Afternoon Baseball

Ed Helms, from "The Daily Show," and Chip Esten, who played one of the Dunder-Mifflin executives (the Stamford boss) on the Valentine's Day episode, will be joining the cast of "The Office." Helms will portray a new employee.

All this seems to confirm the months-long rumor (even John Krasinski mentioned it in passing on an interview) that Jim actually takes the transfer to Stamford. Ed Helms replaces him, and Chip Esten is involved as Jim's boss and perhaps a confidante or third party that Jim needs to discuss his Pam problem with. It would also mirror somewhat the BBC version, I believe.
This is especially bolstered by the news that Ed Helms is only on for 10 episodes, which would seem to mean Jim comes back. Even if all this was accurate, there's still a huge deal of cool things that can be done with the plots and characters.

Labels: The-Office