UK sitcoms don't seem to last as long as the US's... which is a good thing sometimes because some US comedies are long past their prime.
Steve Carell Quits The Office, Takes Post Office Job
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I imagine that its going to be a bit awkward whenever he has to walk past The Office studio. "Hey guys, sorry I abandoned you to make my own show and make lots of money. I hope you understand." It will probably go something like that. On a more serious note it sounds like his new show will be based on his experiences working in a post office. I would much rather see a show based on his experiences working on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
What about House on Fox?Xzi said:
OT: Michael was a great character and while he has been... a bit awkward in this season, he will be missed. It's going to be really hard to to follow his footsteps. But I will say he is one reason why the American version is better. Him and Dwight.
Well Michael Schott is good at improv(see The Office episodes from season 2-christmas episode)Anarchemitis said:
OT: Sad that Carell is leaving The Office but I will watch his other show and hope he's not just writing it.
As far as improv goes WLIIA is an extremely scripted show. That said, I am pretty sure he would do great at any improv. So long as he doesn't do it like his Michael Scott character and just point a gun at everyone in every scene.Anarchemitis said:
Heh, Post Office post-Office, I get it. 
I'm indifferent to what happens with The Office; I stopped watching it earlier this year. Ever since the season leading up to Jim and Pam's wedding, only like half the episodes have been funny, so I ended up favoring catching up on the consistently hilarious Community in my limited Hulu-watching time.
I'm indifferent to what happens with The Office; I stopped watching it earlier this year. Ever since the season leading up to Jim and Pam's wedding, only like half the episodes have been funny, so I ended up favoring catching up on the consistently hilarious Community in my limited Hulu-watching time.
It began as a mistake.
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up on the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I had this leather sack on my back and was hiking around at my leisure. What a job, I thought. Soft! They only gave you a block or two and if you managed to finish, the regular carrier would give you another block to carry, or maybe you'd go back in and the soup would give you another, but you just took your time and shoved those Xmas cards in the slots.
I think it was my second day as a Christmas temp that this big woman came out and walked around with me as I delivered letters. What I mean by big was that her ass was big and her tits were big and that she was big in all the right places. She seemed a bit crazy, but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.
She talked and talked and talked. Then it came out. Her husband was an officer on an island far away and she got lonely, you know, and lived in this little house in back all by herself.
"What little house?" I asked.
She wrote the address on a piece of paper.
"I'm lonely too," I said, "I'll come by and we'll talk tonight."
I was shacked but the shackjob was gone half the time, off somewhere and I was lonely alright. I was lonely for that big ass standing beside me.
"All right," she said, "see you tonight."
She was a good one all right, she was a good lay but like all lays after the third or fourth night I began to lose interest and didn't go back.
But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen is drop in their letters and get laid. This is the job for me, oh yes yes yes.
Carell as Henry Chinaski, I don't see it... Oh he's not adapting Post Office? Oh that could work I guess...
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up on the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I had this leather sack on my back and was hiking around at my leisure. What a job, I thought. Soft! They only gave you a block or two and if you managed to finish, the regular carrier would give you another block to carry, or maybe you'd go back in and the soup would give you another, but you just took your time and shoved those Xmas cards in the slots.
I think it was my second day as a Christmas temp that this big woman came out and walked around with me as I delivered letters. What I mean by big was that her ass was big and her tits were big and that she was big in all the right places. She seemed a bit crazy, but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.
She talked and talked and talked. Then it came out. Her husband was an officer on an island far away and she got lonely, you know, and lived in this little house in back all by herself.
"What little house?" I asked.
She wrote the address on a piece of paper.
"I'm lonely too," I said, "I'll come by and we'll talk tonight."
I was shacked but the shackjob was gone half the time, off somewhere and I was lonely alright. I was lonely for that big ass standing beside me.
"All right," she said, "see you tonight."
She was a good one all right, she was a good lay but like all lays after the third or fourth night I began to lose interest and didn't go back.
But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen is drop in their letters and get laid. This is the job for me, oh yes yes yes.
Carell as Henry Chinaski, I don't see it... Oh he's not adapting Post Office? Oh that could work I guess...
Hmmm, I'm starting to notice a trend of shows on other lesser known networks getting transferred to NBC and then achieving great popularity before closing up for good. I think the problem arises from NBC tending to pressure the writers to close up subplots between characters and make the broad story move forward more. The Office got worse when Pam an Jim got together because it sapped the show of any remaining tension. It got worse when Micheal started to seem more human and sympathetic because he no longer became interesting to watch. Both of these problems come from a rapid audience expansion that demands a forced march of character development through plot events rather than subtle clues. This same sort of thing happened with Scrubs and MNIE.
Ah well, I still got Psyche, it seems pretty safe from the stacks of money NBC lures the other shows in with.
Ah well,
Ah well, I still got Psyche, it seems pretty safe from the stacks of money NBC lures the other shows in with.
Ah well,
The show has always had a very uncomfortable humor, but once you get past the initial "bite" and get invested in the characters (odd for a sitcom, I know), it really had a great feel. Losing Carell's character will irreparably damage the dynamic among characters.Elizabeth Grunewald said:Steve Carell Quits The Office, Takes Post Office Job
Steve Carell is leaving The Office, but he isn't leaving NBC, the network on which it airs: He's writing and producing a sitcom there.
The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) will lose Steve Carell from The Office this year. They won't shake him entirely, though, as they've just purchased a sitcom that Carell is both writing and executive producing. Carell has spent most of his career in front of the camera, but has written for The Office and The Dana Carvey Show, as well as for the film The 40 Year Old Virgin.
The show, which is operating under the tentative title The Post-Graduate Project, is a single-camera comedy based upon one of Carell's early jobs. Deadline describes the project "as a sweet and nostalgic take on the period of Carell's early life as a mail carrier and centers on a small-town post office frequented by a quirky but tight-knit group of local twentysomethings."
On The Office, Carell plays Regional Manager Michael Scott, a character based upon David Brent from the original British series. For this role, Carell was nominated for multiple Emmys, and was the recipient of a Golden Globe. Upon his departure, he will have been on The Office for seven years.
Source: Deadline [http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/nbc-buys-new-single-camera-office-comedy-from-office-star-steve-carell/]
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- Dwight's character won't be a tenth as funny without being able to bounce off of Michael, since the interaction with Jim is very different now.
- Characters like Stanly and Oscar are really only understood as "people that Michael occasionally insults with his racial/sexual insensitivity." Without that, they have the tough task of fleshing out characters who've already been there for years, which sometimes reads as forced.
- The temptation to introduce another character that is like Michael may prove to great, since it avoids having to rewrite so many core characters in drastic ways to keep things fresh. And if they do that, it'll feel artificial, and they'll lose anyway.
Really, this should be the point where (as Scrubs should have), they recognize that a central piece of the puzzle is being lost, and it's time to make a graceful exit rather than wait for the inevitable collapse.