Parkour! Who’s able to clock again in for a follow-up to The Office? The upcoming collection from former Office showrunners Greg Daniels and Michael Koman premieres this September. Titled The Paper, the brand new mockumentary comedy collection follows the writer (Domhnall Gleeson) and workers of a historic however struggling newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. Peacock launched a primary look picture from the upcoming comedy on Monday, that includes Domhnall Gleeson going full “Oh, Captain! My Captain!”. In distinction, Oscar Nuñez, who will reprise his Office function as Oscar Martinez, seems to be on in confusion.
“Greg heard me and moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio, which has three times the population of Scranton,” Nuñez mentioned about his hopes of shifting Oscar to a “more cosmopolitan environment” on stage Monday at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation. “So it’s nice to be heard.”
“It’s about this struggling Midwestern newspaper that’s much reduced from its glory days,” Daniels advised The Hollywood Reporter. “A lot of the story lines are about how this guy, Domhnall Gleeson’s character, is trying to restore this paper, and he just doesn’t have the budget for hiring reporters, and he has to use all the staff that work there on a volunteer basis to be reporters. They’re completely untrained and don’t know what they’re doing,” Daniels mentioned. “It’s a fruitful premise. There’s a tremendous history for local papers. The villain here is the internet and the ability to look at everybody’s news for free, and all the ad revenue going to Google.”
A exceptional facet of the present’s manufacturing is that it employs many crew members who labored behind the scenes on The Office. Their seasoned expertise with Daniels and Koman’s comedic sensibilities and run of the present may assist the follow-up attain an analogous viewers and new heights. Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, and Tim Key be part of Gleeson and Nuñez to spherical out the first solid. Duane Shepard Sr., Allan Havey, Nate Jackson, Mo Welch, Nancy Lenehan, Molly Ephraim, and Tracy Letts may have visitor roles.
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