More Angela Kinsey Baby Stuff

With the motherly glow all around her, Angela Kinsey joined a group of other celebrities at the Hyatt Century Plaza in Los Angeles recently for a gift give away they called "Baby Boom Boom".

Angela left there with a product called a Bib-A-Roo by a company named L'ik Darlins.

According to eMediaWire:
"L'il Darlins met with celebrities firsthand from hit shows "Extra", "24", "The Office", "Sex and the City", "Lost", "CSI", "Dancing with the Stars", "Boston Legal", "Heroes", "Grey's Anatomy", "ER", with familiar famous faces; Angela Kinsey, Ali Landry, Denise Richards, Chandra Wilson, Sally Richardson, Tori Spelling, Leah Remini, Ming Na, Carnie Wilson, Giuliana DePandi, Natasha Henstridge, Rena Sofer, and many more. "Attendees loved our bibs and aprons," says its president Leslie Smith."

You can read the whole article HERE.

Also in Angela baby news...

Celebrity-babies.com has a story about Baby Boom Boom and has this great quote:
"She also shared a cute tidbit for Office viewers: Rainn Wilson calls Angela up every couple weeks to ask how 'Dwight's' baby is doing!"

Awww, don't you wish we could be watching that unfold ON TV?

"The Office" Going to College

Well, clips of the show are anyway.

NBC has struck a deal with an organization called The University Network which shows items such as entertainment, news, weather, etc. on college campus closed network televisions.

According to Media Post Publications:
"Under the arrangement, NBCU will provide short-form clips (90 seconds or less) from shows ranging from "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" to "The Office" to news features focusing on the presidential campaign and issues germane to college kids. NBCU content will be provided daily, and can be customized for specific markets. So, local stations owned by NBC can provide weather, news and sports information in their respective areas."

You can read more about it HERE.

Kaling and Forrester Have New Web Series

According to our friends, The Hollywood Reporter, Brent Forrester and Mindy Kaling have signed on for new web projects with a company called 60Frames.

"A new company fronted by former UTA agent Brent Weinstein is launching the biggest slate of professionally produced originals to ever hit the Internet.

60Frames Entertainment is introducing seven shortform video series that feature contributions from writers and talent drawn from TV programming at NBC and Comedy Central....

The projects first out of the gate at 60Frames include "Erik the Librarian Mysteries," from "The Office" producer Brent Forrester, about a demented librarian. The series also features "Office's" Mindy Kaling."

You can read the whole article HERE.

Craig Robinson in Kevin Smith's New Movie

No, Craig Robinson isn't in Clerks III.

Craig has just signed on to be in Kevin Smith's "Zack & Miri Make a Porno."

The Hollywood Reporter states:
""The Office's" Craig Robinson and former porn star Traci Lords have joined Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks and Jason Mewes in Kevin Smith's "Zack & Miri Make a Porno.""

Read the article HERE.

Name Vance Refrigeration's Mascot!

Bobby Ray Shafer, the man behind Bob Vance - Vance Refrigeration has posted a blog on his MySpace page about a magnet that NBC is selling at their NBC Experience store in NYC with a new logo for Vance Refrigeration.

"Dear Friend,

The first Official NBC merchandise is fittingly: A Refrigerator Magnet.... As I admired my logo and creative-photographic genuis, I realized that we desperately need a name for the little-bugger, and so, I turn to you for help in naming my penguin."

You can go to his blog, and suggest a name, by clicking HERE.

Angela Kinsey Shows Off Baby Bump

Celebrity-babies.com has a few photos (this one included) of Angela Kinsey proudly showing off her baby bump.

Angela was attending the premiere of "The Business of Being Born".

You can see the photos over HERE.

"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.

Rashida Jones Says There Is No Nepotism in Hollywood

For those of you who missed S.A.T. class...

nep·o·tism (np-tzm)
n.
Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business.


Here's what Rashida Jones says, to Details magazine, about the existence of nepotism in Hollywood:

"Mindful of her parents’ admonition that “nothing should be handed to you,” Jones got her college degree before trying her hand at the family business. And even then, she says, nepotism wasn’t a factor. “People don’t believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy. There are too many jobs on the line for anyone to do any favors, and nobody has ever said, ‘Let’s give that girl a part because her father is famous.’”

You can read the rest of the article HERE. And yes girls, the article mentions John Krasinski too.

Office Alliance Podcast Helps Out SBO

That's right!

The girls at the OfficeAlliance podcast were nice enough to mention us in their fandomicity section of their Jan 7th Podcast.

If you listen around the 39:00 mark of the show you'll hear our little shout out for the SBO!

You can click HERE to download the podcast.

