The Office is getting a remount, and it’ll formally land on Peacock.
The brand new collection is one thing of a “sister present” to the unique NBC collection, which ran from 2005 to 2013 and was tailored from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Service provider’s The Workplace (UK). The characters and setting will probably be model new, nevertheless it’ll happen in the identical universe, with the identical “documentary crew” from The Workplace. Unique US Workplace developer Greg Daniels will lead the spinoff collection, together with Nathan For You and How To with John Wilson producer Michael Koman.
Whereas the unique American model of The Workplace was set on the Scranton, Pennsylvania department of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Firm, the brand new collection will happen at a newspaper publishing workplace within the midwest. The official logline reads “The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton department is searching for a brand new topic once they uncover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the writer making an attempt to revive it with volunteer reporters.”
The present will start manufacturing in July. Domnhall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore are the one two actors confirmed to seem within the ensemble solid, with extra casting bulletins to come back. “It’s been greater than ten years for the reason that remaining episode of The Workplace aired on NBC, and the acclaimed comedy collection continues to achieve recognition and construct new generations of followers on Peacock,” NBCUniversal Leisure President Lisa Katz wrote in an announcement. “This new collection set within the universe of Dunder Mifflin introduces a brand new solid of characters in a contemporary setting ripe for comedic storytelling: a each day newspaper.”
Greg Daniels beforehand teased a derivative of The Workplace final 12 months, and claimed he was all for treating it the way in which Star Wars handled The Mandalorian — the identical universe with totally different tales and characters. “I don’t like to consider something as a reboot,” Daniels mentioned. “As a result of I really feel like we ended that story fantastically. The characters had closure. I’d by no means wish to redo that very same present with a distinct solid, as a result of I believe we acquired the luckiest solid, the very best solid ever, in TV, to try this present. So the notion of a reboot isn’t of curiosity.”
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