Spring TV Preview: The Scoop on 26 Returning Shows

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THE OFFICE
RETURNS: APRIL 10 · 9 PM · NBC
EPISODES LEFT: 6

WHERE WE LEFT OFF: Michael (Steve Carell) botched Jan's wrongful-termination suit; Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) went public with their relationship.

UP NEXT: Michael and Jan (Melora Hardin) — who aren't exactly living in domestic bliss — throw a dinner party, complete with an ill-fated game of Celebrity. As for Jim-Pam, ''They're together and things are going strong...but are they?'' says Office exec producer Greg Daniels cryptically. Well...are they? ''Hard to judge,'' he answers. ''I'm not with them every moment.'' Let's ask someone who is: John Krasinski. ''They're a fantastic couple,'' he reports. ''They're very real. It's nice to see that a love story that people have waited for doesn't bend toward the gooey side.'' In other non-gooey relationship news, Angela (Angela Kinsey) finally gives in to the advances of Andy (Ed Helms). ''They're going to be like a very old preppy couple from the get-go,'' says Daniels. Meanwhile, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) — who's ''a seething cauldron of tension'' over Angela's new romance — enters a management training program that Jim hijacks. Plus, he'll sue some neighborhood kids in small-claims court. (''It's an agricultural dispute,'' explains Daniels.) We'll also meet the other tenants in the office park (''a mix of the attractive and the dangerous'') after a parking-space flap. And as for life outside Scranton, Ryan (B.J. Novak) is joined by Michael and Dwight for a night of NYC clubbing. How does that go? ''Have you been clubbing in New York recently?'' asks Daniels. ''Neither has Michael. It's really not his world.'' —Dan Snierson