From press release:

TV COMEDY GIANT GREG DANIELS TO RECEIVE THE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2008 OUTSTANDING TELEVISON WRITER AWARD

Five-time Emmy Winner and Adapter of “The Office” Will Accept Award at October Festival

AUSTIN, Texas Sept. 4, 2008 — The Austin Film Festival (AFF) will honor writer, producer and director Greg Daniels with the 2008 Outstanding Television Writer Award at the 15th Annual Austin Film Festival (Oct. 16-23, 2008). Daniels will receive the award at the Austin Film Festival Awards Luncheon presented by AT&T on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 at the Austin Club.

AFF co-founder and Executive Director Barbara Morgan said, “We’re thrilled to honor Greg Daniels for his contribution to ground-breaking comedic television on four landmark series all still on the air: “Saturday Night Live,” “The Simpsons,” “King of the Hill” and “The Office.” Throughout his work, Daniels represents the innovative spirit of the Outstanding Television Writer Award. We look forward to hosting him at the Conference.”

Congratulations, Greg!

From Variety:

• “Human Giant”’s Aziz Ansari is the first confirmed cast hire for ‘The Office’ spin-off.
• Greg Daniels and Mike Schur are executive producers of the spin-off.
• Spin-off writers include Tucker Cawley, Dan Goor, and Alan Yang.
• Three new members have been added to ‘The Office’ writing staff: Paul Feig, Aaron Shure, and Charlie Grandy.
• Paul Lieberstein has been promoted to executive producer of ‘The Office.’

Link: Aziz Ansari hired for ‘Office’ spinoff

Tipster: George

• Blog updates: Jenna — A Quick Little Blog, Kate — Nights and Daze at The Office, Creed Thoughts.
• Press release: “Heroes,” “Chuck” And “The Office” Webisodes On NBC.com Beginning July ‘08.
• Article: Greg Daniels talks about the return of webisodes.
• Article: Steve Carell: Beyond “The Office.”
• Article: Angela Kinsey’s Down-Home Baby Shower.
• Article: M&C Interview: Angela Kinsey from ‘The Office.’
• Article: John Krasinski in Entertainment Weekly — scans of printed version | online version.
• Article: John Krasinski Takes the Field.
• Article: John Patterson meets John Krasinski.
• Article: behind the scenes of OfficeTally’s April Fool’s Day prank.
• Tally update: the ‘Get Smart’ Tally has been updated with some cool goodies!
• Photos: John Krasinski on ‘The Sauce.’
• Audio: if you are a Jim Rome Show subscriber, you can listen to his interview with John Krasinski.
• Video: John Krasinski on ‘Today.’
• Video: Melora Hardin on ‘Free Radio.’ ‘Free Radio’ is very much like ‘The Office’ — no laugh track, lots of cringeworthy moments, and a big boob of a main character, played by Lance Krall (who played Dwight’s sensei, Ira, in ‘The Fight’). In this clip, Melora appears about halfway through. When Lance silently reacts to Melora singing … well, it’s one of the funniest moments of the show!
• Video: John Krasinski on ‘The Sauce.’
• Contest: winners for the ‘Dan In Real Life’ DVD giveaway have been chosen!
• Game: play GoCross The Office, a new online game being run by GoCrossCampus (GXC), which was recently featured in the New York Times.
• Live appearance: Monday, April 7 — ‘The Office’ cast hosts The Armando Show, iO West, Los Angeles, CA.
• TV appearance: Thursday, April 10 — John Krasinski on ‘The Rachael Ray Show.’

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Tipsters: Andrea M, Mui, black cat, Austtin, Lou, Rachel, Rob

• Blog update: Mindy — Sour Candies.
• Article: Hollywood panel discusses strike. The panel included The Office’s Executive Producer Greg Daniels, who said “The executives were so glad to see us … all I’m getting is a feeling of relief to be back to work. There’s a great spirit of gratitude for everyone on my show.”
• Article: Nesting With a Vengeance (and a Deadline). “Angela Kinsey, who plays Angela Martin on the television comedy “The Office,” is seven months pregnant and “trying to prioritize” all the improvements she is making on her 1950s single-story home in Los Angeles.”
• Article: Look To The Stars Asks Melora Hardin. Melora feels each person can make a difference to the world.
• Article: Sox-ing it to LA. Which Office cast members were in attendance at the exhibition game between the Red Sox and the Dodgers?
• Photos: “Joining other fellow comedians in reading excerpts from the book Comedy By The Numbers, special unannounced guest Kate Flannery showed up to lend her voice to the book reading.”
• Video: Mose is actually a teacher? Michael Schur turns up on ‘Miss Guided.’
• Spoiler updates: I’ve backfilled a few interesting spoiler tidbits, including information on the upcoming episode ‘Night Out’ and the possibility of new webisodes! Go to “Season 4 spoilers/news” in the sidebar. Over there. —–>
• Upcoming event: Craig Robinson plays a series of dates at Zanies Chicago, St. Charles, and Vernon Hills on May 8-10.
• Upcoming event: Brian Baumgartner participates in The American Century Championship golf tournament, July 8-13 at Edgewood Tahoe, NV.

For a complete listing of events, check out the OfficeTally Calendar.

Tipsters: liezl, Kim, Chillis