Prime Video’s hotly anticipated Australian Original The Office, premieres on Friday 18th October. The comedy series is the thirteenth version of the global hit juggernaut franchise and has the first-ever female lead in the iconic role, comedian and actor Felicity Ward who plays Hannah Howard, Managing Director of Flinley Craddick. All eight episodes of The Office will be available October 18 exclusively on Prime Video in 240 countries and territories worldwide (excluding the U.S.)
In The Office, Hannah Howard is the managing director of packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that they will be shutting down her branch and making everyone work from home, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her “work family” together. The staff of Flinley Craddick indulge her and must endure Hannah’s outlandish plots as they work toward the impossible targets that have been set for them.
It was over 20 years ago that the world was introduced to the wonderfully bleak mockumentary world of The Office, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. While many aspects of the workplace have changed since then, especially post 2020, the physical office is a timeless precinct for comedy, and one that will never tire an audience as long as the characters are authentic, familiar, faced with relatable dilemmas, and, most importantly, entertaining and hilarious. This universal appeal has seen the BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning cult comedy remade for audiences around the world, including France, Canada, Chile, Israel, India, the Middle East, and Poland, where a third season has just been announced. This Australian version is the thirteenth adaptation.
The eight-part Australian Amazon Original series The Office is co-produced by BBC Studios Australia & New Zealand, Bunya Entertainment, and Amazon MGM Studios, and is based on a BBC Studios format.
Catch Felicity Ward in the UK this month while she tours her acclaimed stand-up comedy show, I’m Exhausting!
In I’m Exhausting!, Felicity dives into all things motherhood, with her signature wit, exploring everything from pregnancy, and not getting pregnant, childbirth, post-natal depression, identity, and sexuality, and the disintegration of how things were, as well as other topics like, homesickness, Quorn, transitional lenses and fingering. The show covers all the big, and small things in life.
Felicity has become a regular on TV and radio, with appearances on Wakefield, BBC’s Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week, Stand Up Sketch Show and directed her very own Amazon Prime stand-up comedy special. She can also be heard on The Guilty Feminist, The News Quiz and The Now Show.
I’m Exhausting 2024
Friday 25th October Southend on Cliffs, UK Palace Theatre
Saturday 26th October Leamington Spa, UK Royal Spa Centre
Thursday 31st October Canterbury, UK Gulbenkian Theatre
Friday 1st November Peterborough, UK Key Theatre
Sunday 3rd November Exeter, UK Barnfield Theatre
Friday 8th November Bedford, UK The Quarry Theatre
Saturday 9th November Fareham, UK Fareham Live
Sunday 10th November Coventry, UK Warwick Arts Centre
Saturday 16th November London, UK Leicester Square Theatre
Friday 22nd November Glasgow, UK Oran Mor
Saturday 23rd November Edinburgh, UK Traverse Theatre
Thursday 28th November Salford, UK The Lowry (Quays)
Saturday 7th December Leicester, UK The Y Theatre
Thursday 30th January Bristol, UK Redgrave Theatre
Tickets available via LiveNation.co.uk
