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+Movies | February 29, 2012

Watch One of Our Favorite Movie Leaps

By TIME Staff

Remember that scene in Anchorman where Ron, Brian, Champ and Brick gaily jump into the air? This is that scene.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | February 24, 2011

Vacation Robo-Post: The Office—NBC's Problem, And Yours

By James Poniewozik

I’ve said before that I think it would probably be best if this season of The Office were its last; the show may not be called The Boss, but it is Michael Scott’s story above all, and I’d hope that the show might get a liberating creative burst from not just sending off Steve Carell [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 28, 2011

Office Watch: Kirk Meets Picard

By James Poniewozik

Though I had read long in advance that David Brent (Ricky Gervais) would be making a cameo appearance on last night’s The Office, I expected it to be a quick hoot of an encounter without much significance. Which in a way it was—but it was also, in miniature, a statement on how each version of [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 6, 2010

Party Down's Last Bash, and Other Things That Happened While I Was Out

By James Poniewozik

So yeah, I’m back. Though fair warning: over my vacation, my niece in Michigan taught me how to make marshmallows from scratch, so it’s pretty much a matter of time until I bag the whole TV-criticism day-job thing and make my fortune in the lucrative and trendy small-batch-marshmallow business. But until then, a quick rehash [...]

+June 29, 2010

Michael Scott Resigns From Dunder Mifflin, Gives 'The Office' A Future

By Steven James Snyder

For anyone who has stuck by the American version of The Office since the very beginning – or maybe I should specify the beginning of the far superior second season  – the anticlimactic news that broke Monday about Steve Carell leaving the show was a bittersweet development. He’s been talking for months about stepping away [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 30, 2010

Is It Time for Steve Carell to Leave The Office?

By James Poniewozik

I mentioned this in my review-blurb of last night’s The Office episode, “Body Language,” but it probably deserves its own post. According to deadline.com, Steve Carell has said that he will likely leave the sitcom after its next season. Now, that isn’t actually cast in cement. Carell has an active movie career and he may [...]