Tag: The Office
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Just Another Show About The Office
What a difference a few years makes. In 1995, CBS aired a show called The Office, starring Valerie Harper, created by Susan Beavers and Barbra Corday. Here’s how Bruce Fretts began his review of the sitcom. How’s this for a cutting-edge satire of corporate America: The assistants on THE OFFICE (CBS, Saturdays, 9-9:30 p.m.) are…
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Bruiser’s IT Guy
Here’s a selection of sketches from BBC Two 2000 sketch show Bruiser. If you need to see the value of sketch shows, just look at the number of careers that this show helped develop, both in front of, and behind the camera. But that’s not why we’re here. Does anyone know who wrote the IT…
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Dunder Sellin’
I always enjoy watching sitcom stars in adverts, and you can find loads of examples of that all over this site. So today, let’s look at the cast of The Office (in billed order). Here’s an early one from 1991, with Steve Carrell. And there’s this one for chicken too. This Fed Ex one is…
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The Office: The Accountants
I’m a big fan of owning the physical media of a show or film, but streaming is also a convenient thing. I’ve been debating whether or not the get The Office boxset, and this may have just tipped the balance more in its favour. This is the first of 10 webisodes, made during the second…
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Filming The Office
I’ve been meaning to write something about my thoughts on the filming process and choices of The Office, but today I stumbled across this video about it, and it says it more eloquently and has more to say than I ever could. My take would have been on the shortcomings of the choice to film…
