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‘The Office' Turns 20: An Oral History of Season 1 From the Writers Who Shaped It

To mark the 20th anniversary of the premiere, THR talked with some of the people who were there at the start - the writers of season one. Daniels served as showrunner for the first four seasons of The ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Greg Daniels Inching Closer to New Take on ‘The Office’

Sources say the creator of the hit comedy is putting together a writers room, though no platform is attached. By Lesley Goldberg Television Editor, West Coast A new take on The Office is inching close ...
AOL

“The Office” Writer Michael Schur Explains Why “SNL”’s 2008 ‘Japanese Office’ Parody ‘Didn't Track to Me'

Saturday Night Live has always touched the zeitgeist — but did this parody of The Office miss the mark? One of the show’s writers, Michael Schur, thinks so. On the Dec. 23 episode of The Lonely Island ...
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'Never Intended to Be on the Show': How The Office Writers Got Their On-Screen Roles

The American version of The Office is now 20 years old. Some of the talents involved with the hit series took some time to reflect on bringing it to life two decades ago with its earlier episodes, ...
Variety

‘The Office’ Writer Says ‘SNL’s’ Japanese Office Parody With Steve Carell ‘Didn’t Feel Right’ and Left Him ‘Rankled’: ‘All the Actors Are White People’

“It didn’t scratch the itch of reflecting [‘The Office’] in the way that I was hoping the show would be reflected somehow,” Schur said. “I worked at ‘SNL,’ but you still feel like ‘SNL’ at some point ...