For people who know which one is Pam.
From People.com:
Jenna Fischer spent her summer nursing four fractured vertebrae – but the Office Emmy nominee insists she’s almost 100 percent as her hit NBC show returns for a fourth season.
Link: Injured Jenna Fischer Still ‘Sore,’ Gets New Chair
Tipster: Kelley
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
Birthday Greetings to our favorite:
– Cadbury Egg sleuth,
– Museum prankster, and
– Put-upon temp,
But most of all,
Happy Birthday to the guy who wrote the episode that turned me on to The Office in the first place!
Image is everything. — Andre Agassi
When I got home today after work (yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but I do have a full-time job outside of OfficeTally), I had a lovely surprise waiting for me in my inbox — an email from the newly Emmy-nominated Jenna Fischer, asking if I would like to chat briefly with her this evening.
Um, yes please.
She had decided not to do any formal interviews today, preferring to give an exclusive to OfficeTally to thank the fans! How great is that?
Continue reading “My phone call with Jenna Fischer — exclusive!”
Tipsters: Rosa, smiling417, Sara, Cara
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
In this third and final part of my chat with The Office’s Michael Schur, we discuss gift exchanges, the origin of Dwight’s cousin, Mose, and eating on the set.
Backstage.com has a wonderful interview with Phyllis Smith:
In 2004 the company was testing the series regulars for The Office when Smith heard Kwapis say he wanted her to read one of the characters. “I didn’t really think anything about it; I just thought I was being a reader,” she recalls. “I was just hoping I did a good job for the actors.” Over the next few days, Smith heard from other actors in the running that Kwapis wanted her in the show.
“Then when we took people to network, we were walking down the stairs at NBC, and Ken turned to [current NBC co-chairman, then head of production company Reveille] Ben Silverman and said, ‘I want Phyllis in the show. I have a whole backstory for her,’ ” she recalls. “But I’ve been in this business long enough to know that until it’s in writing, I shouldn’t get my hopes up.”
Link: ‘Office’ Space (you’ll need to scroll down the page a bit)