"The Office" Transformed into "Le Bureau"

The Financial Times's Weekend Section has an hilarious article about the new French version of "The Office," the British sitcom whose spinoff in America has found mild success with Steve Carell on NBC-TV. "Le Bureau" is on Canal Plus, which is the only TV channel in France worth watching, but is a pay-per-view and only has 5 million subscribers.

Like "Les Carnets de Major Thompson," it appears that La Manche is the dividing line between more than just two countries. I would love to see the French version, which substitutes Champagne for Ale, but is otherwise roughly faithful to the British original, which I have only seen one episode of.