Overview
- Netflix released the first official trailer and images on Monday, June 22, confirming Alley Cats will stream globally on August 7, 2026.
- The trailer foregrounds coarse, adult dialogue and crude jokes that underline the series’ explicit tone and its marketing tagline “Nine lives, zero fucks.”
- Alley Cats is a six-episode short-form 2D series with roughly 15‑minute episodes, created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais with Elliot Dear as co-director.
- The confirmed voice cast reunites several Gervais collaborators — including Tom Basden, David Earl, Kerry Godliman, Jo Hartley and Diane Morgan — and the animation is by UK studio Blink Industries.
- Netflix will show a world‑exclusive sneak peek of the first two episodes at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 25 where Gervais will appear, and the series’ adult tone positions it within Netflix’s growing slate of provocative adult animation while likely attracting both strong fan interest and public debate over its crude content.