Brian Bumgartner, who played the role of loved accountant Kevin Malon in the movie “The Office” in NBC, cannot escape the role he set for nine seasons.
He even recently appeared in an episode of NBC “Suits La”, playing himself. In the show, his lawyer asked to find a way to get rid of the character so that he can realize his dream to become a dramatic actor worthy of Oscars.
Certainly, the loyal “office” fans have caught the interior.
In fact, Baumgartner has worked for years a happy ambassador for the beloved Power around Scranton, Penn. , Paper Company. He hosted a podcast that celebrates the “office” and around it to a book of an oral, selling history. The famous hot pepper Kevin Malon The way for two of the cooking book.
Several successful shows have been adopted for decades by the public thanks to the exposure to Netflix and other broadcast platforms. But even among that group, the “office” – which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its foundation – lives in the rare air.
Although there was no great blow during its initial run that started on March 24, 2005, the broadcast helped to convert the “office”, which is an air conditioner for the British series called, to the stake of permanent pop culture.
The members of the familiar actors team played the wave, which sparked their famous roles in Cheerios, Panera Bread, Bush’s Beans and Fox’s Telecast of the 2020 Super Bowl And AT & T Business. The offer is licensed for games (LEGLE, Little People, Funko Pop! And Polly Pockets) and children’s books including “The Office: A Day in Dunder Mifflin Elementary”. Tickets for the unofficial annual fans agreement known as the Revival, which will be held in New Jersey this year, up to $ 400.
The “office” continues the stylistic influence on TV comedy as well. His fake documentary-which reminds us of the Kristover guest’s films-has become the dumps of other successful comic series including “Modern Family” and “Abbott Elementary” and recently “St. Denis Medical” from NBC.
Although the fans were satisfied with the “Office”, they will finally get a cross series of CEO Greg Daniels. This series, which is still existing, which was identified in the MidWestern newspaper, which relies on citizen journalists, will be shown on Peacock this year.
The series will be held in the world of “The Office” with Oscar Nuñez joining the actors’ team. (Daniels, “The Office”, indicated that Oscar Martinez was the only character who had no decision to change life in the end).
Baumgartner helped feed the “office” popular machine for years, but it still surprises the extent of teaching the show to the fans that it discovered since its completion.
“They have an extensive need to tell them how the show helped them during a difficult time,” Bumgartner told the Times. “A medical condition, a family case, a local problem. It is a very strong thing.”
Even with her generated moments, she is often created by Michael Scott exposed to Steve Carrell, the family atmosphere in Dunder Mifflin is a welcoming escape in the time of political division and angry social discourse.
“The Office” participating in the stars Craig Robinson, left, Gina Fischer, Ryan Wilson, Kate Flaniri, Credit Braton and Brian Bumgartner in 2025.
(AT & T Business)
“In this broken society, just seeing a different group of people who care about each other is rarely pregnant, especially on television now,” said Bumgartner.
While broadcasting services entered the bid wars for “Friends”, “Cinefeld” And other comic series in the past, quietly outperformed by the “office”. Nielsen’s data showed that it was The most flowing offer in 2020As more consumers were heading to Netflix, where the “office” was flowing, during the Covid-19s.
This request was translated into a large deal of money. Comcast Corp. Palace $ 100 million for its global TV unit This produced the “office” to bring the series to the peacock flow service in 2021 – five times what Netflix pays, according to the people familiar with the deal who were not permitted to comment publicly.
The series is the most popular program in the service. NBC says that the normal peacock model has seen 59 episodes of the series.
Peacock has recruited the show producers to create “Super Fan” episodes that restore the reduction of materials at the time of the original broadcast for 22 minutes (they reach the ninth and last season). They helped lead 1.7 billion hours of watching the “office”, which represents 7 % of all the use of peacocks.
The office has also remained an essential element on traditional TV, which currently works on three networks of cable: E! Comedy Center and FreeForm. As cable networks are reduced to original programming, “The Office” fills hours of their schedules. The offer is broadcast on more than ten international radio services.
The durability of ancient television comic play such as “I love Lucy” “friends” It is partially pushed by nostalgia from the fans who grew up with them. But some fans flow to the “office” discover as if it was a new offer.
