Question: Extras, is a British sitcom about extras working in television, film, and theatre, the series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and was created, written, and directed by Ricky Dene Gervais, an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and musician, born on which date?

full_context: Document 1: Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge: Mid Morning Matters is a British digital radioshow parody written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Armando Iannucci, produced by Baby Cow Productions and funded by the British arm of Australian lager company Foster's, starring Coogan as fictional radio DJ Alan Partridge. The first of twelve 15-minute episodes was uploaded to the Foster's Funny website on 5 November 2010, and then available on YouTube. Six 30-minute episodes titled "Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters: Special Edition", edited from the web series, began airing on Sky Atlantic HD in July 2012 as part of a deal between producers Baby Cow and BSkyB. A second series consisting of six episodes was announced on 1 July 2014 to air on Sky Atlantic in 2016 with a premiere date of 16 February.
Document 2: The IT Crowd: The IT Crowd is a British sitcom by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry.
Document 3: Ricky Gervais: Ricky Dene Gervais ( ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and musician.
Document 4: Extras (TV series): Extras is a British sitcom about extras working in television, film, and theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and was created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom also starred in it. "Extras" follows the lives of Andy Millman, his platonic friend Maggie Jacobs, and Andy's substandard agent and part-time retail employee Darren Lamb as Millman muddles through life as an anonymous "background performer" who eventually finds success as a B-level sitcom star.
Document 5: The Office Christmas specials: "The Office" Christmas Specials are the two-part final episode of the British mockumentary comedy television series "The Office". The specials were commissioned after the series' creators, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, announced that they would not write a full third series of the show. The first 45-minute part was broadcast on BBC One on 26 December 2003, and the second 50-minute part was shown the following evening. The episodes are presented in the style of "revisited" documentaries common on British television, in which popular "docusoaps" (e.g. "Airport"), are brought back for one-off specials several years after the series concluded. David Brent (Gervais), forcibly made redundant at the end of the second series, is now a travelling salesman of cleaning supplies. Tim Canterbury (Martin Freeman) and Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook) are still working at the offices of Wernham Hogg, and former Wernham Hogg receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis) now lives in Florida, though is flown back to Britain by the documentary crew to reunite with her old colleagues.
Document 6: Meet Ricky Gervais: Meet Ricky Gervais is a talk show written and hosted by the English comedian Ricky Gervais. It was produced by Talkback for Channel 4 in 2000 (repeated 2003) and ran for one series on Friday nights.
Document 7: David Earl (actor): David Earl is a British actor and comedian, best known for his comedy character Brian Gittins. He has featured in several projects associated with Ricky Gervais, most notably as Kevin 'Kev' Twine in the sitcom "Derek", and in smaller roles in "Extras" and the film "Cemetery Junction". He also co-wrote and starred in the sitcom "Rovers" for Sky 1 with Joe Wilkinson.
Document 8: Tim Minchin: Timothy David Minchin (born 7 October 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician and director. He was born in Northampton, England, to Australian parents, but raised in Perth, Western Australia.
Document 9: The Office (UK TV series): The Office is a British mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character, David Brent.
Document 10: David Brent: Life on the Road: David Brent: Life on the Road is a 2016 British mockumentary comedy film written, directed, and produced by Ricky Gervais and released by Entertainment One. The film stars Gervais as David Brent, a character he played in the BBC television comedy series "The Office", who has a film crew that shadows Brent as he travels up and down the country living his dream of being a rock star. Gervais said, "This film delves much more into his private life than "The Office" ever did and we really get to peel back the layers of this extraordinary, ordinary man." He has emphasised that it is "not an "Office" film".
Document 11: Life's Too Short: Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, from an idea by Warwick Davis, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf". Davis plays a fictionalised version of himself, and both Gervais and Merchant appear in supporting roles as themselves. The show began airing on BBC Two on 10 November 2011. Premium cable channel HBO, which co-produced the series with the BBC, have the US rights and began airing the series on 19 February 2012.
Document 12: List of The Office (UK TV series) episodes: "The Office" is a British sitcom that was originally broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2003. The television programme was created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant; the former also played the main character, manager David Brent. The series is set in the Slough office of a fictional paper merchant, Wernham Hogg, and is presented in a mockumentary format depicting the everyday lives of its employees.
Document 13: David Mitchell (comedian): David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is a British comedian, actor and writer. He is half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb alongside Robert Webb. The duo starred in the Channel 4 sitcom "Peep Show" in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. Mitchell won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009 for his performance in the show. The duo have written and starred in several sketch shows including "Bruiser", "The Mitchell and Webb Situation", "That Mitchell and Webb Sound" and also "That Mitchell and Webb Look". Mitchell and Webb also starred in the UK version of Apple's "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign. Their first film "Magicians" was released in 2007.
Document 14: Ricky Tomlinson: Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson (born 26 September 1939) is an English actor, comedian, author, and political activist. He is best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in "Brookside", DCI Charlie Wise in "Cracker", and Jim Royle in "The Royle Family".
Document 15: Eric &quot;Ricky&quot; McKinnie: Eric "Ricky" McKinnie (born July 12, 1952) is a blind American gospel singer, drummer, radio show host, recording studio owner and songwriter, best known for performing with the multiple Grammy Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama, for which he also serves as road business manager. McKinnie has performed with a variety of gospel acts, including the Gospel Keynotes and his own group, the Ricky McKinnie Singers.
ground_truth: 25 June 1961