Fri, 16 January 2009
No big shocker, but NBC officially
announced yesterday that they are renewing THE OFFICE for the 2009-2010
season (along with 30 ROCK).
As for the still unnamed Amy Poehler non-spinoff show, TV Guide gives a few more details: This much we know:
NBC's new and as-yet-untitled comedy starring Saturday Night Live
alumna Amy Poehler as the chairwoman of the Department of Parks and
Recreation in a small Indiana town is not a spin-off of The Office —
even though that is what Office exec producer Greg Daniels originally
was asked by the network to explore.
According to the article, the show will use essentially the same "mockumentary" format used on THE OFFICE and will share much the same comic sensibility (Poehler's Leslie Knope is also a clueless boss with an exasperated staff). Thankfully, the two shows will never interact with one another: "Actually,
theoretically, we can't," Michael Schur, an exec producer on the new
show, tells TVGuide.com, "because Rashida Jones is playing a different
human being — unless [the new show's] Ann Logan and Karen Fillipelli
are identical twins who don't know the other one exists." Are the new
show's bosses at all bummed that these worlds can never collide? "The
network might be more disappointed than I am," Daniels tells us,
adding, "I've never been a huge fan of those kinds of stunts."
The article also confirms that
Rashida Jones will reappear on THE OFFICE in an episode airing some
time after February 1st. Poehler's new show is set to debut on April
9th.
Will there ever be a TRUE spinoff to the show? Greg Daniels had this to say to the folks over at EW: "It's not possible, physically, for me to be involved in it right this second, but I'm talking to people over at The Office about another idea, and [The Office's British creator] Stephen Merchant came back and directed an episode of The Office so were were talking about the idea," Daniels told critics at NBC's annual Television Critics Tour on Thursday. "It's possible that some combination of other Office people could produce it without my giving blood for it." Please, Greg-- let's quit while we're ahead, m'kay?
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-- posted at: 5:50pm EDT
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You can see how this might have started as a \"spinoff\" with the same faux-docu look at another american institution. Not the \"office\" but \"government.\" Glad to see this isn\'t one of those \"forced spinoffs\" where Michael Scott goes to the county board for this or that to be able to force Amy Poehler\'s character into the Scranton universe.
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