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In an affirmation of NBC's faith in a post-Carell "
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Carell, 46, who's become a busy
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Carell voices the lead character in the new
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The door is open if he wants to make return
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Carell was on vacation and unavailable for
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Whether Michael Scott's job will be filled by a
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"Right now, we're still talking about a lot of
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Nobody wants to see Carell leave, said
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"But what we'll get creatively is actually very
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Fans have weighed in noisily about how the
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"I hear from both, from people who don't want to watch without
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"It's not obvious to me we should stop," he said. "When
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