While waiting for one of her teenagers at the Department of Motor Vehicles, writer/producer Dana Klein looked around the waiting room, noticed caution tape on the water fountain, and realized, “This is really the perfect setting for a workplace comedy.”

Enter “DMV,” the only new situation comedy on broadcast television this year.

In the office, “the most dreaded place in America,” Klein says, employees in all departments commiserate, complain and connect. “The beauty is in the small moments, the tiny victories and in our characters’ relationships with each other.”

Those employees include the driving examiners, desk clerks, the middle managers and outside superiors who keep thinking there’s a cheaper way to run the business.

Registering cars, taking ID photos and assessing driving are j

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