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...compensate for the fact that our version of Spring Fling is more geared towards Snoopy than Snoop. At Yale, the president’s office hands over $95,000 to the students, who spend it—along with an extra $30,000 from the dean’s office??for the most part at their discretion...
Schur’s concerns over comedy’s recent travails may partially explain his attraction to “The Office??: the show is part of a new breed of television comedy, an innovative format informed by the same reality genre that is ostensibly usurping its place. It shies away from the usual tropes afflicting sitcoms: ethnic mismatches, didactic moralizing, happy endings. The format falls in the same category as Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Fox’s “Arrested Development...
...show after his agent forwarded tapes of the British series. “I ended up staying up all night watching it after I put it in because it was so compelling and fantastic,” he says. He quickly gained the blessing of original “Office?? creators Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and the project was up and running...
...admittedly minor, and Daniels tells me these nuances will develop as the series continues. “There’s a bit of a difference in the sense that the British show is like a miniseries,” Daniels says. He hopes the American “Office?? has a longer run of several seasons, so the character development, rapid in the BBC version, will “be a little slower...
...encouraged to produce more television shows like [“The Office??], that have awkward pauses and have edgy humor,” Cassidy says, citing “Malcolm in the Middle” and “Scrubs” as precursors to the current crop of Peacock offerings. “Frankly about half of the shows we have in development now are single-camera...