Is The Office looking to open a new branch?
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- October
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I’m all for more Office, as my repeated rants against anyone who challenges the merit of hourlong episodes have demonstrated.
But a spin-off? Now I’m a little apprehensive.
Michael Ausiello is reporting that plans are brewing to spin off a new branch of NBC’s top comedy with all new characters, a la ABC’s Private Practice. The new Office drones would be introduced in a future episode, which brings to mind the time Mork from Ork landed in Milwaukee and froze the Fonz.
Yeah, it’d be better than that, I know. But the Private Practice example doesn’t inspire much hope. That show must have cannibalized Grey’s Anatomy’s creative team because the new show isn’t much good and the old show hasn’t been the same. Of course that could be because Grey’s fired its best actor, Isaiah Washington, toned down its second best, Chandra Wilson, and spun of its third best, Kate Walsh.
But I digress. Whether The Office II would still focus on a dying a paper company branch or even retain the documentary conceit isn’t known yet. Ausiello says they’re looking for a name to headline. Here’s where I’d go with what worked before and mine the riches of The Daily Show veterans as they did with Steve Carell and more recently Ed Helms. Rob Corddry might be interested.
Just don’t mess with my Office.
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on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm by Brian Howard.
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Sorry. Walsh was Grey’s BEST actor with Chandra Wilson a close second. Washington had virtually one expression he wore on his face – expressionless. NOBODY used their face as a canvas for communicating complex emotions and thoughts like Walsh did. She is one of very best, still under-rated actors of our time.