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Finally, fans of The Office can watch Threat Level Midnight, Michael Scott’s spy movie, as he originally intended. Episode 17 from Season 7 of NBC’s hit sitcom aired as if Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton office boss was screening it to his employees, with edits showing their reactions. Now you can watch …
When is a movie about The Office not an Office movie? When Ricky Gervais says it is? The BBC and Gervais announced Tuesday that they’re collaborating on a movie imagining his David Brent character in his life 15 years after leaving the paper company he managed in the fictional BBC …
Joe Sabia is a NYC-based director and speaker, who has co-hosted and co-curated Boing Boing TV on Virgin America for three years. But for the past year-and-a-half, Sabia has been living in the fictional past of Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton sales office and cross-referencing all of The Office‘s pop-cultural references. The result: …
Craig Robinson’s post-Office career will continue with parent company NBC, after all. The Peacock Network on Monday ordered an initial six-episode run of his 2012 sitcom pilot, Mr. Robinson, or at least some version thereof. It’ll definitely star Robinson as a musician who’s slumming it as a middle-school music teacher. …
You knew and loved NBC’s adaptation of The Office. Would you have felt the same way, if: Seth Rogen had played Dwight instead of Rainn Wilson? Bob Odenkirk had played Michael instead of Steve Carell? Eric Stonestreet had played Kevin? Kathryn Hahn had played Pam? John Cho had played Jim? …
NBC’s The Office wrapped up nine seasons of documenting the life and times of the employees at Scranton’s Dunder-Mifflin paper company. No spoilers about Thursday night’s finale here. Unless you count this little ditty: “All The Faces,” an original song by Creed Bratton. Which his TV alter-ego, Creed, sang in …
What’s a decade for comedy nerds to wait for their beloved British characters? Over the weekend, we saw the rebirth of not only Steve Coogan’s “Alan Partridge,” but also Ricky Gervais’ “David Brent.” Coogan’s fictional radio and TV talk-show host has popped up in various projects over the past two …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Lionsgate announced it would release Kevin Hart’s next stand-up special as a big-screen movie, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, on July 4, 2013. The concert film was recorded during two sold-out Madison Square Garden shows in November as part of the New York …
What to say about Angus Jones, the proverbial other “half” of long-running CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, who in his late teen-aged years, has renounced the show that has made him rich and famous. Rainn Wilson and Matthew Perry both decided to join in the “filthy” fun by …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Adam Sandler is moving his moving-pictures business from Sony to Paramount — at least for his next trick, a comedy western flick, due in cinemas in 2014. Adam Carolla is joining FOX News as a contributor to Bill O’Reilly’s top-ranked cable shout-show, The …
