Original Work Gervais Submitted manuscript:  Good Grief , Ben Russell 2017, Pre-action litigation initiated.   Afterlife, 2019 Pilot: The Extra ,   Adam Wells, Darren Ashton, 1999   Extras,  2005 Children’s book:  Captain Pottie’s Wildlife Encyclopaedia ,  John Savage. 2000.  Legal challenge  stalled due to funding.     Flanimals, 2004 The Office , The Day Today , Armando Ianucci, Chris Morris , BBC2 1994   The Office, 2001 Book: David Thorne The Internet is a Playground ,  2010   Article title & content: The Internet is My Playground , Huffington Post 2013 Jokes : Stewart Lee. See Plagiarist’s Corner     Various stand-up routines. Specific Lee Jokes    A...

  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  everything else ,  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, an aspiring scriptwriter known Ben Russell contacted me via my lawyer with a similar account of how he had submitted a work, only to have it re-appear without permission as major Netflix production  Afterlife,  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 ‘ripped-off-by-Ricky’ bandwagon. But when we saw ...