Where's The Remote are pleased to select, in the
World category for now, the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant masterpiece;
The Office
WIKI:
The Office is a
BAFTA Award,
Golden Globe Award winning and
Emmy-nominated
British television comedy that first aired in the UK 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,
Berkshire branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Although fictional and scripted, the programme takes the form of a
documentary (a fictional documentary, i.e. a
mockumentary), with the presence of the camera often acknowledged.
Two six-episode series were made, along with a pair of 45-minute
Christmas specials. When it was first shown on
BBC 2 it was nearly axed due to low ratings, but has since become one of the most successful British comedy exports of all time. 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
ABC in
Australia,
TVNZ in
New Zealand and the pan-
Asian satellite channel STAR World, based in
Hong Kong.
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