The Ricky Gervais Show

The Ricky Gervais Show podcasts is a comic series in the United Kingdom with Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, which was later edited to an animated television adaptation for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010. ==History[ Edit] == The series started in november 2001 on Xfm, and was from then on for a specified number of months to broadcast weekly throughout 2002, 2003, 2004 and the middle of 2005. In november 2005 the websiteguardian.co.uk offered the series to as a podcast, consisting of 12 episodes. [1]  Throughout January and February 2006, the podcast consistently ranked as the number 1 podcast of the world; It was in the Guinness Book of Records (2007 version) named as the most downloaded podcast in the world, with an average of 261.670 downloads per episode during its first month. [2]  [3]  according to the BBC, the podcast of the series, by september 2006, "nearly 8 million" Once downloaded.