Tonight, there won’t be a new episode of
The Office. Sometimes you’ve got to take a break from it all, really, with Thanksgiving already here and you probably spending your time with loved ones and whatever’s on the table. But if your idea of Thanksgiving involves sitting around a screen watching some television show—hey, we’re discussing
The Office here, so my example for this one will be
The Office—then you have a chance to do so.
Now, NBC has always released extended version of
The Office episodes on its website. You probably know that there are so many scenes that don’t make the final cut in each episode, something that you can easily attribute to the show’s slight improvisational and eerily unpredictable streak. There will be another one of those: last week’s episode, “Frame Toby”, is getting the Producer’s Cut treatment online.
You’ve probably seen the episode—the one where someone makes a big mess in the microwave and doesn’t confess to it, just when Michael (
Steve Carell) is getting to grips with the changes in his staff. They’ve added a few more scene on that, and it’s been up on the NBC website for the past two days. “What fan of
The Office wouldn’t want to see more?” Vivi Zigler, a senior executive at the network, reasoned. “There is such great material with
The Office and it doesn’t always fit into the TV show. We’re thrilled to let the online fans see the full version.”
If you’re done with that, and you feel a little nostalgic, then you can watch the first half of the fifth season premiere tonight. Right after
The Incredibles, you can relive those days when Dunder Mifflin’s weight loss initiative brings the Scranton staff to, well, a weight loss frenzy. The premiere will be reaired over two nights: part one’s tonight from 10:30pm, while part two’s tomorrow at the same time.
And then, you can catch a new episode of the show next Thursday, back on its regular time slot at 9pm. The only constant is, it’s on NBC.
-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: NBC
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