British comedian 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 from the start.“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.