From the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly:
Wonder what would happen if the creative forces behind two of TV’s most beloved shows — ‘Lost’ and ‘The Office’ — swapped jobs for an episode?
Tipster: GMMR
The Weekend Tally
New blogs this week
- Angela’s MySpace blog: Turkeys and Convicts
- Jenna’s MySpace blog: Hello from St. Louis!
- John the prop guy’s MySpace blog: The Convict
- Kevin’s MySpace blog: Wake Up Maggie
- Kate’s TV Guide blog: The Convict
Articles
- Humor returns to roost on Thursday
Executive producers Greg Daniels (The Office), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Greg Garcia (Earl) and Bill Lawrence (Scrubs) - ‘The Office’ opens doors for Rainn Wilson
- My Favorite Weekend: Mindy Kaling (may need to register)
Tipster: Jill - John Krasinski to join cast of George Clooney football pic, ‘Leatherheads’
TV and movie appearances
- Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Dec. 6
Rashida Jones - Unaccompanied Minors (opens Dec. 8)
B.J. Novak, Mindy Kaling, David Koechner (“Todd Packer”) - The Holiday (opens in wide release Dec. 8)
John Krasinski
Tipster: Sarah - American Dad, Dec. 10
John Krasinski
Tipster: Dana - Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Dec. 18
Jenna Fischer
Tipster: Becky
And lastly, singing sensation Ed Helms
- Ed Helms and The Lonesome Trio
Tipster: ShayR1 - Rainbow Connection video
- Rainbow Connection mp3
Warning: Turning this into a ringtone may result in death — yours.
Tipster: Sean
Leave Greg Daniels a question
This just posted by nbcskampy over at the NBC Office boards:
I hope you’ll all join us for the second edition of live blogging with executive producer Greg Daniels TONIGHT after the east coast airing of the show…approximately 9pm EST.
You are welcome to head on over the blog right now and leave your questions in the comments … Greg will be checking them out and selecting which questions to answer starting immediately following the episode.
November 9 events summary
Here’s a summary of tonight’s events:
- Branch Closing
Where: NBC
When: 8:30pm ET, 8:30pm PT
More info - Greg Daniels live blogging
Where: NBC.com
When: 9pm ET, 6pm PT - Branch Closing, Producer’s Cut
Where: NBC.com
When: midnight ET, 9pm PT
More info - Jenna Fischer on ‘Late Show with David Letterman’
Where: CBS
When: 11:30pm ET, 11:30pm PT
More info
‘Branch Closing’ producer’s cut on Nov. 9
From the NBC press release:
NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy “The Office” (Thursdays, 8:30 – 9:00pm ET/PT) will offer fans a first-ever, web-exclusive “producer’s cut” on November 9th. The episode will include additional scenes and extra footage not shown in the broadcast version. Viewers can log onto NBC.com at 9:00pm (PT) on November 9th to see the web-exclusive event.
Read NBC’s ‘The Office’ Web Event Streams Only on NBC.com here.
Update 1: The producer’s cut version will be available for a week. (Thanks, Dana!)
Update 2: Executive producer Greg Daniels will be live blogging that night, 9pm ET/6pm PT.
It’s Office premiere week!
Can you believe The Office Season 3 is FINALLY HERE?
Here’s a run-down of events for this incredibly exciting week:
- Tue, Sept. 19: Rainn Wilson ‘The Ellen Degeneres Show.’
- Wed, Sept. 20: Steve Carell on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.’
- Thu, Sept. 21: Angela Kinsey’s Office prop giveaway.
- Thu, Sept. 21: Jenna Fischer’s ‘Share the Wealth II” giveaway.
- Thu, Sept. 21: Meet Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski in NYC.
Fan video - Thu, Sept. 21: Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski on ‘The Today Show’
Photos | Video (courtesy Denise) - Thu, Sept. 21: Rainn Wilson on ‘The Megan Mullally Show.’
- Thu, Sept. 21: Season 3 premiere!
- Thu, Sept. 21: BuddyTV Office chat hosted by GMMR (8:30pm ET)
- Thu, Sept. 21: Greg Daniels live blog (9pm ET)
- Thu, Sept. 21: John Krasinski on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien.’
It’s an insane week of Office goodness.
Greg Daniels to blog live on premiere night
Greg Daniels, executive producer of The Office, will blog live at NBC.com after The Office Season 3 premiere next Thursday, September 21st.
… nbc.com will feature live premiere blogs from the creators, producers or cast members for every show on the air … All new, returning, scripted or reality shows will host a live blog immediately after the premiere episode. Viewers will be encouraged to engage in a dialogue with the creator, producer or cast member about the episode as soon as the broadcast concludes.
Get The Office at your office
TIME Magazine reports on the bold new frontier of online TV programming.
There are a few interesting snippets relating to the Office webisodes:
[Greg] Daniels [The Office executive producer] considered letting actors swear in the Office webisodes but says he didn’t think “people wanted to hear their favorite characters shouting profanities they wouldn’t hear on the regular show.”
I don’t know; I think a well-placed profane utterance by Angela would be quite hysterical!
Read the full article here.