Steve Carell talks about Season 7 being his last season on The Office.
Steve Carell’s replacement: Harvey Keitel?
E! Online’s Kristin Dos Santos reports that The Office showrunner Paul Lieberstein is interested in tough-guy movie actor Harvey Keitel as a possible replacement for Steve Carell this season:
“He’s probably the only guy who can do it, and he’s doing TV now,” Paul tells us of the Oscar nominee, who recently starred on ABC’s Life on Mars.
Paul is so jazzed about the idea of Harvey joining the show, he already has a bulk of the maybe-replacement’s role already written.
“He’s an old salesman who thought he could retire and the stock market went down, and he has to come out of retirement to work for a few years.”
Link: Steve Carell’s Replacement on The Office to Be… Harvey Keitel?!
‘Dinner For Schmucks’ with Steve Carell
UPDATE: ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ opens today!
Summary: Tim (Rudd) is a rising executive who “succeeds” in finding the perfect guest, IRS employee Barry (Carell) for his boss’ monthly event, a so-called “dinner for idiots,” which offers certain advantages to the exec who shows up with the biggest buffoon.
Starring: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd
Website: Dinner for Schmucks
Trailer:
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Between Two Ferns: Steve Carell
A Funny or Die exclusive: Zach Galifianakis sits down with The Office’s Steve Carell. Insults ensue. (Warning: NSFW for profanity)
Steve Carell leaving ‘The Office’
This post lists items related to Steve Carell’s departure from ‘The Office’ — his current contract expires at the end of Season 7.
NBC confirms Steve’s impending exit from the show (excerpts from AP):
In the network’s first acknowledgment of Carell’s plans, NBC Primetime Entertainment President Angela Bromstad said Monday the actor’s seven-year run as erratic Dunder Mifflin boss Michael Scott will end when his contract expires in 2011. But Bromstad said the show will go on.
“We’ve been lucky to have had him as long as we’ve had. These things happen when you have such a major movie star in a show,” she said.
“Not to diminish the departure of Steve, because that will impact the show, but we have tremendous faith in the writers and actors to keep it alive,” Bromstad said.
The door is open if he wants to make return visits to the show, Bromstad said.
Whether Michael Scott’s job will be filled by a promotion from within or an outside hire is under discussion. Bringing in a big-name star is an option, but “it’s not the front-running idea,” said Paul Lieberstein, a cast member and executive producer.
“Right now, we’re still talking about a lot of scenarios. We’re trying to get a sense of what the office is like without Steve. We want to be real: What would this office really do (if Michael Scott left)? We want to pursue this as honestly as Dunder Mifflin would,” he said.
Nobody wants to see Carell leave, said Lieberstein, who plays Toby, the embattled voice of human-resources reason.
“But what we’ll get creatively is actually very exciting. We don’t have to do auto reset at the end of the season, but we get to move on,” he said.
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Steve Carell on ‘Craig Ferguson’
The Office’s Steve Carell visited The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night:
Steve Carell on ‘Jimmy Fallon’
Here’s a clip of The Office’s Steve Carell on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ last night:
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Steve Carell on ‘Letterman’
Here is The Office’s Steve Carell visiting David Letterman tonight:
Best. Diorama. Ever.