The Office Review: "The Promotion" (Episode 6.03)

By Gage Henry at 9:34 AM on October 6, 2009

Last week's "The Promotion" turned out to be a celebration of new and old Office traditions. Jim's promotion as the branch's co-manager both enflamed a very Season Two-esque rivalry with Dwight and refreshingly tainted the Tuna's typical nonchalant, inhuman chivalry that has likely decimated as much real-life romance as it has created. Go ahead, you can say it. It's kind of nice to see Jim have a bad day, held over the flame of disgruntled and raise-hungry coworkers. ...  read more

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The Office Review: "The Promotion" (Episode 6.03)

By Gage Henry at 9:34 AM on October 6, 2009

Last week's "The Promotion" turned out to be a celebration of new and old Office traditions. Jim's promotion as the branch's co-manager both enflamed a very Season Two-esque rivalry with Dwight and refreshingly tainted the Tuna's typical nonchalant, inhuman chivalry that has likely decimated as much real-life romance as it has created. Go ahead, you can say it. It's kind of nice to see Jim have a bad day, held over the flame of disgruntled and raise-hungry coworkers. ...  read more

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The Office Review: "Gossip" (6.01)

By Gage Henry at 4:38 PM on September 23, 2009

Ever since the luster of Jim and Pam's spotty romance stabilized into a happy ever after relationship of sorts, The Office has ventured (or strayed, depending how you look at it) into new seasons of its life cycle. Many of the episodes have since featured storylines that engage all personalities in the work place, lightly peppering in new characters like Holly and rival Charles Miner while devoting more time to touch up the original cast with clever details. What hasn't changed is Michael Scott's childish antics that began last Thursday's Season Six premier with an early dose of hilarity. Accompanied by...  read more

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The Office Review: "Gossip" (6.01)

By Gage Henry at 4:38 PM on September 23, 2009

Ever since the luster of Jim and Pam's spotty romance stabilized into a happy ever after relationship of sorts, The Office has ventured (or strayed, depending how you look at it) into new seasons of its life cycle. Many of the episodes have since featured storylines that engage all personalities in the work place, lightly peppering in new characters like Holly and rival Charles Miner while devoting more time to touch up the original cast with clever details. What hasn't changed is Michael Scott's childish antics that began last Thursday's Season Six premier with an early dose of hilarity. Accompanied by...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: The Office Webisodes

By Sean Gandert at 3:05 PM on September 17, 2009

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Even the studios stopped denying several years back that television’s not doing so hot. Having atrophied viewership due to the internet and video games, the medium’s no longer the one stop free-entertainment shop it used to be, meaning that if people in the industry want to keep their jobs, they’d best think up ways to tap into these newfound interwebs to keep their advertising from drying up completely....  read more

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The Office: Season 5

By Sean Gandert at 2:35 PM on September 9, 2009

Engagements and other vaguely soap-operatic plotlines play...  read more

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Emmy Award Nominees Announced, 30 Rock Appreciation Abounds

By Ani Vrabel at 2:07 PM on July 16, 2009

Neil Patrick Harris won't take the stage to host the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards for nearly two more months (the ceremony is scheduled to be broadcast Sept. 20), but the Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the awards this morning. ...  read more

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Seven Questions About Parks and Recreation's Series Premiere

By Rachael Maddux at 7:00 AM on April 12, 2009

Thursday saw the debut of NBC's new comedy Parks and Recreation, starring Amy Poelher and Aziz Ansari as as a local government administrators every bit as ambitious and incompetent as one might expect from the likes of series creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, who adapted The Office for American audiences. Parks employs a similar mockumentary style, playing up humdrum moments and workaday minutia with expository interviews, steadicam field shots and pervasive awkwardness (which The Office does well) and already employing brazen silliness in lieu of plot and wide-eyed camera smirks in lieu of punchlines (which The Office increasingly does...  read more

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NBC signs on 30 Rock and The Office for another year

By Joe Shearer at 3:00 PM on January 20, 2009

Despite low ratings, NBC hasn't closed the door on its critic-friendly sitcom 30 Rock...yet. The network signed Tina Fey's award-winning show for another season, giving it time to grow and garner more viewers. So, for all those fearing a Fox-esque ax (try saying that four times fast) in the vein of the Arrested Development, Firefly and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, fret not: the show will go on. ...  read more

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Golden Globe nominations announced

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 1:43 PM on December 11, 2008

After the awkward press conference that became of last year’s Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rolled out the expected nominees this morning for a show that is now guaranteed to draw all the names who shunned it last year....  read more

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