The Office: The Accountants

The Office: The Accountants is an American web series and a spin-off of The Office. It shows the accountant in the department in Scranton, Pennsylvania Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, the fictional, as they try to retrieve the missing in the budget three thousand dollars. The webisodes were able to be viewed from the U.S. on the official website of the NBC broadcasts and were later available as an extra on the DVD of the second season.

The web series was announced in March 2006 and subsequently produced within two days in Van Nuys, Los Angeles by the same crew as the TV series. She won a 2007 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program - Comedy.

Production and publication

During the airing of the second Staffelvon The Office NBC announced in March 2006 its intention known to produce ten Webepisoden. The shooting of the ten Webepisoden lasted only two days and took place in Van Nuys, a suburb of Los Angeles. The crew consisted of the same as those of the TV series, the The Office director Randall Einhorn directed each Webepisode. The The Office actor and producer Paul Lieberstein and Michael Schur wrote together every ten screenplays for the series. Michael Zurer acted as an editor. In The Accountants lot of actors from the original series appear. Brian Baumgartner plays Kevin Malone, Oscar Núñez played Oscar Martinez and Angela Kinsey portrays Angela Martin, the uptight manager of the accounting department. In addition, Melora Hardin, Phyllis Smith, Kate Flannery, Leslie David Baker, David Denman and Rainn Wilson were in their old roles as a guest performer.

Between 13 July and September 7, 2006 every Thursday uploaded a new Webepisode on the channel's webpage. All ten episodes were as an extra part of the DVD of the second season of The Office, which was published in the second half of 2006 in the U.S..

Episode List

Reception

The web series won the 2007 at the 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony of a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program - Comedy. Tim Stack of Entertainment Weekly gave the series the grade of " A-" and wrote: "While we miss Jim and Pam ( not to mention Steve Carell ), to prove these short episodes, that time can be just as sweet with its extremely cumbersome employees ".