Ben Silverman

Off The Beat with Brian Baumgartner

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Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Sure, they made it look easy, but executive producer Ben Silverman knows the true struggles behind bringing The Office to American television. Ben tells the tale of his decision to adapt the British sitcom and the meeting with Ricky Gervais that followed only 24 hours later, and the time he found out about the show’s second season pickup … while watching Brad Pitt sleep on an airplane.

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1:36.0	I am Ben Silverman executive producer of The Office.
1:40.3	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Office Deep Dive. I am your host Brian Baumgartner.
1:55.4	Today I am bringing you someone truly special and I mean special in the best of ways Ben
2:04.4	Silverman. He is the person who discovered the British version of the show. He approached Ricky
2:11.7	Jervais and Stephen Merchant about bringing the show to the United States. He eventually partnered
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