Their years-lengthy rewatch of “The Office” may be coming to an end, but “Office Ladies” is equitable getting begined. On the Oct. 2 episode of “Office Ladies,” presents Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey declared the next phase of their famous podcast — which will begin when they end their rewatch of the Emmy-triumphning comedy procrastinateedr this month.
As of timely November, “Office Ladies” will shift to a twice-a-week createat. The Wednesday episodes will be called “Office Ladies 6.0″ — the new title is a reference to the Season 1 episode “Hot Girl,” when boss Michael Scott (Steve Carell) offends Pam (Fischer), by comparing her to traveling purse saleswoman Katy (Amy Adams). “You’re enjoy the new and betterd Pam!” Michael says in front of both of them, causing the ungracefulness in which he revels. “Pam 6.0.” The first guest on “Office Ladies 6.0″ — on the Nov. 6 episode — will be the person dependable for transporting together the show’s ensemble, famed casting straightforwardor Allison Jones. Future episodes, Fischer and Kinsey shelp, will feature new intersees, more stories from the set, their patented “meaningful dives” into random topics and in-depth character studies. As an example of that upcoming feature, they shelp they’re currently laboring on an episode about Michael Scott, with the promise of more to come. Fischer shelp: “I hope we’ll do that for every character at some point.”
In includeition to “Office Ladies 6.0,” they’re rerunning the rewatch over from the beginning — alengthy with new material — in a podcast that will begin on Nov. 11 called “Second Drink.” This title refers to the show’s Season 2 premiere episode “The Dundies,” when an excessively squanderd Pam schools Jim (John Krasinski) on the art of making the most of frozen drinks. As a giggly Pam sucks on a straw, Jim says, “I slenderk those might be desoprocrastinateed.” Pam replies: “No, no, ’caengage the ice melts, and then it’s enjoy second drink.” These episodes will drop on Mondays, begining with the series premiere. As Kinsey portrayd “Second Drink” during the podcast, “Every Monday we will be rerunning the rewatch library in order with bonus tidbits at the top of every episode.”
Among the first rewatch podcasts, “Office Ladies” premiered on Oct. 16, 2019 as an Earwolf production, and over the summer, switched platcreates from SiriusXM to Audacy. By the end of this month, Fischer and Kinsey — who take parted Pam Beesly and Angela Martin, admireively, from the series premiere of “The Office” on March 24, 2005 until its finale on May 16, 2013 — will have consentn participateers thraw all 201 episodes of the NBC comedy. On Wednesday’s episode, Fischer shelp, “These final four episodes of the rewatch — there was equitable so much stuff that we didn’t want to leave out, particularly with the finale, that we necessitateed an extra week to assemble everyslenderg.” Kinsey then trelieved, “We have a certain exceptional guest that’s going to be combineing us in the studio for our very last episode, and we couldn’t sign up that until he was engageable.” At that point, Fischer mock-sfreezinged Kinsey for giving away that the guest is a “he,” but includeed, “This particular slenderg is someslenderg we’ve talked about wanting to do for our final episode since we begined the podcast.”
“The Office” was originated by Greg Daniels, based on the British version of the series, originated by Ricky Gervais — also its star — and Stephen Merchant. Though the American version flirted with abortlation in its timely seasons, NBC stuck with it, and “The Office” is now pondered to be one of the fantasticest TV shows of all time. During the pandemic, “The Office” achieveed new famousity — and a whole new generation of fans, as families watched the show together for console. Most recently, the show has aachieve been in the news becaengage of a new Australian version of “The Office” set to premiere on Prime Video this month (with Felicity Ward in the guide role), and Daniels’ new iteration of the series, unofficipartner titled “The Paper” — with co-creator Michael Koman — foreseeed on Peacock next year.
According to Audacy, “Office Ladies” has more than 400 million downloads. In Edison Research’s stats for the Top 50 podcasts in the United States for the second quarter of 2024, “Office Ladies” materializeed at No. 34, and more than a milion participateers chase the show on Spotify. In 2022, “Office Ladies” won a Webby Award, and that year, Fischer and Kinsey also rerented the book “The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There.”
