The fifth season of the American television comedy The Office premiered in the United States during the 2008-2009 television season on NBC on September 25, 2008 and ended on May 14, 2009. The fifth season consists of 28 half hour of material, divided into 24 episodes and half an hour and two episodes throughout one hour. The Office is an American adaptation of the British TV series of the same name, and is presented in a mockumentary format, describing the daily lives of office employees in Scranton, the Pennsylvania branch of the Diff Mifflin Paper Fictitious Company.
The fifth season of The Office airs on Thursday at 9:00 pm. (East). The season was released on DVD in a set of five discs featuring all 28 episodes with audio commentary on selected episodes. This DVD was released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
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Produksi
The fifth season of the show was produced by Reveille Productions and Deedle-Dee Productions, both working with Universal Media Studios starting from the end of July 2008. The show is based on the British series created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both executive producers in both US versions and English. Office is produced by Greg Daniels, who is also an executive producer. Daniels will have a limited role this season, not writing episodes, as he is busy writing his new show, Garden and Recreation he created with author Michael Schur, Office writer/producer, which leaves the author's Office staff to focus on new events. Returning the authors of the previous season included Mindy Kaling, B. J. Novak, Paul Lieberstein, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Lester Lewis, Brent Forrester, Justin Spitzer, and Jennifer Celotta. This season sees many new additions to writing staff, including Ryan Koh, Aaron Shure, Charlie Grandy, Anthony Q. Farrell, Warren Lieberstein, and Halsted Sullivan. Lieberstein and Celotta were promoted to executive producers, with Lieberstein being the new officer, to take over from Daniels. Kaling, Novak, Eisenberg and Stupnitsky are co-executive producers; Lewis and Forrester are consulting with producers; and Spitzer and Grandy are producers.
This season features 28 episodes directed by 16 directors. Paul Feig, Jeffrey Blitz, Ken Kwapis, and Randall Einhorn each directed several episodes during the season, while Greg Daniels, David Rogers, Stephen Merchants, Jason Reitman, Dean Holland, Asaad Kelada, Ken Whittingham and Paul Lieberstein directed an individual episode -something. While writers Jennifer Celotta, Gene Stupnitsky and Brent Forrester each made their directorial debut, with serial star Steve Carell directing his first episode.
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Cast
Many of the characters depicted by the The Office cast are based on the English version of the show. While these characters usually have the same attitudes and perceptions with their British counterparts, the roles have been redesigned to better suit American performances. The show is known for its generally large cast sizes, with many actors and actresses known primarily for their improvised work. Steve Carell plays Michael Scott, Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch. Loosely based on David Brent, the English Gervais character, Scott is a stupid and lonely man, trying to win friends as an office comedian, usually makes himself look bad in the process. Rainn Wilson describes Dwight Schrute, who, by Gareth Keenan, is the Assistant Regional Manager, although the character often fails to include "to" in his title. John Krasinski describes Jim Halpert, sales representative, assistant manager, and prankster, based on Tim Canterbury, and fell in love with Pam Beesly, the receptionist. Jenna Fischer plays Pam, which is based on Dawn Tinsley. He is shy, but in many cases a cohort with Jim in his joke on Dwight. B. J. Novak plays Ryan Howard, based on Ricky Howard and Neil Godwin, who at the end of the fourth season were arrested when acting as Vice President, North East Region and New Media Director, returned to Scranton as temporary in the fifth season. On the "Frame Toby" episode, Novak characters leave the office to travel to Thailand. Novak actually took time off from the show to appear in the Quentin Tarantino movie, Inglourious Basterds , though he still continues his role in the next season.
This event includes many supporting characters who play the role of office workers. Angela Martin, Oscar Martinez, and Kevin Malone, based on Keith Bishop, are office accountants, and played by Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nunez, and Brian Baumgartner, respectively. Schrute, Halpert, Phyllis Lapin-Vance (played by Phyllis Smith), Stanley Hudson (played by Leslie David Baker), and Andy Bernardus (played by Ed Helms) wrote the sales division of Dunder Mifflin Scranton. Although not one of the original cast members, Andy is considered by many to be one of the leading actors and in the 6th episode of the "Saber" season he added to the opening credits. Kate Flannery describes Meredith Palmer, Promiscuous Supplier Chief Representative, writer-actress Mindy Kaling describes Kelly Kapoor, Customer Service Representative who is obsessed with pop culture, writer Paul Lieberstein plays Toby Flenderson, Grim Human Resources representative who goes to Costa Rica at the end of the fourth season, who returned to replace Holly Flax, portrayed by Amy Ryan, Michael's love interest. Creed Bratton plays a fictional version of himself as a Quality Assurance Officer of the office. Other characters include Warehouse Superintendent Darryl Philbin, played by Craig Robinson, and Jan Levinson, a former employee of Dunder Mifflin and Michael's ex-boyfriend, described by Melora Hardin, though he was only present at the start of the season. Also Erin Hannon is played by Ellie Kemper, debuting in season five as a new receptionist after Pam goes to Michael Scott Paper Company. She is the new love of Andy.
