‘The Office’ Producer Working on New Spinoff Series

Whereas The Workplace ended 11 years in the past, it has by no means been off the air. Due to syndication and streaming, it stays as widespread as ever. So no shock right here: A by-product is within the works.

In line with Selection, Greg Daniels, who developed the American model of The Workplace (primarily based on the British sitcom of the identical identify by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Service provider) is working with Michael Koman, the co-creator of Nathan For You, on “a brand new sequence on the earth of Dunder Mifflin.”

They declare “it isn’t a reboot of The Workplace however is ready in the identical universe, which means it could possible be set in a unique workplace setting with all new characters.”

In different phrases … what if … there was … one other workplace?

Simply give it some thought. Are you able to think about? A second workplace. Wow. This might change every thing.

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Whereas the British Workplace solely produced two seasons of 14 episodes, plus a two-part Christmas particular finale (and Gervais later revisited the idea in a by-product film), the American model of The Workplace turned a full-fledged broadcast juggernaut. It aired for 9 seasons and produced 200 episodes, and helped launch the careers of quite a few fashionable comedy stars alongside the way in which.

The American Workplace sequence, which starred Steve Carrell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and B.J. Novak, together with many others, remains to be so widespread on streaming that when NBC launched its Peacock service just a few years in the past, they categorized their unpaid and paid tiers in keeping with what number of episodes of The Workplace you can watch. (A free subscription obtained you a few episodes; the best month-to-month price obtained you entry to the whole present, ad-free.) So I might anticipate any authentic Workplace spinoff that felt like a real successor to the present can be a serious deal.