{"id":1049069,"date":"2026-06-25T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1049069\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:38:17","slug":"ricky-gervais-receives-enthusiastic-annecy-response-for-alley-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1049069\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais Receives Enthusiastic Annecy Response For \u2018Alley Cats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ricky-gervais\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ricky-gervais\" data-tag=\"ricky-gervais\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Gervais<\/a> touched down at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/annecy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_annecy\" data-tag=\"annecy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Annecy<\/a> International Animation Festival on Thursday \u00a0for a sneak peek presentation of his <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> adult animation <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/alley-cats\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alley-cats\" data-tag=\"alley-cats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alley Cats<\/a>, following the trials and tribulations of a group of British cats from all walks of society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe got a hero\u2019s welcome as he entered the festival\u2019s packed out 1,400-capacity main Bonlieu theatre and was then serenaded with a raucous rendition of \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d marking his turning 65 today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs well as writing and directing the show, Gervais reprises his trademark deadpan self as ginger tomcat Gus, alongside Tom Basden, Andrew Brooke, David Earl, Kerry Godliman, Jo Hartley, Diane Morgan, Natalie Cassidy and Tony Way in the voice cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe presentation kicked off with a preview of the first two episodes of the show introducing Gus and his motley crew of stray cats, who are joined each day by a posh domesticated cat called Ponce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTapping into the zeitgeist of a down-at-heel broken Britain, the cats spend their days watching nature programs and musing on a range of out-of-the-hat topics from the complications of cat suicide, when you have nine lives and always land on your feet, to the etiquette of crapping on a freshly dug grave plot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGervais told the audience in an Q&amp;A following the screening that the show was a continuation of his process and work across The Office, Extras and After Life, transposing his observations of life into drama, and also tapped into his love of animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve loved animals all my life.. \u00a0cats they\u2019re just sort of perfect creatures. They\u2019re so independent, they\u2019re so tiny, and think they\u2019re lions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais touched down at the Annecy International Animation Festival on Thursday \u00a0for a sneak peek presentation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1049070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[288340,217397,4080,77,451,56232,16,15],"class_list":["post-1049069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alley-cats","tag-annecy","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-ricky-gervais","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116810554290566984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}