Well, it’s official—there’s a new boss on The Office.  In the wake of Steve Carrell’s (and his character, Michael Scott’s) high-profile exit from the show last season, most Office fans have been spending the summer speculating about who would replace the classic character and the great actor behind him.  And now, according to The AV Club, NBC has announced the new addition to The Office via a press release:

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With Steve Carell out of The Office, there’s a hole to fill and it’s unknown who’s going to take his place. Will Ferrell is completing an arc this season, but he’s a big-time movie star, so it’s unlikely he’ll stick around. Ricky Gervais and Will Arnett have been tapped to be in the finale, but Arnett has set up another NBC show, so it’s unlikely he’ll come back. That would leave Gervais the last man standing if it weren’t for the news from The Hollywood Reporter that Ray Romano, Catherine Tate and James Spader are now all going to appear in the season finale as well.

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Bret Easton Ellis is about to complete the sequel to 1985′s famous Less Than Zero. The original book was turned into a movie starring James Spader, Robert Downey Jr., Jaime Gertz, and Andrew McCarthy. The sequel is titled Imperial Bedrooms and is to be released in May 2010. Ellis seems very open to the idea of creating a part two to the movie; all of the actors are around, and they are actually doing fairly well. The movie helped launch the careers of Ellis, Downey, and Spader, so it seems fitting to make a sequel with the same actors. The new book has all of the main characters in it, but it is set in the present day.

Here is what Ellis has to say about the new book and a possible sequel…

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