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The Office’s Felicity Ward: ‘It’s a different dynamic than if a male boss is doing it’

As the hit show gets a sex-swapped Australian makeover, Helen Coffey sits down with its leading woman to talk gender in comedy, the joy of playing female chumps and why no one can match the British for cynicism

The Independent UK

The Office on Prime Video review: this Aussie reboot offers plenty of gags but feels like treading old ground

Felicity Ward takes on the David Brent mantle from Ricky Gervais and Steve Carell and makes it her own

Evening Standard

The Office Australia’s Felicity Ward Responds To Hate The Remake Has Copped: ‘They’re So Angry’

“Some people are not going to like the show, and some people are going to like the show. And I love it. I really love it.”

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Rivals to Shrinking: the seven best shows to stream this week

The 80s are back with a bang – and then some – in the sexy, starry and very silly adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkfest, plus Jason Segel’s underrated comedy with Harrison Ford returns

The Guardian - UK

‘That’s a career killer’: the brutally high stakes of bringing The Office to Australia

It’s the first English-language spin-off since Steve Carell. It features Cup Day and sausage sizzles. And its trailer has left plenty unimpressed. Will it make or break all involved?

The Guardian - AU

“It’s So Bad”: Fans Want New “The Office” Version To Be Canceled As Iconic Male Roles Go To Women

“I can already tell this is going to get cancelled after the first season.” The post “It’s So Bad”: Fans Want New “The Office” Version To Be Canceled As Iconic Male Roles Go To Women first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The Office Australia gets its first trailer

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The Office: Where are cast of the cult British comedy show now?

It has been 23 years since the beloved British workplace comedy first aired

Evening Standard

Ewen MacIntosh obituary

Character actor who gained a cult following as the downbeat Keith in the TV sitcom The Office

The Guardian - UK

Charlton Athletic’s Charlie Methven in a league of his own

Charlie Methven, an old Etonian corporate PR man turned football investor, briefly became famous as a David Brent-type character in Netflix’s Sunderland 'Til I Die.

Evening Standard

Ange Postecoglou goes full David Brent in Spurs press conference cringe

Ange Postecoglou goes full David Brent in Spurs press conference cringe.

The National (Scotland)

Klokkenluider review – tough-guy actor Neil Maskell directs brooding black comedy

There is something of In Bruges about this Belgium-set tale of whistleblowers in hiding, with a little bit of David Brent

The Guardian - UK

Behind ‘The Brodge’ and his Brent-isms: Covering Brendan Rodgers at Celtic

BRENDAN RODGERS is a man who once said that his greatest mentor was himself, and among his favourite sayings to impart to his players...

The National (Scotland)

Ricky Gervais ‘very excited’ for remake of The Office: ‘Office politics have changed a bit’

Comedian Felicity Ward will star as the female version of Gervais’s David Brent

The Independent UK

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Wales Online

The Office is returning with an all-female cast

Amazon Prime is reviving the series with a few new twists

WhatToWatch

The Office remake is on its way down under

The Office is coming to Australia in a new spinoff, with a twist on the classic comedy.

The Guardian - AU

Step aside David Brent and Michael Scott: why The Office Australia could be great

Given how good the US adaptation of the British comedy was, I am hopeful about the new series, starring Felicity Ward as the incompetent boss

Daily Mirror

The Office makes a comeback with HUGE cast twist as Inbetweeners star lands leading role

Much loved TV series The Office is set to make a comeback as it returns to screens with a full new cast and Inbetweeners star in the leading role

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The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais ‘very excited’ for Australian remake of The Office as comedian Felicity Ward leads cast

Comedian Ward will star as the female version of Gervais’s David Brent

Total Film

The Office is heading to Australia – and I think it might be genius

The Office has a history of great reboots

Evening Standard

Love The Office? Prime Video is making a new version set in Australia

The new eight-part series will have a female boss

The New Daily

The Office goes Down Under with shock boss twist

Movie aside Ricky Gervais and Steve Carrell, comedian Felicity Ward takes middle management to new heights in Aussie version of hit comedy

The Guardian - AU

The Office is coming to Australia – with Felicity Ward starring as a ‘modern-day David Brent’

Ricky Gervais says he is ‘very excited’ about the remake, which will be set at a packaging company where staff are sent to work from home

The Independent UK

Steve Carell shares the bad acting habit he picked up on The Office

Actor has found it difficult to shake a signature trait of the hit sitcom

The Guardian - UK

A comeback for Liz Truss, the David Brent of British politics? In a word: delusional

Letters: Readers respond to a recent Sunday Telegraph article by Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister

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