The dark horse winner at the 2004 Golden Globe awards was the BBC series The Office, which is broadcast on BBC America. The series is shot as a mock-documentary about the mundane and ridiculous life of workers in a British paper company. Trey Kay looks at how The Office is different from other series set in the land of cubicles.
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