Sitcom Novel?

So I have this retarded/brilliant idea I've been passing around through the corners of my mind for a little while now. See, I don't like short stories, but I love novels. I don't like movies, but I love TV. It doesn't seem to make much sense, that I want to read full-length but watch 30 minutes at a time. I really like the self-contained plot, but then watching the characters grow throughout a season, watch them and their lives develop as they grow and change. Never has this been more brilliantly played out than in the Office. It's basically perfect. And I want to do it in novel form.

Yeah, I don't know, a sitcom novel. It would basically feature the same cast of characters, probably two to four main characters with eight to ten ancillary characters that operate throughout the whole novel. The book itself would be divided into somewhere between fifteen and twenty sections, of approximately the same length. These sections would include a self-contained storyline and basically read like an episode of a TV show.

And that's about as far as I've thought it out. But I'm pretty sure I want to use the characters from this short story I wrote. I just have to figure out an overarching plot line and then all the minor little events that will make up the sections.

So what do we think? IM me or comment, bitte?