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The Office: Season 5
Engagements and other vaguely soap-operatic plotlines play... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsEmmy Award Nominees Announced, 30 Rock Appreciation Abounds
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
Found in: Movies, NewsSeven Questions About Parks and Recreation's Series Premiere
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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayNBC signs on 30 Rock and The Office for another year
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
Found in: TV, NewsGolden Globe nominations announced
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
Found in: Movies, News16 things to watch other than the Thanksgiving Day Parade
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? ... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayRashida Jones featured in new series starring Amy Poehler
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.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsSigns of Life 2008: Best TV Shows
Check out Paste's top 10 television shows of 2008... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesThe Best Outtakes from The Office
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...... read more
Found in: TV DetailThe Best Outtakes from The Office
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...... read more
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