The Office Reboot In The Works

*ZariusTwo* · 05-31-2023, 06:16 AM

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Prime Video Australia is remaking The Office as a female-led comedy starring stand-up Felicity Ward in the role Ricky Gervais first made famous.

Gervais’ David Brent will become Hannah Howard in the series, with Ward putting her own spin on bad team management at packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that they will be shutting down her branch and making everyone work from home, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her ‘work family’ together.

Ward is best known as a stand-up and for ABC series Spicks and Specks and The Ronnie Johns Half Hour. She also appeared in Wakefield and The Inbetweeners.

https://deadline.com/2023/05/the-off...rd-1235383346/

*oldmanwinters* · 05-31-2023, 10:01 PM

So… it will be female-focused because… equality? But the characters are all buffoons and unlikable to make the comedy work? So… I’m confused about the target audience for this.

05-31-2023, 10:01 PM	#2
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,940	So… it will be female-focused because… equality? But the characters are all buffoons and unlikable to make the comedy work? So… I’m confused about the target audience for this. __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items!