Reception
Ratings
The fifth premier season of "Weight Loss" received 4.9/11 in Nielsen ratings which means that it's seen by 4.9% of all 18- to 49-year-olds, and 13% of all 18- to 49-year-olds watch television on broadcast. This marks the ranking increase set by the end of the fourth season, "Goodbye, Toby". The season reached high with "Stress Relief" because it aired after Super Bowl XLIII. The end of the season, "Picnic Company" became the episode with the lowest rank of the season with 6.72 million viewers and 3.9 rating/12% share in demographics 18-49. Ratings taken at the end of the season place them in # 52 of 193 programs. This marked a significant rise in the ratings from the previous season.
Review
Office: Five Seasons received generally positive reviews. DVDTalk.com rated the four stars out of five that says "After the fourth year was cut and very little uneven, Season 5 of The Office stands tall as one of the best to date, the balance of drama, intrigue, and pitch-perfect comedy remains consistent, thanks to strong performance, intelligent writing, and dedicated creative team. "Film.com gives the season a positive review by saying" Season five reminds us why we keep rooted for Michael Scott. " Sitkom Online reviews the DVD series of Season 5, and in the last comment section of the review said "This is a great show, and a great set, and it will be interesting to see how this show continues this fall. on TV broadcasting now, in my opinion, and I highly recommend the fifth season. "Travis Fickett from IGN stated that it" feels very much like the downward slope of a great series I do not believe this is a bad season but this is the allows us to see the age of the show and put the concept for the exam. "He respects the authors for trying to change the status quo and calling it" both necessary and valued ". He finally gave this season 7.9/10. Alan Sepinwall from The Star-Ledger , while reviewing "The Picnic Company", called season "my favorite season Office this "commented," I do not know that this has ever been consistently satisfying, since the characters have become very rich, and because the writer [...] has really learned to trust their actors to convey so much emotion in the moments that are truly true. really quiet ".
Awards
The fifth season has received a large number of nominations, including 10 for the Emmy Awards, 3 for the Teen Choice Award, and 2 for the TCA Awards. Ten nominations for the 2009 Emmy Awards were announced on July 16th, and included the category: "Comedy Series" for the entire season; "Comedy Series Lead Actor" for Steve Carell for the episode "Broke"; "Comedy Series Supporting Actor" for Rainn Wilson in "Heavy Competition"; "Comedy Series Directing" for Jeffrey Blitz for the episode "Stress Relief"; "Comedy Editing Series" for Stuart Brass for "Two Weeks", Claire Scanlon for "Dream Team", and David Rogers and Dean Holland for "Stress Relief"; "Comedy Series Sound Mixing" for "Michael Scott Paper Company"; "Comedy Series Casting" for Allison Jones; "Interactive Media - Fiction" for Office Media Experience, NBC.com. It won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing in Comedy Series for Jeffrey Blitz for the Stress Relief episode.
The three nominations of the Teen Choice Awards are for performances, actors and actress categories. The Nomination of Television Criticism Award is for "Extraordinary Achievement in Comedy" and for the "Individual Achievement in Comedy" category. The event also received nominations from TCA for the best TV of the decade for the Comedy Series and two for Comedy Actor.
Episode
In the following table, "US (million) audiences" refers to the number of Americans who see the episodes on broadcast nights. Episodes are listed in the order in which they are aired, and may not always match their production code.
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Media release
The fifth season was released as a box on DVD and Blu-ray on September 9, 2009. Package 5 DVD included, apart from episodes, some scenes were deleted, commented episodes by various members of the production team, "Gag Reel", presentation of the event made by Academy of Television Arts & amp; Science, show ads that run during the Super Bowl and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as well as some webisodes. The Blu-ray version has 4 discs and includes, in addition to DVD content, BD-LIVE, a program that allows access to BD-Live Center to access online content such as trailers and download exclusive content. Another included software is "One-Liner Soundboard" which allows users to create audio mixes from one-line assemblies and excerpts from the show, and share them online via BD-LIVE. On the same date, Office: Seasons 1-5 Collection is also available.
References
External links
- Episode guide on NBC.com
- List of episodes Work on IMDb
- List of episodes of Office season 5 on TV.com
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