Month: June 2009

The Office Season 6 premieres Thursday, September 17th!

From NBC’s press release:

Thursday is comedy night on NBC with the only live comedy show between 8-10 p.m. on any network, “Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday,” kicking off the night (8-8:30 p.m. ET) beginning September 17, followed by “Parks and Recreation” (8:30-9 p.m. ET), “The Office” (9-9:30 p.m. ET) and new comedy “Community” (9:30-10 p.m. ET) from Emmy winners Joe and Anthony Russo (“Arrested Development”).

On October 8, “Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday” will exit the 8 p.m. slot and “Community” will shift to the earlier time period, followed by “Parks and Recreation” (8:30-9 p.m. ET). A one-hour episode of “The Office” will air from 9-10 p.m. ET.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
8-8:30 p.m. – “Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday”
8:30-9 p.m. – “Parks and Recreation”
9-9:30 p.m. – “The Office”
9:30-10 p.m. – “Community” (series premiere – moves to Thursdays 8-8:30 p.m. on October 8; “30 Rock” returns October 15, 9:30-10 p.m.)
10-11 p.m. – “The Jay Leno Show”

TV Guide has named The Office episode ‘Diversity Day’ as one of TV’s Top 100 Episodes of All Time.

This Season 1 classic, written by B.J. Novak and directed by Ken Kwapis, is also rated by OfficeTally readers as their favorite episode in the Season 1 Survivor Poll.

Here is where ‘Diversity Day’ ranked in TV Guide’s top 20:

1. Seinfeld: The Contest
2. The Sopranos: College
3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Chuckles Bites the Dust
4. I Love Lucy: Lucy Does a TV Commercial
5. Lost: Pilot
6. ER: Love’s Labor Lost
7. The Honeymooners: Better Living Through TV
8. Mad Men: Nixon vs. Kennedy
9. All in the Family: Cousin Maude’s Visit
10. 24: Season 1 finale
11. The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last
12. Saturday Night Live: April 22, 1978
13. The Dick Van Dyke Show: It May Look Like a Walnut
14. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling
15. The Cosby Show: Goodbye Mr. Fish
16. The Fugitive: The Judgement
17. South Park: Trapped in the Closet
18. The Andy Griffith Show: Opie the Birdman
19. The Office: Diversity Day. TVG description: By its second episode, NBC’s remake fulfilled the order of Americanizing the classic Britcom The Office. Dunderhead Michael Scott (Steve Carell) puts his underlings through a sensitivity-training session. “It’s the strongest example of the kind of trouble Michael would get into,” exec producer Greg Daniels says. And a job well done.
20. M*A*S*H: Abyssinia, Henry

See the rest of the top 100 in the June 15-28 issue of TV Guide!

Tipster: Megan

Tidbits about ‘The Office’ show, cast, staff, and fans for the week ending June 21.

• Blog update: Jenna Fischer — Year One.
• Article: Amy Ryan: The TV Squad Interview.
• Article: The Office writer Lee Eisenberg — He makes dumb smart.
• Article: Oscar Nuñez, ‘The Proposal.’ (Here is the ‘wash and wear’ scene that is mentioned in the article.)
• Audio: NPR interviews Ed Helms. (Whenever NPR interviews someone from ‘The Office,’ it’s always awesome!)
• Movie preview: quiz — how many people in this preview of The Goods have appeared on The Office? Opens August 14th.
• Magazine mention: John Krasinski is one of PEOPLE’s Hottest Bachelors of 2009. On newsstands now!
• Fan photo: it is Hadley’s birthday.

Tipsters: Dwigt, leonora, susy, Jackie