"The Office" and the OVAL Office?

Vanity Fair has a very fun article where they replace the Oval Office with THE Office.

"Question—who has the following characteristics, Bush or Michael Scott: smug, self-centered, and isolated; prone to inappropriate comments and malapropisms; fond of engaging in philosophical discourses that are spectacularly muddleheaded and self-mythologizing? If you answered both, you would be correct. And don’t forget the pathetic attempts at humor. Michael: the day he tried to boost office morale amid rumors of layoffs by giving Meredith (the boozy redhead) a birthday party, and then ruined the moment with a card that read: “Meredith, Let’s hope the only downsizing that happens to you is that someone downsizes your age.” Bush: his ill-conceived attempt to amuse attendees at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner the year after the Iraq invasion by conducting a mock search for weapons of mass destruction in the Oval Office. (The month of the president’s poorly reviewed antics, 52 coalition troops died in Iraq.)"

Read the whole article HERE.

"The Office" on "Friday Night Lights"

As I am sitting here watching last night's episode of "Friday Night Lights" on my DVR, I hear a familiar theme song start playing...

Coach Taylor looks up from his notebook to see his game film has stopped and "The Office" has come on his TV.

Taylor's sister-in-law (Shelly) comes in the room and as a bewildered Taylor stares at her, she has this dialog:

Shelly: "(Gasp) Is that The Office? Oh my God, I love this show, I'm so addicted to it. I was so scared that it didn't tape. Have you ever seen it? It's so good. Actually, I don't know if you would really like it. It's very talky."

Woohoo! I got so excited just hearing the theme song. COME BACK SOON OFFICE!!!

Creed Thoughts - Jan 10, 2008

The Office's Music Man - Creed - has posted a new blog over at Creed Thoughts on NBC.com.

"I want to say something about naps. They’re great. I can’t get enough of them. I take as many naps as I possibly can – at home, at work, malls, public restrooms, adult movie theaters. At work, there’s this closet downstairs that’s filled with really comfortable mops. You bundle those mops together and you’ve got yourself an instant mattress. Not only that, you also end up getting a pretty good cleaning, depending on how much you roll around when you sleep."

Click HERE to read the whole thing.

Jenna Fischer the Face of MySpace Celebrity

MySpace.com has launched a special celebrity section. It's for official pages of musicians, comedians, actors/actresses, etc.

Jenna Fischer, the QUEEN of MySpace, is their first Q&A on the site.

"Where is the romance going with you and Jim on The Office?
I have no idea. We don’t have any scripts. They were still going strong in the last episode I read, but that is all I know. I heard Rashida Jones [who plays Jenna's character Pam's romantic rival] was going to come back for a couple of more episodes before the end of the season, but they didn’t tell me why. I’d like to know!"

You can read it by clicking HERE.

The Office Nominated for NAACP Image Awards

"The Office" on NBC has been nominated for the following NAACP Image Awards.
The Awards will be broadcast live on FOX on Feb 14th at 8pm EST.
The categories are for directing and writing.


Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
 Ali LeRoi – “Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Guidance Counselor” (CW)
 Karen Gist – “Girlfriends: Spree To Be Free” (CW)
 Mindy Kaling – “The Office: Branch Wars” (NBC)
 Sara Finney-Johnson – “The Game: The Big Chill” (CW)
 Silvio Horta and Marco Pennette – “Ugly Betty: A Nice Day For A Posh Wedding” (ABC)

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
 Ali LeRoi – “Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Baseball” (CW)
 Ken Whittingham – “The Office: Phyllis’s Wedding” (NBC)
 Millicent Shelton – “Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates the Substitute” (CW)
 Salim Akil – “Girlfriends: To Be Determined…It’s Been Determined” (CW)
 Seith Mann – “Entourage: The Dream Team” (HBO)

You can see the entire list HERE.

Rainn Wilson in Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly interviewed Rainn Wilson about the Spirit Awards, Juno and of course how he's dealing with the WGA Strike and being away from The Office.

"Yeah, it was a really lovely break, and it's just turned into a living hell. I just spoke to Jenna [Fischer, who plays Pam on The Office] the other day and we are so ready to go back to work. I feel bad because they had so many amazing things planned for season 4 with Dwight and Angela, and I was so excited to film those. And we may not have a season 4! Period. That may be it. It's a very real possibility."

"Well, I think Leslie [David Baker], who plays Stanley, has taken up rock climbing and Meredith is actually a prostitute now. Steve Carell is a pool shark. And John Krasinski has gone into international diplomacy. So people have stayed very active and are doing a lot of very interesting stuff. I've taken up spelunking. Do you know what that is?"

You can read the full length interview by clicking HERE.