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FiFi LaFeles

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bigpapa663 said :
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I'm not sure why the British version didn't take off. I really like Ricky Gervais.

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At the British Comedy Awards in 2001, The Office won the Best New TV Comedy award. In 2002, the series won the Best TV Comedy award.



"...... a record 6.5 million people - 30 per cent of the audience - sat down to watch the first part of the Christmas special on Boxing Day (2003)....."
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10-Jan-2017 12:16:53

bigpapa663

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FiFi LaFeles said :
bigpapa663 said :
FiFi LaFeles said :
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I'm not sure why the British version didn't take off. I really like Ricky Gervais.

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At the British Comedy Awards in 2001, The Office won the Best New TV Comedy award. In 2002, the series won the Best TV Comedy award.



"...... a record 6.5 million people - 30 per cent of the audience - sat down to watch the first part of the Christmas special on Boxing Day (2003)....."

The UK version lasted 2 seasons only with 12 episodes before it stopped. The US version had 9 seasons with 201 episodes.

10-Jan-2017 18:25:13

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The US do have a habit of dragging out series though.

I would argue that a lot of them go on far too long. My favourite American show, House, should have ended like four or five seasons earlier.

10-Jan-2017 18:36:36 - Last edited on 10-Jan-2017 18:37:26 by Shiavui

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Shiavui said :
The US do have a habit of dragging out series though.

I would argue that a lot of them go on far too long. My favourite American show, House, should have ended like four or five seasons earlier.

I agree. The Office also could have been cut two seasons short after Steve Carell left. But 12 episodes for a show that is receiving awards and doing well with viewers, I thought it was cut too short but I understand not everyone has the same view.

10-Jan-2017 20:35:09

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Ricky Gervais explained his reason for limiting the original to only two series; he and his co-writer Stephen Merchant had the entire storyline in their heads as more or less a finished item before they even started to write the individual episode scripts.

It was always going to be a finite story, so they put everything they had into each episode as the plot unfolded. (The American version seems to have around 30+ writers and wasn't intended to have a structured cut-off point in the same way that the Brit Office did).
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10-Jan-2017 23:27:19 - Last edited on 10-Jan-2017 23:28:44 by FiFi LaFeles

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