NBC copy machine misfeeds at 'The Office'

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2005 | by Robert Bianco

The Office

NBC, tonight, 9:30 ET/PT

* * 1/2 out of four

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There's a great TV show out there called The Office .

This just isn't it.

Instead, what NBC is offering tonight is a passable imitation of a miles-better British original -- a brilliant faux-documentary starring Ricky Gervais that has attracted a small but devoted fan base from its BBC America run.

Of course, in defense of the Americanized version, most people haven't seen the original, and, as copies go, this Office at least is not the clear-the-hall disaster that was NBC's remake of the lesser Brit hit Coupling .

Still, there is something inevitably ersatz about it that you can't help but notice. I mean, even if you've never seen The Last Supper , you...