BBC’s The Office Goes For An Adult Swim

Adult Swim today announced it has acquired the legendary hit BBC comedy, The Office, from BBC Worldwide.

Both seasons of the two-time Golden Globe Award-winning series will begin airing on Adult Swim this summer. Adult Swim will also air The Office Christmas special.

Today’s announcement to add The Office comes on the heels of the addition of the BBC hit The Mighty Boosh, a deal also done with BBC Worldwide, which had its Adult Swim debut March 29.

Adult Swim airs nightly from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. (ET, PT).

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David Brent v. Michael Scott?

Is Ricky Gervaise planning a visit to the American Office?

Perhaps as Andy Melman from HBO's Extras?

To read Ricky's TVGuide.com interview here...

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BOTH "Offices" Rank on EW's Top New Classics

That's right. Check out the list of Entertainment Weekly's top 100 best shows from 1983 to 2008 and you'll find your "Office" if your boss with either David Brent OR Michael Scott!

The BBC Version ranked in at #17 while the NBC version holds its own at #61.

Do you agree with this list? Should NBC be higher?

Click HERE for the entire list.

Rainn Wilson and Greg Daniels Conference Call

Hello Dunderheads!

I just had an amazing time this afternoon. I was on a media conference call with Rainn Wilson and Greg Daniels for the past 90 minutes. I will have my full interview with them up in the near future, but I wanted to share some tidbits for you that they both shared!

There is new information here, and nothing too spoiler-like, but if you're a puritan for Office, you may want to stop reading now.

For the rest of you, here's some of the fun facts that I've gleaned from the call.

- There was a Christmas Episode mostly finished before the strike. Greg stated that they are going to vulture some of the material from it for the future.

- Rainn Wilson has a Dwight bobble-head on a shelf in his house. His 3 year old son used to love playing with it.

- John Krasinski will be the 'host' of the April 3rd airing of the past four Office episodes and will shows clips from "Leatherheads" too.

- Schrute Space (Dwight's Blog) on NBC.com used to be written by Rainn, however this year he's handed the reigns over to a staff writer to do Schrute Space.

- There was a cameo written for Mackenzie Crook (Gareth Keenan on the BBC "Office") earlier in the show. It never came to pass because Mackenzie was busy with Pirates of the Carribean.

- The producers of "The Office" have a deal with the producers of "Unhitched" so that they could still use Rashida Jones (Karen) on the show. They have one more 'use' left in that current agreement.

- Greg Daniels stated that they are looking into "playing with time" on the show. Kind of like LOST. [I think this means we could see some flashbacks. Wouldn't it be great if they did flashbacks like Friends used to?]

- Angela's real-life pregnancy will not be written into the show (Kate Flannery mentioned this in her blog too). You'll see Angela behind the copy machine a lot.

- We're going to see some of Dwight's ex-girlfriends and those storylines in the future.

So, keep checking back often to see when we put up the full interview!!

"The Office" in Chile

Nope, not another Branch Office, but a remake of "The Office" has been signed for creation in the nation of Chile.

Variety reports:
"It's the first format deal in Latin America for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's comedy and the first Spanish-language version.

"We stopped making 'The Office' in 2003 but the rest of the world didn't," Gervais said. "I won't be happy until I see an Inuit doing the dance."

"The Office" airs in 90 countries with remakes in the U.S., France and Germany."

Maybe we'll be able to see the premiere episode and see if it steals from the U.S. version that stole from the BBC version.

You can read the article HERE.

The BBC "Office" is Hitting the Bricks

According to the UK paper 'The Sun'.

"THE real-life setting of TV comedy The Office is being demolished.
The concrete building is shown in the opening scenes of the show, starring Ricky Gervais."

Article is over HERE now.

Rashida Goes from NYC to Toronto

Last week we mentioned Rashida was spotted in NYC at fashion week.

This week, she's been spotted in Toronto. She's in town for the Toronto Film Festival.

And who was also there? Martin Freeman! He played Tim on the BBC version of "The Office".

"Among the boldface at Tastemakers Green Room at the InterContinental over the weekend: Rashida Jones and Martin Freeman from The Office"

Read the article HERE.

Can You Tell Michael From David?

That's what this quiz wants to know!

Head over HERE and you can see if you can tell if the quote was from David Brent (BBC) or Michael Scott (NBC).

I got 100%, but admittedly, it's because I knew Michael's lines so well I could tell what he didn't say.

What about you? How did you score?