{"id":687337,"date":"2026-07-12T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:19:14","slug":"the-office-shows-slough-is-not-as-bad-as-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687337\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Office shows Slough is not as bad as they say&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Yaxley works at Iron Mountain Data Centre on Slough Trading Estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I thought it was one of the best things that&#8217;s ever happened in British comedy, for me it&#8217;s up there with Only Fools and Horses and I think the way Gervais and Merchant wrote it just shaped British comedy for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was quite intrigued when I started working around here to see where it was actually filmed in comparison to where I was working, and it turns out it&#8217;s where just that Premier Inn is&#8230; that&#8217;s the final shot on the opening credits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that the show had &#8220;shaped the way&#8221; that him and his friends grew up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The sarcasm, the awkwardness, the way you play the joke on yourself&#8230; I think Gervais and Murch have really shaped that comedy for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Yaxley works at Iron Mountain Data Centre on Slough Trading Estate. He said: &#8220;I thought it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}