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'The Office's Abandoned Dwight Spin-off 'The Farm' Is Airing This Thursday

by | March 11th, 2013

If you've ever wondered what a show centered on The Office's Dwight Schrute would look like, you'll get your chance to find out this Thursday. Last year, NBC ordered an episode of The Office that would double as the a pilot for a Dwight spin-off called The Farm, but then decided not to make the show. The episode will air this Thursday and will introduce you to Schrute relatives living on the family beet farm like Dwight's stoner brother Jeb (Thomas Middleditch, The Campaign), cousin Zeke (Matt Jones, Breaking Bad), Nazi grandfather Henrich Manheim (Tom Bower, Die Hard 2), and lefty sister Fannie (Majandra Delfino, Roswell). Rainn Wilson wrote the [...]

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Clarissa Now: Whither The Ferg?

by | March 7th, 2011

We just couldn't let her go, could we? In 1995, the pilot episode of Clarissa Now picked up where Clarissa Explains It All left off, and if first ten minutes are any indication, eighteen-year-old intern Clarissa can't explain shit.  The prospect of seeing our favorite strong-willed tom boy slowly destroyed by an alcoholic boss, subway skinheads and the presence of Skipper from the first season of Sex In The City is distinctly less awesome than the original. No wonder the series never got picked up. The mid-nineties references are a pleasure, though: Oliver Stone! Hagar The Horrible! The newspaper industry! I'd personally rather see the spin-off starring Marian [...]

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NBC Doesn't Buy 'The Farm'; The Dwight Schrute 'Office' Spin-Off Is Dead

by | October 30th, 2012

Rainn Wilson announced yesterday via Twitter that NBC has opted not to pick-up The Farm, the spin-off of The Office based around his character Dwight Schrute. A pilot episode was filmed, as a standalone episode of The Office that introduces Dwight's family, and the episode will still air sometime in early 2013, giving us a glimpse of what the Dwight spin-off would have looked like. This means that Rainn Wilson will be sticking around for the rest of The Office's final season, instead of leaving for his own show, which'll make for a more fulfilling finale for fans in May.

The Farm was created by Paul Lieberstein (the [...]

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Meet the Schrutes

by | July 2nd, 2012

They've begun casting for The Farm, the new Dwight Office spin-off. TVLine has learned the show will have a test-run as an episode in the next season of The Office. The Farm will focus on Dwight inheriting a large farm/bed-and-breakfast that he must convince his siblings into helping him with. Siblings?!? The show will introduce new family members because Mose has moved to LA to run a TV show about a fictional local Indiana government. After the jump, read the descriptions of Dwight's relatives. Which one do you think sounds like Drea de Matteo?

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