29 March, 2005

The US remake of The Office

One of the favourite things of Britain is comedy. Like Mr. Bean and Little Britain, Britain has produced lots of high-quality comedies. Even though I was tierd of British poor service system and lost my sense of taste by British tasty food when I was staying in the UK, the county's creativity of comedies undid what happened to me. Yes, BBC's hit comedy, The Office, is one of them.

The US remake of The Office is going to be broadcast tonight on NBC. Of course, it's impossible for me to watch it.

The Office is created as a mock documentary about ordinary people's lives at the Slough branch, the southeast of England, of a paper company, Wernham Hogg, and was broadcast in two series and one Christmas special on BBC from 2001 to 2003. The comedy became a huge hit in Britain and finally became the surprise winner of two Golden Globes in 2004.

The reason for this huge success mainly attributes to genius comedian Ricky Gervais and creative script writer Stephen Merchant. Thanks to Gervais's act and Merchant's realistic script, everything appears so real to make us feel as if this office exists in Slough. Cameras shoots human dramas at the office, including love relationship between Dawn and Tim, who are main characters and awkward situations mostly caused by an awful office manager, David Brent, performed by Ricky Gervais.

Because the original version was widely acclaimed, it will be hard for the US remake to be as good as the original one and to be seen without comparing it with the original one. Here are already viewer's opinions.

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