The Office
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The Office (UK version) came onto tv on BBC2 in and didn't get very high ratings at first. It appear on tv at a time when there were a lot of 'docu-soaps' on (programs where they follow real people around documentary style).
The Office looked exactly like one of those programs and at first people genuinely thought it was a real documentary, everything about the shooting style, cutaways to boring office quietness etc was perfect.The reason it worked so well was because it was all made up of everyday things that really would happen in an office. The characters really are like people you might now and work with, unlike most other characters on tv who are caricatures of people.
For me David Brent develops amazingly over the two series and the christmas specials, he's annoying and an idiot but by the end you realise that he's actually an alright kind of guy, and you feel sympathy for him, for his loneliness. The show goes a bit deeper than most comedies.
The american version by comparison to me is started off as a like-for-like conversion but has now turned into just another sitcom, it lacks the believability, steve carrell is too 'wacky' and annoying but not in a realistic way. It just lacks the realistic grit.