Here's some scoop on The Office from Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez's The Spoiler Room column, which was posted on 2/5/13.
HOW ‘THE OFFICE’ WILL SHOW US ‘THE FARM’
When NBC passed on Office spin-off The Farm, producers of the comedy hit were left with a challenge to find a place for it in the existing season, and according to Greg Daniels, it’s actually worked out pretty well. “At the moment, we’re talking about cutting some of it out to make it more of an Office episode because the original cut had a tremendous amount of forward throwing stories and characters and stuff that we don’t see again necessarily. Although, we see some of them,” he says.
The current plan is to make “The Farm” fit in around episode 18, says Daniels, because it’s a time “when it would match where everyone in the story was.” “We are incorporating it, and it’ll be ¾ to ⅚ of the original episode and we put some more extras in it,” he says.
Meanwhile, Daniels confirmed that Zach Wood is expected to return later this season, but was mum on the details, which pretty much means it’s going to be amazing. “It’s kind of a neat story turn, so I can’t tell you too much about it without giving away a cool thing we’re doing. But he’s going to come back and we’re all excited to see him back,” he says.
In case you missed it, read more from my chat with Daniels here, where we talked about the reinvigorated Jim/Pam storyline this season.
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