The Orchard has acquired North American rights to Song of Back and Neck, the feature film debut of The Office writer-producer-actor Paul Lieberstein that bowed this year at Tribeca. Rosemarie DeWitt, Brian D'Arcy James, Robert Pine, Clark Duke and Paul Feig co-star in the pic, which will get a 2018 release. Lieberman…

EXCLUSIVE: The Office alum Paul Lieberstein's feature directorial debut Song of Back and Neck is making its world premiere today in the U.S. Narrative Competition section at the Tribeca Film Festival. The pic stars Lieberstein and Rosemarie DeWitt; Lieberstein, the Office regular who became the series’ showrunner…

EXCLUSIVE: Former executive producer and actor from NBC’s The Office Paul Lieberstein has signed with ICM Partners. Lieberstein played Toby Flenderson on The Office, as the soft-spoken doormat who served as Head of Human Resources at Dunder Mifflin. In addition to the Golden Globe-winning comedy, Lieberstein has…

Fox has ordered six more episodes of freshman action paranormal comedy Ghosted, bringing the Season 1 total to 16 episodes. As part of the pickup, former The Office executive producer/showrunner Paul Lieberstein has been brought in as executive producer/showrunner for the Back 6. Kevin Etten, who served as executive…

Former The Office executive producer/showrunner Paul Lieberstein has sold a second broadcast project, the hourlong Negotiations. Set up at ABC through ABC Studios, Negotiations is a comedic drama about life, politics and romance in one of the world’s largest law firms. Lieberstein will write the script and will…

Adam Pally's Clone Wolf Productions and former The Office executive producer/showrunner Paul Lieberstein have set up a half-hour comedy at Fox. It marks the first project sold under Clone Wolf’s two-year overall deal with ABC Studios, which will produce the show for Fox. Lieberstein will co-write the spy comedy with…

The Office will have a new behind-the-scenes boss next season as Paul Lieberstein is stepping down as executive producer/showrunner. He is expected to land a hand while he preps the potential spinoff series starring Rainn Wilson, The Farm, which he co-created, but a search is under way for a new showrunner to take the…

The Office executive producer/showrunner said today that James Spader will not return to the NBC comedy next season. The actor, who parlayed a two-scene appearance at the end of last season as Robert California into a full-season gig, had only signed a one-year deal. “James always wanted this to be a one year arc, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Dwight Schrute may finally be off to greener pastures… literally. I hear that NBC is working on an Office spinoff starring Rainn Wilson for a potential midseason 2013 launch. No deals have been closed yet but I’ve learned that the proposed spinoff is a family comedy, which was the brainchild of Wilson and Th…

EXCLUSIVE: While the fate of the on-screen boss on NBC’s flagship comedy series The Office is still in limbo, the near future of show’s behind-the-scenes boss is set: The Office showrunner/executive producer Paul Lieberstein has signed a three-year overall deal with series producer NBC Universal Studios. Under the…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell has committed to a four-episode arc on NBC’s comedy The Office. He will play a branch manager who comes from the home office and is just as inappropriate as Steve Carell’s Michael Scott character. NBC is still figuring out exactly when the episodes will air, but Ferrell has committed to one…