{"id":32610,"date":"2025-11-13T02:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32610\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:33:21","slug":"the-paper-premiere-opens-with-a-nod-to-dunder-mifflins-scranton-branch-plus-grade-it-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32610\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paper Premiere Opens With A Nod To Dunder Mifflin&#8217;s Scranton Branch \u2014\u00a0Plus, Grade It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt32159809\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Paper<\/a>&#8221; has unveiled its debut issue \u2014 but it had to check in with an old friend first.<\/p>\n<p>As you might have heard, Peacock&#8217;s new series (now getting a re-airing on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0881232\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>) is a spinoff of &#8220;<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt0386676\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Office<\/a>,&#8221; and Monday&#8217;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&#8230; and 20 years later, they returned. We get a shot of that familiar business park, and good old <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm9475965\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Vance<\/a> (&#8220;Vance Refrigeration&#8221;) is still there. Dunder Mifflin, though, left the building a while ago,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Paper&#8221; has unveiled its debut issue \u2014 but it had to check in with an old friend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19793,19794,3868,19795,19792,19452,3896,139,178,180,179,19453,2596,3549],"class_list":{"0":"post-32610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-films","13":"tag-hollywood","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-scranton","17":"tag-scranton-headlines","18":"tag-scranton-news","19":"tag-stars","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610","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=32610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}