NBC’s The Office had such a huge impact that it’s easy to forget the show was, itself, an adaptation. It made major Hollywood players out of cast members like Steve Carell , John Krasinski , and Mindy Kaling , and fostered a generation of brand-name TV creators, including Mike Schur and Justin Spitzer . Though its single-camera setup was not unprecedented among primetime comedies when it premiered in 2005— M*A*S*H and Arrested Development , among others, got there first—its more naturalistic style quickly became the mark of a modern sitcom. (Even Seinfeld had a laugh track.) And its mockumentary conceit set the conventions of a subgenre that has since yielded Parks and Recreation , Modern Family , What We Do in the Shadows , Abbott Elementa

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