I don't see Gervais doing it. Gervais knows that the American way of dragging something out far longer than it is viable is like telling a joke that's too long, too often until it's stale and irritating.
He knew exactly when to cut his version of the Office short at only 14 episodes and move on. Extras was also a short series. The US Office has dragged it onto 140 episodes with characters who are just insufferably unbelievable. I just see actors reading from bad scripts acting out lame comedy in the US Office. I just can't buy into the show after all this. The UK Office actually felt like a real mockumentary and like they were real and genuine miserable people...not actors acting out cardboard caricatures.
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