Viacom Renews The Office Through 2025
November 15 2019 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
Comedy Central Extends (That’s What
She Said) Exclusive Cable Rights for The Office Through
2021
Viacom Also Renews Parks and Recreation
Cable Rights through 2024
Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA) today announced continued stays in
Scranton, Pennsylvania and Pawnee, Indiana. Under the new pact with
NBCUniversal, Comedy Central extended its exclusive cable deal for
legendary comedy The Office through 2021. After that, the series
will continue to air through 2025 in a non-exclusive window on
Viacom Media Networks. Additionally, Viacom renewed its cable deal
for equally iconic sitcom Parks and Recreation. All 125 episodes
will be able to air on Comedy Central, the #1 brand in comedy,
through 2024.
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“Keeping the exclusive rights to The Office through 2021 is a
coup for Comedy Central and Viacom,” said Tanya Giles, GM of Comedy
Central, Paramount Network, TV Land and Assistant to the Regional
Manager of Dunder Mifflin. “Since acquiring it, we’ve reinvigorated
the franchise on linear, drawing big audiences throughout our full
day schedule. It’s also been a key lead-in to help drive viewers to
our own original, acclaimed comedies. We’re so excited to keep it
on our air that we wouldn’t even trade it for an iPod.”
For Viacom, the deal was closed by Barbara Zaneri, EVP, Viacom
Program Acquisitions Group (VPAG) for an undisclosed sum, along
with a World’s Best Boss mug and a new statue of Li’l Sebastian for
the NBCUniversal lot. Previously this year VPAG acquired the
exclusive cable rights to Seinfeld.
The Office is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC
from March 24, 2005 to May 16, 2013, lasting nine seasons and 201
episodes. It is an adaptation of the original BBC series of the
same name and was adapted for American television by Greg Daniels,
a veteran writer for “Saturday Night Live.” It was produced by
Universal Television in association with Daniels’ Deedle-Dee
Productions and Reveille Productions. The series depicts the
everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania
branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate
the look of an actual documentary, it was filmed in a single-camera
setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track. The Office
starred Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer,
B.J. Novak, Melora Hardin, Ed Helms, Mindy Kaling, Craig Robinson,
Ellie Kemper, Kate Flannery, Angela Martin, Phyllis Smith, Leslie
David Baker, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Creed Bratton, Paul
Lieberstein, Rashida Jones, Amy Ryan and others.
Parks and Recreation is an American political satire television
sitcom that aired on NBC from April 9, 2009 to February 24, 2015,
lasting for seven seasons and 125 episodes. The series was created
by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and produced by Universal
Television in association with Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon.
It presents a documentary-style look into the everyday lives and
antics of public officials, who work in the local Parks and
Recreation office and pursue various projects to make their
fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, a better place. To simulate the
look of an actual documentary, it was filmed in a single-camera
setup without a studio audience or a laugh track. The series
starred Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman,
Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Retta, Jim O’Heir,
Paul Schneider, Billy Eichner, amongst others.
About VPAG
Viacom Program Acquisitions Group (VPAG) is responsible for the
coordination of program acquisitions across multiple Viacom
platforms and brands. VPAG harnesses the collective buying power of
Viacom in negotiating series and movie licenses by synchronizing
multi-channel deals and program buys across the Company
portfolio.
About Viacom
Viacom creates entertainment experiences that drive conversation
and culture around the world. Through television, film, digital
media, live events, merchandise and solutions, our brands connect
with diverse, young and young at heart audiences in more than 180
countries.
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