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When I was a kid, I loved coming downstairs on Thanksgiving morning to the smell of turkey in the oven and the Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV. My excitement lasted about ten minutes before I was ready to watch Full House. I don’t keep up with the Tanner family anymore, but I still couldn’t care less about the parade. If you share my lack of enthusiasm for the TV event of the season, might I suggest the following programs instead? 

OK, OK...so, its not an Office spin-off (like we previously believed). But it is still a new NBC comedy series starring Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari, and it did just take one step closer to being like The Office by casting one of the its former stars, Rashida Jones.

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The shame of every episode of The Office is that it's only 22-minutes long. Here the best of what we've been missing—scenes that didn't make the cut but maybe should have...

Many of the actors on beloved hit show The Office can credit its success for helping them launch fledgling film careers. Steve Carell, for one, has catapulted into one of today's biggest movie stars, with big hits (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Get Smart) and successful smaller-scale flicks (Dan in Real Life, Little Miss Sunshine).

20 Best TV Characters of the Past 20 Years

Today, we present the final four characters. Click here for #20-#17, here for #16-#13, here for #12-#9 and here for #8-#5.

20 Best TV Characters of the Past 20 Years

Today, we present the next four characters (#8-#5). Click here for #20-#17, here for #16-#13 and here for #12-#9.

Those who caught this year's dismal Emmy Awards know that one of the lone bright spots (and no, we're not referring to Josh Groban's confusing theme song medley) was when Ricky Gervais berated Steve Carell for stealing his Emmy.

On Thursday, Variety shined some light on those Ghostbusters reunion rumors, which have been swirling for quite some time now. In the short breaking story, Columbia Pictures still refuses to comment on the status of a possible addition to the franchise, which up until Men in Black and Spiderman, was their highest grossing picture ever. At the time, audiences were sure that the studio would make a third but the deal fell apart when salaries skyrocketed.

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The veteran actor—best known for playing geeky megalomaniac Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The 
Office—moves out of his perennial supporting-actor niche with new big-screen comedy 
The Rocker. It’s his first starring role, a natural 
opportunity to inquire about some of his other firsts.

Michael Scott hasn't always been lucky in love. There was that time that he made Ryan clean out his car to impress Katy, that time Jan proved to be the worst girlfriend ever, that time...

Beloved television comedy series The Office migrated to the U.S in early 2005, and has already been adapted to French (Le Bureau) and German (Stromberg) from the original British version on the BBC. Now, The Office has made its way to South America for a BBC-licensed Chilean remake, La Ofis.

[Above: Kanye West and Steve Carell backstage at last year's Emmy Awards Gala]

Get that TiVo warmed up and catch up on your saved episodes of House and Ugly Betty: the Emmys are coming to TV land in September, and you’ll want to be prepared. The nominees for the ultra-cumbersomely-titled 60th Primetime Emmy Awards and Creative Arts Emmy Awards were announced today, and a full list is available online.

Write this down: spin-offs are apparently the new black next season. We've got teen-soap spin-offs, cartoon spin-offs, and spin-offs we don't really know anything about.

"Steve Carell...is the hardest working man in Hollywood and the harder he works the better it is for me."  

That's what she said!

Chances are, not many are as thankful for the revamping of the NBC sitcom than Aziz Ansari. In the past two weeks, Ansari has signed on for parts in not just one, but two, of the network’s comedies that once again made Thursday nights “Must See TV.”

Welcome to High Gravity, my new blog for daily nuggets of music, film and culture. I plan on using this space for quick, throughout-the-day updates on whatever comes across my desk or crosses my mind, from news about Thom Yorke making sure Prince's Coachella cover of "Creep" gets unblocked by YouTube or Liz Phair performing Exile in Guyville in its entirity (June 23rd at the Fillmore in San Francisco, 24th at The Vic Theatre in Chicago and 25th & 26th at the Hiro Ballroom in New York) to my own Top 10 lists, favorite new discoveries and, yes, beer recommendations.

My New Discovery of the Week
Johnny Flynn: Listening to 60-something entries for our Best of What's Next issue in September last week, the one that I keep going back to is Johnny Flynn. A bit Robyn Hitchcock, a bit Sixteen Horsepower, but with the exuberance of The Waterboys, this Londoner has won me as a fan. Only after visiting his MySpace page did I realize that I'd had his upcoming album sitting unlistened on my desk, courtesy of Lost Highway.

Best Sitcoms Since 1980
I don't have much of an opinion on sitcoms that predated me, so we'll go back to when I was nine. I'm curious to hear which ones you think I've overlooked, so let me know what rip-roaring laughs or laugh-tracks I've been missing. And before you say Taxi, just know that it debuted in 1978 (which is why I had to delete M*A*S*H, long may it rerun).

Just about a month and a half ago, we brought you the news that NBC, home of maybe-crazy/maybe-genius co-chairman Ben Silverman, planned to schedule year-round television. For the story, we fortuitously used a photo of The Office cast.

Why fortuitously? Well, yesterday, news surfaced that Silverman and the NBC crew have been in talks about a spinoff show deriving from none other than those crazy Dunder Mifflinites we've come to know and love. According to various sources, it appears quite possible that Dwight K. Schrute, the achingly socially awkward Assistant Regional Manager (or is it more accurately Assistant to the Regional Manager?), very well might be at the center of this new show.

According to The New York Times' Brian Stelter, who live-blogged the unveiling of NBC's 52 week programming in its entirety, the series is set to premiere after the 2009 Super Bowl.

In the meantime, enjoy this great Dwight Schrute moment:

Related links:
News: The Office's B.J. Novak plans stand-up tour
The Office on NBC
IMDb: The Office

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