COUPLING YANKED

Here's the best development of the new TV season: NBC is benching Coupling for the next two weeks! (Yipee!) However, the Peacock has opted to fill the struggling sitcom's post-Will & Grace timeslot this week with a repeat of Whoopi. (Sigh... ) Ironically, in spite of the whole Coupling debacle, NBC is taking another stab at translating a hit British comedy for American audiences. The network has ordered a pilot for a U.S. version of the sublime U.K. comedy The Office. (Some people never learn... )

TV GuideNews Oct. 16, 2003 at 1:00 a.m. PT