NBC's "The Office" is an adaptation of a show from what country?

NBC's The Office is an adaptation of a show from the United Kingdom.

The original British series, also titled The Office, was created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and first aired on BBC Two in 2001. Gervais played David Brent, the awkward regional manager of the fictional paper company Wernham Hogg. Its mockumentary style presented ordinary workplace life through documentary-style interviews and deliberately uncomfortable comedy.

The American version was developed for NBC by Greg Daniels and premiered in 2005, with Steve Carell playing Michael Scott, the manager of Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch. The first-season pilot closely followed the British original, but the U.S. series soon developed its own characters, relationships, and warmer comic tone. It ultimately ran for nine seasons and 201 episodes from 2005 to 2013.

A common mix-up is calling the NBC series the original. It was the longest-running and most widely watched adaptation, but the United Kingdom supplied the source show and format.