The Office - Series 1

Image Not Available Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant Dvd Release: 5th April, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The Office is a British television comedy series written & directed by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant. It first aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on July 9, 2001. The series is set in Slough, England in a small branch office of the fictitious firm Wernham Hogg, a paper merchant, run by David Brent. Together with his assistant, lieutenant in the Territorial Army & Top Trumps expert, Gareth Keenan, Brent manages the office in a manner intended to be familiar to corporate workers. While Brent tries to emulate his friend & mentor, salesman Chris Finchy Finch, Brent tries to be his employees best friend & tyrant to equal degrees. Other denizens of the office include the unassuming Tim Cantebury, whose relationship with bored receptionist Dawn Tinsley forms a major focus of the series, in spite of her engagement to warehouse worker Lee. verbal gaffes, accidental racism, sexism & other forms of discrimination & those of his minion, Gareth. There is no laugh track & it is designed to resemble a fly-on-the-wall documentary, largely because of the originally low budget.

Ricky Gervais is a comic writer & performer who grew up in the English town of Reading. Gervais has recently enjoyed success with his award-winning BBC2 television programme The Office, which he co-wrote with Stephen Merchant. As well as writing it, Gervais also played the lead role of David Brent, an office manager who believes he is popular & funny, but is in fact neither. Gervais father grew up in French Canada & came to the UK on duty during the Second World War, where he met his wife. Raised as the youngest of four brothers, Ricky Gervais has described his childhood as nice & normal. Gervais went to UCL in 1985 to study Philosophy. During the early 1980s Gervais was the lead singer of the New Romantic group Seona Dancing. The group released two singles that failed to break the top 40 in the UK. However, in 1985 their track More To Lose became a massive hit in the Philippines. This came as a great surprise to the band, which had broken up the previous year.

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Co-writer & co-director of the popular UK series The Office. Like his writing partner Ricky Gervais, Stephen worked in radio before work on the TV series made them both famous. In Series 2 of The Office, Merchant appears as a minor character, Oggy, a friend of Gareth Keenan. His father, Ron Merchant, also appears, as a character named Gordon, who becomes transfixed by the pseudo-documentary cameras whenever he walks into shot. In 2002 Merchant directed a one-off comedy called The Last Chancers for Channel 4s Comedy Lab strand. An American Workplace.

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