The Office

Ben Walters

"When The Office first aired in July 2001, it attracted a tiny audience and BBC2's lowest approval rating of the year (apart from women's bowls). Some viewers even failed even to identify the series as a comedy - and not without reason." "Set in the banal environs of a Slough paper merchants and presented in deadpan 'docusoap' style, the series was built around neither one-liners nor farcical set-ups, but the painfully-observed minutiae of everyday life. Not much happened, and what did - the self-serving posturing of middle-manager and would-be entertainer David Brent, and the simmering flirtation between employees Tim and Dawn - was often excruciatingly uncomfortable to watch." "Yet two series and a feature-length special later, The Office has broken DVD sales records, won dozens of awards, played in over sixty countries and been remade by a major American network. In the first...

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