Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Gervais and Merchant continue to get paid by the BBC.

The Office is a British mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character, David Brent.
Possible answers: 1. Yes; 2. It's impossible to say; 3. No;
2.