Warwick Davis in New Comedy by Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant
Published by Seth Quillen in: Television -- Date: 14 May 2010 Comments: 0
Warwick Davis as Willow
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators of The Office and Extras, are working on a new show featuring Warwick Davis. You may or may not know Davis from his roles in everything from Star Wars to Leprechaun to Harry Potter. But he usually has plenty of make up on so most people would recognize him best as the peck Willow in the movie of the same name. And My personal Davis favorite.
Davis previously guest starred on Gervais and Merchant’s Extras in an episode that also featured Daniel Radcliff trying to hook up with Davis’ girlfriend. One of the funniest things I’ve seen on the television.
The new show will be a 30-minute, single-camera comedy called Life’s Too Short and will follow the trials and tribulations of Warwick Davis, showbiz dwarf.
Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant
Gervais explained the show as “Warwick is playing a twisted version of himself. He’s quite conceited and arrogant and manipulative. And he runs a [small person] talent agency, which he does in real life. Me and Steve Merchant pop up as ourselves, just to add some realism. Warwick comes round and says, ‘Doing any more Extras? Got any work?’ And we go, ‘Ooh, no, not really.’ And we try to get rid of him. It’s fantastic.”
“We’re having so much fun working with Warwick,” Gervais said of the actor who is 3 feet, 6 inches tall. “Pound for pound, he is one of the funniest men I know.”
I loved what they put together for Davis in Extras, I can’t wait to see what they do with a show of his own. The UK version of The Office and Extras were both fantastic shows, I have no doubt they will repeat their success.
The only drawback to this story is the show is being picked up by BBC2, so it may be some time before it hits the Americas. Please get on this HBO.
