Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Script: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Photography: Conor Connelly, Richard Farish
Editor: Nigel Williams
Music: Mike d’Abo
Sound: Mark Found, James Judge
Casting: Rachel Freck
Principal Cast: Ricky Gervais, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Freeman, Lucy Davis, Oliver Chris, Joel Beckett, Sally Bretton, Robin Hooper
Producer: Ash Atalla
Executive Producers: Anil Gupta, Jon Plowman
Production: BBC
Distribution:BBC Worldwide
Tel: 0044 208 433 200 0
Fax: 0044 208 433 211 3
Internet: www.bbc.co.uk
First Broadcast: 09.07.01, 22.00, BBC, 23.4 mill.
Selected Filmography Ricky Gervais:
Actor: The Office, 2001; Dog Eat Dog, 2001.
Writer: The Office, 2001; The Sketch Show, 2001; Meet Ricky Gervais, 2000.
Director: The Office, 2001.
In a purgatory where ignorance, self-deception and futile ambitions rule, employees of Wernham Hogg Paper Merchants eke out a miserable existence subjected to the constant harassment of the world’s most unbearable manager: David Brent (Ricky Gervais). “The Office”, a genre hybrid of sitcom and docu-fake, really goes for the guttural. Hilariously funny; at the same time so close to the bitter reality of office life that the laughter can easily turn to a lump in the throat. While the first episodes were greeted as an original new entry to cult niche, David Brent has, since the second season, achieved god-like status among the British viewing public.