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Are You Ready for The Office: The New Class?

by | April 13th, 2012

Greg Daniels, The Office’s executive producer, is in talks with NBC to reboot the series next season. With the show dipping in the ratings and critical approval, the announcement of many staff and cast shake-ups, and the fact that most of the leads' contracts are up this year anyway, this isn’t entirely a surprise. The show has yet to be picked up for another season but considering it’s the only non-reality show on the network that gets serviceable ratings, renewal seems very likely.

At first pass this seems like generally awful news; however, maybe it will be for the best. Many of the show’s recent troubles stem from repetitiveness and stagnation; this could possiblly reverse that course. The show obviously has a gifted lot of writers and performers and a reboot might help them refocus. For example, if NBC announced that it picked-up a pilot executive produced by Greg Daniels with B.J. Novak as the head writer, starring Craig Robinson, Zach Woods, Ellie Kemper, and Creed we’d all be super excited. This could be that show. Come on! A show starring freaking Creed!

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nbc, the office, tv

  • Colin Perkins

    Let. It. Die.

    This show is sputtering so badly that it's completely unrecognizable from the brilliant show it once was. The sequence last night with Brett Gelman as the magician was the climax of the show and was completely unfunny in every way. Nothing the characters were doing in that scene made any sense or rang true in any way. It was weird and uncreative and contrived. For God's sake, they managed to make Brett Freaking Gelman unfunny. That's really hard to do.

    Jim & Pam are now useless characters. Dwight's schtick is tired. Who cares about the accountants or Daryl or the other sales people. The Andy & Erin story has gone on far too long and is totally flat.

    It's time to give this thing a humane death. Reboots don't work. Remember the new version of Scrubs? Remember Golden Palace? Hell, do you remember Saved by the Bell: The New Class?

    • BonzoGal

      @Colin Perkins: Agreed. As a former Office fanatic, this season has seemed like the saddest of fan-fic stories. Even Angela has lost her nasty bite.

      The only funny moment last night was the opener where no one could remember whether Stanley had a mustache or not.

      I like Catherine Tate, but they've already taken her character and softened it. Bleh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Nafziger/1625377858 Jason Nafziger

    I thought the Scrubs reboot was decent. I actually would have preferred if the original cast hadn't come back at all (Kelso and Janitor maybe, since their characters would still have made sense). If the choice is between no more Office and some new version of it, I'll take the new version and see what happens. If it sucks and I have to pretend that it ended when Michael Scott left (much as I pretend the Lovitz years of NewsRadio didn't happen), then so be it.

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