Month: July 2006

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Brian Baumgartner’s TV Guide blog!

Brian Baumgartner (“Kevin”) has a brand new blog over at TV Guide! And yes, this time he is blogging as Brian, and not Kevin. (He blogs as Kevin on MySpace.)

An excerpt from his inaugural post:

True story: while filming [the pilot], Angela, Oscar and I, at various times, thought we were going to get fired. For real. Like us, the actors. We thought art was going to imitate life and we were going to be downsized. We didn’t have any real reason for thinking this (or at least any reason that I am willing to blog about here), but we figured we were on the chopping block.

Brian also talks about The Secret and relays some good Hooters stories, but I think that’s because that episode was originally scheduled to air tonight, but isn’t anymore.

Go read the full post here!

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The Break Room interviews Angela Kinsey

“Three average guys” from Frisco, Texas, talk to Angela Kinsey about a variety of Office-related topics, including:

  • Oscar’s talking-impaired moment in a future webisode involving the word “Seiko.” After about 18 takes, he finally nailed it.
  • Angela’s inability to keep a straight face during the bologna and ketchup sandwich scene from Michael’s Birthday.
  • More details on what’s going to be on the Season 2 DVD set, including the fact that almost every episode will include commentary!
  • And of course, no interview would be complete without a tantalizing little thought about Season 3 …

Listen to it here or download it from iTunes here. Nice job, guys!

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Interview with The Office webisode writers

IGN has a fantastically meaty interview with webisode writers Michael Schur and Paul Lieberstein (“Toby”).

An excerpt:

Schur says that they shot the webisodes “in two days, and it was basically like we focused on the accountants and whoever else wasn’t shooting in the episode that was being shot at the same time. We would pull them in and we would schedule their scenes around the larger shooting schedule. Basically, the idea was, like Paul said, to do 10 little vignettes and basically [have] one focus on the accountants — and then give one side-character the kind of like starring role for each individual episode, as a way to just sort of involve as many people as we could.”

Besides talking about the webisodes, the article also details The Office’s writing process in general, something I have always found fascinating.

There’s even a little plot point revealed about Season 3!

Read the full article here.

Thanks to OT reader DS for pointing me to this article!

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TWO webisodes premier tomorrow!

This from the official NBC press release:

NBC’s hit comedy “The Office” (Thursdays, 9:30 – 10:00 p.m. ET, moving to 8:30-9:00 p.m. ET in the fall) goes digital when the first two of 10, original stand-alone webisodes premiere on NBC.com on Thursday, July 13.

In the first webisode, each about two-three minutes, the Dunder Mifflin accountants — Angela (Angela Kinsey), Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) and Oscar (Oscar Nuñez) — discover that $3000 is missing from the Scranton office, and no one is above suspicion as the crack team of numbers crunchers tries to solve the mystery — before turning on each other.

Then, in the second webisode, while the accountants suspect that Michael is responsible for the theft, they have to question the other staffers first, beginning with Phyllis (Phyllis Smith). Rainn Wilson, Melora Hardin, Kate Flannery, Leslie David Baker and David Denman also star.

Find both episodes at NBC.com tomorrow …

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Watch for The Office to come home

This just in from the Wilkes Barre Times-Leader:

While it’s just in the rumor stages, the word on the street is that the cast of the Emmy-nominated “The Office” may descend upon its “hometown” of Scranton to shoot some scenes … it might involve footage of the lively St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Well, you know that Angela probably won’t attend the parade — she thinks green is whorish. ;)

This news is pretty much in line with what we knew already. I’ll add this little nugget to the Season 3 post.

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Rainn on Conan and Regis

  • Just a reminder that Rainn appears on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ tonight. Other guests include Stephen Colbert and Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials. I’ve confirmed this at NBC.com, TVGuide.com, Yahoo TV, and my TiVo. It’s a little confusing, because the show is on Wednesday late night and appears on the Wednesday schedule, but because the show starts after midnight, the correct date of the show is Thursday, July 13th.
  • Rainn will also appear on ‘Live with Regis and Kelly’ tomorrow morning.
  • As for tomorrow night, Brian alerted me to the fact that NBC.com is no longer listing The Secret as part of the Thursday night schedule, so as Jim says, that’s what I’ll be working on the rest of the day. ;)