TV Guide interviews Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels talks to TV Guide about the success of the show:

TVGuide.com: At the recent TV-critics press tour, we heard a lot of producers reacting to what’s said about their shows on the Web. There is a lot of online chatting about your show. Does it make producers crazy after a while?

Daniels: The people online are usually real purists. They often support the creator on the more creative decisions over the business-y decisions, I think. Anytime I get any piece of information, I pick and choose whether it supports what I want. The same with the executives — if an executive doesn’t like a show, and they do focus-group testing, they’re going to say, “These guys didn’t like it.” But the focus group is usually [made up of] people who aren’t into the stuff. They are grabbed out of a mall. But the online community is the focus-group viewer you’d love to have. Everybody is super into the show.

Sign me up for any focus group. Any time.

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Tipster: LazyScranton

4 comments

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   1. JimHalpertIsLife  Sat. Jan. 27, 2007 | 6:44pm

   hmm. its funny what he said about kids relating to the show.. im a teenager- freshman in high school- and i never really thought about my connection to the office but i guess it is a little like school.
   only in my school there’s no jim halpert.

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   2. shut.up.angela.  Sun. Jan. 28, 2007 | 9:57am

   Yeah.

   Having no ‘Jim’ is school is so disappointing. I’m a sophomore. I could use a Jim.

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   3. LazyScranton  Sun. Jan. 28, 2007 | 2:16pm

   I have two sons, ages 15 and 17, and they love the show just as much as I do.

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   4. thatswhatshesaid07  Sun. Jan. 28, 2007 | 2:41pm

   well I’m a senior and I have quite a few Jim-like kids in my class, so I guess I’m pretty lucky.

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