Ricky Gervais is going to play a “fat, lazy, rude, opinionated creature with fangs, who’s not as smart or brave as he thinks he is” in upcoming Netflix adult animated comedy series Alley Cats.

“Quite a stretch,” the comedian called his newest role.

Good one — so Alley Cats will be that kind of humour. (British spelling out of respect to the man who created the original The Office.)

Gervais is also creator and director on the streaming series, which will debut in 2026. In addition to Gervais, the voice cast includes Tom Basden, Andrew Brooke, David Earl, Kerry Godliman, Jo Hartley, Diane Morgan, Natalie Cassidy and Tony Way.

Elliot Dear is co-director; Steven Hamilton Shaw executive produces alongside Gervais. Production Designer is Tang Heng, who worked on the first two Kung Fu Panda movies.

Alley Cats is a “slacker sitcom” that follows “the trials and tribulations of a group of feral British cats who seek companionship while ruminating about the struggles of everyday life,” per Netflix. It is 2D-animated by the UK’s Blink Industries studio.

Alley Cats is actually not Gervais’ first animated show. The Ricky Gervais Show, an animated version of Gervais’, Stephen Merchant’s and Karl Pilkington’s podcast, aired on HBO (and on Channel 4 in the UK) from 2010 to 2012.

And earlier this year, Gervais did the voice of the fish Flippy in the (kids) animated movie Dog Man. Gervais is a producer on the (American) The Office spinoff series, The Paper, which recently debuted on Peacock.