With the video’s video, Daniels heard of work colleagues on his other projects on how to see their distinguished children “The Office” in the form of Netflix who first bought rights in 2011.
John Krasinski, the left, and Ryan Wilson in the “office”.
(Peron Cohen)
“It is like your experience in school, when the teacher gives your lectures and you cannot avoid them,” Daniels said. “Or the person in the office next to you is a person you have not necessarily chosen to be your best friend and you are stuck there.”
Jim Dunelli, CEO of Comedy at Universal Television, said the attractiveness of young people in the exhibition helps to renew the audience.
“I think that with TV viewers, they find the show,” he said. “We haven’t really seen any decrease in attention.”
Daniels says the offer is still contemporary after two decades. The British version of the “Office” – created by Ricky Gervis and Stephen Merchant – was filmed with a Friedrich WeizmannLike depression. But Daniels gave the American edition a look of reality display format, complete with natural interviews. The film crew from “Survivor” hired the “Office”.
Practical jokes in the exhibition appeal to a younger generation, devouring the joke videos – from Mrbeast to Dude Perfect – via YouTube and other social media platforms. The official Tiktok includes “office” 4.2 million followers, or nearly a million “friends”.
The permanent success of the “office” is great given the beginning of the rock show. “The comic play is one of the camera, it was filmed as a documentary Fu, with no funny with people who seem natural in the era of” Friends “and” baywatch “, it was not an easy stadium,” he said. Bin Silverman, Those who brought the program to NBC. (Silverman currently runs the production company.)
The “office” was created in another era of television, upon arrival at broad fans, which was necessary to survive the network TV. The show was competing for a place for the timetable at a time when NBC lost the huge “friends” and hung their hopes on “Joy,” A cross show includes Matt Lieblank who struggled to get two seasons.
Jeff Zucker, Who was running NBCuniversal at the time, recognized the style of strange comedy in the “Office” pilot was not easy for the programming section to digest.
“People in NBC Entertainment at that time were not the goal of understanding the humor,” Zucker said in an interview.
The “office” was a real hero in the senior management of the network: Kevin Reilly, the first -time entertainment head of the project as he was running Cable Network FX.
Daniels did not have a prestige TV behind him as well. The creation of an American version of the 2001 British series was risky.
Daniels recalls: “There was a lot of tension because the fans of the original show were saying,” Why are you doing this? It is a jewel.
The pilot was not well received by the test fans, but he showed enough pulse with younger viewers to earn an unusual small-loop arrangement at that time to display the network.
The reviews decreased after a decent audience for its first show. Zucker said that there are “long conversations” on the network before returning the show for the second year.
But the show caught big breaks. One of them was the pioneering role of Karel in the “40 -year -old Virgin”, which turned him into a cinematic star and withdrawn to show the avoidance of giving representatives at the big names at the beginning.
The other was the NBC decision to present episodes on the iTunes platform from Apple when DVD groups were the main way to watch. This step was the introduction to the video broadcast on the video.
Although the “office” fans were small according to the network’s television standards at the time, many of its viewers were young, sophisticated and more willing to adapt to new technology. In 2005, the office became a great seller on iTunes with 100,000 downloads in the first few months.
“I think that told us that there will be a new way to present these offers,” Zucker said. “If” the office “started broadcasting, it would have achieved great success outside the box.
Ash Tavassoli, CEO and Creator Creator of AD BBDO LA unprecedented “office” during his network. But when he was recovering from surgery, he fell into a 192 -loop rabbit chain.
“I am like,” I cannot stop this thing. “I had to tell anyone I knew immediately who did not see it,” You need to see this thing. ” “
Al -Khiama inspired him on the screen among the team members for use in an advertising campaign for AT & T, which started work last year.
“Office” stars show Bumgartner, Ryan Wilson, Gina Fisher, Craig Robinson, Kate Flander, Creed Praton in the triple commercial ads series depicting the launch of a set of loudspeakers from a pillow called Sleep with Rainn. Tavassoli said that it does not require much to get the coherent group to make its creative contributions to the sites.
“I put them on a group together and have their dynamics,” said Tavasoli. “When we shot them, they didn’t even feel a group. We allowed them to cook for three days.”
