Better than bacon on the Foreman!
This just posted by nbcskampy over at the NBC Office boards:
I hope you’ll all join us for the second edition of live blogging with executive producer Greg Daniels TONIGHT after the east coast airing of the show…approximately 9pm EST.
You are welcome to head on over the blog right now and leave your questions in the comments … Greg will be checking them out and selecting which questions to answer starting immediately following the episode.
Here’s a summary of tonight’s events:
Good OT gal pal Wendy recently had the chance to meet Kate Flannery (“Meredith”)!
Here is Wendy’s report:
This event took place on Tuesday, October 24th at an M. Fredric Store in Studio City, CA. The event was sponsored by Tide because they were launching a line of Vintage Tide Tees. All the proceeds of one of these tees will benefit Take Action Hollywood, a charitable organization run by Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos, who served as the host/spokesperson for this Tide campaign. Kate was kind enough to stop by the event and could not have been sweeter. We loaded her down with gift bags for everyone in the cast and she was generous enough to distribute them to everyone on set a few days later. It was amazing to meet her as Meredith is one of my favorite characters on the show and I am also crazy about her act The Lampshades with Scot Robinson. She could not have been more gracious and more genuine in her love and appreciation of The Office fans everywhere.
Yay Wendy and Kate! And thanks for sending this awesome photo!
I got an email yesterday from a very excited OT reader named Shannon:
I thought I’d give you (and all the fans of “The Office”) an update on a commercial I saw for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” I saw a commercial late last night for segments coming up this week, and up came a clip of John Cryer, Heidi Klum, and low and behold, our beloved John Krasinski!!!
Anyway, it was a clip of each of them singing, but there was no sound of them; just the announcer’s voice. I looked on Ellen’s website, and it lists Friday as “Ellen’s Karaoke Show”, and lists Heidi and John Cryer, and “some surprise performances.” (Why they didn’t list John Krasinski, I have no idea!) But, he will definitely be singing. And who doesn’t love John Krasinski singing??? “Love me, love me …”
Thanks, Shannon, for the heads-up!
Update: Here is a preview of Friday’s show — that is definitely John singing at the beginning!
From the NBC press release:
NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy “The Office” (Thursdays, 8:30 – 9:00pm ET/PT) will offer fans a first-ever, web-exclusive “producer’s cut” on November 9th. The episode will include additional scenes and extra footage not shown in the broadcast version. Viewers can log onto NBC.com at 9:00pm (PT) on November 9th to see the web-exclusive event.
Read NBC’s ‘The Office’ Web Event Streams Only on NBC.com here.
Update 1: The producer’s cut version will be available for a week. (Thanks, Dana!)
Update 2: Executive producer Greg Daniels will be live blogging that night, 9pm ET/6pm PT.
Melora Hardin (“Jan”) appeared on The Megan Mullally Show today, discussing her onscreen chemistry with Steve Carell, her music, and her crush on Tom Selleck.
SPOILER WARNING The appearance includes a clip from this week’s episode, Branch Closing.
TV critic Alan Sepinwall discusses what it takes to make foreign TV show sensations successful here in the U.S. The Office is used as a prime example.
An excerpt:
Where Ricky Gervais’ David Brent in the original was a sweaty, incompetent clod, Steve Carell’s Michael Scott is presented as a pathetically lonely man who wants everyone to be his friend. It doesn’t make him easier to work for, but it does make us — and, on occasion, the other characters — understand his behavior.
In the second-season premiere, Michael dragged the entire staff to Chili’s for his unbearable annual tradition of “The Dundies,” a gag award show. Everyone complained about having to sit through Michael’s lame, borderline-offensive jokes, but when a bunch of drunks at the bar began to heckle and shame him, the staff rose to his defense — a feel-good moment that never would have happened on the British show but didn’t feel false here.