ET on the Office set

Entertainment Tonight was on the Office set last week when the Screen Actors Guild’s JoBeth Williams presented Steve Carell with three SAG Award nomination certificates — two for “The Office” and one for “Little Miss Sunshine.”

Here are two videos: 1 | 2

(Warning: The first video has some audio problems for the first 15 seconds or so.)

Yeah, ensemble, baby!

The Screen Actors Guild awards show airs on TNT and TBS January 28th.

Tipster: Jennifer

Krasinski film cast update

Cinematical reports that the movie that John Krasinski is directing, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, will include Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard in its cast, among others:

Gibbard is actually one of a number of cute people signed on for the hideous roles. Here’s a short roll call for the curious: Sex and the City semen taster Bobby Cannavale, Krasinski’s Office co-star and daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton — Rashida Jones, SNL alum and Abe Lincoln’s clone Will Forte, Threesome’s Josh Charles, Kinsey actress Julianne Nicholson and The Anniversary Party’s lovely Denis O’Hare — just to name a few!

Link: Hideous Men Grabs One Cutie from Death Cab

Greg Daniels trains other showrunners

From Variety:

The Writers Guild of America West has launched its second annual Showrunner Training Program to train two dozen writer-producers.

The six-session program launched Saturday with remarks from WGA West president Patric M. Verrone, John Wells (“ER,” “The West Wing”), Touchstone Television President Mark Pedowitz, Jeff Melvoin (“Alias”) and Phil Rosenthal (“Everybody Loves Raymond”).

The opening session, entitled “From Writer to Manager,” included a panel discussion with Tim Kring (” Heroes”), Greg Daniels (“The Office”) and Greg Garcia (“My Name Is Earl”).

Link: Guild begins Showrunner program

Office receives ACE nom

The American Cinema Editors (ACE) has nominated The Office’s Dean Holland & David Rogers in the ACE Eddie Award category ‘Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television’ for their work on last season’s ‘Casino Night.’

The ACE Awards presentation will be held in Beverly Hills on February 19th.

Click here for a complete list of ACE Eddie Award nominations; go to the OfficeTally’s Awards Archive for the slew of nominations that The Office has received recently!