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‘The Office’ Crosses “The Pond” in Both Directions
The British comedy hit The Office, starring Ricky Gervais, is coming full circle. After launching on the BBC and finding a home on cable channel BBC America, where it won two Golden Globes awards last year, rights to the show were snatched up by NBC, which plans to air a U.S. version of the comedy, starring Steve Carell in the Gervais role, beginning March 24. (Gervais is an exec producer.) Now, the BBC announced today (Friday), the U.S. version will cross the Atlantic in the opposite direction and begin airing on the digital channel BBC Three later this year.