Adam Howitt's Blog

Mar 22
2005

The Office comes early

Through the wonder of livestats and google I just discovered the pre-release of the pilot for NBC's the Office due to launch next week and I'm both suprised and glad to say I was impressed.  They have done a good job in my mind, deviating from the original scripts whilst maintaining some of the sensibilities of the orginal.

I came across metafilter.com's reviews after finding that someone found my site in search.yahoo.com while looking for "The Office NBC".  I was curious how I ranked for the same in Google and found the news about the MySpace preview event.

I think most of the metafilter comments are hugely biassed and I'm curious if most of the comments were Brits.  As an expat I followed the original series closely on the beeb and was also sorely disappointed to see the Coupling nonsense they turned out.  I found myself laughing out loud a few times during the 20 minute pilot on MySpace this lunch time.  Hope the rest of the shows work.

I don't know if anyone know the answer but what happens to shows that get canned after only a few episodes - do they just bin the rest of the episodes they recorded or is there some way to buy copies of them.  Take the Coupling US version - I'd buy the DVD for posterity and curiosity. 

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  1. A lot of times the DVD release for a failed show will include the additional episodes as 'Never Before Seen!!'. That is, if they ever release a DVD set.

    I haven't seen the new The Office, but I am a huge fan of Steve Carell. He has always been my favorite 'reporter' on The Daily Show, and did a fine job in Bruce Almighty and Anchorman.

  2. Yay! I don't know about you guys, but I certainly didn't think the "new" Office sucked at all. I definitely liked all the actors that were chosen (way more than the US Coupling gang) and I think that the script translated well (way more than the US Coupling did).

    As for the daily show - rob corddry has taken over as my favorite correspondent. He has no fear...

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