the office: special victims unit

[themightybee]

Well, now I'm jut really confused. O.o

Per inside sources at NBC: The Office spinoff does not exist—at least as of yet.
Greg Daniels

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...

From E!Online.

So...what? They're just releasing the idea on a wing and a prayer? They'll greenlight it if it seems like a money-grabber and nuke it otherwise?

Man, now I know why Aaron Sorkin used Studio 60 as a mouthpiece for his hatred of network television politics.

Comments

[sideshowkat.livejournal.com]

Wow.

If this falls through, then it'll be Greg and company who come out looking bad, not Silverman. Ugh. Someone fire him already!

[schmiss.livejournal.com]

head-freaking-desk.
It's even sadder since I've read about some of the awesome pilots NBC comissioned and then never used. Instead they're going to milk the Office cow until it's become the next Friends or something? Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaail.

They should give us a 30 Rock spinoff starring Will Arnett instead. :P

[sonjamillicent.livejournal.com]

As dumb as this is, NOTHING excuses Studio 60's suckitude.