{"id":852945,"date":"2026-08-12T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852945\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:06:09","slug":"the-paper-season-2-trailer-romance-and-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852945\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Paper&#8217; Season 2 Trailer: Romance and Tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe first season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-paper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-paper_1\" data-tag=\"the-paper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Paper<\/a> ended with the Toledo Truth Teller winning a host of Ohio journalism awards after gung-ho editor Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson) took over \u2014\u00a0and also the first kiss between Ned and reporter Mare Pritti (Chelsea Frei).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe trailer for season two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/peacock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peacock_1\" data-tag=\"peacock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock<\/a> comedy suggests the show will pick up shortly after that, with Ned trying to keep the Truth Teller\u2019s momentum going and he and Mare trying to hide their budding relationship from the rest of the staff \u2014\u00a0whose noses for a story might still need some honing. \u201cI think it\u2019s pretty obvious what\u2019s happening,\u201d Ramona Young\u2019s Nicole says to the camera. \u201cMare has a new best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWatch the trailer below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOne possible big story for the crew: A possible tornado that sends staffers Adelola (Gbemisola Ikumelo) and Travis (Eric Rahill) on an ill-advised storm chase. The show\u2019s logline reads, \u201cNed searches for a journalistic crusade, coming for a local private club and jeopardizing the paper, while he and Mare try to figure out their attraction, Esmeralda (Sabrina Impacciatore) struggles to find her place, and the staff gradually mature as reporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe cast of the mockumentary set in the world of The Office also includes Melvin Gregg, Tim Key, Duane Shepard Sr., Alex Edelman and Oscar Nu\u00f1ez, reprising his Office role. Allan Havey, Jon Lovitz, Andy Richter, Lisa Gilroy, Matt Braunger, Toks Olagundoye and Phil Hendrie have guest roles in season two. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCo-creators and showrunners Greg Daniels and Michael Koman executive produce The Paper with The Office creators\u00a0Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and Howard Klein, Ben Silverman and Banijay Americas. The full season premieres Sept. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first season of The Paper ended with the Toledo Truth Teller winning a host of Ohio journalism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,1833,42908,427],"class_list":["post-852945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-peacock","tag-the-paper","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}