Gervais Wants To Take The Office To China

12 August 2010 9:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Ricky Gervais is expanding his TV empire - he is working on plans to broadcast a Chinese version of The Office.

The British funnyman has boasted of earning "millions" from the syndication rights to his hit sitcom and royalties from its U.S. re-make.

Now he is set to swell his coffers even further after unveiling his plans to shoot a Chinese version of the show.

On his official blog, Gervais writes: "I have some amazing news... We are about to start work on developing a Chinese 'The Office'. How cool is that?"

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