Le Bureau
The French are doing a foreign-language remake of The Office, my favourite BBC sitcom. The Americans have also created their version - I like it but not as much as the original. Apparently the French public did not respond well to the previews because they found it cruel. Don't they realize that cruelty is the key to its appeal?
The paper mill is called Cogirep, not Wernham-Hogg. It is based in Villepinte, a grim business park north of Paris, rather than Slough. And the manager, whose unflagging humour, firm grasp of political correctness and unfailingly eccentric management techniques make him pretty much le boss de l'enfer, is called Gilles Triquet, not David Brent.
The paper mill is called Cogirep, not Wernham-Hogg. It is based in Villepinte, a grim business park north of Paris, rather than Slough. And the manager, whose unflagging humour, firm grasp of political correctness and unfailingly eccentric management techniques make him pretty much le boss de l'enfer, is called Gilles Triquet, not David Brent.
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