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Office campaigns for Emmys

The L.A. Times Gold Derby forum has compiled a list of T.V. shows campaigning for an Emmy, based on who has published “For Your Consideration” ads and shipped DVDs to Emmy-voting members.

Among the Office submissions:

  • Comedy Series: The Office
  • Comedy Lead Actor: Steve Carell
  • Comedy Supporting Actress: Jenna Fischer
  • Comedy Supporting Actor: John Krasinski, B.J. Novak, Rainn Wilson
  • Comedy Guest Actress: Amy Adams (Katy the purse girl)
  • Comedy Writing:
    • “The Dundies” (Mindy Kaling)
    • “The Fight” (Lee Eisenberg & Gene Stupnitsky)
    • “Christmas Party” (Michael Schur)
    • “The Fire” (B.J. Novak)
    • “The Client” (Paul Lieberstein)
    • “Booze Cruise” (Greg Daniels)
    • “Drug Testing” (Jennifer Celotta)
    • “Casino Night” (Steve Carell)

Nice to finally see some mention of potential writing nominations!

See the complete list here. Thanks to Sam for the reminder!

P.S. If you’re interesting in how the Emmy voting process is changing this year, here’s a pretty detailed article about it.

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Jenna reports DVD commentary is recorded

Jenna’s posted a new entry in her MySpace blog, and mentions that the cast spent last Saturday and yesterday recording DVD commentary for the Season 2 DVD. Jenna says the DVD will includes lots of extras, including deleted scenes and her very own home movies!

This is going to be sooo great.

Read her post here. Now if we could just get a release date …

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John Krasinski live chat on Friday

This just in from OT reader Sam:

Hey, just wanted to let you know that John Krasinski will be participating in a live chat with office fans and emmy-predicting enthusiasts on the Goldderby Forum (an emmy discussion site) on Friday at 2 pm eastern. Lisa Kudrow and Lauren Graham have already participated. It’s free to register and join the site, though Tom O’Neil (the LA Times reporter who will be hosting the chat) mentioned that he may boot people from the chat who have very recently joined the site. He wants longtime goldderby participators to be able to chat with Krasinski. Anyway, just a heads up! Come chat with Jim!

To register, click here.

Thanks, Sam, for the tip!

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Cast blogs now linked to episode pages

I’ve now added links to episode-specific cast blogs on each episode page. For example, if you go to The Client and scroll down to the bottom of the page, you’ll see links to blogs by B.J., Jenna, and Angela related to this episode!

I’ve also created pages of links for the TV Guide blogs created by B.J. and Jenna — many of the blog entries were done in TVG’s old blog system in the “Insider” column, and can be a bit hard to find otherwise …

Happy reading!

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Did they or didn’t they?

As has been so astutely pointed out by OT readers heidi and Jon, yesterday was the date of Pam and Roy’s wedding (as first mentioned in Booze Cruise).

Did they or didn’t they get married?

And did Jim go to Australia?

Are you feeling a little vaklempt? — talk amongst yourselves.

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Various tidbits

Happy Saturday, everybody!

Here are a few little Office tidbits:

  • NBC has announced that Christmas Party and The Injury will air on June 29. (I’ve added these to the calendar.)
  • GMMR has posted over at the LiveJournal Office community that various members of the cast are recording commentary today for the Season 2 DVD!
  • In the June 9th TV Guide podcast, all three TV panelists place Casino Night in their top three finales of the entire season. And yes, that even includes Michael Ausiello, who isn’t that big a fan of the show! Listen for it around minute 16.
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Vote for The Office at the Tater Top Awards!

Our good friend Kathie over at GMMR has sounded the alarms (okay, she sent me an email) — it’s time to vote for The Office at E! Online’s annual Tater Top Awards.

The Office is nominated in the following categories:

  • Breakout Star, Male: John Krasinski
  • Breakout Star, Female: Jenna Fischer
  • Best Fight: Dwight (Rainn Wilson) & Michael (Steve Carell) Kung-Fu Fighting
  • Best Kiss: Jim (John Krasinski) & Pam (Jenna Fischer)
  • Best Chemistry: “JAM,” aka Jim (John Krasinski) & Pam (Jenna Fischer)
  • Best Love Triangle: Jim (John Krasinski), Pam (Jenna Fischer) & Roy (David Denman)
  • Biggest Shocker: Jim’s “I love you” to Pam
  • Favorite Funny Guy: Steve Carell (Michael Scott)
  • Favorite Funny Lady: Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly)
  • Best Comedy: The Office

Go vote now!

P.S. While we’re on the subject of voting, there’s a silly little Steel Cage Matchup over at EW, inexplicably pitting the JAM kiss against Susan and Mike’s clinch in Desperate Housewives. If you’re already in voting mode, you might as well add this one to your list.