for most of his parts.

[Dirty_Barry]

I'm hoping that Karl's part is mainly unscripted, so it's just him looking confused and improvising for most of his parts.

'Outnumbered' style. Like it.

[CommitteeCamel]

This photo of him shocked me. He looks like the Derek he performed 10 year ago. Thought it wouldn't look right, what with him losing about 16 stone.

I've been quite hateful towards Gervais, but mainly because of his attitude which I'm getting fed up with. But, I really hope this new show is a success. If it becomes a huge success, there's everychance he will admit Life's Too Short was a disaster (or in as many words).

BTW...How the hell will/can Karl act? It's a highly skilled career. Just don't know how it's gonna work. Unless, it's a bit-part role and Karl will just be noticed a lot in each scene. Who knows.

I'm arguing with myself again.

I reckon Karl will have a few rough lines, but he'll be mostly unscripted.
In which case I really don't see the point in him being in it, if he's just going to be himself in a pair of comedy glasses and a wig (*cough* Millman...)

Don't want to put a dampener on it because I'm more excited for this than I was about LTS, but I hope Karl's in it following a script.

[RandyChimp]

Wow, um, just...wow.

I'm sort of with a number of people here, I see the photo and suddenly, I have a bit of hope for this. It does look like the Derek we've seen in that short. I hope this goes well, it has potential, but again, after LTS, it's a "Well, I've been burned before" situation.

[constantmotion]

I like the pictures... but honestly? Not confident. Not in the quality of the show itself, I'm sure it'll be funny. I'm just not sure I like the idea of Karl Pilkington being one of the lead actors in a weekly sitcom. Karl is Karl, and he'll always be smashingly funny and humble and all that, but I question the wisdom of taking someone who people love 'cause he's an ordinary bloke, and putting him into all these high profile roles. A few years ago I'd have given Ricky the benefit of the doubt. One or two years ago, even. No longer particularly sure I'd trust him.

[Tomkerr93]

It's already been posted in another thread, but on the topic of Derek, listen to the third part of the interview:

http://www.key103.co.uk/on-air/breakfast-pilkington/

He reveals that his part in Derek doesn't have lines, and so will be improvised :)

[ike]

Hadn't listened to that one yet so shall do so now. That's great news if it's improvised, my main worry about this was Karl having to say pre-written lines, which I couldn't really see working too well.

[mushroommai]

I don't know how true this article is, but I thought I'd share it anyway.

Ricky Gervais’ new sitcom Derek 'to be commissioned by Channel 4'

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/885499-ricky- ... z1hAVrqoLZ

Despite Life's Too Short, Gervais' latest venture with comedy partner Stephen Merchant, proving to be a ratings failure as it haemorrhaged viewers following a strong debut, Channel 4 executive Jay Hunt is said to be keen to commission the new series.
Hunt was apparently 'thrilled' with the pilot, which was filmed last month in London and which centres around lead character Derek Noakes, with Pilkington taking a more peripheral role and Sean Connery being touted as a possible guest star.

[EinHistory]

They're still going with the Sean Connery thing?

[mushroommai]

Thats the part that makes me question the article most...
I read the same thing on Digital Spy, and they're still saying Sean Connery is rumoured to make a guest appearance. They clearly haven't done their research on that, Ricky's said it's not happening.

BUT I wouldn't be surprised if Channel 4 was the one for Derek, it sounds more like a channel 4 thing than a bbc thing.
But again, I think you have to take these things with a pinch of salt.
They're wrong so many times.

[ike]

I'll wait until Gervais confirms it on his blog.
One thing I hope for this show is that they don't bother with any celebrity cameos or guest stars, because I now feel like they've done it to death after LTS, and if anything it just helped to detract more from what was going on the show itself, they need to really focus on the story and the characters before crow-barring random celebrities into it.

[Hamlet]

I am holding out hope that this will be OK but after LTS, I'm not even sure they can do the fake doco format any more.