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I don’t usually do group reviews of the Thursday comedies,* but today there’s a point to it. There’s been a lot of discussion this week on this blog and elsewhere about what the broadcast networks can and can’t do that cable can. But while most of what’s interesting in drama is getting done on cable, comedy is a different story. And …
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While you carried on blissfully unaware with your life this weekend, the Television Critics’ press tour continued making the world safe for new TV shows. Or is that from them? In any event, a roundup of the news from NBC and ABC’s presentations:
* The producers of NBC’s sci-fi/thriller/mystery serial The Event would like your …
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Variety is reporting that The Office has signed B.J. Novak, who writes for and plays Ryan on the series, to a new two-year deal, which will elevate him to executive producer. For those of you who have wondered if NBC will perpetuate the series after the departure of Steve Carell, who leaves after this season—well, you can do the …
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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 of a few …
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 from …
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Different people have criticized this season of The Office for different reasons. (At least different critics and blog commenters have; it’s worth noting that for all that it remains easily NBC’s most popular Thursday comedy.) For me, the problem has been the lack of stakes. The Office has been best when it’s about real problems that …
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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 just be done …
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