The Office

Started by Redlum, September 19, 2003, 11:46:50 AM

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jtm

awesome episode.

i love this show more than ever now.



ElPandaRoyal

Yeah, for a TV Show that started with what seemed like a bad idea (remaking a classic), it's holding up quite good. Very very nice stuff, it really works for me.
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Stefen

I'm really starting to like the new receptionist. She's pretty hilarious.
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Quote from: Stefen on October 30, 2009, 02:14:47 PM
I'm really starting to like the new receptionist. She's pretty hilarious.

Damn hot too.

Unlike the UK version, this show has always been hit or miss, for every great episode there is a stupid one. It's been a while since a 40 minutes ep, I kinda like these better.

tpfkabi

I thought Scott's Tots was a great idea.
I also loved Dwight's phone calls mimicking some of the others. I hope there are more imitations in the deleted scenes for the DVD release.
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tpfkabi

Michael finally screens his epic film masterpiece "Threat Level Midnight" for the office - but Holly reacts poorly

http://www.hulu.com/watch/217097/the-office-threat-level-midnight

I thought the Threat Level Midnight episode was one of the funniest of the series.
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MacGuffin

It's Official: James Spader Joins 'The Office' as New CEO
As reported by THR on June 24, the actor will take the job previously held by Kathy Bates, who will return to NBC's "Harry's Law."
Source: THR

It's official: NBC has announced that James Spader has joined the regular cast of The Office as its new CEO. The Emmy-winning actor will join the half-hour comedy as CEO Robert California of Sabre, the parent company of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co.

Spader replaces Kathy Bates, who stars in another NBC series, Harry's Law. Spader last appeared in the seventh season finale of The Office as one of several notable actors vying for Michael Scott's regional manager position. Last month, THR reported that Spader was in talks to join the show as the new CEO.

"James will reprise his role as Robert California, this uber-salesman that has a power to convince and manipulate, like a high-class weirdo Jedi warrior," said Paul Lieberstein, an executive producer and series regular. "He'll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted. Within days, he took over the company. James has an energy that is completely his own, and 'The Office' has no tools for dealing with this guy. We're thrilled he's joining our cast."

Spader won three Emmys as cutthroat lawyer Alan Shore on ABC's The Practice and spinoff Boston Legal, opposite William Shatner. He has previously appeared in sex, lies and videotape; Crash; and Secretary. The Office returns for Season 8 on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 9 pm.
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polkablues

This is great news. I'm actually excited for the next season, which I didn't think was going to be possible.
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MacGuffin

'The Office' to End After Season 9
The long-running comedy will be ending after the upcoming season.
Source: THR

NBC's The Office will end after its upcoming ninth season.

Executive producer Greg Daniels will return as showrunner for the final year -- taking over from Paul Lieberstein, who is prepping a potential spinoff. Daniels ran the show, still NBC's highest-rated scripted series, for its first five seasons.

"As we head into the homestretch, we have a lot of exciting things I've been wanting to do since season two," Daniel told reporters during a conference call Tuesday. "The end should be pretty cool."

Daniels, who was on-set during the call announcing the news, called it the "last chance" for the crew "to go out" the way he had envisioned, noting that "familiar faces [will be] coming back" as well as welcoming new cast members including Jake Lacy and Clark Duke for what might be an "emotional" ending for some.

"At some point you have a choice: to always tell the beginnings of stories and the middles or to allow a story to end, and I think endings can be very powerful and meaningful pieces of the story," said Daniels, who added that NBC Entertainment president Bob Greenblatt was supportive of the plan to end the series. "If we didn't let it end this year, I don't know if we would have been able to tell the endings for so many characters that I really want to know the endings for."

The end of The Office means a big turning point for NBC as it looks to revamp its scripted lineup. The network is betting big on freshman comedies, picking up seven to series and giving condensed orders for returning half-hours including Community and 30 Rock, the latter of which also will wrap after this season. (The Office and Parks and Recreation were the only comedies to receive 22-episode pickups.) "They may also be crying over lost advertising," Daniels joked, acknowledging the value The Office has to the network. "Hopefully they'll have other things that are working by the end of the year."

The final season will be different from recent seasons, Daniels said, in that it will focus on arcs rather than episodic comedy.

"The real heart of the show are these arcs that allow these characters to have ongoing stories. It's all going to be set up in the premiere," he told reporters. "There's so much to pay off from nine seasons, so many great characters, that my biggest concern is just tacking in these great ideas that the writing staff has on the walls and making sure we hit all of them or at least squeeze as many into the ending."

Daniels expressed hope that he would be able to keep big moments top secret, for the most part. In the era of the Internet and spoilers, he acknowledged that it might be impossible. "I would like to try to get back to the world where the world is surprised" by the story instead of reading about it three weeks before, he said.

Most of the main cast of characters will remain on the show, though some (B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling) in diminished capacities. "There are so many storylines to follow now, so many endings to write for different characters, risky things we wouldn't normally do if we knew we were going for a long time," Daniels said. "Now that we have an end date, we can blow up things and take some chances. It's very freeing and creatively exciting for the audience."

Some of those chances include upcoming storylines like Nellie (Catherine Tate) holding a charity drive at the office and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) donating to the Taliban in retaliation. The identities of the documentary crew also will be a big part of season nine.

"All questions will be answered this year," said Daniels. "We'll see who's behind the documentary, and we'll meet some of them."

To bring it full circle, Daniels hopes that Ken Kwapis, who directed the pilot, will helm the final episode.

Does this mean that Steve Carell would return for a swan song as Michael Scott?

"We'll see," Daniels said of the idea to bring the actor back to the series that helped launch his career. "We have ideas for the ending, and obviously if he would participate, we would have a lot of good times. The idea will fly without him if he can't make it. He is pretty busy."

The news to end the series comes after Universal Television, one of the studios behind The Office, locked up former EP/current Parks & Rec showrunner Michael Schur in a new two-year overall deal that will see the Emmy winner develop additional projects for the studio.
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Sleepless

Is anyone still watching this? The series finale is on tonight - should I tune in or not bother? Rumor is Steve Carrell might be making a cameo.
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polkablues

From what I've heard (since I haven't watched the last season and a half), it's gotten good again in the past few weeks, and I expect the finale will hit all the marks. I need to get caught back up before I can watch it, though, even if that means suffering through the rest of last season.
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Sleepless

Yeah, I'd heard some of the original writers were back for the last half of the final season. I've decided I'm going to jump on Hulu to watch the last handful of episodes that are on there and then the finale. Not really bothered about being 100% caught up. I forget when it was I stopped watching to be honest. Probably around the time Michael left, because it was getting pretty tired by then anyway.
He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.