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Extras Christmas Special Plus Golden Years Again

I bet you laugh out loud at me...

The much-anticipated Extras Christmas Special feature-length series finale will premiere on HBO at 9pm on Sunday 16 December...and it's already available to pre-order in the HBO shop as part of an Extras box set out on the 15th.

The same episode is due on BBC1 in the UK sometime in December, but further screening details for that have yet to be announced.

While there's no actual Bowie content in this special, I know a lot of you have been keen to find out about the screening, and at least there is some Bowie in the extended trailer on the official Ricky Gervais site.

Speaking of Ricky Gervais and David Bowie together, the above is a still of Ricky as Clive Meadows, a Bowie-impersonating video store franchise owner, in full Aladdin Sane garb from Channel 4's 1999 Comedy Lab showing of Golden Years, which we did actually tell you about way back then.

It was a kind of taster of what was to come in The Office and has been made available again via Channel 4's on demand service, 4oD. Check it out, it has some priceless moments even if it isn't quite of the standard of what was to follow.

Speaking of folk resurrecting early 70s Bowie alter-egos...

categories: News
Sunday 12.02.07
Posted by Mark Adams
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