Stringer Bell Turns to Legitimate 'Office' Work
Variety has revealed that Michael Scott will have a new enemy on The Office later this season: Idris Elba, marking the second time the series will make audiences shout, "Hey, they were on that Wire show!"
Thesp Idris Elba has been cast on "The Office" as a new rival to Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell).
Elba, most recently seen in Guy Ritchie's "Rocknrolla," will appear in six episodes later this season. Details are slim on his plot line, other than he'll play a no-nonsense hi
Idris Elba to join ‘The Office’
From Variety:
Thesp Idris Elba has been cast on “The Office” as a new rival to Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell).
Elba, most recently seen in Guy Ritchie’s “Rocknrolla,” will appear in six episodes later this season. Details are slim on his plot line, other than he’ll play a no-nonsense hire at Dunder Mifflin’s [...]
Idris Elba Joins 'The Office'
Idris Elba has been cast on "The Office" as a new rival to Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell), reports Variety.
Elba will appear in six episodes later this season. He'll play a no-nonsense hire at Dunder Mifflin's corporate office who will throw Michael Scott into turmoil.
Elba's credits include Rocknrolla, The Unborn, the upcoming Obsessed and he just filmed the feature Bone Deep.
Source: ComingSoon.net
This is probably the oddest casting I've ever seen. Has Id
Idris Elba Joins The Office
Idris Elba has been cast on "The Office" as a new rival to Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell), reports Variety .
Elba will appear in six episodes later this season. He'll play a no-nonsense hire at Dunder Mifflin's corporate office who will throw Michael Scott into turmoil.
Elba's credits include Rocknrolla , The Unborn , the upcoming Obsessed and he just filmed the feature Bone Deep .
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Idris Elba Cast on The Office
Idris Elba, best known for portraying Stringer Bell on The Wire , will appear on multiple episodes of The Office .
The actor will portray a new rival to Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott, according to Variety .
Look for Elba - whose film credits include Rocknrolla and The Unborn - will appear in six episodes later this season.
Kathy Griffin to guest star on 'Privileged'
Casting about: Kathy Griffin on 'Privileged;' Chevy Chase meets Chuck Kathy Griffin loves her gays. Maybe that’s why she’ll be planning a gay wedding this spring. The mouthy comic from Oak Park will guest star as Marco’s wedding planner on the season finale of CW’s “Privileged,” according to Zap2it. Other recently announced casting coups? Chevy Chase will appear in several episodes of “Chuck” as computer genius Ted Roark, nerdy spy Chuck’s hero, NB
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Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he’s worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.
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Steve Carell Swaps Office for General Store
(E! Online)
The Office star is now the proud owner of a local landmark general store in the historic village of Marshfield Hills, Mass., where Carell and wife Nancy Walls own a summer home.
"This is much more of an emotional investment than a business one," Carell told the
Boston Globe
. "I saw an opportunity to help preserve a
little piece
of history."
Expect applications for assistant to the regional general store manager to start po
Amy Poehler's Non-'Office' Non-Spinoff Exactly Like 'The Office' [Amy Poehler]
Sitcoms are rarely created under a veil of intense secrecy, but the creators behind NBC's new Amy Poehler "non-spinoff" of The Office rival even Lost for sheer obfuscation. Now, finally, we have a synopsis.Zap2It's Korbi Ghosh was the first to dig up a show premise that wasn't merely a joke idea tossed off by Amy Poehler:A couple nosy moles tell me that, like The Office, it's basically documentary style. Set in the parks & recreation department of a local city government in some podunk town, Poehler will pl
INAUGURAL SCOOP: BEYONCE TO SING FOR THE OBAMAS’ 1st DANCE? / RIHANNA, USHER & BOW WOW IN CONCERT
Beyonce has been selected to sing for the Obama’s first Inaugural dance on this coming Tuesday according to reports released on yesterday:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Beyonce will sing for Barack and Michelle Obama’s first dance on inauguration night.
And the song? “Crazy in Love?” Her version of Etta James’ “At Last?”
The Presidential Inaugural Committee isn’t saying. [...]
NBC Picks Up 'Office,' '30 Rock,' 'Biggest Loser'
NBC has given early pickups to "The Office," "30 Rock" and "The Biggest Loser."
In addition, the network has scheduled the premiere of the new Amy Poehler comedy as well as its new cooking reality show "The Chopping Block."
The Poehler project will bow Thursday, April 9, at 8:30 p.m., behind "My Name Is Earl." "Chopping Block" will air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. beginning March 11.
As expected, NBC, having ordered three more episodes of "ER," has pushed the show's series finale to April 2 from 9-11 pm. It wil
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Chris Brown may be going…’Bone Deep’
What is Chris Brown up to? Well we just saw him win a MTV VMA, but, Chris is in final negotiations to appear with with Matt Dillon, Idris Elba and rapper T.I. in the Thriller “Bone Deep.” Chris is also discussing a role as executive produce.
The film, directed by John Lussenhop, revolves around a group of criminals who plan a major heist at a money depot, with two detectives hot on their trail. Brown will play one of the members of the heist crew.
Brown, has acted before, in ‘Stomp the
