The Office (UK TV series)
| The Office | |
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| Genre |
Sitcom Mockumentary |
| Created by |
Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant |
| Written by | Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant |
| Directed by | Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant |
| Starring | Ricky Gervais Martin Freeman Mackenzie Crook Lucy Davis Oliver Chris Patrick Baladi Stacey Roca Ralph Ineson Stirling Gallacher Ewen MacIntosh |
| Opening theme | "Handbags and Gladrags" by Big George |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 (and 2 specials) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Anil Gupta Jon Plowman |
| Producer(s) | Ash Atalla |
| Cinematography | Andy Hollis |
| Editor(s) | Nigel Williams |
| Running time | approx 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Capital United Nations Entertainment The Identity Company |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Two BBC One (Christmas specials) |
| Original release | 9 July 2001 – 27 December 2003 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
The Office (US series) Le Bureau HaMisrad La Job Os Aspones Stromberg |
| Website | |
The Office is a mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character, David Brent.
Two six-episode series were made, along with a pair of 45-minute Christmas specials. When it was first shown on BBC Two, it was nearly cancelled due to low ratings, but it has since become one of the most successful of all British comedy exports. As well as being shown internationally on BBC Worldwide, channels such as BBC Prime, BBC America and BBC Canada, the series has been sold to broadcasters in over 80 countries, including ABC1 in Australia, The Comedy Network in Canada, TVNZ in New Zealand and the pan-Asian satellite channel STAR World, based in Hong Kong. The show began airing in The United States on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim on 18 September 2009 until 2012.
The show centres on themes of social clumsiness, the trivialities of human behaviour, self-importance and conceit, frustration, desperation and fame.
The success of the show led to a number of localised adaptations (based upon its basic story and themes) being produced for the television markets of other nations, resulting in an international Office franchise.
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