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NBC's The Office ends after a nine-season run

Steve Carell said goodbye to co-workers for one last time as NBC's The Office came to an end following a nine-season run.

The season finale featured a long-awaited wedding between office manager Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), and accountant Angela Martin (Angela Kingsley).

Steve Carell led the show in 2005 the same year his break out film The 40-Year-Old Virgin was released Credit: Lionel Hahn/ABACA USA/Empics Entertainment

Carell, who left the show in season seven, entered the episode as a surprise guest at the ceremony, uttering one of character Michael Scott's best-known phrases, "that's what she said."

Adapted from Ricky Gervais' mockumentary series of the same name, the season finale saw most of the long-standing cast members get their happy ending.

Ricky Gervais: 'RIP Paul Shane. Old school Britcom hero'

Ricky Gervais has paid tribute to Paul Shane as an "old school Britcom hero" after the Hi-de-Hi! actor died aged 72:

Read more: Hi-de-Hi! actor Paul Shane dies

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'You're going to teach you' - David Brent's guitar tutorial

Ricky Gervais has released a preview of his new YouTube series Learn Guitar With David Brent.

In the guise of his Office alter ego David Brent, he tells viewers: "I'm not going to teach you. You're going to teach you." It seems, much like in the show, it is more about him finding an audience to play the guitar to.

Read more about Gervais' plans to bring back Brent

Ricky Gervais brings back Brent for Comic Relief

Ricky Gervais returned to our screens as David Brent last night, all to raise money for Comic Relief.

The special shows what happened to Brent 10 years after The Office ended.

Taking to Twitter, Gervais wrote, "Thank you for all your amazing comments about Brent's Return. I had a blast".

You can donate to Comic Relief online by clicking here, or by calling 03457 910 910.

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New David Brent clip features 'Equality Street'

A new preview clip has been released ahead of David Brent’s return for a one-off special to air on Red Nose Day.

The Office boss, played by Ricky Gervais, is making a comeback after 10 years – and he has reinvented himself as a music producer.

The clip shows how the 'chilled-out entertainer' cannot resist stealing the limelight from a young artist he is meant to be promoting.

Gervais told the Mirror: “He is passing on his wisdom to younger would-be rock stars now and is living vicariously through a young performer, Dom Johnson.

"Well, really he is trying to worm his way back into rock and roll."

David Brent's back: The Office returns for Red Nose Day special

Ricky Gervais to star in new Muppets film

Ricky Gervais will join Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy in the new Muppets film, director James Bobin confirmed.

The writer and star of The Office will play the sidekick to villain Constantine - who looks identical to Kermit - in the latest film of The Muppets series, which is set for a March 2014 release.

Ricky Gervais Muppets
Ricky Gervais will star in the new Muppets film, which will be released in 2014. Credit: Brian O'Sullivan/EMPICS Entertainment

Comedian Tina Fey will also be in the new film, playing prison guard Nadya, and Modern Family actor Ty Burrell will play an Interpol agent.

Bobin said the film will pay homage to the 1960s comedy Pink Panther films, starring British comedian Peter Sellers.

The director said: "It's a tip of the hat to the old-school crime capers of the '60s, but featuring a frog, a pig, a bear and a dog - no panthers, even pink ones - along with the usual Muppet-y mix of mayhem, music and laughs."

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