A nation divided: Team Pam vs. Team Karen

March

Office mash-ups seem to go over pretty well, so I thought I’d share this imaginative and historically poignant one.

If you’ve ever seen anything by Ken Burns, you’ll doubly appreciate it. And if you’ve got a dog in the Karen-Pam race (err, bad choice of metaphors), this one will tear you apart. Credit goes to GiveMeMyRemote.com by way of The Office Live Journal community by way of Best Week Ever.

By the way, the next new episodes of The Office and 30 Rock will air April 5, NBC announced today.

~~What’s more, they’ll be supersized 40-minute episodes starting at 8 p.m. Andy Barker, P.I. and Scrubs will be supersized that night too.~~

Edit. Upon further review, The Office will be 40 minutes, Scrubs and 30 Rock will be 35 minutes apiece and Andy Barker, P.I. will be the normal 30 minutes. And just for the record, I was told there would be no math in this blog.

And the following week I’ll get my wish for back-to-back greatness when 30 Rock assumes its new timeslot of 9 p.m., right after The Office.

It’s about time, is all I can say.

Second edit. TVSquad.com seems to think this lineup change is bad news for Andy Richter. After all, 30 Rock is returning two weeks ealier than first planned. And with all six Andy Barker, P.I. episodes already available online, NBC has gone and made one of them a Web-only exclusive, leaving only five for the on-air launch.

No, it doesn’t inspire confidence in the folks at the Peacock. Then again, it makes sense for them to run with what’s working, i.e. 30 Rock, while still giving an unknown quantity, Andy Barker, P.I., a legitimate shot. A prime-time Thursday launch is nothing to sneeze at after all.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 12th, 2007 at 5:13 pm by Brian Howard.
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One Response to “A nation divided: Team Pam vs. Team Karen”

Chris Serico March 13th, 2007 at 1:15 am
Hooray for “The Office” and “30 Rock” back-to-back!! Could it be that NBC execs are reading Remote Access?

That said, I do feel a little sad about the Andy Richter show’s supposed fate. It seems like the first genuinely funny show he’s done since he left Conan; the “Andy Barker” previews definitely made me laugh.

Still, I’d fight for “30 Rock” over almost any other show on TV right now.

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