Interesting. I read a comment somewhere—maybe on iTunes?—that Ricky Gervais sounded tired in the first few episodes of Series 2. Perhaps they did need a break. In hindsight it does seem like they rushed through to the second series, although when it was announced I thought they had just been playing it cool to see what kind of numbers they could drum up by episode 12. Suppose I assumed they had always planned to keep going if it was rating well. Monkey News… Series 1 will be podcast folklore one day.