Coming soon! ОфиÑ!!! Also, la Ofis!!! The Office is becoming even more of an international phenomenon
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Your friendly neighborhood slacker Office blogger here, back from vacation and digging out from under a mound of links and cool Office news. Sorry if any of this is old news to you, but I just can’t bring myself to just delete it without posting it up for anyone who might have missed it.
A lot of us Dunderheads just tune out for the summer, you know, and I like to be that shining light in the hiatus darkness.
So the Russians are getting into ‘The Office’ too, huh? Produced by Red Square Productions, no less. Lenin is turning over in his grave. The workers will never control the means of paper production as long as Mikhail Scott is in charge. This is from Ricky Gervais’s blog…
As soon as David Brentski has been cast I will post a picture. We are looking for a middle-aged slightly overweight unknown actor with an funny face. Do you think that could work? Good.
Russia and Chile are set to become the fourth and fifth countries to adapt Gervais’s original. Actually, timing is everything, because The Chilean version of The Office debuts tomorrow. Bend your mind around this promo video of La Ofis.
By the way, Britons, while poor spellers, are not averse to the occasional mea culpa, as this link demonstrates on both counts: An honest opinion on The Office: An American Workplace.
SPOILER ALERT!!! (after the break)
The season opener will be an hourlong episode and flash back to the summer weeks in the office. A weight challenge will be one of the plots, and every 15 minutes of the story will represent a period of time from the summer.
That’s this guy’s scoop for Season 5. I know a lot of fans are excited about this. Me, I hear the word flashbacks and my lunch comes up. A flashback set a bad tone for Season 3 from which it never fully recovered. That’s all I have to say about that.
Jenna Fischer posted her monthly blog entry. Remember when they were almost daily? Still a fun read.
Rainn Wilson was on NPR. You can click that link or download it at iTunes, like I did. It’s a great listen.
startclickprintinclude->Oscar gave an interview. Nothing that’ll knock your socks off, but still, it’s Office content. Here’s another Office writers interview from Comic-Con.
And Tom O’Neil asks: “Could Steve Carell’s creepy role in ‘The Office’ hurt his Emmy hopes?” I say, the only thing hurting Steve Carell’s Emmy hopes is Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of Jack Donaghy. Commence stone throwing.
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