Comments on: The Office is week’s top comedy

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:15:09 +0000

Hooray! That’s great to hear.

By: phyllis*farm

phyllis*farm — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:52:00 +0000

1, Tylerdw-

I view the BBC show as the finished form of a documentary. A crew filmed for a few weeks, took a two-week break, then filmed a bit more, and we got twelve episodes of it. Then, two years later, a wrap-up.

For the NBC show, I look at this like we, the audience, are seeing the dailies of an in-progress documentary. They’re gathering footage for, let’s say, a feature-length film, and we’re seeing the (edited together) rough footage to put in said film.

As for this post, I have one question: how is there an “18-49 Men” category AND an “18-34 Men” one?

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:26:57 +0000

Oh I know it doesn’t have the most awards but it does get nominated for quite a few of them. If you pair it up with 30 Rock and My Name is Earl that has to be the most award winning/nominated comedy block. Definitely the highest quality. (At least when Kath and Kim gets replaced by the Amy Poehler show.)

The Office still makes NBC the most money of all their shows. Ad sales are expensive since The Office is such a “young” show. DVD sales are phenomenal. Online viewing and iTunes sales are great. And then all the silly things we buy like T-shirts and coffee mugs :P The Office is NBC’s cash cow.

I know that blurb was to make advertisers drool, but I still find the spinning kind of obnoxious and unnecessary.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:45:21 +0000

@#1: I don’t think that the documentary is part of the whole story of this show. It is just the style of making it. So there is no reason to “explain” it. And for me it is one reason why I like this show.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:25:31 +0000

@4. Jack

The Office isn’t “most award winning”

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:29 +0000

@ 6 185pounder

umm…take that 30 Rock? excuse me? 30 Rock is a great show. You should be saying “take that Two and a Half Men”

By: K

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:41:35 +0000

Jack,

I’m with you. Office has never been about ratings, but awards. But I guess awards don’t bring in the dough.

By: 185pounder

185pounder — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:08:43 +0000

YAY!!! Take that 30 Rock!

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:34:07 +0000

I love you NBC, I really do. But you gotta stop with these completely contrived claims to ratings success. You might have been the top comedy of the week but that was only because all the CBS comedies were repeats. Even Two and a Half Men’s repeat rated higher than the new Office…

Maybe NBC should spin “most award winning” programming or best quality. Cause then at least it’d be true

By: Urkel Grue

Urkel Grue — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:06:24 +0000

That makes me a very proud Office fan!

By: fire-ed guy

fire-ed guy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:56:14 +0000

Well, no surprise there, the Office is the best!

By: Tylerdw

Tylerdw — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:50:56 +0000

Yea, this show isn’t going anywhere for quite a while. NBC has found a winner (rare in their case) and is gonna keep it for as long as possible!

Although I’m hoping for a season 6 or 7 end before the show just goes on for the sake of going on. The longer it takes the harder it is going to be to explain the “documentary” thing like the BBC did. If that is, in fact, how they plan to end it.