Hour-long episodes wasn’t enough, let’s expand The Office some more!
By fred | October 30, 2007
Jesus, some people really are stupid, or is it just due to a complete lack of creativity and originality ? Either way, if - as me - you didn’t like the extended version of The Office, you’ll probably be delighted to hear that apparently - if we believe Michael Ausiello and his multiple sources - NBC in considering creating a spin-off !
If you stop there, this is an awful idea. When you learn that unlike how spinoff are usually done, this one wouldn’t include the loss of one (or more) characters from the original show we all love, to be sent to their own series, you think :
- this is good, because there was absolutely no reason to take any member of our beloved team out and stuck them in their own stories. Want to know how bad it can be, just watched Heroes and how Hiro’s character and story became annoying and useless, to say the least.
- but then, you ask yourself, what’s the “spin-off” gonna be about ?
Well, it would be a spin-off because the characters would first be introduced in The Office, and then later move to their own show. I don’t know, but if they intend to do “another” Office, it will fail miserably. That’s a guarantee.
If they have no other idea than using the success of The Office to create a new hit, it will fail as well, that’s pretty much a guarantee as well. Now, only if they actually had an idea first, and a good one that is, could this new series be interesting.
But then, does it really need to be introduced as a spinoff ? I don’t think so.
But the real mystery is this whole thing, is why does Ausiello refer to this as “a major compliment to Grey’s Anatomy” ? I mean, spin-offs aren’t new, and there’s been many of them before Grey even existed. And let’s not forget, that for Private Practice, they had one character to leave the original show! Sure, she wasn’t planned as a regular at first, but she then became one before the idea of the spinoff was introduced.
So.. ? Maybe, Ausiello agrees that Private Practice is a pretty awful show, and was a terrible idea, and that’s his secret way of trashing the idea without really saying anything. Or, he’s simply acknowledging the fact that NBC came up with this “idea” just by watching ABC and wanting to do the same, because having actual ideas, and real new concept for new series, well, that would require for real work.
But to be fair, they didn’t wait for Private Practice’s unexplainable success, I mean, did no one hear about Heroes: Origin ??
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Shows: Heroes, Private Practice, The Office
