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The Gold Derby folks have been working, what seems to be around the clock, in deducing the lists of potential Emmy finalists based on “insider information” during the judging panels.

According to these lists, The Office for Best Comedy Series and Steve Carell for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy both made the initial cut.

I waded through 40-plus pages of the thread to see if The Office was mentioned by name, and it was, by Emmy voter (and insider) “EA”:

Weeds was the show that seemed like it was in a whole different league than the rest. The crowd loved it. Two and a Half Men was received very well. The Office had people laughing a bit, but it still seemed to underachieve. Scrubs had little reaction, it did not go over well in my screening. It felt very flat. As for Will & Grace, well enough said. The audience hated it.

The thing about the voting in the comedy series was, the first show we saw was The Office (ed: Booze Cruise was the episode shown), I gave it a very high rating. Then they played Scrubs and it felt not as good as The Office. We weren’t supposed to compare the shows, but that is hard not to do. The first episode played at every screening seems to set a bar.

Here is the potential list of Emmy finalists.

Remember that the official Emmy nominations will be announced this coming Thursday, July 6th, at 5:30am PT!

I just received a shipping confirmation for my Dwight Bobblehead order!

This means they are shipping on schedule, as initially announced. (If you order one now, however, the estimated shipping date is July 20th.)

Have you received your shipping confirmation or bobblehead yet?

When you do, send me a photo and I’ll add it to our bobblehead gallery. :)

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Items of note today:

• Check out the debut of the cartoon series “Scranton Summers” over at GMMR!

• The Break Room is interviewing Angela Kinsey today, and has set up a phone number for questions. (It’s not confirmed that Angela will be taking voicemail questions, but you can leave one just in case.) The number is 214-3299-TBR (827).

• B.J. Novak and Craig Robinson (”Darryl”) perform at The Improv, West Hollywood, tonight.

• Tonight’s episodes are Christmas Party and The Injury. Don’t forget to check out the Tidbits sections at the bottom of each episode page!

Original post date: June 24, 2006

Entertainment Weekly magazine features Rainn Wilson on their “Must List.”

See “extra” photos here and here.

In addition, here is an E! Online video of Rainn from the photo shoot.

Thanks to OT readers Jill and Emily for the tips!

P.S. Over 14,000 Dwight bobblehead dolls sold? — yowsah!

Update 6/25: Find the full interview here, courtesy of Lauren at the LiveJournal Office community. Funny stuff.

Update 6/29: Here’s an EW video of the photo shoot. Thanks to OT reader Ted for the tip!

The GoldDerby, the awards forum of the L.A. Times and the same folks who sponsored the John Krasinski chat a couple of weeks ago, have come up with their own set of award nominations, and The Office garnered 11 of them:

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OT reader Shannon writes that there is a Webisode sneak peek video clip over at YouTube.

Watch it here before it gets taken down!

Gotta love that Kevin …

Jenna’s updated her MySpace blog with Season 3 info and answers to many fan questions!

Some highlights:

• Jenna describes the script planning process for Season 3.
• Jenna talks a little bit about the nudge-nudge-nudge of the Coke can in Drug Testing. (If you haven’t listened to The Joseph Podcast interview with Jenna, she talks at length about the entire hi/hey scene — a great segment!)
• Jenna finally confirms whether there were words spoken between Jim and Pam after “the kiss”!

Chockful of all the stuff we Office fanatics live for. :)

P.S. If you are visiting OT for the first time, here is Jenna’s iPod Giveaway post. (And welcome!)

Following the NBC-YouTube announcement, here’s more on the promo contest from the official NBC press release:

NBC will launch a contest for its hit comedy “The Office” (Thursdays, 9:30-10 p.m. ET) where people can submit their own creative 20-second promotional videos to NBC’s YouTube Group (www.youtube.com/theoffice). NBC will publicize the campaign on air regularly during the first three weeks of the contest, encouraging YouTube users to enter. User-generated videos must be compelling and entertaining and create interest for potential viewers to watch “The Office.” Examples can be seen in the NBC YouTube Group.

The contest runs June 26 through July 21. The winning video will air within the network broadcast of “The Office” during the month of August. NBC will also offer a “how-to” video featuring writer-producer Bill Lowery, who normally writes and produces all the network’s promos for “The Office.”

You can find all the details, including the submission form, music and graphics you can use, a sample promo, and an entertaining welcome video, here at the NBC Office website.

I am sooo excited for you fanvid creators out there — here’s your chance to get your video ON NATIONAL TELEVISION!