‘The Office’ season 7 spoilers

Sept 3, 2010 | Ausiello Files

Question: Any chance Steve Carell might change his mind and stick with The Office for another year? —Sandra

Ausiello: There was a chance, but that ship has long since sailed, according to exec producer Greg Daniels. “We held out a lot of hope at the beginning of the year when it was first coming out that [Steve] might leave,” he tells me. “We didn’t comment on it at the time because we were making a last-ditch effort.” But Carell stuck to his guns, and at this point, Daniels does not anticipate an eleventh-hour reversal. “Steve doesn’t play a lot of games. He said that he wants to [leave] and he’s doing it in a very classy, typical-Steve fashion. I’m 100 percent confident it’s not some kind of ploy. He gave us plenty of lead time to really construct a great exit for him as well as a great ongoing story line for other people.”

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Aug 26, 2010 | ausiellofiles

Question: Many fans of The Office are concerned that Pam dated Timothy Olyphant’s character post-Roy and pre-Jim. Is this the case? Is Jim just finding out about it now? —Matt

Ausiello: Yes to all of the above! According to executive producer Paul Lieberstein, Pam dated Olyphant while Jim was with Karen. “Everyone in the office makes a big deal of it, and we get into Jim’s jealousy a little bit,” he says. “It bothers him a little.”

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Aug 20, 2010 | Photos from the set of ‘The Office’
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Aug 20, 2010 | Ausiello Files

Question: What will happen on The Office now that Dwight owns the building? —Adam

Ausiello: Well, for one thing all the thermostats will be caged, locked, and set to a below-freezing temperature.

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Aug 12, 2010 | ausiellofiles

Question: Is Jan ever going to come back to The Office? —Jordan

Ausiello: Yes! Melora Hardin will reprise her role as Michael’s former boss/lover in this season’s fourth episode, written and directed by showrunner/costar Paul Lieberstein. “Michael comes in with what he thinks is a pimple, but is revealed to be a cold sore,” explains Lieberstein. “He learns that a cold sore is a form of herpes, and so he gets the idea that he has to contact all the women he’s ever been with to tell them.”

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Aug 12, 2010 | ausiellofiles

Sources confirm to me exclusively that producers of the NBC hitcom have quietly reached out to rising comic-actors Danny McBride (the breakout star of HBO’s hilarious Eastbound & Down) and Rhys Darby (late of HBO’s Flight of the Conchords) to gauge their interest in joining the cast later this season.

Office showrunner Paul Lieberstein confirms that they’re “having discussions” about introducing a new salesman into Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch, but he wouldn’t say whether this person was being groomed to necessarily replace Carell’s Michael Scott. “We haven’t settled exactly who will take over,” says Lieberstein, adding that promoting a current staffer to the top job remains a viable option as well. (Coexecutive producer Mindy Kaling recently endorsed Rainn Wilson’s Dwight for the gig.)

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Aug 7, 2010 | Danny Chun’s Twitter

Today was the most fun I’ve ever had on set. Sad it’s over – Jeff Blitz is the man!
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Aug 7, 2010: Brian Baumgartner’s Twitter

Exciting happenings on set today. Can’t wait for people to see the season premiere!!
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Aug 7, 2010 | Maxwell Glick’s Twitter

Off to work at The Office.
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Aug 7, 2010 | Ausiello Files

Question: Who is Timothy Olyphant playing on The Office? —Jeff

Ausiello: A rival paper salesman with a deep, dark secret: He used to date Pam!

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Aug 7, 2010 | Zap2it.com

Idris Elba (“The Wire”), who played Charles on seven episodes of “The Office” in 2009, said pretty definitively Saturday (Aug. 7) that the character would not be in the running to take over for Michael: “No, Charles Miner will not be back,” he told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.

That doesn’t necessarily mean, though, that we’ll never see Charles again. “There is an opportunity for me to sort of intertwine with their storyline toward the season finale,” he says. “So that may happen.”

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Aug 2, 2010 | <%

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