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The first dead-on choice was hiring executive producer Greg Daniels, whose animated King of the Hill is TV's most acute satire of suburban mores. The second was casting Steve Carell to reinterpret the nightmare boss originated by Ricky Gervais. Carell's Michael Scott, like Gervais' David Brent, is...
"There's no pessimism in anything Carell does. He should know by now that things are not going to go well, but he thinks they will. That's Laurel and Hardy," says Ricky Gervais, who co-created and starred in the original Office. "I like people who keep failing and...
In order to avoid copying Gervais' character, Carell has not watched the BBC show. "I don't even get to see The Daily Show anymore. I'm in bed by 10. I hear it's still very good," says Carell, who has two young children with his wife, fellow Daily...
The two seasons (available on DVD) introduced us to the dreary cubicles of the Wernham Hogg paper company in Slough, England, through the framing device of a BBC documentary. The finale revisits the characters three years later to find that receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who previously rejected Tim's last...
You can't help but be a little bit timid because the original is so great. I actually tried not to watch too much of [Ricky Gervais'] performance because it's so good it's hard to get out of your head.