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There's plenty out there to offend. TV's mores have become looser in just a few years. In 1999 it was shocking for Fox's sitcom Action to use obscenities that were bleeped out. Now the same words are bleeped routinely (often barely) all over network TV--and go unbleeped on basic-cable networks like FX and ESPN, let alone Showtime and HBO. In an episode of Fox's since-canceled Keen Eddie, three men enlist a hooker to arouse a horse to extract semen from him. The PTC recently protested an episode of NBC's Medium in which...
...ironic that NBC's most original sitcom in years is a remake, but who cares? The Office is a daring, unflinching take on very American workplace tensions. And network TV needed this jolt like a cubicle jockey needs the morning's first cup of coffee. --By James Poniewozik
Ever since NBC announced plans to remake The Office--the critically adored BBC sitcom about white collar dronesmanship--fans of the original prepared to be disappointed. Americans, they surmised, could not reproduce its discomfiting British humor...
Five years ago, Carell, 41, was getting fewer chances to do lovable than just loser. But after he became a correspondent on The Daily Show, the work poured in. First he was a supporting player in Julia Louis-Dreyfus' short-lived sitcom Watching Ellie, then he was upstaging Jim Carrey as the guy who spoke in tongues in Bruce Almighty and Ferrell as the weatherman in Anchorman. On March 24, he will play the lead in NBC's remake of the beloved BBC sitcom The Office. There's also a Woody Allen movie, a Nicole Kidman movie and Virgin, which...
...screenwriter Alan Ball (American Beauty). Before it, HBO's Sex and the City, which set the standard for frank talk about women and love, was created by Darren Star and later run by Michael Patrick King, both gay. (Later this year, King debuts The Comeback, an HBO sitcom starring Lisa Kudrow as an actress trying to revive her career...