The Office is off to the US ... but......

[Airboy^]

From Media Guardian:

NBC has ordered six episodes of the BBC's hit comedy, to be retitled The American Workplace to distinguish it from the double Golden Globe-winning original.
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"It was painfully clear that nobody was liking it. The lady next to me said she found it depressing," wrote one reviewer on showbiz website imdb.com, while another said: "I'm an American, so how am I supposed to understand British? It's practically another language".

@ that last statement!!!!!

[greendemon]

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it's not so much the language as the cultural difference, though... the american sense of humour is often lost on me, as is their inability to understand what we find funny...

but COME ON... the american workplace?! ! so they're just changing the title, or what? surely they can't successfully call it that without changing the actual content of the episodes...

[latifaheaston]

It wont get passed 3 episodes!

[baskerville]

For what it's worth, I'm a Yank that prefers British humor to American. I actually prefer most of the British arts to American. Movies, Books, Music. Can I come stay in your basement if I promise not to piddle down the drain?