{"id":30651,"date":"2025-11-11T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30651\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:37:08","slug":"the-paper-premiere-opens-with-a-nod-to-dunder-mifflins-scranton-branch-plus-grade-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30651\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paper Premiere Opens With A Nod To Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton Branch \u2014\u00a0Plus, Grade It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Paper<\/a>” has unveiled its debut issue \u2014 but it had to check in with an old friend first.<\/p>\n

As you might have heard, Peacock’s new series (now getting a re-airing on NBC<\/a>) is a spinoff of “The Office<\/a>,” and Monday’s premiere wastes no time in letting us know how the two shows are connected. It opens by telling us that in 2005, a documentary crew began following employees at a Scranton office… and 20 years later, they returned. We get a shot of that familiar business park, and good old Bob Vance<\/a> (“Vance Refrigeration”) is still there. Dunder Mifflin, though, left the building a while ago,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The Paper” has unveiled its debut issue \u2014 but it had to check in with an old friend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19450,19449,19452,19448,19451,19456,19454,19455,178,180,179,19453,3549],"class_list":["post-30651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-fernsehen","tag-filme","tag-hollywood","tag-nachrichten","tag-prominente","tag-regisseure","tag-schauspieler","tag-schauspielerinnen","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-stars","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}