Ricky Gervais plans to end his hit series After Life with a third and final season. The Office creator and star plays local reporter Tony Johnson, a grieving widower struggling to move on following the death of his wife, in the Netflix show, which struck a chord with viewers following its debut in March 2019. “The response to season one, I don’t think I’ve ever received anything like it,” he shared in a recent SAG Foundation Conversations panel. “It was the emotional response.
My agent got 300 letters and that never happens; no one writes a letter any more… “I did use audience participation (when writing season two) and now with social media I’ve got loads of stories with 1,000 tweets a day about what they’ve noticed.