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...would do a version that I would want to watch.” Indeed. “The Office” is brilliant, but it is so, so not American. Silence, sadness, and subtlety set the show apart—three elements rarely glimpsed on the domestic prime-time sitcom lineup...
...feels like a different type of sitcom,” says NBC Director of Current Programming Carolyn Cassidy ’99, the network executive in charge of the show. “It’s different from the muliti-camera sitcom, the old cliche of fat-husband-and-skinny-wife show...
Cassidy is now a director of current series, a position that makes her privy to what NBC is planning next. She says the Peacock—which suffered the most from the demise of the sitcom, losing heavy-hitters like “Friends” and “Frasier”—may be heading toward the new style of comedy heralded by “The Office...
Which means there may still be hope for the beloved sitcom. As David Brent says, “A good idea is a good idea forever...
...Indeed, it takes me about as far away from the pedantic and conventional as I can get in Harvard Square, to the top of the Hong Kong restaurant, where every night but Monday, crowds gather above the crab rangoons and fried rice to hear an alternative to cookie-cutter sitcom comedy...