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At one stage earlier this month, Steve Carell had Dinner for Schmucks and Despicable Me in the American box office top five, and boasted the most rented DVD in the country in Date Night. The only surprise, then, about Carell's announcement he'll be leaving the American version of The Office at the end of the coming season is that some people were surprised by it. No matter how much credibility is attached to good television these days, nobody stays small when the big screen beckons on this scale.
For NBC, the network which has built a rejuvenated Thursday-night schedule around The Office and 30 Rock, finding a replacement for Carell is the biggest challenge it has faced since George Clooney departed ER for megastardom. The hospital drama coped because it was an ensemble production and The Office should also survive Carell leaving Dunder Mifflin. Why? Principally because, unlike his Ricky Gervais equivalent in the English original, there are many people out there who feel Carrell is the weakest part of a show where the supporting cast of Dwight, Jim and Pam are much more compelling.
Of course, NBC has already stated that Michael Scott will not be killed off in order to leave the way open for Carell to return for guest appearances. A wise move considering many critics derided the execrable Dinner for Schmucks, with one going as far as to describe it as "an astonishingly awful summer farce".
Best to leave the door to that regular paying television gig open as long as possible, then, because a couple more turkeys like that and suddenly the newspaper industry looks a lot more attractive.
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