The Office
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★ 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
Article
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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