More hardcore than parkour.
The Office episode airing on February 14, Moving On, has been supersized to one hour, according to NBC.
It will air 9-10/8-9c.
Even better, I’ve confirmed with The Office producers that the second half hour doesn’t count as an episode, so we’ll still have eight episodes left to air after next week.
Here’s a promo.
Awesome Blossom, extra awesome!
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Writer: Allison Silverman, Director: Troy Miller
Summary (NBC): Erin is nervous for Andy’s return — the office pairs off into pretend couples to take advantage of a Valentine’s Day discount at a local mini-mall. Erin assures Pete she will break up with Andy when he returns, but he has good reason to doubt her. Jim and Pam share a meal with Brian, the documentary’s sound man.
May 9 update: NBC has passed on ‘Brenda Forever.’
From Entertainment Weekly:
Ellie Kemper has signed for the lead role in the NBC comedy pilot Brenda Forever. The flashback-filled pitch: “Stories from Brenda Miller’s past and present are interwoven to give a unique portrait of how a chubby, awkward, but incredibly confident 13-year-old grew up to be a 31-year-old woman who still marches to the beat of her own drum.”
Congratulations, Ellie!
UPDATE: David sent me some behind-the-scenes photos!
David Rogers, director of last week’s episode, Junior Salesman, and long-time editor of The Office, was reading through some of your comments wondering about the “Erin tries to find her birth parents with Pete’s help” storyline, included in the original NBC episode summary.
Here’s what he said:
The Erin/Pete searching for her parents story was cut out of this episode just because we had so much great comedy and needed the time for Dwight and his freaky friends and how Jim and the gang reacted. (This happened to me before when I directed and edited Mafia and the Erin story of accidentally destroying Pam’s painting was cut out for time but it remained in the synopsis description of the episode!)
Most shows put together a first cut that’s maybe 3 to 5 minutes over the 22 minutes that they need to be for air. But because of the doc style of our show, we move faster than traditional single camera style shows, and therefore we can shoot more in a week than most half-hour comedies do. Hence our scripts are longer and our first cuts are a whopping 15 to 21 minutes over the 22 minute air length! Something’s gotta go!
And that’s why we often have such great and satisfying deleted scenes — they’re just cut out of the final episode due to time restraints. (Yes there are a couple of deleted scenes with Sensei Ira! And we’ve also got the weirdos playing paintball!)
We’ve got some great episodes coming down the pike. Andy returns next week! Jon Favreau directed a really terrific episode that airs the following week! And we’ve got some guest stars that I think the fans will really enjoy seeing…
Thanks, David! :)
B.J. Novak continues to romance Mindy Kaling on ‘The Mindy Project’ tonight on FOX, 9:30/8:30c.
Here’s a clip from tonight’s episode, ‘Harry & Mindy.’ Continue reading “B.J. Novak visits ‘The Mindy Project’”
Steve Carell accompanies Craig Ferguson to an oyster restaurant. Hilarity ensues.
Caution: I spit out my morning coffee watching this! :)
I don’t usually make a big deal out of OfficeTally’s birthday, but with this being the farewell season of The Office, I’m feeling super sentimental.
On this occasion, I want to share with y’all the very first fan letter I wrote to The Office. Back in October 2005!
This was to B.J. Novak, about one of my all-time favorite episodes, The Fire, which B.J. wrote.