From Slough to Scranton to Santiago

The BBC has signed a license deal with a Chilean television network so that the South American country can produce its own version of “The Office.” Though the show has been remade in countries like the U.S. and Germany, the Chilean adaptation will be the first to be done in Spanish and by a Latin American country.

Ricky Gervais- creator and star of the original “The Office”- told British daily The Sun:

“We stopped making The Office in 2003 but the rest of the world didn’t.

“I won’t be happy until I have seen an Inuit doing David Brent’s dance.”

Casting is underway for the Chilean series though the character of David Brent/Michael Scott will be played by Luis Gnecco.

Sources (English)- The Sun, Guardian UK, Chortle

Sources (Spanish)- El Periodista

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