Afterlife Stolen from Submitted Manuscript In yet another case of mind-burgling robbery from your favourite celebrity thief it can now be revealed that aside from Extras , Flanimals , The Office and all the  other examples ,  Afterlife is also a rip-off. Back in 2021 during a relaunched plagiarism claim  against Gervais for his awful Flanimals imitation, it came to our attention that Afterlife  had also been stolen from a submitted manuscript. As the unintentional collator of Gervais’ thievery, a writer – who at this stage wishes to remain anonymous, (we will refer to him at this stage by his initials BR) - contacted me via my then lawyer with a similar account of how he had submitted his work, only to have it re-appear as a major Netflix production supposedly 'authored by Ricky Gervais’.   Yes, you read that correctly, we are talking about Afterlife . At first this seemed too crazy to believe. Another one? Must be some crank jumping on the ‘ri...