Product Description

In the BAFTA-winning comedy about the Slough paper merchant where life is stationery, David Brent is a petty, pompous boss who thinks he's the funniest, most popular man in the world. Pedantic jobsworth Gareth agrees with him. They're both wrong.

Tim really is popular and funny, but the joke is on him as he's stuck in the middle of their little world - a world in which he hates everything except the receptionist Dawn. Will Tim escape? Will Dawn choose the right man? Will M16 ever call on Gareth to help them out? And will Dave Brent ever regret letting a film crew into The Office?

The answers are all inside the complete scripts to the first series.

Features David Brent's email correspondence and full music and lyrics for 'Freelove Freeway'.

The book includes the scripts to all six episodes in the first series, and is published to coincide with the second series transmitting on BBC TWO.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16067 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

The Times
Original and accurate and painfully funny: it will have every office in the coutnry twitching with spasms of recognition . . . This is a gem.

The Observer
Scarily realistic but hilarious

Synopsis
Scripts from the first series of "The Office", the BBC TV sitcom that shows how anyone can be a great boss and a funny person - according to the Brentmeister General, David Brent.

Customer Reviews

Hilarious, bloody hilarious!
Painly funny - specially great read if you're in an adminstrative role like me...scarily realistic sometimes too.

Reads like a transcript, but the extras are fun
My only problem with The Office script books is that they don't read like actual scripts so much as word for word, action for action, perfect transcriptions of the events in the show. Reading these really is like reading a description of each episode for people not allowed to own televisions. Personally I would have preferred the genuine original scripts (or outlines - I understand much of The Office is improvised), which would surely differ slightly from the TV show and could give insights into how actors had improvised or interpreted stage directions.

I do understand though that this isn't what the fans of The Office would have wanted or expected from a scripts book, and that the book was only profitable as a reference for obsessives at the time The Office took the UK by storm. Still, it felt like a missed opportunity.

However, there is some fantastic extra material in here that you wouldn't get with a standard script, such as original emails between Brent and the TV company making the documentary, as well as a lot of colour pictures and music for some of Brent's songs in the show.

It was a tough call between three and four stars, because I can see at whom these books have been aimed and I appreciate that whoever has put them together has done a great job. I just don't really see the point of releasing the "scripts" if they're 100% identical to the show to the extent of such detailed directions that they simply must have been retroactively constructed from the programme as aired.

"softly softly catchy monkey....
...I could catch a monkey. If I was starving, I could..."

If you enjoyed this programme, you NEED to buy this book. Set in the office of a paper merchents in Slough ("Come friendly bombs, and fall on Slough") the book contains the full scripts of the first series.

Theres loads of photos, and even the full music and lyric for "Freelove Freeway"

You either loved the office, or you hated it!! If your reading this, the chances are, im preaching to the converted!

BUY IT!