Steve Carell’s farewell from “The Office” airs at the end of this month, and NBC has given its Thursday stalwart a plus-sized 50 minutes to say goodbye.
NBC announced today that it will offer extended versions of Steve Carell’s final episode of “The Office” as well as for “Parks and Recreation” on Thursday, April 28. “The Office” will see Carell off in an episode that night from 9:00 -9:50 p.m. (ET) and will continue with “Parks and Recreation” from 9:50 -10:30 p.m. (ET). [NBC Universal]
Vulture adds:
Producers finished production on this episode [of "Parks and Recreation] months ago, but the Parks crew often has extra footage that needs to be cut, so perhaps it wasn’t too hard to pack in some more Pawnee. 30 Rock will shift to 10:30 p.m. for the night, meaning — and this may be the best news of all — no Outsourced!
Of course, there’s still no official word on who’s replacing Michael Scott in Scranton. Will Ferrell is stepping in for four episodes, but it seems unlikely that he’ll stay as Carell’s replacement. Will Arnett and Ricky Gervais are scheduled to appear in the May 19th season finale, but for my money I think the new “Office” boss will be David Cross. I’m making this prediction now so that I can link back to how smart I am if I happen to be right. And if I’m wrong, well, how the hell was I supposed to know? I’m just a blogger sitting on a couch. Win-win, baby.
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Should’ve been you Pam and Jim.
god it is fucking hot today. I left for class at 7 a.m. wearing sweatpants and a heavy hoodie. And now? holy shit…
David Cross would be incredible to have on the show, but he has the tendency to be more of a Dwight than a Michael.
Plus, he doesn’t have the inherent likability of Steve Carell. He’s hilarious, but definitely kind of a smug dick.
“Plus, he doesn’t have the inherent likability of Steve Carell. He’s hilarious, but definitely kind of a smug dick.”
In other words, exactly how the character was written in the original series?
David Cross would be great.
But put my non-money down on James Spader signing on full time. He guests in the finale as well, his schedule is free, he’s jumped on to lead an existing show before, and I think he can definitely pull off smug jackass quite well.
As long as Spader promises to leave Shatner at home, I’m totally for it.
I would start watching again if Spader revives his role from “Crash” or “Secretary” with Pam as his interest, this would have to move to HBO. If not, meh.
The office really shouldn’t go on without Steve Carell. But if it does, might as well have the only guy who’s been proven to do the job just as well (Gervais).
David Cross just doesn’t seem right to me, but who knows? I bet he can taste to meaty leading man parts in his mouth right now.
what?? so what do i do now, not bother watching the goodbye episodes until the long one airs? fuck you, nbc!i want to watch the goodbye epis as soon as possible but not if a longer, better version will air later! and yes, if it’s longer it’s better, that’s how it works with me and The Office, and not with penises, don’t make that joke.