The Office

The Office is an American mockumentary television series that airs on NBC and is developed by Greg Daniels. An adaptation of the BBC series The Office, the series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is shot in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track. The presence of the camera ... more

Air date of first episode:

  • Mar 24, 2005

Number of seasons:

  • 5

TV Program

Program creator

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais (pronounced /dʒəˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, film-maker and broadcaster. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with...

Stephen Merchant

Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is a British Comedy Award-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-award winning English writer, director, radio...

Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. Daniels began his career as a writer on the HBO satirical news show Not...

Number of episodes:

  • 74

Original episode running time:

  • 20 min

Country of origin:

Currently in production:

  • Yes
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