Two Old 'Office' Episodes To Make One New One
NBC plans to reedit two half-hour episodes of The Office, add new footage to them, and air them as a new hour-long show next Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Friday). No footage will be shot especially for the show; instead, producers will rely on unaired snippets that were cut from previous episodes. The newspaper recalled that in the 1980s episodes commonly aired in which characters reminisced about their previous adventures, allowing the producers simply to tape short remembrance scenes and add them to the older footage. [In 1953, the producers of I Love Lucy combined three episodes of the show and added new footage with the intention of releasing the finished product as a feature film. It was never released theatrically.]
