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The Weekend Tally

New blogs this week

Other notable items

  • John and Jenna in style: The November issue of In Style magazine features Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski in their “What’s Hot Now” section. Click the images to zoom in. (Thanks to proofs at the LJ Office community.)
    Jenna Fischer | John Krasinski
  • Jenna to appear in Wisely music video: remember when Jenna put the Willie Wisely song “Through Any Window” on her MySpace home page? Well Wisely has now asked her to appear in the music video! (Thanks, Jill)
    Jenna in Us Weekly | Willie Wisely’s website
  • TiVo Nation loves The Office: “Nielsen has begun measuring playback on digital video recorders, and the first results are handing a big lift to some of TV’s top shows … NBC’s The Office had the biggest percentage of delayed viewers: The show’s ratings spiked nearly 7% when viewing later Thursday night is counted, and more than 11% from viewing up to a week later.”
    Full article, USA Today
  • Scranton’s Thursday night hush: “When Brixx Grille and Tavern in Scranton held its first ‘The Office’ night for locals, eatery co-owner Mike Kerzetski was having doubts … He wasn’t sure people would tune out each other when the show was tuned on the bar’s four televisions. ‘When it came on, it was dead silence,’ Mr. Kerzetski said. ‘It was amazing. You don’t see that in a bar.'”
    Full article, Scranton Times-Tribune
  • Which Office character did Kate Flannery (“Meredith”) originally audition for? Read more in this Chicago Tribune article.
  • Lastly, a synopsis of the Nov. 9 episode has been added to the spoilers post.
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‘Initiation’ tidbits

There’s lots of good stuff in the Tidbits section of this week’s episode, Initiation — two deleted scenes, episode reviews from TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, John’s prop blog, James’ fabulous recap, a link to the iTunes Store, and links to two videos:

  • Lazy Sunday, which explains what Kelly was jabbering about to Michael in the pretzel line, and
  • Lovefool, the video of the song Jim/Andy sing, to Karen’s chagrin.

Go to the Initiation Tidbits section.

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SAG Foundation Office event

Sorry for the late notice, but I just saw this over at the LJ Office community:

Q&A with John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak & Rainn Wilson

Today, October 21, 2006, 1pm, Los Angeles

This event is open to SAG, AFTRA, and Equity members only; SAG members may bring one guest.

To make reservations (which are required), click here.

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The lost souls of The Office

This little masterpiece, created by our gal pal over at GMMR, was just too good not to share:

the office lost gmmr


Click the image to jump to the full-sized version.

My favorite part of the picture has got to be Kevin wearing Hurley’s hair!

So are there that many similarities between “The Office” and “Lost”?

  • Lost has the front section and the tailies; Office has the office and warehouse.
  • Lost has the main cast and “the others”; Office has the Scranton branch and the Stamford branch.
  • They both have (or is that, had?) a love triangle.
  • They both take place in locations that seem inescapable.

Please add to the list!

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Kate and Angela at TVGuide.com

Kate Flannery (“Meredith”) has updated her TV Guide blog:

This week’s new episode is “The Initiation,” written by B.J. Novak. Salesman Dwight Schrute teaches Ryan-the-former Temp how to be a salesman for Dunder Mifflin. Aside from the beet farm, I can’t give away anything. But the NBC promos have shown a phone conversation between Pam and Jim! The first time they have spoken all season. I am not allowed to say anything but you cannot miss it! What a talented guy, that B.J. Novak is. Ryan’s desk faced Meredith’s desk last season and he would sit and write a new episode of The Office while the rest of us were doing our fake office work, or online with Myspace fans.

TVG.com also has posted a nice interview with Angela Kinsey:

TVGuide.com: How did she and Dwight get together in the first place?
Kinsey: I remember when we were at the table read for the “Jim’s Party” episode [when their relationship was revealed], Rainn and I just started cracking up. He said to me, “It just makes such perfect sense.” They have this dance they do with each other. They both crave power and authority, they take life and their jobs really seriously, and they’re really militant and like to follow lots of rules.