{"id":65596,"date":"2025-08-07T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65596\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:25:09","slug":"the-office-spinoff-follows-struggling-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65596\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Office&#8217; Spinoff Follows Struggling Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDunder Mifflin is back. Well, not exactly. But the documentary crew that filmed inside the fictional paper company\u2019s office is back, and this time with a new subject.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-paper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-paper\" data-tag=\"the-paper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Paper<\/a>,\u201d an offshoot of NBC\u2019s beloved sitcom \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-office\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-office\" data-tag=\"the-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Office<\/a>,\u201d follows the staff of a struggling Midwestern newspaper, which happens to employ original series favorite Oscar Martinez (a role reprised by Oscar Nu\u00f1ez). The mockumentary comedy series debuts on Peacock with four episodes on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the trailer, an ambitious journalist named Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson) joins the Toledo Truth Teller as editor-in-chief, with big ideas on how to revitalize the newspaper, which shares office space with a toilet paper company. He must battle budget cuts and motivate a ragtag group of staffers played by Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, Tim Key and Nu\u00f1ez. Guest stars include Eric Rahill, Tracy Letts, Molly Ephraim, Mo Welch, Allan Havey, Duane Shepard Sr., Nate Jackson and Nancy Lenehan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHow many of you have actually written for a paper before?\u201d Ned asks his soon-to-be superstar journalists, who previously relied on clickbait stories and pre-written articles licensed from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI wrote a paper in junior high,\u201d replies one staffer. Another says, \u201cI\u2019ve tweeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Paper\u201d is co-created by Greg Daniels (of \u201cThe Office\u201d) and Michael Koman (of \u201cNathan for You\u201d). Both also serve as showrunners, executive producers and writers. Other executive producers include original \u201cOffice\u201d creator Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein, Ben Silverman and Banijay Americas. The series hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the trailer for \u201cThe Paper\u201d below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunder Mifflin is back. Well, not exactly. But the documentary crew that filmed inside the fictional paper company\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,221,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-65596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-the-office","10":"tag-the-paper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}