OfficeTally

A rather short Tally today …

• This week’s blogs: Mindy | Bob Vance | Angela | Kate | Jenna NEW!
• Article: ‘Office’ producer puts city visit on itinerary — interview with Greg Daniels.
• Article: Slate chooses Kelly and Kevin as two of its favorite TV characters.
• Article: E! Online’s Kristin Dos Santos has a sushi encounter with John Krasinski.
• Article: Angela Kinsey’s interview with her alma mater, Baylor University.
• Article: Rainn Wilson to serve as grand marshal of city parade.
• Article: what Mindy and Creed did on their summer vacations.
• Photos: I’ve updated the photos section of OT’s Emmy post.
• Video: hilarious interview with Steve Carell about his upcoming film, ‘Dan in Real Life.’
• Live appearance: Paul Lieberstein appears at the Vancouver Film and Television Forum on Sept. 28.
• Auction: bid on Brian Baumgartner’s and David Denman’s Emmy sunglasses.

Tipsters: LiveJournal Office, Kell, kayla, Stacy, Claudia, Jo, Andrea

The Office’s Executive Producer (and Emmy-winning writer) Greg Daniels will blog live at NBC.com after next Thursday’s one-hour season premiere, at 10pm ET/7pm PT.

I bet a few other writers will show up as well …

You can submit questions now.

Wow, this is really late. Sorry, guys. So completely distracted today …

• Updated blogs: Bob Vance, Kevin, Angela, Kate, and Bealsebub.
• Awards: Steve Carell was named best TV actor in a comedy by the Teen Choice Awards.
• Movie news: Rainn Wilson’s Renaissance Men is picked up by Universal Pictures.
• Article: Greg Daniels talks The Office.
• Article: At The Office with Ed Helms.
• Article: Cap’n Jack in Iraq.
• Gadgets: add a random quote from The Office to your iGoogle page.
• Games: a photo of The Office video game box by Mumbo Jumbo. Release date is Oct. 30.
• Video: Craig Robinson in Mr. Robinson’s Driving School.
• Syndication: The Office airs in syndication on TBS starting September 11, Tuesdays at 10/9c.
• Merchandise: new items at the NBC store – Mug Shot T-Shirt, 2008 Daily Calendar, and Dunder Mifflin Auto Umbrella.

Tipsters: Officeisms1978, Mike, Jason, Kell, AuntWeeza, Brittany, Shannon, Julia

Inc.com interviews The Office Executive Producer Greg Daniels:

Greg Daniels is to fun what Bono is to money: He has a lot of it and spends his days contemplating those who have none. Daniels created the American version of The Office, a sitcom about a paper company where the tin-eared boss mistakes insults for banter and tries employees’ patience with cringe-inducing entertainments. As executive producer and a writer for the NBC program, Daniels is essentially boss of a show about the Dante’s Inferno of workplaces.

Link: He Knows Where You Work

SPOILER WARNING! IGN talks to The Office’s Greg Daniels and B.J. Novak about the conclusion of Season 3 and plans for Season 4.

IGN TV: What did you think when you found out how the Season 3 finale was going to end?

Novak: Well, as one of the writers, I was there for the whole process. I was thrilled. We had talked for years about Ryan maybe becoming Michael’s boss some day, and how funny that would be — to see that reversal. [Steve] Carell has brought it up to me, and the writers have pitched it at various times. So for me it was so fun to have something new to do.

Links: B.J. Novak | Greg Daniels

Tipster: Billy

Dead Things ON Sticks interviewed The Office’s showrunner Greg Daniels at the Banff World Television Festival last week:

… the cameramen on The Office, specifically Randall Einhorn, although Matt Sohn his number two is also very good … but he’s our DP and I used to sit him down when I told him what we were looking for and I’d say, “truth and beauty. we’re going for truth and beauty.” He really responded to that. “Cool,” he’d say — he lived in Australia, he’d go, “Truth and beauty, mate!” And then he’d go out … so he was always trying to find that moment of behavior, or that thing in the camerawork.

The process of making and writing The Office is one of my favorite topics ever!

Links: DTOS Part 1 | DTOS Part 2 | More Greg Daniels interviews at Banff

Tipster: Wasa-B

The Office Executive Producer Greg Daniels is in Banff this week leading a master class for the World Television Festival.

Here are some interesting related articles (I’m tagging this with a SPOILER ALERT because Season 4 is discussed, but nothing is revealed that is earth-shattering):

• 6/12, Blogcritics Magazine: An Interview with The Office Creator Greg Daniels. “It’s just almost embarrassing when you see the promos for 30 Rock and Scrubs and there’s all these good gags in there, and then there’s ours and it’s all “I loooove you.” And I’m like, OK, that was a good moment, but we had guys in inflatable sumo suits also.”
• 6/12, Edmonton Sun: Office talk. “People on college campuses have more passion for our show than they have passion for Two and a Half Men.”
• 6/11, Toronto Star: Funny business as usual at NBC. “The writers have “broken” the first 13 episodes. Each has two or three rough outlines — Daniels brought his two to Banff — and the plan is to reconvene after July 4 with completed scripts.”