NBC’s Kevin Reilly guests on ‘The Office’

Did you miss NBC President of Entertainment Kevin Reilly’s cameo on ‘The Office’ last night? Me too!

With no advance fanfare, Reilly briefly popped up in this week’s episode of the Peacock’s hit laffer “The Office.” Reilly — whose cameo featured no lines and lasted about three seconds — played a prospective boss interviewing Dwight Schruth (Rainn Wilson) for a job.

Link: NBC’s Reilly guests on ‘The Office’

Tipster: Wendy

Bid on items signed by Office cast!

The Clothes Off Our Back Foundation presents its 2007 Spring Award Show Auction, and includes the following two items:

  • A limited edition engraved iPod Nano signed by The Office’s Leslie David Barker, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Angela Kinsey, and Phyllis Smith. Auction ends March 15 at 6pm PST. Bid on the Nano here.
  • A “My Starbucks” t-shirt signed by Jenna Fischer. Auction ends March 15 at 6pm PST. Bid on the t-shirt here.

Proceeds go to the emergency relief efforts in Darfur, Children’s Defense Fund, and Cure Autism Now.

The Screen Actors Guild is also holding an auction:

  • An autographed script of ‘Grief Counseling’ signed by ten members of the cast. Auction ends TODAY at 5:08pm PT. Bid on the script here.

Tipsters: Peggy, Andrew, Mari

Meet Jenna Fischer, E! red carpet reporter

Lovely Jenna takes a turn on the other side of the microphone, and the girl’s got some hard-hitting questions.

Unfortunately, there is no direct link to the video, so here are the steps to get there:

  1. Click here to go to the Watch With Kristin home page.
  2. A “Watch Videos” window should open in the right column. When it does, click the “Play Video Now!” button in the middle of the window.
  3. Keep clicking the “Next” button until you see the video clip for The Office. Its caption is: “An ‘Office’ invasion hits the Globes as Kristin chats it up with Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski.”

Tipster: Julia

Krasinski film cast update

Cinematical reports that the movie that John Krasinski is directing, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, will include Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard in its cast, among others:

Gibbard is actually one of a number of cute people signed on for the hideous roles. Here’s a short roll call for the curious: Sex and the City semen taster Bobby Cannavale, Krasinski’s Office co-star and daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton — Rashida Jones, SNL alum and Abe Lincoln’s clone Will Forte, Threesome’s Josh Charles, Kinsey actress Julianne Nicholson and The Anniversary Party’s lovely Denis O’Hare — just to name a few!

Link: Hideous Men Grabs One Cutie from Death Cab

Greg Daniels trains other showrunners

From Variety:

The Writers Guild of America West has launched its second annual Showrunner Training Program to train two dozen writer-producers.

The six-session program launched Saturday with remarks from WGA West president Patric M. Verrone, John Wells (“ER,” “The West Wing”), Touchstone Television President Mark Pedowitz, Jeff Melvoin (“Alias”) and Phil Rosenthal (“Everybody Loves Raymond”).

The opening session, entitled “From Writer to Manager,” included a panel discussion with Tim Kring (” Heroes”), Greg Daniels (“The Office”) and Greg Garcia (“My Name Is Earl”).

Link: Guild begins Showrunner program