Extras (BBC) - 6 - Ricky Gervais & Patrick Stewart

Andy and Maggie are working on a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest alongside Patrick Stewart. Eager to get his sitcom script noticed, Andy gives a copy to Stewart, who tells him about his own script for a lewd film in which he will star. Stewart agrees to circulate the script, and the BBC invite Andy for a meeting. Andy is asked to rewrite his script with a camp co-writer with a view to a pilot episode being filmed. Andy almost has the plug pulled on his sitcom after some of his comments to Maggie are misinterpreted as homophobic by his BBC producer. Andy is not comfortable with the way the script is developing but is carried along by the momentum, aware he is selling out on his comedic ideals