Archive: Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels: He Knows Where You Work

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 | 9 comments

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

Greg Daniels and B.J. Novak interviews

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 | 7 comments

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

Greg Daniels interview

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 | 5 comments

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

Greg Daniels at Banff World Television Festival

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | 13 comments

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.”

Wearing multiple hats on The Office

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 | 3 comments

Variety has a really interesting article about the challenges of being both an actor and writer — true of several staff members on The Office:

[Paul] Lieberstein, who was strictly a writer before coming to “The Office,” finds his actor mind and producer mind in conflict in another way. [Steve] Carell, he explains, will pounce (in character) on any actor who fumbles an improv.

“He just devours you. If you take too long, he makes fun of you. If you say something that didn’t follow, he makes fun of you. It’s kind of amazing. While I’m watching it as a producer, when I’m not in the scene, it’s definitely something I’m hoping for.”

Link: Writer-performers stage balancing acts

Greg and B.J. live blog finale night

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 | 14 comments

The Office Executive Producer Greg Daniels and writer/actor/producer/Cadbury egg inspector B.J. Novak will live blog next Thursday after the Season 3 finale airs on the East coast, 6pm PT/9pm ET.

Link: The Office website at NBC

P.S. Live blogging for The Office has been done a few times before — Jenna Fischer did it for ‘The Merger’ and Greg did it for ‘Branch Closing,’ both last November, and Greg Daniels did it for the Season 3 premiere ‘Gay Witch Hunt’ back in September.

More on the kiss

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | 22 comments

The Museum of Television and Radio has posted a short clip from The Office cast appearance at Paley Fest. The clip is of Steve Carell, Greg Daniels, Paul Lieberstein, and Oscar Nunez talking about (and reenacting) the kiss from ‘Gay Witch Hunt.’

Love Paul’s play by play!

Link: Paley Fest Highlight Clips

Tipster: kel

Dumb but deep

Saturday, March 10th, 2007 | 6 comments

The Arizona Republic has an interesting story about how “stupid is the new smart” where TV comedy protagonists are concerned.

The Office’s Michael Scott, of course, is the poster boy for this phenomena.

“I don’t consider Michael as the stupid guy,” [Greg] Daniels said of his lead character. “He makes some very bad choices … I think in certain circumstances he’s very competent. There are just certain circumstances he’s not suited for.”

Indeed, The Office takes care to point out on occasion that, while Michael is a train wreck as a manager, he was an excellent salesman. And that’s crucial to being able to stomach the guy.

Link: Dumb but deep

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