Amazon Prime Video has decided to flog a dead horse by greenlighting the 13th iteration of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchantโs The Office (this remake is set in Australia). Now, it has a confirmed release date, premiering on Prime Video.
Led by homegrown comedian and actress Felicity Ward as Hannah Howard, managing director of a packaging company known as Flinley Craddick, based on the painfully modern description of what lies ahead, weโre already groaning for all the wrong reasons.
According to Variety, in a โpost-COVID plot twist,โ Felicity Wardโs Hannah receives news from head office that her branch will be shutting down and that staff will be forced to work from home. From that point forward, she goes into โsurvival mode,โ making promises she canโt keep, and launches outlandish plots to keep her โwork familyโ together.
Dear God, when will it endโฆ
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โIโm very excited about Australia remaking my little show from the turn of the century,โ said Ricky Gervais, co-creator, co-writer, and star of the seminal UK mockumentary which practically reinvented cringe comedy.
โOffice politics have changed a bit in 20 years, so canโt wait to see how they navigate a modern-day David Brent.โ
Felicity Ward will be joined by Edith Poor (The Power of the Dog), Steen Raskopoulos (The Duchess), Shari Sebbens (Thor: Love & Thunder), Josh Thomson (Young Rock), Jonny Brugh (What We Do in the Shadows), Pallavi Sharda (The Twelve), Susan Ling Young (Hungry Ghosts), Raj Labade, Lucy Schmit, as well as Firass Dirani (Underbelly).
Production has been handled by Prime Video, BBC Studios Australia & New Zealand, plus Bunya Entertainment.
The Australian version of The Office will stream via Prime Video from Friday, October 18, 2024.
