Steve Carell, the star of NBC’s “The Office,” is creating a television arm for his Carousel Productions, Daily Variety says. Carousel Television will be run by Thom Hinkle, who started out with Carell on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and Campbell Smith. The television division has also signed a three-year first-look agreement with Universal Media Studios, which the television studio home to “The Office.”
—Aimee Picchi