Office, The

The last ten years saw the rise of two love-'em-or-hate-'em formats: fly-on-the-wall (Airline, Club Reps, The Osbournes to name but a few) and the new generation spoof treatment of staid TV formats (The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge). It was inevitable that somebody would at some stage try to combine these genres. The Office was a low budget and unambitious attempt at pulling off a spoof fly-on-the-wall series, although this was not the first time such a feat had been attempted - BBC2's series People Like Us had gained a cult following but failed to make it into the mainstream. Ricky Gervais, the writer and star of The Office, was ...

As the good people of dooyoo who make an effort to read my ops may have found, I have been inactive in the dooyoo world for a few months. I felt I was beginning to write ops for the sake of it. My first spurt on the sight consisted of many ?forced? ops-opinions with a subject matter that I was not really passionate about. I found myself looking for things to have an opinion on and write an opinion about and I felt this was not the way to go about constructing my ops for it would inevitably result in half-hearted pieces that would be greatly lacking in quality. Days and weeks went by and I still found nothing about which I felt passionate enough to write an op and I ...

Office addicts like my sad self will recognise the above title as one of David Brent?s sayings. For the uninitiated it goes something like 'you?ve got to look at the whole pie with regard to the current development situation?' This is the kind of waffly, nonsensical, management speak that he delights in. Before I go any further I originally wrote this review about the video of episode 1 that I've got I can't find it on dooyoo, so I'm putting it in with the general tv show. The Office is a spoof documentary style series which is based in the Slough branch of Wernham and Hogg paper merchant.The characters are what make the office ...