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TV Tidbits: Missing The Office? Maybe Webisodes at NBC.com will help
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Published: July 4, 2008
Can't wait until fall for new episodes of The Office?
You can tide yourself over with "Webisodes," three-minute online episodes featuring characters from the popular NBC sitcom.
Starting Thursday, NBC.com will begin a new series of Webisodes called "Kevin's Loan," in which accountant Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner) tries to find a way to pay off his gambling debts.
Kevin was one of the characters featured in a previous batch of Webisodes that were shown between the second and third seasons. These Webisodes lead into the fifth season of the series.
The new Webisodes also feature other supporting cast members from the show, including Oscar Nunez (Oscar), Leslie David Baker (Stanley) and Craig Robinson (Darryl).
New Webisodes of The Office will be posted at NBC.com at 3 p.m. Thursdays over the next four weeks.
NBC also plans to introduce later this month a series of Webisodes for Heroes called "Manhunt," which will introduce a new villain who will be part of that show's third season this fall.
Time Warner recently added three new channels to its high-definition digital-cable lineup.
The new channels are ESPNews HD on Channel 565; Disney HD on Channel 566; and ABC Family HD on Channel 567. Those follow the April additions of HD versions of TLC (546), Animal Planet (547), the Science Channel (548) and Discovery (549).
And more high-definition channels may be on the way.
"We are constantly looking for content," said Buck Yarborough at Time Warner Cable, "and based on the pattern this year and last, I believe that more is coming."
A quick reminder: On Thursday, auditions will be held at Hanes Mall for America's Next Top Model. The casting call will run from 3 to 7 p.m., and is open to U.S. citizens who are 18 to 27 years old and at least 5 feet 7 inches tall without shoes. Bring three photographs, proof of citizenship and completed application forms that can be printed out at www.wcwg20.com.
TNT's crime drama The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick as a tough, smart deputy police chief who specializes in interrogation, will start its fourth season on July 14. But viewers who missed the most recent episodes or want to revisit them can pick up The Closer: The Complete Third Season, which was released on DVD this week.
Extras include a gag reel, deleted scenes and a feature that looks at the world of real criminal psychologists who interrogate suspects.
Another current cable hit, the second season of FX's documentary series 30 Days, also came to DVD this week.
Host Morgan Spurlock introduces and occasionally participates in social experiments in which people are made to live different lifestyles for a month.
Spurlock rose to fame for his 2004 documentary film Super Size Me, in which he ate nothing but food from McDonalds for a month.
One of the six episodes in this second-season DVD release has Spurlock spending a month behind bars to experience prison life.
The third season will conclude Tuesday on FX with an episode involving life on an American Indian reservation.
Other new TV-DVD releases include the first season of Tori Spelling's reality series Tori and Dean: Inn Love, in which she and her husband try to run a bed and breakfast; and BraveStarr Volume 2, a cartoon series that blends Westerns and science fiction with its tales of crime fighters on an alien planet.
■ Tim Clodfelter can be reached at 727-7371 or at tclodfelter@wsjournal.com.
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