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Extended 'Office' will be online Tuesday

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:37:00 +1900

NBC is issuing an extended "producer's cut" version online of Thursday's episode of "The Office," five days after its broadcast airdate.

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Emily Blunt and 'Office' Actor Rumored to be Dating

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:01:30 +1900

There's a new Hollywood couple on the block, and they are presently the subject of several media outlets. Emily Blunt, who is perhaps most famous for her role on The Devil Wears Prada, and John Krasinski, who is best known...

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The Office: Episode 5.7, "Frame Toby" Review

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:04:45 +1900

Toby's back, everyone. The Office hasn't really been The Office without the resident HR mope Toby Flenderson on hand to draw the ire of Michael Scott. Surprisingly, there was no fall-out tonight from Michael Scott's phone tirade to David Wallace...

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Steve Carell

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:47:31 +1900

Los Angeles: Comedy Impact Report '08: Bigscreen Big Shots -- A former improv teacher, Steve Carell hasn't had a master plan for his career. So, when 2008 started with his acclaimed NBC comedy series "The Office" idling due to the writers strike, he couldn't have foreseen that by the end of the year he'd be a budding mogul with a new company, Carousel Prods., and a three-year, first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Rashida Jones Cast in 'Office' Producers' Amy Poehler Comedy

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:13:15 +1900

Rashida Jones, who so charmingly played Karen Filippelli on season 3 of The Office, has been hired on for another project by Office executive producers/writers Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. What was originally supposed to be an Office spin-off starring...

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Rashida Jones joins Poehler comedy

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:00:00 +1900

Exclusives: 'Office' actress to play nurse in NBC series -- "The Office" alum Rashida Jones has joined the cast of NBC's "don't-call-it-an-'Office'-spinoff" comedy starring Amy Poehler.

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WELCOME BACK

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:57:08 +1900

RASHIDA Jones is coming back to the home screen. Jones, who had a role on "The Office" for a year, was just hired by that show's creators and NBC to star in the new show that will be headed by "Saturday Night Live" alumna Amy Poehler. Aziz Ansari is...

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Ricky Gervais a riot in HBO comedy special (Reuters)

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:40:46 +1900

Reuters - You knew Ricky Gervais was a genius at writing comedy ("The Office") and a superb comic actor ("Extras"), but did you know he can do stand-up with the best of them? His new HBO special "Ricky Gervais: Out of England," which debuted Saturday, makes the case loud and clear.

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Barack Obama Releases First-Ever Internet Presidential Address

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:34:00 +1900

President-elect Barack Obama becomes the first commander-in-chief to release the traditional White House radio address on the Internet. And he's just getting started! The Office of the President-elect says Obama intends release these weekly Web updates during his transition and then from White House itself. The Democratic address will also continue to air on the radio.

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'Ricky Gervais: Out of England' on HBO

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:02:12 +1900

Ricky Gervais combines his 'Office' and 'Extras' personas in his 'Out of England' HBO special. > In a reversal of the usual order, Ricky Gervais' work as a stage comedian followed rather than preceded his sitcom career. It is the success of "The Office" and "Extras" that brings us tonight's " Ricky Gervais: Out of England — The Stand-Up Special ," taped for HBO before a large and appreciative audience at Madison Square Garden's WaMu Theater. (Does that become the JPMorgan Chase Theater now?)

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The Office: Episode 5.6, "Business Trip" Review

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:59:17 +1900

The Office is playing out, here in its fifth season, like a meticulously mapped out drama. While not the funniest show on TV anymore, The Office is the most character-driven comedy of our time, and it's a pleasure to watch...

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Melora Hardin Of "The Office" Heads To Broadway

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:48:26 +1900

NEW YORK — For nearly seven weeks, Melora Hardin is trading the offices of Scranton's Dunder Mifflin for the bright lights of Broadway. The actress who plays Jan Levenson on the hit NBC TV series "The Office" will join the cast of "Chicago" Dec. 29 to portray that killer chorine Roxie Hart. Hardin will appear in the long-running revival at the Ambassador Theatre through Feb. 12. "I'm thrilled. I'm so excited," Hardin said in a telephone interview. "I have been dancing all my life, since I was 5. ... In a way, I was made for musicals. But I have been working so much in film and television that I never really had a chance to do them." Hardin auditioned for the musical by singing "Roxie" and "All That Jazz," the big number for the show's other merry murderess, Velma Kelly. Her last stage appearance was in August in a Hollywood Bowl concert version of "Les Miserables," in which she played Fantine. Besides "The Office," in which she plays Steve Carell's love interest, Hardin has ...

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Melora Hardin goes from 'The Office' to Broadway (AP)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:36:38 +1900

AP - For nearly seven weeks, Melora Hardin is trading the offices of Scranton's Dunder Mifflin for the bright lights of Broadway.

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Is B.J. Novak Leaving 'The Office' for Good?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:44:54 +1900

B.J. Novak returned to the Scranton Branch of Dunder-Mifflin at the beginning of new season of The Office as Ryan, but has received little screen time since. Michael Ausiello is reporting today that Novak will be taking a leave of...

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