Perhaps hedging its bets should Outsourced prove to be as awful as its promos make it out to be, or should The Office’s plans to stagger on post-Steve Carell not exactly pan out, NBC has commissioned another workplace comedy from Peter Tolan, the veteran TV producer who most recently co-created FX’s Rescue Me. However, the hook of Tolan’s Brave New World—while sadly not about the soma-fueled hijinks of workers at The World State Conditioning Centre—is that it takes place at a Plymouth Plantation-type living museum where the staff reenacts the day-to-day drudgery of colonial living. So it’s sort of a cross between Party Down and Parks And Recreation and those scenes from Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke, we guess, which could be funny. Beth Grant, you should probably call your agent.
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