NBC announced today that the most coveted time period of the coming season, the post Super Bowl slot, will be used to launch a spinoff of the network's hit comedy series, "The Office." Immediately following NBC Sports' coverage of Super Bowl XLIII, the network will first present an original episode of "The Office," followed by the debut of the new Greg Daniels comedy. The Super Bowl has been perennially the biggest television event of the broadcast season and was watched this year by a total audience of more than 148 million viewers. Giving this new series that coveted premiere slot will afford the show tremendous sampling from all demographic groups.
Greg Daniels, Executive Producer of "The Office," said, "Who would have ever thought that Americans would be subjected to a mock-documentary after the Superbowl? What has happened to this country?"
Mr. Silverman noted that “The Office” has a “huge ensemble” of actors.
“We can’t even service some of these great actors and performers [on the original show], so it’s very likely you will see some of those actors on the spin-off,” he said.
Per inside sources at NBC: The Office spinoff does not exist—at least as of yet.
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I'm told the powers that be at NBC have been trying to come up with a premise for the past year, and they have: Nothing. They do know it makes for a neat headline, and they trust Greg Daniels, so for now the Office spinoff flies on a wing and a prayer and not much else.
Everyone involved hopes and prays it will work out, though there are no guarantees. As noted above by Ben Silverman, NBC reserves the right to change (i.e., discard) anything and everything in this "new, early schedule" it has announced. And this Office spinoff could very well be one of those things, given the fact that they've yet to break ground on a premise, and are not even sure if they will really want to borrow characters from the original to transplant to the new...
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