variety.com - 8/19/2008
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Michael Schur working on Amy Poehler sitcom "The Office" scribe Michael Schur has sealed one of the year's bigger comedy overall deals, inking a pact with Universal Media Studios. Seven-figure pact calls for Schur to create, develop and exec produce comedy series for the studio which he's already been busy doing for months. The deal includes Schur's work with "Office" exec producer Greg ...
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... to lock Office writer Michael Schur into a mammoth overall deal, ensuring he'll continue bringing buckets of laughter to your living room over the next few years. First up is the new Office spinoff pilot, which we're slightly worried might now focus on Schur's character: Dwight's bearded cousin, Mose Schrute. [Variety] ...
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... · The Office writer Michael Schur signed a seven-figure deal with Universal Media Studios that will include shared showrunner duties on this mysterious Amy Poehler not-an-Office-spinoff whose arrival will bring an end to all injustice and world suffering. But no pressure, Amy and Michael. [Variety] ...
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Variety reports that Office writer/producer/actor Michael Shur, just signed a 7-figure deal with Universal Media Studios to create, develop and exec produce comedy series for the studio — which he’s already been busy doing for months.The deal includes Schur’s work with Office exec producer Greg Daniels on a new NBC companion half-hour starring Amy Poehler. Schur will take exec producer and co-creator credit.
Before The Office, Schur stared out producing “Weekend Update” for SNL.
“It was Schur’s “SNL” relationship with Poehler that eventually brought the thesp aboard. ...
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