An Australian model of the basic sitcom ‘The Workplace’ is within the works at Prime Video however with a gender-flipped lead character. Comic and actor Felicity Ward will headline the Australian present, a joint manufacturing between Prime Video, BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand, and Bunya Leisure. ‘The Workplace’ first began in the UK with actor Ricky Gervais taking part in David Brent, the pinnacle of the Slough department of the fictional Wernham Hogg paper firm. It ran for 2 seasons from 2001 to 2003.
The sitcom’s American model, which noticed actor Steve Carrell as Michael Scott, grew to become rather more standard throughout its run on NBC from 2005 to 2013. Within the Australian take, Ward will essay the function of Hannah Howard, the managing director of the packaging firm Flinley Craddick.
“When she will get information from Head Workplace that they are going to be shutting down her department and making everybody do business from home, she goes into survival mode, making guarantees she will’t maintain as a way to maintain her ‘work household’ collectively. The employees of Flinley Craddick indulge her and should endure Hannah’s outlandish plots as they work towards the unattainable targets which have been set for them,” the official plotline reads.
Gervais, co-creator, co-writer and star of ‘The Workplace’, stated that he’s enthusiastic about Australia remaking the sitcom. “Workplace politics have modified a bit in 20 years, so cannot wait to see how they navigate a modern-day David Brent,” he added.
The Australian model would be the thirteenth adaptation of the sequence after comparable reveals in France, Canada, Chile, Israel, India, the Center East, and Poland. Manufacturing on the eight-part Australian Amazon Authentic sequence will begin in Sydney later this month with filming to happen over eight weeks. The present can even characteristic Edith Poor, Steen Raskopoulos, Shari Sebbens, Josh Thomson, Jonny Brugh, Pallavi Sharda, Susan Ling Younger, Raj Labade, Lucy Schmit, and Firass Dirani.
