In Britain, the biannual charity extravaganza that is Comic Relief has a great track record for creating one-off comedy sketches, many based around established British shows and comedy characters. Past classics have included skits based around the likes of "Doctor Who," "Blackadder," "Gavin and Stac...
Read More »Ricky Gervais has gotten back in character as David Brent from "The Office" for "The Office Revisited," a 10-minute video Gervais made for Comic Relief that was broadcast on BBC One in the U.K. tonight before being put online on Gervais' YouTube channel.
Read More »Shot in gloriously pretentious black and white, 'Equality Street' is the official music video from David Brent -- Ricky Gervais' crazily un-self-aware character from The Office -- and Dom Johnson, the rapper Brent manages. It's cringe-worthy good, as the rapper and the white guy in a bad su...
Read More »It has been a decade since Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's original version of The Office ended its brief but brilliant run. Now Gervais has brought David Brent back in The Office Revisited, a 10 minute video done for Red Nose Day, an All-Star BBC program that is part of the UK's Comic Reli...
Read More »Ricky Gervais will be back in the role that made him famous, that of unctuous "The Office" manager David Brent, for a short video special entitled "The Office Revisited," set to air on Friday, March 15th in the U.K. on BBC One and to go live on Gervais' YouTube channel at the same time.
Read More »Before he was Bilbo, before he was Watson, Martin Freeman was Tim Canterbury, a lowly salesman at Wernham Hogg Paper Company. It's hard to believe, but the original U.K. "The Office" is already over ten years old, and its U.S. counterpart is wrapping up at the end of this season too. Well, if you ne...
Read More »While Jon Favreau figures out his next move, especially considering the big screen musical "Jersey Boys," which he was set to direct got put into turnaround in November, it looks like he's plotting a return to the small screen where's he had some recent success.
Read More »The 2012-13 television season just finished up its fourth week, and there are clearly two major success stories overall: NBC has been the highest-rated network in 18-49 for four weeks in a row, the first time it's done so in a whole decade, while "The Walking Dead" made history by beco...
Read More »Facing cast attrition -- star Steve Carell left at the end of the seventh season, his replacement James Spader departed after a single season, Mindy Kaling is heading out for a new sitcom of her own on Fox while B.J. Novak's also no longer a regular -- and a general sense of having lingered...
Read More »To put it plainly, "The Office" has never really recovered after the departure of Steve Carell. In fact, one could argue the show peaked during season five, his third to last run on the show, and began a downward decline that was only exacerabated by the hunt for a new office manager and a...
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