Overview
- After Life was voted the top modern British comedy in a Radio Times reader poll limited to shows that began in 2010 or later.
- Ricky Gervais wrote, directed and starred in the Netflix series, which follows a widower working through grief with dark humor.
- Gervais has credited Netflix’s global reach for the show’s success and for bringing it to a much wider audience.
- He has said a friend who works with the Samaritans urged him not to depict the character’s suicide, shaping how he handled the topic on screen.
- Detectorists ranked second in the poll, BBC’s Ghosts placed third, and Peter Kay’s Car Share followed.