Two of
the best-selling DVDs of all time - The Office Series 1 and Series 2
- can now be enjoyed for the first time in a special edition box set.
Available
to buy from BBC Worldwide from 5 April 2004, all three discs will be
included in this exclusive set, priced at £29.99.
Critics
on both side of the Atlantic have universally acclaimed this multi-award
winning comedy series.
Winning
UK Bafta awards for Best Comedy Performance (Ricky Gervais) and Best
Situation Comedy two years running in 2002 and 2003, more recently the
series scooped two of America's top accolades at the Golden Globe Awards,
winning Best Television Comedy Series and Best Television Comedy Actor
(Ricky Gervais).
Both series
of this brilliantly observed and convincingly acted fly-on-the-wall
documentary are included along with a host of added extras including
a 50 minute documentary by Ricky Gervais and fellow writer/director
Stephen Merchant called How I made The Office, by Ricky Gervais, interviews
with other cast members - Lucy Davis (Dawn), Mackenzie Crook (Gareth),
Martin Freeman (Tim) - along with deleted scenes, outtakes and the original
pilot episode.
To date,
sales of Series 1 and 2 on video and DVD are in excess of 2.4 million
and BBC Worldwide plan to release the two-part 2003 Christmas Special
later this year.
The Office
is a BBC production written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen
Merchant. The producer is Ash Atalla and executive producer is Anil
Gupta.
Title:
The Office Series 1 & 2 DVD Box set
Cert: 15
Cat number: BBCDVD1514
Price: £29.99
Release date: 5 April 2004
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