The Office had lots of turnover, some fans are still curious why Dwight Schrute never ever got the complete supervisory treatment.
On a current episode of the Workplace Ladies rewatch podcast, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey described why Rainn Wilson’s character wasn’t included at the end of the title series when he lastly took control of for Steve Carell’s Michael Scott as supervisor of Dunder Mifflin.
After connecting to David Rogers, who directed the ninth and last season’s penultimate episode ‘A.A.R.M.’, Fischer discussed “that there was conversation about including a Dwight-as-manager chance at completion of this title series.”
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She included, “But, eventually, they never ever recorded anything brand-new for it, and here is why: The primary factor was they wished to utilize Pam and Jim kissing as the last image in the primary title for numerous episodes due to the fact that they felt that, at this moment, the concept of who is his supervisor had actually been eclipsed by the character’s individual lives, and they seemed like the focus here of these last episodes was more about summarizing Jim and Pam.”
Fischer’s Pam Beesly had an onscreen love with colleague Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), with the characters getting married in Season 6 and going on to have kids.
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Rogers likewise kept in mind to her that “they were actually pushed for time, and they actually didn’t have time to shoot a brand-new little supervisor title with Dwight. And likewise there was a lot in this episode that they needed to make the primary titles actually brief anyhow. There were kind of 3 factors,” Fischer stated.
Adjusted from the 2001-’03 UK series, The Office ran for 9 seasons on NBC from 2005 to 2013. A followup series is set at Peacock, and Prime Video is preparing to launch an Australian Original adjustment of The Office on Oct. 18.