Fall TV 2011 Returning Shows: What to expect

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'The Office' (NBC)

Premieres: Thursday, Sept. 22 at 9 p.m.

Expect to see: Spader! With Steve Carell gone, the show has cast Emmy winner James Spader (seen in last season's finale) as the new boss -- not just of the Scranton branch, but the CEO of the entire company. The identity of the branch manager is still a secret, but whoever it is will have to deal with a very different kind of manager in Spader's Robert California.

-- Rick Porter, Zap2it

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