Office, The

What is their to say about this amazing show that hasn't already been said? It is without doubt one of the most innovative and funniest comedies to ever been created, with some fabolous characters developed in the same time, namely David Brent. The show is about a "fake" documentary taking place in an Office to show what it is like in this said Office and it's daily activites, and lots of comedic interludes ensue, makes you even want to work in an Office, looks liek great fun...though obviously it's not like this in real life. 2 series of this show was made, including a Xmas special and all of these are brilliant and alot of hilarity ...  Read the complete review

WHAT WAS IT ABOUT: Ricky Gervais stars in this mockumentary: a fake documentary, that follows the day in day out affairs of a paper merchants in Slough. The premise is pretty dull, but the show is a success because of the odd characters who work there, not leastly David Brent (Gervais), the cringe-worthy, attention seeking boss from hell. The show ran two seasons and two Christmas specials, which are all available on DVD. Each episode is half an hour long, and the show was broadcast on the BBC. WAS IT ANY GOOD: Much like The Royle Family, this show takes a deliberately dull setting (a paper office) and produces a cracking comedy from the people ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review