Two new shows from 'Office' creators, Jay Leno's final 'Tonight Show' date

The big news from the TCA’s Monday executive session with NBC co-chairs Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff: There are two projects in development from “The Office’s” executive producer Greg Daniels and “Office” writer Mike Schur. Daniels and Schur are working on a comedy starring Amy Poehler, and that probably won’t premiere until about March 2009. That comedy will not be in any way a spinoff of “The Office,” but it will be “stylistically infomed” by the sensibilities of the “Office.” But it’s “not set up to emanate directly from ‘The Office,’” Silverman said. (Above right, Fred Armisen as Barack Obama and Poehler as Hillary Clinton on "Saturday Night Live.") The other project that Daniels and Schur are working on is a direct “Office” spinoff that will originate that in the Dunder-Mifflin world. There’s no word on casting or on... [read full story]