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The Office
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The Office is a comedy series created by Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais. It aired on BBC Two, with its first episode broadcast on July 9, 2001. The show is described as an award-winning sitcom set in the offices of a Slough paper merchant, featuring Ricky Gervais.
The series consisted of two seasons. While one source lists 14 episodes, another records 12 episodes. The final air date is noted as November 4, 2002 in one record, and December 27, 2003 in another. Each episode has a duration of 30 minutes. The series has ended, holds a vote average of 7.833, and has 32,083 social media followers.
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TV series · TMDB
★ 7.8Nightmare boss. Tedious colleagues. Pointless tasks. Welcome to Wernham Hogg. Fancy a tea break with David Brent? Classic comedy from the archive.
- Aired
- 2001–2002
- Seasons
- 2 · 12 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Stephen Merchant, Ricky Gervais
- Network
- BBC Two
- Genres
- Comedy
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Key facts
- Genre
- Mockumentary Workplace comedy Comedy verite Cringe comedy Sitcom
- 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 Stirling Gallacher Oliver Chris Ralph Ineson Patrick Baladi Stacey Roca Elizabeth Berrington
- Opening theme
- " Handbags and Gladrags " performed by Big George
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 14 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Anil Gupta Jon Plowman
- Producer
- Ash Atalla
- Cinematography
- Andy Hollis
- Editor
- Nigel Williams
- Running time
- approx. 30 minutes
- Production companies
- Capital United Nations Entertainment The Identity Company
- Network
- BBC Two (2001–2002) BBC One (2003)
- Release
- 9 July 2001 ( 2001-07-09 ) –, 27 December 2003 ( 2003-12-27 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
BBC Two - The Office
Award-winning sitcom set in the offices of a Slough paper merchant, with Ricky Gervais
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Genre
- pseudo-documentary
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Creator
- Stephen Merchant
- Duration
- 30
- FilmAffinity ID
- 725097
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice
- Image
- Theofficelogo2001.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- original broadcaster
- BBC One
- start time
- 2001-07-09
- end time
- 2003-12-27
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 16:9
- number of seasons
- 2
- number of episodes
- 14
- different from
- The Office
- social media followers
- 32083
- distributed by
- Hulu
- set in environment
- island
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Office is a British mockumentary television sitcom first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, it follows the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictional Wernham Hogg paper company. Gervais also starred in the series as the central character, David Brent.
When it first aired on BBC Two, ratings were relatively low, but it has since become one of the most successful of all British comedy exports. As well as being aired internationally on BBC Worldwide and channels such as BBC Prime, BBC America, and BBC Canada, it 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. It was aired in the United States on BBC America from 2001 to 2016, and later on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim from 2009 to 2011.
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