Category: News

This post contains news on a Screen Actors Guild strike that may take place in 2009.

UPDATE: “Citing division among its membership, the Screen Actors Guild delayed a vote that would authorize the union to call a strike and bring the entertainment business to a halt. SAG announced Monday it would delay sending out ballots until Jan. 14 at the earliest, after the union’s national board holds an emergency meeting. The union initially planned to send strike authorization ballots to more than 100,000 union members on Jan. 2, a date that would have put Oscar night within reach of a potential boycott.” Full article

Tipster: Carrie

Previous news on the next page.

Tidbits about ‘The Office’ show, cast, staff, and fans for the week ending December 14.

• Blogs: Angela Kinsey — Greetings Dunderheads!, Kate Flannery — Happy Moroccan Christmas.
• Article: EW presents Jim’s Greatest Pranks.
• Article: the Univeristy of Missouri-St. Louis Alumni magazine interviews Phyllis Smith.
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• Video: POPTUB interviews Oscar Nuñez.
• NBC.com update: read about Angela and Andy’s wedding ceremony.
• Movie news: John Krasinski’s “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” was selected for inclusion at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Congrats, John!
• Awards: besides the Writers Guild Awards and Golden Globe Awards nominations the show received this week, The Office also picked up a Producers Guild Award nomination for Best Comedy Series. Congratulations!
• Vote: vote for the blog That’s What She Said as your favorite quirky law blog at the American Bar Association Journal’s Blawg 100.
• Ticket offer: visit BroadwayOffers.com (coupon code CHWNT94) for ticket deals to see Melora Hardin perform in ‘Chicago’ on Broadway.
• Fan photos: from Tallyhead Christine — “I was able to catch Craig Robinson (Darryl from the warehouse) at Caroline’s Comedy Club in NYC. He was great — he came out with a band that included his brother Christopher. At one point, the band even played the opening music from The Office and then Kate Flannery got up on stage and sang with him and his band. It turned out that Kate and Oscar Nunez were in the audience. I was able to grab photos with each of them and they couldn’t have been nicer.”

Tipsters: Lori, Lauren, Kenna, Chuck

I received this schedule from NBC about January 2009 episodes of The Office:

• Thu, Jan 1: Repeat, ‘Goodbye Toby’
• Thu, Jan 8: Repeat
• Thu, Jan 15: New
• Thu, Jan 22: New
• Thu, Jan 29: Repeat
• Sun, Feb 1: New, one-hour (follows Super Bowl)

Subject to change, of course, but this is the latest!

If you’re an Office fan following the post about the new show being helmed by Greg Daniels and Mike Schur and starring Amy Poehler, then you know the show also stars Aziz Ansari.

But who is Aziz? Here’s more from the man himself. Continue reading “Tallyheads, meet Aziz Ansari”

I just received this:

For those in LA, there is gonna be a performance of a really funny Office spec script at the ioWest Main Stage at 6:45 tonight in Hollywood.

Lots of talented actors and improvers. It’s actors from the ioWest (Improv Olympic). It’s like Groundlings or Second City … they have a series where writers write spec scripts for different shows and then the actors do a “table read” for an audience … the script is good, the actors are good, they have a full bar.

Just a fun, free activity that a true Office fan might enjoy. Should be a lot of fun!

I read the cold open from the script, and it’s pretty funny! This event is FREE.

Tidbits about ‘The Office’ show, cast, staff, and fans for the week ending November 16.

• Blog update: Melora Hardin — Chicago.
• Movie news: Steve Carell lends voice to ‘Despicable Me.’
• Movie news: Jenna Fischer gets ‘A Little Help.’
• Photo: a still from Rainn’s Gap holiday promo. (His videos were previously posted here.)
• Video: Craig Robinson on Jimmy Kimmel’s Halloween show.
• Video: Will Ricky Gervais Visit American Office?
• Fan photo: Alex took a photo of the window display at the NBC Experience Store in New York.
• Fan photos: Pamela Dean, who was one of the winners of Angela’s Baby Mama Giveaway, shares photos of the gift bag she received!
• Fan report: from Jacquie — “I’m a senior at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. They are filming part of Jenna Fischer’s new movie “Solitary Man” with Danny DeVito, Susan Sarandon, and Michael Douglas. I guess they’re using our campus as a stand-in for whatever college they are trying to portray.”
• Fan report: here is pambeesleywannabe’s report of B.J. Novak’s performance at Butler University.

Tipster: Jason

I was just curious, what other TV shows do you currently watch?

Here are some of mine:

• Must watch: Fringe, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Will watch when/if it comes back: Lost, 24, Breaking Bad, Free Radio
• Will watch if it happens to be on, but not must-see TV: Top Chef, Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State, any of the Law and Orders