# NBC Developing Office Spin-Off show. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757 "2012-01-26T18:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/21 "2012-01-27T23:19:34Z")
What would happen if they crossed _Newhart_ with the _Addams Family_? Dwight and Mose run a totally bizarre B&B, which causes normal guests to run screaming into the night. (Mose presumably would have a collection of all the hats left by male visitors who didn’t stop to claim them on their way out.) On the other hand, there would be the occasional weird tourist who came to the B&B exactly because it was weird, and Dwight would be the one who was creeped out. Now, all we need is someone as hot as Morticia Adams to keep us occupied when the show drags. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/22 "2012-01-29T04:56:40Z")
I smell another … _The Ropers_? (28 episodes.) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/23 "2012-01-30T14:36:13Z")
On the SAG Awards red carpet last night (shut up!) Giuliana Rancic asked Rainn Wilson about this and he said it would be “the worst idea in the history of television.” I think maybe we can take that as an official denial. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/24 "2012-01-30T17:18:01Z")
I don’t mind if they give it a shot. Most of the time it won’t work, but that’s true already. And sometimes you get Frasier, or if you’re less lucky Just the Ten of Us or much less lucky Joey. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/25 "2012-01-30T17:32:47Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > On the SAG Awards red carpet last night (shut up!) Giuliana Rancic asked Rainn Wilson about this and he said it would be “the worst idea in the history of television.” I repeat, an Office insider was just fucking with a reporter and seeing if he’d post it. I find it hard to believe this was ever a serious thought by anyone connected to The Office. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/26 "2012-01-30T19:28:30Z")
As long as I can keep working on my spec script for the PI spin-ff, Flenderson Files. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/27 "2012-01-31T01:34:46Z")
Deadline is [reporting](http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/offices-mindy-kaling-moves-to-fox-with-comedy-pilot-network-also-picks-up-john-berman-drama-portguarascio-comedy/) that Mindy Kaling is scheduled to do a sitcom on Fox. Now, I don’t think that Kelly Kapoor is as critical a character as Dwight Schrute, but I believe that she is also a producer and writer for The Office. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/28 "2012-01-31T04:57:25Z")
Too bad, I think the Dwight show (Schrute Farms) would be a helluva hilarious show with a lot of potential. He could carry a show much better than Kaling, I know that much. But I’'ve always kind of got the impression that Rainn Wilson doesn;t really much like the Dwight character as an actor and person, I think he thinks he will be typecast. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/29 "2012-01-31T15:43:03Z")
Well I’d say his current work, combined with his previous work, pretty much cements that he’ll be cast as the bulbous-headed weirdo for now until forever. I mean, come on, has everyone forgotten[Arthur Martin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2SaL9u0f-E)? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/30 "2012-01-31T21:16:51Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I smell another … _The Ropers_? (28 episodes.) “The version I heard was,” the only reason they gave _The Ropers_ a (partial) second season was, it was in the stars’ contracts that if the show was cancelled after its first season, they would return to _Three’s Company_, but by then Mr. Furley (Don Knotts) had become such a hit on that show that they didn’t dare bring the Ropers back as the landlords and toss Furley aside. The thing about spinoffs is, you shouldn’t judge them based on anything to do with the “parent” show, since that’s not what makes the show popular. If _Frasier_ had been about a “Frasier Crane-like character” and had nothing to do with _Cheers_, would it have been any less successful? (Nothing new about this; when Patrick McGoohan created _The Prisoner_, he made it quite clear that the character was _not_ John Drake (his _Danger Man_ / _Secret Agent_ character), but intentionally made him pretty much a Drake clone as he knew what his fans liked. Also, IIRC, Malcolm Jamal-Warner’s post-Cosby series was originally planned as a spinoff for Theo, but instead it was about a character who “just happened to have an education degree like Theo did.”) ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/31 "2012-01-31T21:49:10Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > On the SAG Awards red carpet last night (shut up!) Giuliana Rancic asked Rainn Wilson about this and he said it would be “the worst idea in the history of television.” > I think maybe we can take that as an official denial. [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/rainn-wilson-confirms-office-spinoff-works-sag-awards-red-carpet-interview-article-1.1014100?localLinksEnabled=false](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/rainn-wilson-confirms-office-spinoff-works-sag-awards-red-carpet-interview-article-1.1014100?localLinksEnabled=false) **Rainn Wilson confirms ‘The Office’ spinoff in the works during SAG Awards red carpet interview:** If you watch the WHOLE clip, he LATER says that the idea is being explored. I guess it might be real after all. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/32 "2012-01-31T22:21:49Z")
I think it should be _AFTER_ The Office ends… but I would be curious to see a few episodes… (I don’t think JUST the Pilot episode always does it for me). I think a lot of other people would be curious about the show too. I think/hope they keep the same mocumentary format… I think The Office has one more year left in them, or other wise they would have to revamp the whole show, and though I think they could find a way to do that and hold MY attention, I don’t think others will give it the same chance. This season has seemed solid to me so far, but the numbers have dropped since Michael left. It’s still the highest rated scripted comedy on NBC. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/33 "2012-01-31T22:49:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Deadline is [reporting](http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/offices-mindy-kaling-moves-to-fox-with-comedy-pilot-network-also-picks-up-john-berman-drama-portguarascio-comedy/) that Mindy Kaling is scheduled to do a sitcom on Fox. Now, I don’t think that Kelly Kapoor is as critical a character as Dwight Schrute, but I believe that she is also a producer and writer for The Office. … If I disliked an episode, it tends to be one of hers. I wouldn’t mind her leaving. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757/34 "2012-02-01T00:12:36Z")
Whatever your feelings about Mindy Kaling, note that the Deadline article mentions that contracts for most of the core cast expire at the end of this season. I don’t know if the production company will have any problems getting the cast to extend their contracts, without demanding excessively big raises. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-developing-office-spin-off-show/610757.md?page=1)