The Office

The complete second series of the award-winning BBC Television faux documentary. David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is the manager of paper merchant Wernham Hogg’s Slough office, but in his own mind he’s not so much the boss but ‘more of a friend’. Unctious and ineffectual in equal measure, he turns the life of his staff into a neverending round of irritating mini-dramas. The office has been merged and new staff from the Slough office arrive and have the benefit of David managerial skills (?); Tim (Martin Freedman) finds himself going out with new girl Rachel, whilst still in love with Dawn; after a series of mishaps, David is finally told he is to be made redundant; and in the final episode Tim tells Dawn how he feels…