Office director gets NAACP Image Award nom

Nominations were announced Tuesday for this year’s NAACP Image Awards, and The Office’s Kenneth Whittingham received a nomination in the category of “Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series.”

Whittingham is nominated for his work directing Season 2’s ‘Michael’s Birthday.’

You can find the complete list of nominees here.

The NAACP Image Awards show will air live on Fox March 2nd.

Joss Whedon to direct Office episode

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, is directing an episode of The Office, according to Televisionary:

Rumor has it that Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator and TV ubergod Joss Whedon will return to television to direct an upcoming episode of NBC’s hit sitcom (and Televisionary obsession) The Office … Look for Whedon’s take on Michael Scott and the gang at Dunder-Mifflin to air sometime in the spring.

Whedon responds to the rumor in his Whedoneque blog.

Links: Televisionary original story and EW confirmation | Whedonesque

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LITO’s iPod giveaway

Speaking of cool Apple gadgets, Brian over at LITO wrote to tell me of his iPod Giveaway:

I recently started some Office forums over at LifeInTheOffice. To get it jump started, I’m having a contest and the prize is an Office packed iPod. (All the episodes and audio clips pre-loaded.)

Go check it out!

Future Dwight helps to demo iPhone

macworld

During Steve Job’s Macworld keynote address today, he announced the coming of a revolutionary new product called the iPhone.

To show off the iPhone’s video capability, he used the cold open from ‘Branch Closing’ in his demo!

Click here to see a demo of iPhone’s widescreen video capability, brought to you by The Office and Future Dwight. (link no longer available)

I worked at Macworld myself today, and believe me, the excitement surrounding this thing was unbelievable. And yeah, the phone is FREAKING COOL.

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