The Office - Series 1 (DVD)

The Office has to be one of the funniest sitcoms of recent times. Any one who has ever worked in an office environment can relate I think to the situations the actors find themselves in and probably have a similar story of their own as well. I think this is one of the reasons why it is so funny and became so successful. The Office I think was different because it approached the sitcom genre in an interesting way by having the format of a documentary. The office in question was that of Wernham Hogg Paper Company based in Slough, Berkshire. They had a camera crew in the office that basically filmed their every day lives in the office and all the drama and ...  Read the complete review

This BAFTA award winning comedy is the genius creation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The basic concept of this comedy, is that a film crew is filming an ordinary office whilst they work, however of course we know that its not real, but I must admit when your watching it you do forget that its just a comedy and not a real office. The main character to this must be David Brent, played by Ricky Gervais he is the boss at the slough paper merchant and he's also a guy who thinks he's funnier than he actually is, however how irritating he seems to be, there are quite a few scene in which we feel more than a bit sorry for the guy. The only guy that ...  Read the complete review

If you liked watching The Office on the BBC then this DVD is a must have, especially given the great low price of this DVD. I paid way under £10 for this in a Woolies sale and I've found you can get this off Amazon for £5.97 too. I think that's a brilliant price for a 2 disc DVD of such a popular comedy series. The Office is all about madcap deluded office manager David Brent and the series follows his idiotic schemes at trying to run the office - badly. Ricky Gervais plays David Brent and wrote the series too. Joining him is Mckenzie Crook who plays Gareth, the half-witted bottom kissing assistant who thinks he's so much higher up the pecking order ...  Read the complete review

This show is very different from any comedies we have seen before and at first takes some getting used to, but believe us when have watched a few of these you will be addicted to this amazing brand of comedy. Set in Slough about life in mid-sized sub office paper merchants Wernham and Hogg the show is filmed as though they are making a documentary on office life, where manager David Brent (Ricky Grevais) thinks he's the coolest, funniest, and most popular boss ever. He will make you cringe as he goes from employee to employee trying to impress them and get them to like him. One of the funniest ever moments in comedy for us was when he performed his ...  Read the complete review

In 2001, the face of TV was changed forever by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators or 'The Office'. It's a half hour show, with six episodes in this series, and its genre is mockumentary. A 'Mockumentary' is a fake documentary - everything is supposed to be real life, but the whole thing is a created show. 'The Office' follows the day in day out life of a paper suboffice in Slough. That's a painfully poor idea for a TV show you would think, but the characters in that office are what make the whole thing, none moreso than Gervais' David Brent. Have you ever had a boss who is an idiot, but so desperate for affirmation that all you have to do ...  Read the complete review