While the menu extras in OS X are convenient, sometimes they can be occluded by the application or system menus. Here are some ways to manage them to prevent this from happening. The OS X system ...

On an unseasonably cold and rainy day in the summer of 2012, I arrived to work promptly at 5:30 a.m. in downtown Brooklyn. I was one of about 100 background actors—colloquially referred to as “extras” ...

Hollywood is famous for its stars, but making movies also meant hiring crowds of people to fill the background. For those ...

As cringe-inducing as The Office, Extras lampoons Hollywood with great cheer while paying mournful tribute to failed dreams When we first met Ricky Gervais in the early noughties, he played the cringe ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

In addition to system menus, menu extras in OS X can be quickly accessed with a keystroke. Menu extras are the small utility menus at the top-right of your screen that give you quick access to some of ...

BBC sitcom Extras, from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, began on Thursday. Ashley Jensen (l) and Gervais play bit-part actors in Extras In the space of just a few years, Ricky Gervais has become ...

We don’t give them much attention, but they’re always there. They’re in the background of our favorite movies and television programs — they make a scene feel natural, or fill in the epic scope of a ...

“Extras,” which premieres Sunday on HBO, is Ricky Gervais’ follow-up to “The Office,” the BBC series that made him famous and, I suppose, rich. The series, which focuses on the world of the uncredited ...