Porowski has developed the story, called Girls And Boys, alongside Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The comedian, 58, gave himself a '£1.5 million cash windfall' after he secured a huge deal for a second series of the dark comedy, which is set for release on April 24.

On hearing that his dark and, at times, almost unbearably moving comedy had been recommissioned, Ricky Gervais said, 'I have never had a reaction like this before. It's been insane.'

The writer and comedian, 58, is promoting the second series of his Netflix show After Life, which shows his character going through the grieving process.

Maddie, 17, has given her fans a behind-the-scenes look at how she passes the time while in quarantine in her latest YouTube video.

The new series was branded 'a phenomenal piece of art' by adoring followers, while one fan deemed the show: 'Heartfelt, heartwarming and heartily laughing'

The show, written by Gervais, portrays a suicidal local journalist struggling to cope with the loss of his wife Lisa.

Jerry Seinfeld admits that his life 'sucks' too... though admittedly maybe not as much as yours does in the new trailer for his Netflix special 23 Hours to Kill.

Dean Schneider, 27, who quit his job as a financier in Switzerland to look after a pride of lions at a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa, uploaded a clip of himself striking a cub after it scratched his shoulder.

Speaking to Radio Times , the funnyman, 58, admitted that following his iconic comedies The Office and Extras, he struggled most to bring After Life to life due to the complexities of the story

The Netflix show starring Gervais as grieving widower Tony Johnson returned with a second series on Friday, prompting unanimously glowing responses from viewers.

Ryan Murphy's latest hit show Hollywood is inspired by true life events of the Golden Era, including the heartbreaking tale about Peg Entwistle, a struggling actress who took her own life in September 1932.

New Netflix show, 'Hollywood' re-imagines an alternative history to legendary actors like Rock Hudson and Hattie McDaniel in the years before they make it big in Tinseltown.

The actor, 58, delighted fans as he took to Twitter on Wednesday to make the announcement.

The actor, 58, kept it casual in a grey sweatshirt which he paired with baggy jogging bottoms and black trainers.

EXCLUSIVE BY NATHAN SALT: While the onus usually falls on Max Verstappen, this weekend Alex Albon leads Red Bull as he and Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero race in the Virtual Spanish GP.

Horrifying video shows school drop out and son of Delhi Police inspector mercilessly beaten by gang member in what appeared to be a forced initiation.

The heinous crime took place just three days after Madhya Pradesh became the first state to allow the death penalty for rapists. The two accused are alleged to have attacked the victim at her home.

The female cat was said to have mauled to death seven people in the last three to four months in Chalisgaon taluka near Nashik. Its last claimed victims were a boy and a 70-year-old woman.

Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic has revealed that players would hide from Jose Mourinho at their Carrington training ground if they had lost a game.

Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals secrets about the composition of water beneath the icy surface of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon, including an abundance of CO2.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars 2020 rover is heading to the Red Planet armed with a high-powered laser that can vaporize rocks from up to 20 feet away to search for life.

NASA's curiosity rover has identified signs of thiophenes on the surface of the red planet and Washington State University astronomers believe they were formed by biological processes.

Professor Scott McLennan's desk at Oxford University may be 140 million miles from Mars but it doesn't stop him using his computer to direct Nasa's spacecraft on the Red Planet.

Researchers from the University of Tokyo discovered the single-celled organisms after spending a decade studying rocks found in the South Pacific Ocean in 2010.

Professor Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes astronomers should broaden their horizon's as they scan the cosmos for signs of life.

NASA Mars 2020 mission is set to explore the Jezero crater, which scientists have now determined is littered with hydrated silica and carbonates - two elements that could hold signs of microbial life.

A NASA rover has collected micro organisms from three feet into the ground in Chile's Atacama desert to give scientists a clear picture of what kind of bacteria they might expect to get from Mars.

An accidental discovery by Harvard academics has now found that a slightly different version of RNA may have been the key ingredient allowing for life on Earth to blossom.

Confinement to home may stretch some relationships, but it could also encourage you to become a little less reliant on the weekly shop. Here, Toby Walne looks at some do-it-yourself food and drink ideas.

SPECIAL REPORT BY IAN HERBERT - Wayne Rooney's football world is now unrecognisable from anything he has known. No fans wait outside the Derby training ground. No shirts bear his name.

Crammed into stuffy offices or overcrowded trains at rush hour, the idea of escaping the rat race and starting afresh on an isolated island is a dream for many.

Government figures show the average time from a home going on Rightmove to a buyer moving in is 20 weeks, with 30% of deals collapsing.

Hyderabad-based agri-tech firm UrbanKisaan uses hydroponics to grow veggies; see 7-fold rise in demand during lockdown

At the world's biggest ship-recycling yard at Alang, India, life is becoming harder as fewer ships arrive. Here's why. Photo: Karan Deep Singh/The Wall Street Journal

HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd is quoting at Rs 519.65, up 5.08% on the day as on 12:54 IST on the NSE. The stock is up 26.88% in last one year as compared to a 17.57% slide in NIFTY and a 20.42% slide in the Nifty Financial Services index.

Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal says he is ready to focus on his personal life and that includes having kids some day. The 39-year-old actor said he has neglected his family a lot due to his commitment to his work but now he has "lightened up". "I'm interested in my life, even more so than my work. I've reached a point in my career where I feel hungry in a different way. I've seen how much of my life I've neglected as a result of being committed to that work and that idea," Gyllenhaal told British Vogue in an interview. "(I've) lightened up. Seeing life as something that is, you know, fleeting, and the world being as it is now. I've turned to my family, I've turned to my friends and I've turned to love. I'm a little less interested in the work, I would say, and more interested in that," he added. Gyllenhaal, who is rumoured to be dating French model Jeanne Cadieu for the past two years,said that he "definitely" plans to have kids in future. "Yes, of course I do. I definitely do. The ...

Bobby Deol says be it the superstars or the aspiring actors, everyone is struggling right now as the nationwide lockdown has brought the Indian film industry to a grinding halt. The 51-year-old actor, who started his second innings in Bollywood with films like "Race 3" and "Housefull 4", believes the ongoing scenario across India due to coronavirus pandemic is scary. "There are a lot of actors in the industry who want work but not everybody gets that opportunity or the luck. Right now, even the big stars are also sitting at home. "Everybody is sailing in the same boat. For actors there is no way out to go and work till things get fixed. It is scary for everybody," Bobby told PTI in an interview. The actor had finished two digital projects -- a Netflix film Class of 83, to be produced by Red Chillies, and Ashram, a web-series with Prakash Jha -- before the lockdown was announced. Bobby said he was hopeful that the projects will release this year. "Everybody's work is on pause right ...

The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) on Saturday announced an insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh for its employees in the forefront of the coronavirus fight in case of death due to the disease. As the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic, the DSGMC has been providing free food to the lockdown-hit homeless people and shelter to health workers in its gurudwaras. It will now provide an insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh each to its 2,500 frontline workers who are providing free community meals, and sanitation and transport-related services across the national capital, its president Manjinder Singh Sirsa said. Staff members of the DSGMC-managed gurudwaras have been distributing food and relief material in JJ colonies, labour camps, shelter homes, etc., as a result of which there is a risk of them contracting the novel coronavirus, Sirsa said. The life insurance scheme will include sanitation staff, cooks preparing langar, religious preachers, security staff and other frontline ...

Healthcare firm HLL Lifecare on Saturday said its arm HLL Infra Tech Services has floated a tender seeking supply of over 1 lakh units of medical supplies towards COVID-19 testing on behalf of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). "The tender is seeking quotations for 40,000 units of viral transport media, 33,000 RNA extraction kits and 29,000 Combo RT-PCR COVID-19 tests," HLL Lifecare Ltd said in a statement. The tender is closing by May 10, the state-owned company added. "The viral transport media is used for transport of swabs collected for testing, RNA extraction kits are used to draw out RNA, which are single strand genetic materials of viruses, from samples which are then converted into reverse-transcribed into DNA while Combo RT-PCR tests has proven to be the 'gold standard' of COVID-19 diagnosis,"it said. HLL Lifecare is the procurement agency for hospitals and healthcare organisations under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

A growing number of hospitals are investigating antibody testing and blood plasma therapy as a way to combat the new coronavirus in sick patients. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann

At the world's biggest ship-recycling yard at Alang, India, life is becoming harder as fewer ships arrive. Here's why. Photo: Karan Deep Singh/The Wall Street Journal

After one round of public scrutiny and an adverse order from the Supreme court, UCIL's plans for uranium mining in Nalgonda seemed to be defeated. But the company now proposes to continue down the same path, apparently unmindful of local opposition or legal strictures. Sunita Dubey reports.

In parts of Kerala and Karnataka, kattas (check-dams) have been making a quiet comeback, thanks in no small part to the efforts of farmer-journalist Chandrasekhar Yethadka. Recently, a few village councils have been footing some of the costs of these traditional structures, giving a fillip to conservation and reliable irrigation. Shree Padre reports.

Two different bodies established by successive governments have made recommendations for sweeping changes to the system of representation and governance in urban areas. The opportunity is now at hand to bring these together, and ensure that wards are accessible and accountable to urban residents. Vinay Baindur reports.

The Draft National Water Framework Bill, put out for public comments recently, represents an important and progressive step forward despite some shortcomings and challenges involved in its implementation, writes Shripad Dharmadhikary.

My Mother, The Gharwali, Her Maalak, His Wife (70 minutes) is a play showcasing a day in the life of people who sell sex for a living. Directed by Sushama Deshpande, it is an unselfconscious portrayal of people in ‘sex-work’ by people in ‘sex work’. Charumathi Supraja has more.

Retired Nascar driver Danica Patrick talks to WSJ's Lee Hawkins about her post-racing life as an entrepreneur, which has taken her into the wine, clothing, and cooking businesses, while also maintaining an endorsement relationship with GoDaddy.

After work, Julian Yeo swaps his spreadsheets and balance sheets for knives and a pressure cooker. The NYU accounting professor uses cooking and Instagram as creative outlets that feed his need for human connection.

Kirk Douglas, who built a career in film spanning more than 50 years with iconic roles such as “Spartacus,” has died at age 103. Here’s a look at the life and legacy of the Hollywood movie star. Photo: Ann Johansson/Corbis/Getty Images