{"id":868,"date":"2014-08-06T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-08-10T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T03:40:15","slug":"ricky-gervais-takes-david-brent-office-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/06\/ricky-gervais-takes-david-brent-office-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais Takes David Brent from &#8216;The Office&#8217; Out &#8216;On the Road&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is he having a laugh?<\/p>\n<p>It would appear so! Yesterday <strong>BBC Films<\/strong> announced that a feature film, <em><strong>Life On The Road<\/strong><\/em>, is in the works to catch up with <strong>David Brent<\/strong>, more than a decade after he was ousted from Wernham Hogg, as he pursues his dream of becoming a rock star. The film will (of course) be done mockumentary style, and Brent will assume he&#8217;s being followed for a grand rockumentary about his rise to fame, when in reality he&#8217;s being filmed for a &#8220;where are they now?&#8221; style documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of &#8220;where are they now,&#8221; is it too much to hope that <strong>Gervais<\/strong> will reunite his &#8217;80s new wave duo, <strong>Seona Dancing<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MV3nw8RBPdY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rickygervais\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is he having a laugh? It would appear so! Yesterday BBC Films announced that a feature film, Life On The Road, is in the works to catch up with David Brent, more than a decade after he was ousted from Wernham Hogg, as he pursues his dream of becoming a rock star. The film will<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/06\/ricky-gervais-takes-david-brent-office-road\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[469,466,468,465,470,467],"class_list":{"0":"post-868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bbc-films","9":"tag-david-brent","10":"tag-life-on-the-road","11":"tag-ricky-gervais","12":"tag-seona-dancing","13":"tag-the-office"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}