First celeb is confirmed for Series 2 of Extras... and more!

Boy-wizard Daniel Radcliffe is the first actor to be confirmed for the second series of Extras. Though it's not yet decided in what capacity he'll appear, we do hope he'll be saying some really inappropriate things for his public image. Ooh, we like that.

Radcliffe isn't Ricky's only leetle friend - he is to voice a Miami gangster in a new computer game based on the Al Pacino movie Scarface. He told this week's Nuts magazine: 'I'm doing one of those voices that comes up whenever people get killed or something.

'Perhaps I shouldn't have told you that. I think it may be top secret. But I'm pretty excited about it. It should be pretty impressive.' Other actors taking part in the game - due out in February - include Steven Bauer, who played Manny Ray in the original film, Michael York and American comic Jay Mohr.

And in other Gervais news that he probably shouldn't be telling us, HBO have 'put forward' Extras for an Emmy. The actual nominations are still a long way off, but HBO are quite behind the series - repeating the whole lot again on the channel straight after it finished.