New information about Season 4
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | 143 commentsFeb. 14, Associated Press
Rainn Wilson, a Writers Guild member and co-star of “The Office,” said he was hearing that everyone on the show will report back on March 10 to shoot six more episodes.
Link: Hollywood Punches Back in As Strike Ends
Feb. 13, New York Times
- ‘The Office’ returns to the air April 10th.
- The first episode that will be produced is ‘Dinner Party.’
- A Christmas script was written before the strike, but will not be produced.
- As showrunner Greg Daniels mentioned previously, a total of six new episodes will be produced for Season 4.
- Handling the time lapse: “I’m tempted to just leap ahead to where we would have been,” Mr. Daniels said.
Link: No Pause Button: TV Studios and Writers Play Catch-Up After Strike
Update: NBC now confirms that The Office will return on Thursday, April 10th, 9-9:30pm ET.
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One week from tonight the best show on television will resume I hope everyone is ready for six excellent episodes! In the meantime there are four episodes on tonight to get everyone ready for next week!
I have gone from being super excided to complete disappointment to confusion. I just lately was able to see Season 4 up to the point it ended to find out that it was cut off by the writers strike….Well I’ve heard they’re only doing like 6 more episodes which makes me very upset. I finally enjoy a TV series again it gets taken away. I really do hope they change this shortly and add on….(4-5 more seasons seriously) They do have it left in them and they have to keep it going.
I don’t like the idea of jumping ahead — I was enjoying watching Jim & Pam’s new relationship unfold, and if they’ve been dating for months, we’ll miss all that. And I wish they’d just do all the episodes and play them right into the summer.
Oh well, at least the no-Office nightmare is about to end. I guess three months shouldn’t have been enough to kill off the writers’ talents and I will just have to trust them.
Yeaaahhh! Finally! I am so excited and this just made my day!
Is it strange that March 10th is my birthday? Greatest gift ever in my opinion.
Okay guys, we’re all talking about how it might skip ahead and big things might happen… but….
if they’re using Dinner Party, they’re using the same interaction/development of the couples that would have been the week after deposition. So… I doubt we’ll see engaged JAM or way preggers Angela Martin or anything like that.
I think it would be kind of hilarious if they just sped up to present time, and we have these huge changes in relationships/overall dynamics (Pam & Jim living together? engaged? Angela & Dwight married, Angela with child? Jan kicked out of the condo? so many possibilities…) Frankly I would think Jim & Pam would get pretty serious pretty fast, given their history, and the fact that Pam’s probably pretty tired of the waiting game when it comes to those things. (Sorry if this is getting slightly off-topic.)
In any case, I’m glad Dinner Party will see the light of day, and I trust the writers will make the most of these 6 episodes!
I’m smitten! I’m totally having an Office Party to celebrate the launch of the rest of the best season yet!
YAY!The Office drought is over!
I don’t like the fact that they might just skip all the episodes they were supposed to do during the strike
April 10th seems close, but really, it is like the middle of summer and we’re waiting for the fall season. If I think of it like that, it seems like a long time. But, then again, how long has it been since we’ve had a new episode? We are closer to the end of the drought than we are to the beginning. (Thank you for indulging my ramblings!)
This has been the greatest news I’ve gotten in weeks! Woo!
Future Dwight–
It might be that since Dinner Party is on location, they have to get the location set up and stuff. That makes sense to me… I mean, they had to move EVERYTHING out of the “office” and so they have to get all of that ready for the actors and they have to basically get the entire set up again, and I imagine it’s going to take some work… Not to mention, they have to do costuming for big belly Angela :) I think it’s not necessarily that they don’t want to go back to work, I think it’s more that other stuff has to be done FIRST so that they CAN get back to work.
And they also are going to have to tweak scripts to explain some of the things that have happened in the last 5 months. So yeah, that to be said. I don’t think its about the desire of the actors to get back to work, but the logistics and practicality of it all.
Not to be a downer, but why must they wait until March 10th to start shooting? Didn’t Greg report back to the office (no pun intended) this week? After hearing for so long about how the actors and writers had time to kill and nothing to do, it seems odd that it’s going to take 3 weeks to get back into the studio. So much for them being “eager to get back to work”.
That is all.
PS - The real FutureDwight would say that this is proof of what slackers he works with.
PPS - I’m still pumped that it’s coming back.
Is Angela’s pregnancy going to be written in right off the bat? “It’s 5 months later and Angela’s heavy with Dwight’s child…”?
Let’s have a countdown to April 10 with a quote of the day every day, and we all have to try to work it into daily conversation!
I also want a countdown. Dinner Party!!!
that is SO awesome! April 10th, I can hardly wait!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!! I want to see a preggy Angela!!! But I’ll bet they don’t include that now if they skip time; she’ll just be sick or something till after the baby is born.
121,
Also, film has to be processed/developed.