Office, The Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Office takes everyday life behind a desk...and makes it side-splittingly funny. Ricky Gervais took a terribly mundane concept, and created a brilliantly captivating concept. Nothing much happens in the way of a plot in this series...we follow the lives of normal people working in a paper manufacturing office, in a fly-on-the-wall documentary ...

The office. Quality Comedy or droll boredom? Well, I think it depends on your work experience. Basically, the Office is a comedy programme shown on BBC 2 that poses as a mock "fly on the wall" documentary about office Life. For 30 minutes per episode it shows various humourous goings on in an office, mainly around the pedantic ...

The Office is a situation-comedy, in the refreshing guise of fly-on-the-wall parody. But before I strain my vocabulary for words that mean ‘funny’ (I’ll need at least sixteen others to make it through this opinion), allow me to throw out some adjectives you weren’t expect to hear from this genre: Believable. ...

Some dismiss The Office as not being funny at all. That's their loss, just because it doesn't have a canned laughter soundtrack and completely farcical situations it shouldn't be dismissed. The programme adopts observational humour with a bunch of characters that you just known are based on people in real life. That's because those ...

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He is the scourge of offices and factories up and down the country - the awful boss who cracks terrible jokes, thinks he is god's gift to women and can still be one of the lads. Everybody knows him and he was brought to life on screen by BBC Two's spoof fly-on-the-wall documentary series The Office in the form of exceptionally ...

The Office was the surprise comedy hit of last year, a spoof documentary set in the Slough offices of a paper merchant called Wernham Hogg, which was so true to life that it was exceptionally difficult for the first episode or so to tell if we were actually seeing a real documentary or not. It was shot in standard documentary mode, with ...

You might think that the television comedy market is already saturated, even with 'mockumertaries' or faked docusoaps. You probably would not have predicted that another one of these would appear, seemingly from nowhere, in autumn last year and blow our minds. But the Office, Ricky Gervaise's new project did just that. The ...

I must be one of the many thousands of people or more that just love The Office. When it first came on our screen, it was the by far and still is the best comedy on TV. The first time I watched it I thought it was ?Reality TV? type film where they had camera?s in the office. But, no it was a comedy drama. I have just loved watching it ever ...

This has to be one of the best comedies for a long time. The Office is a comedy show that has you in stitches. Filmed in documentary style there?s no background audience it follows the goings on in The Office. Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Mercant. Ricky used to be in the 11 0?Clock show. He plays the boss Ricky ...

If you work in an office you or you have done in the past you have definitely met one of these characters. Sarcastic, sharp and totally in touch with the modern day office. I think it was the same guy that created Black Adder who created the office. The comedy isn't as dark as Black Adder but it is twice as funny. I found you ...

If you didn’t catch the Office first time around then take a peak at the reruns on Monday nights at ten p.m. BBC2 .So critically acclaimed was the first series that the overly agitated TV critics who are forever moaning abut repeats have actually put a recommended next to this one second time around. Pretty unheard of for a repeat in this ...

Currently showing on Sky Channel Play UK, Friday nights 9.40. If you work in an office, you will find watching "The Office" very bizarre. It could be a fly on the wall in any office across Britain. The characters are VERY real and very funny. You can spot people from your own work or local pub. The main character in "The ...

The Office is a comedy which is, unsuprisingly, set in an office. It was originaly shown on BBC2 earlier this year and is now being repeated on Play UK. Those of you who have seen 'orrible on BBC2 will obviously approach another sitcom from this channel with fear. Fortunately it is infinitely better than Johnny Vaughan's turkey. ...

Mainwaring, Fawlty, Rigsby, Blackadder, Partridge, Lister, Rimmer, Jim Royle, Patsy Stone, there is a seemingly endless list of irredeemably awful comic creations who are sent to terrorise our senses and leave us thanking our lucky stars that we live in real life rather than sitcom land. And now, we are presented with quite possibly the ...

Probably one of the best comedies to have hit the BBC in recent years. The Office is a superb comedy/docu-soap set in the office of a paper merchants in slough. The acting and comedy are equally excellent with everyone clearly playing particular sterotypes. Or showing signs of common personality traits, which can be often ...

Ha ha ha - that is the first thing that pops into my mind when I think of this programme! This programme is on BBC2 at 21:30 or 22:00 (can't really remember) on a Monday evening. Ok, I'll first describe to you the programme itself. As the title states, this comedy is set in an office in Slough. It is set in the form of a ...